No guns, bazooka, missles, or special equipment is required
You're right, anybody with sufficient training could take out a flight crew with their bare hands. I know at least two mild-manner techie types with black belts that could incapacitate three guys in seconds. The first never sees it coming, the second has no time to react and the third is so outclassed by the attacker he's useless.
Plus of course, if you're willing to die you can do anything. The adrenaline advantage is on their side. No explosives, no weapons... just murderous intent. So how do you test against that?
Right or not, the consensus at my local bar was just start with Afghanistan and see where it goes. If we're wrong... whoops, so sorry. Now let's get Hamas, and Hezbollah, and... f* it. Everybody hates us anyway. If they think we're the Greate Satan now let 'em see us when we do evil on purpose, and with the public's full support.
Keep in mind I'm about an hour from NYC; a few months ago I was working in that neighborhood. I have friends there, and I would glady see the whole Taliban extinct than see any of them hurt.
I think the terrorists are going to find this was a mistake.
i don't want to disagree with all the "command lines rule" guys here, but if you're doing any kind of UI or OOP work gui tools give you much more info to work with. For straighforward procedural 'C' or system work it may be a wash, but i fail to see the intellectual superiority of setting an object property via text in a file vs entering the same text in an edit box. or selecting a menu item to set it. the intelligence is in knowing what to do, not how you do it.
personally i had nothing BUT command line stuff to work with for oh, about the first 13 years i wrote code and have used both for the last 10 or 11 years. i think it's kinda funny that programmers don't want to make use of the same kind of technology we build for other people.
allows the user the ability to register with the record label and download a proprietary encoding of the song to play on their computer.
Which doesn't help you at all if you're on airplane with a laptop.
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When you are driving a car you are using a deadly weapon in a crowded public place.
Unless you're not. There are tons of nice empty roads I regularly use that have speed limits well under what's safe for modern cars and a good driver.
In the future maybe the government will ban anyone from driving a car on manual, rather than letting the safety computer drive it for them, on a public road (or at least a busy one). If it means less deaths, I'm for it.
I'm sure they will - and it's people like you that are responsible for driving us (no pun intended) into a freaking fascist police state.
I have one of those and it works pretty well. I don't usually carry it around, but if there's a holiday or something where they get really crazy with roadblocks and all it's pretty cheap insurance. There's not much difference between 0.06 and 0.08 in how you feel, but one is OK and the other gets you a DWI. So if you come out of a bar and you blow 0.08 you can kill some time by going into a nearby convenience store and when you get back in the car you're legal. Then if they pull you over as soon as you leave the parking lot (quite common around here) you're in the clear. That's worth every bit of $110.
It's also useful if you have guests and they don't want to admit how whacked they are before driving home. There's a decent chance they'll believe the little breathalyzer and crash for the night instead of hitting the road and getting in an accident, which you the homeowner then gets sued for. Those commercials all say to have your drunk friend give up his keys but that can be pretty hard to do in practice unless you're gonna physically restrain them.
That would make sense if you actually had to buy any software with a new PC. The fact is they throw in tons of stuff so most people can do something when they turn it on. Word processing, burning CDs, games, slideshows, graphics programs... I recently bought a Sony VAIO for $600 that had all that stuff loaded up, included in the cost. That's what the bloody anti-trust suit is about, that MS gives you things free to wipe out their competitors. The reason the gov had such a hard time selling it was precisely because it was really hard to demonstrate harm to the consumer.
Oh, and by the way the prices of PCs are so low that compared to a few years ago you could buy $2k of software before you got anywhere near the purchase price of the hardware.
What you're saying is you're not willing to pay the programmers that do all this nice work for your lame ass to use.
There are lots of great reasons to use Linux, but I'm afraid the "free beer" part is (usually) much less important than the "free speech" part. When MS ups the ante to the point where it really hurts people THEN we'll see a more serious migration (especially in corporate settings) to Linux.
Actually I believe it was Ashcroft that made the decision. Wouldn't want to stop new bloatware from bringing the PC biz back to life! I can't believe this thing actually takes up 2G.
Anyway, this should be no surprise - if Bush thinks clean air would hurt the economy he certainly wouldn't slap MS, would he?
What it really needs to make it is perfect file compatibility with Office. When you multiply the cost of Office by thousands of employees it's a serious chunk of change, and in a recession some smaller companies might finally be willing to try it.
Well said. And if you say that someone else logged onto your machine, or used it while you were in the bathroom they bust you for not following security procedures and logging out when you leave the machine.
Well, you can't deny the web is a great time-waster if that's what you want to do. It used to be they went after the use of games, either deleting them or admonishing someone playing Solitaire on company time, but that's a lot harder to track than web activity which fills up logfiles with all sorts of nice indisputable info. "So Ray, those requests from your IP, that wasn't you?" Yeah, sure.
I forsee a time when people will discover they can run standalone programs... that DON'T use the Internet... and possibly operate off of shiny digital disks... you read it here first!
...but couldn't get the phone company to give me &@#*# the line. My local provider was willing to put it in and have one of the early Ascend DSL modems (they had a deal - 2 for $1700:-)) so at least I could get a fast line to *him*, then get to the net via his T1s. The only connection I could get in the apt. I was in was ISDN. The phone company techs laughed when I asked about a T1 because Verizon wouldn't upgrade the lines into my "low rent" neighborhood. Woof.
this is because it is one of the more comman text editor and WHY because it is VERY good for seraching and writeing documents in plaintext (which I assume is what your C/C++/^*somethinglang%&^ is in)
I love vi, but it obviously doesn't help you spell, eh? It's too bad, because an otherwise useful post like this is practically unintelligible when you have to figure out the true meaning of every other word.
"George Tirebiter" (or some variation thereof) is a character from one of the great Firesign Theater albums, such as "Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers", "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him" and the always-popular "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Really Anywhere At All?"
Unfortunately they're not all available on CD - you'll need what the ancients called a "LONG PLAYING RECORD" (a.k.a LP) to dig the best. Some are available on CDNOW.com (if you hate Amazon).
Highly recommended. Of course it helps to be well and truly stoned before (during/after) you listen.
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No guns, bazooka, missles, or special equipment is required
You're right, anybody with sufficient training could take out a flight crew with their bare hands. I know at least two mild-manner techie types with black belts that could incapacitate three guys in seconds. The first never sees it coming, the second has no time to react and the third is so outclassed by the attacker he's useless.
Plus of course, if you're willing to die you can do anything. The adrenaline advantage is on their side. No explosives, no weapons... just murderous intent. So how do you test against that?
Actually I recall reading he had made predictions out to 3000-something, so maybe we still have a little more time.
"In the year 2525, if man is still alive..."
Right or not, the consensus at my local bar was just start with Afghanistan and see where it goes. If we're wrong... whoops, so sorry. Now let's get Hamas, and Hezbollah, and... f* it. Everybody hates us anyway. If they think we're the Greate Satan now let 'em see us when we do evil on purpose, and with the public's full support.
Keep in mind I'm about an hour from NYC; a few months ago I was working in that neighborhood. I have friends there, and I would glady see the whole Taliban extinct than see any of them hurt.
I think the terrorists are going to find this was a mistake.
I've been playing with it for a few days and I'm pretty impressed.
spend some time writing hundreds of lines of code just to be unable to save the class
Are you kidding? You write hundreds of lines of code before you do a save?
i don't want to disagree with all the "command lines rule" guys here, but if you're doing any kind of UI or OOP work gui tools give you much more info to work with. For straighforward procedural 'C' or system work it may be a wash, but i fail to see the intellectual superiority of setting an object property via text in a file vs entering the same text in an edit box. or selecting a menu item to set it. the intelligence is in knowing what to do, not how you do it.
personally i had nothing BUT command line stuff to work with for oh, about the first 13 years i wrote code and have used both for the last 10 or 11 years. i think it's kinda funny that programmers don't want to make use of the same kind of technology we build for other people.
allows the user the ability to register with the record label and download a proprietary encoding of the song to play on their computer.
Which doesn't help you at all if you're on airplane with a laptop.
When you are driving a car you are using a deadly weapon in a crowded public place.
Unless you're not. There are tons of nice empty roads I regularly use that have speed limits well under what's safe for modern cars and a good driver.
In the future maybe the government will ban anyone from driving a car on manual, rather than letting the safety computer drive it for them, on a public road (or at least a busy one). If it means less deaths, I'm for it.
I'm sure they will - and it's people like you that are responsible for driving us (no pun intended) into a freaking fascist police state.
I have one of those and it works pretty well. I don't usually carry it around, but if there's a holiday or something where they get really crazy with roadblocks and all it's pretty cheap insurance. There's not much difference between 0.06 and 0.08 in how you feel, but one is OK and the other gets you a DWI. So if you come out of a bar and you blow 0.08 you can kill some time by going into a nearby convenience store and when you get back in the car you're legal. Then if they pull you over as soon as you leave the parking lot (quite common around here) you're in the clear. That's worth every bit of $110.
It's also useful if you have guests and they don't want to admit how whacked they are before driving home. There's a decent chance they'll believe the little breathalyzer and crash for the night instead of hitting the road and getting in an accident, which you the homeowner then gets sued for. Those commercials all say to have your drunk friend give up his keys but that can be pretty hard to do in practice unless you're gonna physically restrain them.
That would make sense if you actually had to buy any software with a new PC. The fact is they throw in tons of stuff so most people can do something when they turn it on. Word processing, burning CDs, games, slideshows, graphics programs... I recently bought a Sony VAIO for $600 that had all that stuff loaded up, included in the cost. That's what the bloody anti-trust suit is about, that MS gives you things free to wipe out their competitors. The reason the gov had such a hard time selling it was precisely because it was really hard to demonstrate harm to the consumer.
Oh, and by the way the prices of PCs are so low that compared to a few years ago you could buy $2k of software before you got anywhere near the purchase price of the hardware.
What you're saying is you're not willing to pay the programmers that do all this nice work for your lame ass to use.
There are lots of great reasons to use Linux, but I'm afraid the "free beer" part is (usually) much less important than the "free speech" part. When MS ups the ante to the point where it really hurts people THEN we'll see a more serious migration (especially in corporate settings) to Linux.
Yeah, I remember it well - paid MS assasins infiltrating the opposition. But you should really update this text, you keep posting the same one...
Actually I believe it was Ashcroft that made the decision. Wouldn't want to stop new bloatware from bringing the PC biz back to life! I can't believe this thing actually takes up 2G.
Anyway, this should be no surprise - if Bush thinks clean air would hurt the economy he certainly wouldn't slap MS, would he?
yeah, well said. just goes to show how much i use it myself...
What it really needs to make it is perfect file compatibility with Office. When you multiply the cost of Office by thousands of employees it's a serious chunk of change, and in a recession some smaller companies might finally be willing to try it.
Well said. And if you say that someone else logged onto your machine, or used it while you were in the bathroom they bust you for not following security procedures and logging out when you leave the machine.
Well, you can't deny the web is a great time-waster if that's what you want to do. It used to be they went after the use of games, either deleting them or admonishing someone playing Solitaire on company time, but that's a lot harder to track than web activity which fills up logfiles with all sorts of nice indisputable info. "So Ray, those requests from your IP, that wasn't you?" Yeah, sure.
I forsee a time when people will discover they can run standalone programs... that DON'T use the Internet... and possibly operate off of shiny digital disks... you read it here first!
Kinky! I had GI Joes, but I never thought of... punishing them. :-)
My God man, what did they do - take the GI Joe tank out to town one night?
gee, takes some of the romance out of zero-G sex, doesn't it? Hmmm.... or maybe not!
Kind of like a death penalty: If you kill someone and get caught, you know you'll most likely die.
Unfortunately that's not true, at least in the US.
The smart money says the criminals look for more private ways to make money.
Maybe they could go into politics, for instance.
I think he's got it... they win both ways. We'll be stuck with this until they try to lock up somebody's grandmother.
...but couldn't get the phone company to give me &@#*# the line. My local provider was willing to put it in and have one of the early Ascend DSL modems (they had a deal - 2 for $1700 :-)) so at least I could get a fast line to *him*, then get to the net via his T1s. The only connection I could get in the apt. I was in was ISDN. The phone company techs laughed when I asked about a T1 because Verizon wouldn't upgrade the lines into my "low rent" neighborhood. Woof.
Really now, you guys should be busy marketing XP, mm'kay?
'nuff said
but seriosly learn vi
this is because it is one of the more comman text editor and WHY because it is VERY good for seraching and writeing documents in plaintext (which I assume is what your C/C++/^*somethinglang%&^ is in)
I love vi, but it obviously doesn't help you spell, eh? It's too bad, because an otherwise useful post like this is practically unintelligible when you have to figure out the true meaning of every other word.
"George Tirebiter" (or some variation thereof) is a character from one of the great Firesign Theater albums, such as "Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers", "Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him" and the always-popular "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Really Anywhere At All?"
Unfortunately they're not all available on CD - you'll need what the ancients called a "LONG PLAYING RECORD" (a.k.a LP) to dig the best. Some are available on CDNOW.com (if you hate Amazon).
Highly recommended. Of course it helps to be well and truly stoned before (during/after) you listen.