Yes, I prefer the metaphor of a fishbowl where applications swim around at random, and instead of moving a "pointer" with your mouse you move a little net that you can use to fish out the application you want to look at more closely. This powerful metaphor combines the best features of a game with dynamic, organic organization of information, and teaches children visio-spatial coordination as well as fishing skills.
For troublesome applications such as viruses you can trade your net for a speargun, and to log out you simply toss a handgrenade into the tank, killing most of your applications and stunning the rest, without having to think through a bunch of unintuitive menus.
All rendered in 3D and accompanied by sound effects, of course.
> Riddle me this, folks... why is it that Pro-Palestinians and anti-Israel people always yell "Stop the 'Occupation,' Get out of the West Bank! Leave Gaza!" when it is obvious that what they really mean is "No Jews are allowed here! We want ALL the land! We need 27 arab states and nothing for you!"???
Funny, when I say it it means "The Geneva Convention's ban on colonizing occupied territory must be observed by our friends, too."
> burying it deep in some stable part of the earth is the best way currently though(at least much better than the sometimes used method of just stacking it in a shack). and besides, ancient egyptians got their cursed tombs, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THEM??!?!?-)
One line of thinking is that when word goes around that the site is cursed, people will conclude that the curse must be guarding a buried treasure and the chances of a dig goes up instead of down.
(Hmmm... maybe all those Egyptologists died of radiation poisoning...)
> It just seems like an example of phrenology at work. Now maybe those naysayers, who have cast dispersions at this science, will see the error of their ways.
But the medical treatment is simple enough: just take the patient by the body shop and have them pop the dents out of his head.
> Is microsoft indemnifying its customers against problems like this? I know that indemnity has been a big keyword of theirs lately and I'd just like to be certain that I can get indemnified if something like this happens. I mean, that's the advantage of going with a big, closed source company right? It's the indemnity.
Yes, they agree to only charge you one license for the unauthorized use of 'guest', no matter how many spammers are actually using it.
They also agree to send someone to show your PHB some overdecorated ppt slides about how secure their software is, if incidents like this have him thinking about switching to another software supplier.
> And what does this all come back to? My original statement that we don't really know yet where all the water came from, but theories do exist.
Unfortunately, there aren't any that work.
Of course, you could just posit that God magicked the water in and magicked the heat out. But some people wonder why God must be bothered with water and heat at all, when he could have just magicked the bad people out of existence to begin with...
IMO the flood story raises even more theological problems than scientific problems.
> The vapor canopy theory of the global flood predicts a sterile earth, and thus can be discarded on the basis of the evidence.
BTW, the Creation Science movement tried this and much else about a generation ago, and finally gave it up because they infallibly got results that refuted their hypotheses.
In this less honest generation Creation Science has been replaced with Intelligent Design, which safely avoids making any predictions at all...
> > And for some reason you think that supports your model...
> Are you trying to make a point, or are you just trolling? You need to be more specific than vague insinuations.
Read up on gravitational potential energy, calculate the amount of water required to cover the higest mountains, calculate the mass of that water, estimate how high in the sky it must have been according to your model, and then calculate how much energy would have been released if you dropped it out of the sky.
The vapor canopy theory of the global flood predicts a sterile earth, and thus can be discarded on the basis of the evidence.
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> Paranoid fantasies about "stealing" a national election by the CEO of the voting machine company just turn off people to the real issue.
You refer, of course, to the Supreme Court?
> Imagine a virus/worm that _was_ meant specificly for ATMs. I bet something like that could achieve a pretty big impact.
Heh, turn them all into slot machines.
> There has to be a better way.
Yes, I prefer the metaphor of a fishbowl where applications swim around at random, and instead of moving a "pointer" with your mouse you move a little net that you can use to fish out the application you want to look at more closely. This powerful metaphor combines the best features of a game with dynamic, organic organization of information, and teaches children visio-spatial coordination as well as fishing skills.
For troublesome applications such as viruses you can trade your net for a speargun, and to log out you simply toss a handgrenade into the tank, killing most of your applications and stunning the rest, without having to think through a bunch of unintuitive menus.
All rendered in 3D and accompanied by sound effects, of course.
> No, no, no, you misunderstood. The politicians he's refering to are American.
LoL.
> does anyone actually care about this??
My favorite Metacity application management tool is -
> Riddle me this, folks... why is it that Pro-Palestinians and anti-Israel people always yell "Stop the 'Occupation,' Get out of the West Bank! Leave Gaza!" when it is obvious that what they really mean is "No Jews are allowed here! We want ALL the land! We need 27 arab states and nothing for you!"???
Funny, when I say it it means "The Geneva Convention's ban on colonizing occupied territory must be observed by our friends, too."
> Atheism is the religion of pride and arrogance.
No, atheism merely means someone disbelieves one more god than you do.
Based on a crude estimate of how many gods have been claimed to exist, you're about 99.9999% atheistic yourself.
> I'm a bit pessimistic, you see
Too bad US law doesn't allow us to shop overseas; we're spending a mighty lot of money to buy third rate ones...
> PresidentDrive / VicePresidentDrive?
Yeah, but which is the master and which the slave?
Better would be "president/intern".
We could use that to PCify the terms for the cable connectors too.
> Find someone in your family that has management experience and is successful, and ask them for advice?
> If you don't have anyone in your family that has successful management experience, then it's just not in your genes. Give up now.
We were talking about ordinary businesses, not the Mafia.
> "It would strick with precision"
Destroying all spellcheckers in its path.
> burying it deep in some stable part of the earth is the best way currently though(at least much better than the sometimes used method of just stacking it in a shack). and besides, ancient egyptians got their cursed tombs, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THEM??!?!?-)
One line of thinking is that when word goes around that the site is cursed, people will conclude that the curse must be guarding a buried treasure and the chances of a dig goes up instead of down.
(Hmmm... maybe all those Egyptologists died of radiation poisoning...)
> Great. This is like saying that a semi truck is running people down (GTA-like), but it's doing it slower now than before.
Next year it will slow to a stop, reverse, and run over you again.
> "They" aren't out to get you.
Swallow the pill, Quaid.
> It just seems like an example of phrenology at work. Now maybe those naysayers, who have cast dispersions at this science, will see the error of their ways.
But the medical treatment is simple enough: just take the patient by the body shop and have them pop the dents out of his head.
> Let me guess. They wanted to pay you entirely in stock options?
Heh, shares in future lawsuits.
> I wonder what a plot of stories/posts over time would look like...
The number of ha's is growing at O(nlogn)
> Is microsoft indemnifying its customers against problems like this? I know that indemnity has been a big keyword of theirs lately and I'd just like to be certain that I can get indemnified if something like this happens. I mean, that's the advantage of going with a big, closed source company right? It's the indemnity.
Yes, they agree to only charge you one license for the unauthorized use of 'guest', no matter how many spammers are actually using it.
They also agree to send someone to show your PHB some overdecorated ppt slides about how secure their software is, if incidents like this have him thinking about switching to another software supplier.
> Surprised that's not on the list anywhere
Let's stick to realistic fantasies, like flying cars and personal submarines.
...we have all the penis enlargers, cheap toner cartridges, and some other Chinese-looking stuff that I can't read, that money can buy!
Who would have dreamed that thirty years ago!
> Richard Gere becoming involved with a gerbil
Strictly speaking, the story claims that the gerbil gets involved with Richard Gere!
...the myth that Slashdotters can't get laid.
And more importantly, how are they going to test it?
> And what does this all come back to? My original statement that we don't really know yet where all the water came from, but theories do exist.
Unfortunately, there aren't any that work.
Of course, you could just posit that God magicked the water in and magicked the heat out. But some people wonder why God must be bothered with water and heat at all, when he could have just magicked the bad people out of existence to begin with...
IMO the flood story raises even more theological problems than scientific problems.
> The vapor canopy theory of the global flood predicts a sterile earth, and thus can be discarded on the basis of the evidence.
BTW, the Creation Science movement tried this and much else about a generation ago, and finally gave it up because they infallibly got results that refuted their hypotheses.
In this less honest generation Creation Science has been replaced with Intelligent Design, which safely avoids making any predictions at all...
> > And for some reason you think that supports your model...
> Are you trying to make a point, or are you just trolling? You need to be more specific than vague insinuations.
Read up on gravitational potential energy, calculate the amount of water required to cover the higest mountains, calculate the mass of that water, estimate how high in the sky it must have been according to your model, and then calculate how much energy would have been released if you dropped it out of the sky.
The vapor canopy theory of the global flood predicts a sterile earth, and thus can be discarded on the basis of the evidence.