I think people in these comments fail big time. The whole point of this is that creationism is trying very hard to be a scientific albeit theistic theory, but criticizing the science behind it gets you in court because it's considered religion. Following the logic here you'd think the debate should stop every time someone quotes scripture; makes as much sense as listening to a schizophrenic interpreting a Jackson Pollock.
edward james olmos, rutger hauer, crazy sean young, daryl hannah, joe turkel... heck get vangelis to write a new score
brion james died unfortunately (leon)
Had a looksee in imdb about brion james, died 7th August 1999 of a heart attack. The first of his personal quotes is unfortunate:
[in August 1999, when asked to what he attributes his success] Hard work. You gotta study, man. It's like any profession. I did eight years in theater. I studied two years in school in New York with Stella Adler, the best teacher in the world. I studied under Nina Foch, I did theater, I learned my craft. You got to learn how to build a character, there's a way to do it. Everything I ever did was different. I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice. I think now, in my 50s, with [Robert Duvall], [Albert Finney] and [Gene Hackman], those guys are getting up there in their 60s, it's my time. And I'm making sure that I push myself into their slot. So, my best work's coming.
Interesting, live in one of those countries that export it the most and had no idea of the stuff:) Personally I was thinking of a thin layer of artificial diamonds/graphite, just don't know how you'd imprint anything on them without upgrading the laser to a handcannon.
People with honest grievances seem to get their say, but trying to create some kind of boycott movement in a company's own forum... bleh. Anyway, chances of those guys being genuine and not some cat assing slashdotters would probably be slim to none.
Nah, this is 8 seasons of Jack Bauer doing the "right" thing in every wrong way conceivable. When faced with a moral dilemma our brave hero always had to weigh the end result against zapping someone's nuts for intel. Tellingly "hacking" to get info on the general public never raised any issues, just meant more work for that cute nerdy chick.
The European Commission (EC) suspended trading in carbon credits on Wednesday after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and siphoned off around $38 million
According to Wall street journal (original poster yuna49) the latest theft was $7 million and the $38 million (0.02% of the market) is the total of the permits missing in action.
To start, the company's name is soooo lame. You can figure out the guys that started this weren't really into originality. I mean, I know this was the 70's and all, but c'mon : Micro. Soft. Microsoft. That's so duh, I dont know what else to say.
Are you implying that Bill Gates used his porn name?
So what is -more- common on the -moon- that we have got atm. which could support industry there? Also wouldn't it be a question of energy yield and not available tonnage? I do understand Helium-3 belongs in the long shot category, but I think it is in the spirit of the article.
I mean what are we going to mine that has so much value? Water? Energy production uses a huge amount of water.
Rocket fuel, apparently. But to get rocket fuel (read: hydrogen and oxygen) you have to split the mined moon-water, which means you'll need some energy source to do the splitting. Where will that energy come from? Vast solar panel arrays? Nuclear? Geothermal? (does the moon have any geothermal energy to be tapped?)
Helium-3 has been discussed as an energy source on it's own and there has been interest in mining it on the moon (extraterrestrial supplies).
The Outcome: zzzPhone took some orders and shipped a small number of very low-quality phones. I heard crazier and crazier stories about Horowitz, all second-hand. For instance, he apparently hired a carver to make him a cell phone out of wood that he tried to insert working phone components into.
I found that a bit funny because making one is a course at a Finnish university. More pictures here, but with finnish text only.
I originally read about this in a magazine; apparently they solder the sim-card connecting leads so swapping operators requires some work.
Maybe we are reaping the results of the "news" that Windows versions are being shipped with emulated OpenGL 1.4 when of course the graphics card's drivers are the key.
Ati going open source with it's drivers was the most PR for the $ they could get in the situation, in some sense it was the death of proper support for Linux since there won't be enough people and interest to maintain a sane/competent driver for all the versions of the cards if Ati doesn't do it themselves. Nvidia's OpenGL support over the years has been stellar compared to Ati's so there isn't any point in arguing over open source vs binary blops; the main point from here on is that crippled drivers won't cut it.
Well, for one they'd have to sue Google too and, believe it or not, in the world of patents it pays to have a gorilla on your side. I'm personally tired of hearing the constant babble of how WebM is just a heartbeat away from being filed a suit against, bring it on already?
I'll just reiterate, WebM is better than H264 for the little guys because getting hit with very real licensing fees is still worse than a hypothetical patent infringement suit which they might get for any number of reasons anyway.
What doesn't infringe patents? WebM is good news imo since it will have Google's pockets behind it and firefox, opera etc. won't have to dig deep to license h264; if done correctly this solves one huge problem for the little guys.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think that not everything in the office doc-formats is inherently free - MS will have patents to implementations and I doubt they've waived all of them. We come back to using outdated/restricted stuff vs. truly opensource and free.
Corporations using exchange and having to go 100% Windows because of it, meh, why not. Should this force everyone else to do the same? No.
FF passwords; yeah, it's better to lie to users that their passwords are absolutely safe in the registry where no one can find them or that autocomplete equals secure because you can't see the password. Default settings are rarely safe, they're mostly expedient. I don't use FF, don't know if there's a way to set password protect them?
On the OS comment; IE has MS, MS has Windows, Windows means revenue and control which were lacking from Netscape.
You maybe onto something, I too once thought of creating a program to be downloaded free of charge by millions and instead of reinventing the wheel I thought i'd just reverse-engineer and copy-paste someone else's work quite sure that I'd never be sued/billed for infringement/use of copyright, patents or otherwise. OO btw is doing okay... well, by my standards at least.
What is the reason to coddle people who have been stuck using inferior stuff e.g. IE? The chrome plugin is more of a developer quirk and a workaround for people who have to use older IE's, not really a sane solution for anyone else. Let's not pretend that for most users there's something about IE that's missing from everything else and that transferring bookmarks would be that much of a hassle.
Unfortunate for Netscape, they didn't come with a somewhat expensive OS and the internet wasn't the huge marketplace it is now, yet they gave IE a run for their money. Thanks though for SSL and javascript, one I love and the other I somewhat loathe.
It bothers me - this isn't some codec that's up'n'coming, it's something that's in use *right now*, and it isn't some buggy app like Flash.
It reminds me of Open Office - 'hey, let's set the default format to something that *no-one uses* - oh, why has our userbase not exploded?'
Well, H264 isn't the first codec and won't be the last; I'd prefer everything just working without a hitch, but it's less likely to happen when device makers have to pay license fees to add support for codecs or contrainers. And what, Open Office should've used something outdated or a closed proprietary format?
...how many desktops use opera as their browser again?
It's bizarre - they all seem to think that decisions like this will simply be followed by the users, when the reality will be a) find a plugin, or b) go get a browser that does it already. Like IE9:-)
Please add Firefox and Chrome users to the tally. I personally don't care what the codec of choice will be, but from watching the long and miserable existence of Flash as a whole I appreciate having diversity and genuinely free software.
From that link: "Statistical analysis of the data over a longer period of time did not show any evidence that the law reduced the rate of home burglaries in Kennesaw." so it's more a viral meme than a fact. Forcing people to own a weapon would imo lead to more weapons nobody will miss and that end up in the wrong hands; kids or burglars (hey, every house has to have at least a gun to steal).
The timeline of US military operations begs to differ with your high flying analysis of Europe's bloody history. Also the US has used dictators to topple democracies and create some pretty horrible situations all on their own.
Slashdot Mirror
I have dibs on naming the tunnel; Hear Ye! it shall henceforth be called the Strunnel.
I think people in these comments fail big time. The whole point of this is that creationism is trying very hard to be a scientific albeit theistic theory, but criticizing the science behind it gets you in court because it's considered religion. Following the logic here you'd think the debate should stop every time someone quotes scripture; makes as much sense as listening to a schizophrenic interpreting a Jackson Pollock.
edward james olmos, rutger hauer, crazy sean young, daryl hannah, joe turkel... heck get vangelis to write a new score
brion james died unfortunately (leon)
Had a looksee in imdb about brion james, died 7th August 1999 of a heart attack. The first of his personal quotes is unfortunate:
[in August 1999, when asked to what he attributes his success] Hard work. You gotta study, man. It's like any profession. I did eight years in theater. I studied two years in school in New York with Stella Adler, the best teacher in the world. I studied under Nina Foch, I did theater, I learned my craft. You got to learn how to build a character, there's a way to do it. Everything I ever did was different. I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice. I think now, in my 50s, with [Robert Duvall], [Albert Finney] and [Gene Hackman], those guys are getting up there in their 60s, it's my time. And I'm making sure that I push myself into their slot. So, my best work's coming.
I wonder if it's possible they could be made of some variant of Mica. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mica
Interesting, live in one of those countries that export it the most and had no idea of the stuff :) Personally I was thinking of a thin layer of artificial diamonds/graphite, just don't know how you'd imprint anything on them without upgrading the laser to a handcannon.
Kids with Apples of course.
People with honest grievances seem to get their say, but trying to create some kind of boycott movement in a company's own forum... bleh. Anyway, chances of those guys being genuine and not some cat assing slashdotters would probably be slim to none.
Wonder if they've already considered an uptime multiplier as a critical update.
Nah, this is 8 seasons of Jack Bauer doing the "right" thing in every wrong way conceivable. When faced with a moral dilemma our brave hero always had to weigh the end result against zapping someone's nuts for intel. Tellingly "hacking" to get info on the general public never raised any issues, just meant more work for that cute nerdy chick.
The European Commission (EC) suspended trading in carbon credits on Wednesday after unknown hackers compromised the accounts of Czech traders and siphoned off around $38 million
According to Wall street journal (original poster yuna49) the latest theft was $7 million and the $38 million (0.02% of the market) is the total of the permits missing in action.
To start, the company's name is soooo lame. You can figure out the guys that started this weren't really into originality. I mean, I know this was the 70's and all, but c'mon : Micro. Soft. Microsoft. That's so duh, I dont know what else to say.
Are you implying that Bill Gates used his porn name?
So what is -more- common on the -moon- that we have got atm. which could support industry there? Also wouldn't it be a question of energy yield and not available tonnage? I do understand Helium-3 belongs in the long shot category, but I think it is in the spirit of the article.
I mean what are we going to mine that has so much value? Water? Energy production uses a huge amount of water.
Rocket fuel, apparently. But to get rocket fuel (read: hydrogen and oxygen) you have to split the mined moon-water, which means you'll need some energy source to do the splitting. Where will that energy come from? Vast solar panel arrays? Nuclear? Geothermal? (does the moon have any geothermal energy to be tapped?)
Helium-3 has been discussed as an energy source on it's own and there has been interest in mining it on the moon (extraterrestrial supplies).
The Outcome: zzzPhone took some orders and shipped a small number of very low-quality phones. I heard crazier and crazier stories about Horowitz, all second-hand. For instance, he apparently hired a carver to make him a cell phone out of wood that he tried to insert working phone components into.
I found that a bit funny because making one is a course at a Finnish university. More pictures here, but with finnish text only.
I originally read about this in a magazine; apparently they solder the sim-card connecting leads so swapping operators requires some work.
Maybe we are reaping the results of the "news" that Windows versions are being shipped with emulated OpenGL 1.4 when of course the graphics card's drivers are the key.
Ati going open source with it's drivers was the most PR for the $ they could get in the situation, in some sense it was the death of proper support for Linux since there won't be enough people and interest to maintain a sane/competent driver for all the versions of the cards if Ati doesn't do it themselves. Nvidia's OpenGL support over the years has been stellar compared to Ati's so there isn't any point in arguing over open source vs binary blops; the main point from here on is that crippled drivers won't cut it.
Well, for one they'd have to sue Google too and, believe it or not, in the world of patents it pays to have a gorilla on your side. I'm personally tired of hearing the constant babble of how WebM is just a heartbeat away from being filed a suit against, bring it on already?
I'll just reiterate, WebM is better than H264 for the little guys because getting hit with very real licensing fees is still worse than a hypothetical patent infringement suit which they might get for any number of reasons anyway.
What doesn't infringe patents? WebM is good news imo since it will have Google's pockets behind it and firefox, opera etc. won't have to dig deep to license h264; if done correctly this solves one huge problem for the little guys.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think that not everything in the office doc-formats is inherently free - MS will have patents to implementations and I doubt they've waived all of them. We come back to using outdated/restricted stuff vs. truly opensource and free.
Corporations using exchange and having to go 100% Windows because of it, meh, why not. Should this force everyone else to do the same? No.
FF passwords; yeah, it's better to lie to users that their passwords are absolutely safe in the registry where no one can find them or that autocomplete equals secure because you can't see the password. Default settings are rarely safe, they're mostly expedient. I don't use FF, don't know if there's a way to set password protect them?
On the OS comment; IE has MS, MS has Windows, Windows means revenue and control which were lacking from Netscape.
You maybe onto something, I too once thought of creating a program to be downloaded free of charge by millions and instead of reinventing the wheel I thought i'd just reverse-engineer and copy-paste someone else's work quite sure that I'd never be sued/billed for infringement/use of copyright, patents or otherwise. OO btw is doing okay... well, by my standards at least.
What is the reason to coddle people who have been stuck using inferior stuff e.g. IE? The chrome plugin is more of a developer quirk and a workaround for people who have to use older IE's, not really a sane solution for anyone else. Let's not pretend that for most users there's something about IE that's missing from everything else and that transferring bookmarks would be that much of a hassle.
Unfortunate for Netscape, they didn't come with a somewhat expensive OS and the internet wasn't the huge marketplace it is now, yet they gave IE a run for their money. Thanks though for SSL and javascript, one I love and the other I somewhat loathe.
It bothers me - this isn't some codec that's up'n'coming, it's something that's in use *right now*, and it isn't some buggy app like Flash.
It reminds me of Open Office - 'hey, let's set the default format to something that *no-one uses* - oh, why has our userbase not exploded?'
Well, H264 isn't the first codec and won't be the last; I'd prefer everything just working without a hitch, but it's less likely to happen when device makers have to pay license fees to add support for codecs or contrainers. And what, Open Office should've used something outdated or a closed proprietary format?
...how many desktops use opera as their browser again?
It's bizarre - they all seem to think that decisions like this will simply be followed by the users, when the reality will be a) find a plugin, or b) go get a browser that does it already. Like IE9 :-)
Please add Firefox and Chrome users to the tally. I personally don't care what the codec of choice will be, but from watching the long and miserable existence of Flash as a whole I appreciate having diversity and genuinely free software.
Kennesaw, Georgia
From that link: "Statistical analysis of the data over a longer period of time did not show any evidence that the law reduced the rate of home burglaries in Kennesaw." so it's more a viral meme than a fact. Forcing people to own a weapon would imo lead to more weapons nobody will miss and that end up in the wrong hands; kids or burglars (hey, every house has to have at least a gun to steal).
I'd say the graphic is way more inappropriate in any situation than making a speculative connection between it and subsequent events.
And you're forgetting Oklahoma, unabomber etc.? Also, bombers choose bombs because they're more effective; not because they are easier to come by.
The timeline of US military operations begs to differ with your high flying analysis of Europe's bloody history. Also the US has used dictators to topple democracies and create some pretty horrible situations all on their own.