From the WSJ article, it seems that the beef that the natural gas electric generators have is that they're cleaner than coal, especially CO2 wise, and thus gas wants to displace coal-powered units and is seen as a very good mid-term solution until the pure green technologies come about, but in the near term, any gains that wind makes comes out of the share that the gas producers make and coal is not seeing its portion diminshed.
If you REALLY have the D2 key in hand, you can go to Blizzard.com, create a free account, then "register" your keys that gives you access to the game download from Blizzard that you can then install and play.
Don't forget to patch to 1.12a.
I had mod points but didn't see Uninformed listed
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Oh the dilemna of mod points....
IBM still makes brand spanking new Big Irons. But they're not quite as big as they used to be. And they do more. And they also do stuff like run Linux.
Please go educate yourself before you look like a bigger moron.
Why ninjas lose: 1) Bowling is a team sport, its common knowledge that >1 ninja suddenly becomes the faceless gang that dies to the heroes 2) Bowling shoes, nuff said 3) Flying is a foul
Why pirates win: 1) The cannonball/bowling ball connection 2) Bowling is a sport you can drink beer while participating, this is pirate territory 3) Starrrrrrike!
The blind admiration of ninjas is a sure sign of weakness of logic.
Isn't the threat from North Korea mostly in the form of large amounts of conventional artillery within range of the South Korean capitol? This system would useless against that.
I guess being an example of a successful yet ethical by design company isn't important. No, wait, it IS important, if only to pressure the companies that are working on new drugs, building houses, and such to behave ethically, which I think they do need some help with.
I'm sorry, but your arguments that Google as a company isn't important are based on a very shallow examination of things.
Back before there were laser printers for PCs, the first laser printer I encountered was an IBM unit the size of about 6 racks and had a drum with a diameter of about 3 feet. It used the old pin-fed paper and like the line printers it stood next to, took paper by the box. It could go through an entire box of paper in 7 minutes.
Thus, you had this huge fast spinning drum in a very dry environment. When it was first installed it was improperly grounded, and soon afterward one print room employee got severly shocked, with the static charge arcing about a foot, knocking him across the room. The details weren't made public, but I believe he got a decent settlement from IBM.
I guess you could say this isn't the first incident of electic shock from a laster printer...
I think the note about it being years in development was correct. My boss from about 6 years ago worked on the imagineering team that was developing this technology. His portion was the miniature electronics on the projectiles that controlled the timing of the detonations.
He had some wooden balls that were used as test projectiles for the launching mechanism, and would amuse us with stories of how they'd have to seek cover for when the balls would return. A lot of his effort went into making sure that the communication between the launch tube and the projectiles was correct (apparently, the chip inside the projectile had to be told to stop listening for a few milliseconds during launch or it would see some false signals)
People outside the United States are free to hate us Americans as much as they deem appropriate. And truly, as an American, I am very interested in hearing from people who regard our troops as oppressors and understanding why they feel that way. I suspect ignorance and malign motives on the part of the "oppressed" is a factor.
But the point at hand is a resident of the United States (see, I'm not even assuming he's a US citizen) who enjoys the security and stability paid for by the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces deems it "OK" to hold those very people in disdain publicly. I don't know about where you are from, but here it is appropriate to respect the members of our armed foces(and I use Our because it would be pretentious to think of them as "MY" armed forces) who have entered the service of my country.
But the reality, I'm sure us Americans, who are obviously the source of all that is wrong in the world, would respect the members of any country's armed forces who honorably serve their nations. Personally, I respect the members of the Iraqi armed forces and police very much because they face tangible threats from those in that country who would seek to gain power to truly oppress the Iraqi people. But that is just one view from an ugly American.
I think I'll quote yet another famous American (I'll leave it up to you to decide if he's an ugly American too)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. "
and
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. "
Those two beliefs are why much of the world dislikes America.
First, leaving an "open" society based on the concept of freedom (Open source) just because you don't approve of a group taking advantage of that freedom is grossy hypocritical.
Second, while I can respect the viewpoints of people who oppose the war, I have utter contempt for people who oppose "the military".
Let me put it this way: No matter where our troops are sent into, regardless of my agreement or disagreement with the actions they are in, I would want the members of our armed forces to have every possible advantage we can afford them to get their job done and done with as few casualities as possible. They aren't a legion of faceless oppressors, they are our brothers, sisters, our compatriots and fellow citizens, and are fully deserving of all the support our country can muster.
Nothing gets me angrier than when an addlepated fuckwit like this utter disgrace to humanity decides that "our military" is evil and must be opposed. You can oppose the president, you can oppose the policies of the government, and you can protest both, but don't antagonize a group of people I hold in the highest regard.
<i>Stealing involves the deprivation of someone's property, removing thier ability to benefit from it. (paraphrase)
Information "theft" is not really theft or stealing.</i>
The information in question is the bits and bytes that form a program. The concepts of copyright represents the author's defined monopoly of what will be done with this information, be it sell it, trade for it, or even do nothing with it, in exchange for having this information available once his copyright expires. People who violate his copyrights are in effect, depriving him of his legally assigned monopoly on the information the author created. Period.
<i>Thousands of my users probably "steal" my software, but guess what! I DON'T CARE! It is information, which I CANNOT OWN!
Noone, corporation or individual, has a right to profit.
Everyone has a NATURAL right to consume and reproduce information. How do I know? Look how we are physically built, for crying out loud! </i>
Hmmmmm, I call Shenanigans on this one. Copyright is the sole basis for the users who aren't "stealing" your software to compensate you for producing it. By your twisted and faulty logic, I should be able to take your software, copy it outright and sell it to your potential users for $0.10 a copy because I didn't have to go through the expense of producing it.
In your fantasy world, nobody would ever pay you a single cent, and I'd become rich at your (and other's) expense. But hey, I'M NOT STEALING! I'm just expressing my <b>natural right to consume and reproduce information</b>
Its a set of compiled modules gathered together, and able to be called by other modules. The references to the functions in it are usually resolved at link time.
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Thanks for staring it all, Rob! I hope your next venture is as cool and successful as /.
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Is it too early to admit I tagged the story with whoisal?
I've always heard that great minds think alike and idiots rarely differ
From the WSJ article, it seems that the beef that the natural gas electric generators have is that they're cleaner than coal, especially CO2 wise, and thus gas wants to displace coal-powered units and is seen as a very good mid-term solution until the pure green technologies come about, but in the near term, any gains that wind makes comes out of the share that the gas producers make and coal is not seeing its portion diminshed.
I believe the first consumer optical mouse would beg to differ.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/99/04/20/0214216/MS-Introduces-Optical-Mouse
If you REALLY have the D2 key in hand, you can go to Blizzard.com, create a free account, then "register" your keys that gives you access to the game download from Blizzard that you can then install and play.
Don't forget to patch to 1.12a.
Oh the dilemna of mod points....
IBM still makes brand spanking new Big Irons. But they're not quite as big as they used to be. And they do more. And they also do stuff like run Linux.
Please go educate yourself before you look like a bigger moron.
Curse you Mod Points! Making me choose between modding CmdrTaco and replying to him.
/. party, if only to find out if all the other low id jerks are old too.
I'd love to attend a local
Wrong on many counts
Why ninjas lose:
1) Bowling is a team sport, its common knowledge that >1 ninja suddenly becomes the faceless gang that dies to the heroes
2) Bowling shoes, nuff said
3) Flying is a foul
Why pirates win:
1) The cannonball/bowling ball connection
2) Bowling is a sport you can drink beer while participating, this is pirate territory
3) Starrrrrrike!
The blind admiration of ninjas is a sure sign of weakness of logic.
Avast!
Isn't the threat from North Korea mostly in the form of large amounts of conventional artillery within range of the South Korean capitol? This system would useless against that.
If, I, put, commas, after, every, word, then, the, ones, that, should, be, there, are, there, and, the, ones, that, should, not, should, be, blocked, by, the, punctuation, firewall,.
Did you know 83% of all reported statistics are made up?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/05/bofh_2004_ episode_38/
Hey! I'm the new guy here.
Never mind all those ebayed 4-digit UID folks, its us real fivers who matter.
Brilliant, just brilliant
I guess being an example of a successful yet ethical by design company isn't important. No, wait, it IS important, if only to pressure the companies that are working on new drugs, building houses, and such to behave ethically, which I think they do need some help with.
I'm sorry, but your arguments that Google as a company isn't important are based on a very shallow examination of things.
Back before there were laser printers for PCs, the first laser printer I encountered was an IBM unit the size of about 6 racks and had a drum with a diameter of about 3 feet. It used the old pin-fed paper and like the line printers it stood next to, took paper by the box. It could go through an entire box of paper in 7 minutes.
Thus, you had this huge fast spinning drum in a very dry environment. When it was first installed it was improperly grounded, and soon afterward one print room employee got severly shocked, with the static charge arcing about a foot, knocking him across the room. The details weren't made public, but I believe he got a decent settlement from IBM.
I guess you could say this isn't the first incident of electic shock from a laster printer...
I think the note about it being years in development was correct. My boss from about 6 years ago worked on the imagineering team that was developing this technology. His portion was the miniature electronics on the projectiles that controlled the timing of the detonations.
He had some wooden balls that were used as test projectiles for the launching mechanism, and would amuse us with stories of how they'd have to seek cover for when the balls would return. A lot of his effort went into making sure that the communication between the launch tube and the projectiles was correct (apparently, the chip inside the projectile had to be told to stop listening for a few milliseconds during launch or it would see some false signals)
People outside the United States are free to hate us Americans as much as they deem appropriate. And truly, as an American, I am very interested in hearing from people who regard our troops as oppressors and understanding why they feel that way. I suspect ignorance and malign motives on the part of the "oppressed" is a factor.
But the point at hand is a resident of the United States (see, I'm not even assuming he's a US citizen) who enjoys the security and stability paid for by the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces deems it "OK" to hold those very people in disdain publicly. I don't know about where you are from, but here it is appropriate to respect the members of our armed foces(and I use Our because it would be pretentious to think of them as "MY" armed forces) who have entered the service of my country.
But the reality, I'm sure us Americans, who are obviously the source of all that is wrong in the world, would respect the members of any country's armed forces who honorably serve their nations. Personally, I respect the members of the Iraqi armed forces and police very much because they face tangible threats from those in that country who would seek to gain power to truly oppress the Iraqi people. But that is just one view from an ugly American.
I think I'll quote yet another famous American (I'll leave it up to you to decide if he's an ugly American too)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. "
and
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. "
Those two beliefs are why much of the world dislikes America.
First, leaving an "open" society based on the concept of freedom (Open source) just because you don't approve of a group taking advantage of that freedom is grossy hypocritical.
Second, while I can respect the viewpoints of people who oppose the war, I have utter contempt for people who oppose "the military".
Let me put it this way: No matter where our troops are sent into, regardless of my agreement or disagreement with the actions they are in, I would want the members of our armed forces to have every possible advantage we can afford them to get their job done and done with as few casualities as possible. They aren't a legion of faceless oppressors, they are our brothers, sisters, our compatriots and fellow citizens, and are fully deserving of all the support our country can muster.
Nothing gets me angrier than when an addlepated fuckwit like this utter disgrace to humanity decides that "our military" is evil and must be opposed. You can oppose the president, you can oppose the policies of the government, and you can protest both, but don't antagonize a group of people I hold in the highest regard.
Wow, wrong on so many levels.
<i>Stealing involves the deprivation of someone's property, removing thier ability to benefit from it. (paraphrase)
Information "theft" is not really theft or stealing.</i>
The information in question is the bits and bytes that form a program. The concepts of copyright represents the author's defined monopoly of what will be done with this information, be it sell it, trade for it, or even do nothing with it, in exchange for having this information available once his copyright expires. People who violate his copyrights are in effect, depriving him of his legally assigned monopoly on the information the author created. Period.
<i>Thousands of my users probably "steal" my software, but guess what! I DON'T CARE! It is information, which I CANNOT OWN!
Noone, corporation or individual, has a right to profit.
Everyone has a NATURAL right to consume and reproduce information. How do I know? Look how we are physically built, for crying out loud!
</i>
Hmmmmm, I call Shenanigans on this one. Copyright is the sole basis for the users who aren't "stealing" your software to compensate you for producing it. By your twisted and faulty logic, I should be able to take your software, copy it outright and sell it to your potential users for $0.10 a copy because I didn't have to go through the expense of producing it.
In your fantasy world, nobody would ever pay you a single cent, and I'd become rich at your (and other's) expense. But hey, I'M NOT STEALING! I'm just expressing my <b>natural right to consume and reproduce information</b>
You, sir or madam or whatever, are an idiot.
And didn't Lotus 123 set the standard for spreadsheets?
Now what does the general populace think of when you mention spreadsheets?
My point, its all about having the best UI while having a halfway decent backend.
Its a set of compiled modules gathered together, and able to be called by other modules. The references to the functions in it are usually resolved at link time.
New motherboard: $117
New CPU: $105
Radeon 9700 Pro: $320
Finding out that nVidia's upcoming card will cost more, offers little to no performance increase, and will be loud and hot: Priceless
Only use of NAT to provide access to computers that are not on your property
Simply put, they are going after situations where one person buys the internet access and lets all his neighbors connect thru it.
It doesn't appear they care one whit that you have multiple computers in your home connected.
Here is the analogy: they don't care how many TVs you have, just don't share your cable with your neighbors.