My generation is afflicted entitlement mentalities and an aversion to actually doing anything to better themselves. It's sad.
Hmm, and this group constitutes Barack Obama's most ardent supporters.
Obama's supporters?!?!
Sounds more like those kleptocrat Rushpublican CEO's who, after running their companies into the ground, whine about having to forego multi-million dollar bonuses and are driven to a near fatal case of the vapors at the merest suggestion of having to survive on a salary of "only" $500,000USD/year.
It must be another example of "Microsoft Innovation" I mean no other member of the computer industry has EVER tried opening brick and mortar retail spaces... oh, wait
US DoD already refers to the internet as The GIG (Global Information Grid) I suppose it gave the defense contractors a way to differentiate their PowerPoint slides between the govvie and civvie presentations.
You forgot to add that he's gonna take his legions of Black Panther/ACORN/Bill Ayers stromtroopers and use them to round up ignorant crackers such as yourself and ship them all off to Gitmo.
These transmitters don't seem to have a problem with survival. (and I would guess that a golf ball undergoes more g-force than either a soccer or tennis ball)
The American people need to demand Bush surrender all evidence or that he and his administration be held in contempt of court. You think the American people care about this or that, if they did, the Bushies would bow to their wishes? That's so cute! Naiveté of that magnitude is so refreshing in this day and age and I congratulate you sir!
"Using an all-electrical technique to populate and control a single-photon emitting state we filter-out dephasing by Stark-shifting the emission energy on timescales below the dephasing time of the state."
Is it just me, or does that sound like Geordi LaForge telling Captain Picard that all he has to do is "demodulate the phase coils on the main deflector dish and then reverse the polarity on the Heisenberg compensators?"
Why shouldn't 97% of Faux News watchers believe in god? After all, they are fed a non-stop diet of nonsense from Fox Noise daily, so they've already proven themselves to be inordinately gullible.
Paying an insider on a network to reveal security info about that network to an outsider:
Hurmmm... sounds like a violation of the DCMA...or perhaps espionage laws... or at least of the AUP. If such an event occurs, couldn't the owners of said network sue the "bypassers of security" of same?
I'm referring to the very real sort of folk who base their lives on a poorly translated bronze age text. James Ussher, an Irish/Anglican Bishop of the early-mid 17th century, deduced that the first day of Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC in the Julian calendar (so I was off by three days, sue me) He extrapolated this date by counting through all the "begats" in Genesis, tossing in a large fudge factor and calling it a day. I find it particularly interesting that Creation is stated as beginning at nightfall.... before there allegedly was "day". I guess the whole "Let There Be Light" thing didn't enter into it, huh?
Other like minded folks say the Universe is 6000 years old based on 2 Peter 3:8 "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (They divvy up the time as 4000 years before and 2000 years after Christ)
Simply put, the whole thing is a load of fetid dingos kidneys. A bunch of wishful thinking dreamed up by wisened ancients who were terrified of uttering the words "I don't know" to the great unwashed (thus diminishing their power over same)
Quoth the poster: That's a fine conjecture, but it doesn't seem any more fine to me than "dude you have no clue how long a million years is, never mind tens or hundreds of millions, and given your total lack of perspective about time, it's not surprising that the eye seems like it never could have evolved on its own to you. To others, it doesn't seem weird at all, and doesn't suggest the existence of ID."
Indeed they have no concept of a million years. You forget, you're talking to folks that believe the universe was created at 4:30 in the afternoon of October 26th, 4004 BC. A million years have not elapsed yet, so HOW could evolution take that long?
Ain't circular logic GRAND?
To me, the most irritating part of ID is people want to use it a "proof" that god exists, when the whole deal with god -- at least as I was taught -- is that there is no proof, and no need for proof. That's why it's called "faith."
Didn't Douglas Adams address this RE: the whole Babelfish thing?
"'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'"
Translation: ANY version of DRM where WE don't hold the keys? That will not do!
Quoth the poster: they claim the price will be $4.50 per GB of ram
So... the box as specced will cost nine grand just for the memory? This must be the system Thomas Watson was speasking of when he was quoted as "seeing a worldwide market for about five" of them (I'm paraphrasing, of course)
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Edsger Dijkstra quotes (Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972. 1930-2002)
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My generation is afflicted entitlement mentalities and an aversion to actually doing anything to better themselves. It's sad.
Hmm, and this group constitutes Barack Obama's most ardent supporters.
Obama's supporters?!?!
Sounds more like those kleptocrat Rushpublican CEO's who, after running their companies into the ground, whine about having to forego multi-million dollar bonuses and are driven to a near fatal case of the vapors at the merest suggestion of having to survive on a salary of "only" $500,000USD/year.
Project much?
They'll be a terrible failure: emptied by looters on the first night because of 'life without walls'.
Which begs the question:
"If your life has no walls, why would you need windows?"
--MAB
It must be another example of "Microsoft Innovation"
I mean no other member of the computer industry has EVER tried opening brick and mortar retail spaces... oh, wait
US DoD already refers to the internet as The GIG (Global Information Grid)
I suppose it gave the defense contractors a way to differentiate their PowerPoint slides between the govvie and civvie presentations.
--MAB
You forgot to add that he's gonna take his legions of Black Panther/ACORN/Bill Ayers stromtroopers and use them to round up ignorant crackers such as yourself and ship them all off to Gitmo.
He's Black.
He's President (Elect).
Get Over It.
RE: Windows Server 2000/Office 2003
I think we should THANK Microsoft for being thoughtful enough to put expiration dates on their software offerings....
--MAB
These transmitters don't seem to have a problem with survival. (and I would guess that a golf ball undergoes more g-force than either a soccer or tennis ball)
--MAB
That's so cute! Naiveté of that magnitude is so refreshing in this day and age and I congratulate you sir!
--MAB
"Using an all-electrical technique to populate and control a single-photon emitting state we filter-out dephasing by Stark-shifting the emission energy on timescales below the dephasing time of the state."
Is it just me, or does that sound like Geordi LaForge telling Captain Picard that all he has to do is "demodulate the phase coils on the main deflector dish and then reverse the polarity on the Heisenberg compensators?"
--MAB
Linux would face all the same issues if it were uses daily by the same semi competent to non competent users that Windows has to deal with.
You mean all those MS certified admins really have no idea how to run an enterprise infrastructure?
SAY IT AIN'T SO
--MAB
Why shouldn't 97% of Faux News watchers believe in god? After all, they are fed a non-stop diet of nonsense from Fox Noise daily, so they've already proven themselves to be inordinately gullible.
--MAB
What about the wolves?
If enough people come, they'll have plenty to eat too!
Why not just keep "cell phone?" after all we still "dial" them, don't we?
When's the last time you saw a rotary phone?
--MAB
I can't see this idea getting traction in the U.S.
The author obviously has never driven in the DC moetropolitan area.
--MAB
"While 28.6 seconds is a long way from 400, it raises hopes for what will be possible from the ITER reactor, expected to be finished in 2016."
Hasn't "a workable fusion reactor" always been a decade away since at least the late 70's?
--MAB
Paying an insider on a network to reveal security info about that network to an outsider:
Hurmmm... sounds like a violation of the DCMA...or perhaps espionage laws... or at least of the AUP.
If such an event occurs, couldn't the owners of said network sue the "bypassers of security" of same?
I'm just sayin'
--MAB
Quoth the poster:
Seriously, i'm waiting for someone to give good benchmarks on these- especially testing for Warcraft.
You want to get some work done? Buy a laptop.
You want to play games? Get a Playstation.
$2300 vs $400.... it should be an easy choice.
I see none of these straw men of which you speak.
I'm referring to the very real sort of folk who base their lives on a poorly translated bronze age text.
James Ussher , an Irish/Anglican Bishop of the early-mid 17th century, deduced that the first day of Creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC in the Julian calendar (so I was off by three days, sue me) He extrapolated this date by counting through all the "begats" in Genesis, tossing in a large fudge factor and calling it a day.
I find it particularly interesting that Creation is stated as beginning at nightfall.... before there allegedly was "day".
I guess the whole "Let There Be Light" thing didn't enter into it, huh?
Other like minded folks say the Universe is 6000 years old based on 2 Peter 3:8 "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day"
(They divvy up the time as 4000 years before and 2000 years after Christ)
Simply put, the whole thing is a load of fetid dingos kidneys. A bunch of wishful thinking dreamed up by wisened ancients who were terrified of uttering the words "I don't know" to the great unwashed (thus diminishing their power over same)
Quoth the poster:
That's a fine conjecture, but it doesn't seem any more fine to me than "dude you have no clue how long a million years is, never mind tens or hundreds of millions, and given your total lack of perspective about time, it's not surprising that the eye seems like it never could have evolved on its own to you. To others, it doesn't seem weird at all, and doesn't suggest the existence of ID."
Indeed they have no concept of a million years. You forget, you're talking to folks that believe the universe was created at 4:30 in the afternoon of October 26th, 4004 BC. A million years have not elapsed yet, so HOW could evolution take that long?
Ain't circular logic GRAND?
To me, the most irritating part of ID is people want to use it a "proof" that god exists, when the whole deal with god -- at least as I was taught -- is that there is no proof, and no need for proof. That's why it's called "faith."
Didn't Douglas Adams address this RE: the whole Babelfish thing?
--MAB
"'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'"
Translation: ANY version of DRM where WE don't hold the keys? That will not do!
--MAB
Quoth the poster:
they claim the price will be $4.50 per GB of ram
So... the box as specced will cost nine grand just for the memory?
This must be the system Thomas Watson was speasking of when he was quoted as "seeing a worldwide market for about five" of them (I'm paraphrasing, of course)
you forgot.....
Step 9) Profit!
but methinks you're looking for this
Quoth the poster:
So many tools I've seen that may have technical merits up the wazoo but no documentation so they're useless.
**cough**Slashcode**cough**
RE: BASIC
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
Edsger Dijkstra quotes (Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972. 1930-2002)