No. Funny moderations do not count towards karma scores.
On the other hand, some people browse with a higher-than-zero (or -1) threshold, so I suppose in that case they might overlook the grandparent initially. However, as I post this the grandparent is now rated at +4 Interesting so maybe you just caught it early.
Do you suppose a horse would survive 10 hours of constant relatively-high-speed travel (for a horse, particularly on the street portions) through the desert?
And man, that radio kill switch would be a real a bitch, huh?
I hope Bush and his gang get voted out of the office, and replaced by people who objectively weigh advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing for american citizens
Unfortunately, nobody who fits that description is running for office.
Sadly its viewed as dead which is correct. MS beat them via the distribution game. Netscape could not compete with something for free so they folded, got bought out and laid off their programmers while MS added feature after feature to IE.
Sad really.
Sad? It's the best thing that happened to the web.
You may not like IE, and for the record I use Firefox, but Netscape has ALWAYS been a piece of crap. There was nothing "sad" about it losing out -- it sucked. Badly.
It didn't stop sucking until it was based on Mozilla, at which point it was unnecessary and redundant.
I had done some Google searches, but it seemed like everything was either generic information, or outside of the US. After talking to my builder about it, he noted that they're rarely used in in Florida (something to do with the humidity) but I'm still thinking about trying one to cool my garage, where it isn't important to get it way down to daily-living levels, but where I also don't necessarily care to spend a lot of money on electricity.
65 MPG, 2002 BMW F650GS with ABS, currently at 12,000 miles. Bought almost new in 2003 for only $4500 with 450 miles on the odometer.
My wife, who is quite a bit smaller than me, regularly gets over 70 MPG on her BMW (which is nearly identical).
It sounds like a sewing machine going down the road, but so what? It'll hold 90 MPH all day if you're traveling through an area where you can pull that off (such as west Texas where the limit is 85), and your mileage will only drop to about 40 MPG. I did a 2000 mile trip on it back when I first bought it. It's almost more fun than my MV Agusta.
Heck, I have a 2002 650CC BMW F650GS with ABS that gets 65 MPG. I bought it a year ago for only $4500 with only 420 miles on it. Insurance is not required in Florida. Pretty hard to beat a deal like that.
I'm not sure why he complains about not being protected from the elements. It sounds like if he lived closer he'd ride a bicycle, and obviously they don't give you any more protection (and you could probably ride 18 miles to work on a motorcycle a lot faster than you could ride a quarter that distance on a bicycle).
While that makes sense (I'm assuming the cells would augment mains power given the huge power consumption of AC systems), I can't say I've actually heard of anything like this -- and I've been reading up on high-quality, high-efficiency HVAC systems since we're wrapping up the design of a fairly large new house.
The current version, DirectX 9.0b, is backwards compatible all the way back to version 3, or thereabouts.
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Good links, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily quite so difficult.
My grandmother died of a relatively rare form of lupus, and she got into an experimental treatment program fairly easily. They flat-out told her it wouldn't cure her, and that they were mostly just collecting data, but she agreed anyway. Effectively it prolonged her suffering (and her quality of life wasn't very good during that time; usually she didn't know who we were or who she was) but she stuck to it in the hope that it would help others some day.
Another person I know got his wife into a highly experimental program for the treatment of adult lukemia. The hard part was finding the program -- getting into it wasn't too complicated, except for the need to provide loding for himself and his wife for several months a few thousand miles from home. (Happily, the experiment succeeded, and it has been in total remission for many years -- quite a feat considering they'd put her chances of living at less than 10% when it was found.)
I'm sure there are some which are very difficult to get into, but that isn't always the case.
Dealing with the 'real' world is no different than dealing with 'any other world'
Congratulations, your statement has assumed the lofty title of The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Read on Slashdot.
nothing happens unless we 'wish hard enough' for it to happen
To a limited extent, I agree. Or rather, nothing begins to happen without the impetus of sufficient motivation. The problem is, you refuse to acknowledge that much more is required to bring such a wish to fruition -- in some cases, more than what is possible in the ugly old "hurty" real world. You can wish so hard you pass out, but that still isn't going to change the fact that the minute you realize your "mud machine" dream of kumbaya haromony, some twisted freak who wasn't playing along is going to show up to spoil the day.
Hell, the simple fact that we're arguing is evidence enough that just because you have a good idea doesn't mean that everyone else is going to drop what they're doing to help you realize it. And you clearly can't do it on your own, otherwise I'm sure you would have.
It's the real world. Welcome. We've been waiting for you.
If you went to the trouble to say "NT based" instead of NT, I might wonder if you meant something other than NT4. If you just said "NT", as the article did, then yeah, I'd assume you meant NT4, and so would everyone else in the IT biz that I've met or known in the past several years.
They absolutely are NT-based. But they are not NT, and no one refers to them that way. THAT was the point you tried to make -- that when the article said the ship ran NT, it could be Win2K or some later OS. Your assumption was false. Those operating systems simply are not COMMONLY referred to as "NT" by anyone in my experience -- which is broad.
Dealing with the real world, the way things actually work, is not the same as liking or preferring it. It should go without saying that most people pine for the utopian ideal. "People like you" are sufficiently disconnected to expect it will happen if we all just wish hard enough.
You're probably one of those people to whom nothing seriously bad has happened yet.
And the number of ill intentioned people required to oppress well-meaning people is vanishingly small.
I'd also point out that the US defense budget is only a fraction of the total budget. So the US does, in fact, spend quite a bit more on other things. It's also worth noting that a very large portion of the US defense budget is expended protecting people who aren't even Americans.
I don't believe anyone -- not even you -- is so naive that you truly believe it is that simple in practice. The world really does contain a very, very large number of petty-minded, truly dangerous, downright bad, rotten-to-the-core people. The world is home to people who kill for pleasure. It is a place where jealousy and the urge to own and control is so strong that outright genocide is attempted on a fairly regular basis.
You can't risk turning your sword into a garden hoe, unless you feel like sharing the product of your labor with the gang that lives down the road.
Those are the sad facts of the real world, and all the well-wishing and beatific optimism in the universe isn't going to change it.
but I can't advocate kicking some poor third-worlder in the teeth to make it so
1. Nobody kicked anybody in the teeth. They've always been poor. 2. No need to worry, it your decision. The decision will be made for you. 3. They're not getting a slice. The rich will still be rich when this plays out.
Support operations DO generate income.. REPEAT BUSINESS! If I buy a product and your support SUCKS I will NOT buy from you again.
Exactly. Case in point: Lexar Media.
I bought several of their 256MB CF cards. On one specific machine -- my very new main desktop machine -- their USB Jumpshot reader would not work properly. After politely struggling with their overwhelmingly crappy outsourced Indian support, I simply gave up, threw the Jumpshot connector in the trash, and resigned myself to using the CF reader built into my laptop.
They lost all of my business for any future purchases, and I recommend against purchasing their products whenever I am asked for an opinion on CF media by friends, relatives, etc.
Is it a drop in the bucket? Sure. But who knows? Maybe others will do the same. It certainly isn't hurting me to "vote with my dollars" this way, and in this case it is directly attributable to their decision to save a few bucks by outsourcing their support.
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No. Funny moderations do not count towards karma scores.
On the other hand, some people browse with a higher-than-zero (or -1) threshold, so I suppose in that case they might overlook the grandparent initially. However, as I post this the grandparent is now rated at +4 Interesting so maybe you just caught it early.
Where's the fun in that?
Do you suppose a horse would survive 10 hours of constant relatively-high-speed travel (for a horse, particularly on the street portions) through the desert?
And man, that radio kill switch would be a real a bitch, huh?
I think the term you're looking for is "mythical," not "legendary."
I hope Bush and his gang get voted out of the office, and replaced by people who objectively weigh advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing for american citizens
Unfortunately, nobody who fits that description is running for office.
Sadly its viewed as dead which is correct. MS beat them via the distribution game. Netscape could not compete with something for free so they folded, got bought out and laid off their programmers while MS added feature after feature to IE.
Sad really.
Sad? It's the best thing that happened to the web.
You may not like IE, and for the record I use Firefox, but Netscape has ALWAYS been a piece of crap. There was nothing "sad" about it losing out -- it sucked. Badly.
It didn't stop sucking until it was based on Mozilla, at which point it was unnecessary and redundant.
I had done some Google searches, but it seemed like everything was either generic information, or outside of the US. After talking to my builder about it, he noted that they're rarely used in in Florida (something to do with the humidity) but I'm still thinking about trying one to cool my garage, where it isn't important to get it way down to daily-living levels, but where I also don't necessarily care to spend a lot of money on electricity.
Thanks for the links!
DirectX is free. .NET and the command-line compilers are free.
MASM has been free since about 1994.
Granted, you pay for the OS.
65 MPG, 2002 BMW F650GS with ABS, currently at 12,000 miles. Bought almost new in 2003 for only $4500 with 450 miles on the odometer.
My wife, who is quite a bit smaller than me, regularly gets over 70 MPG on her BMW (which is nearly identical).
It sounds like a sewing machine going down the road, but so what? It'll hold 90 MPH all day if you're traveling through an area where you can pull that off (such as west Texas where the limit is 85), and your mileage will only drop to about 40 MPG. I did a 2000 mile trip on it back when I first bought it. It's almost more fun than my MV Agusta.
Heck, I have a 2002 650CC BMW F650GS with ABS that gets 65 MPG. I bought it a year ago for only $4500 with only 420 miles on it. Insurance is not required in Florida. Pretty hard to beat a deal like that.
I'm not sure why he complains about not being protected from the elements. It sounds like if he lived closer he'd ride a bicycle, and obviously they don't give you any more protection (and you could probably ride 18 miles to work on a motorcycle a lot faster than you could ride a quarter that distance on a bicycle).
Here's a better clue:
Since it's a multiple choice format, it's ONLY funny if people copy and paste it.
HTML is practically the only pure-text system they seem to do that in anymore
10 PRINT "YOU FAIL IT"
While that makes sense (I'm assuming the cells would augment mains power given the huge power consumption of AC systems), I can't say I've actually heard of anything like this -- and I've been reading up on high-quality, high-efficiency HVAC systems since we're wrapping up the design of a fairly large new house.
Got any names or links?
You're telling me you're using the same libraries, tools, IDE, and OS you were using in 1996 when DX3 was released?
I didn't think so.
At least they didn't mod you Insightful.
The current version, DirectX 9.0b, is backwards compatible all the way back to version 3, or thereabouts.
Good links, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily quite so difficult.
My grandmother died of a relatively rare form of lupus, and she got into an experimental treatment program fairly easily. They flat-out told her it wouldn't cure her, and that they were mostly just collecting data, but she agreed anyway. Effectively it prolonged her suffering (and her quality of life wasn't very good during that time; usually she didn't know who we were or who she was) but she stuck to it in the hope that it would help others some day.
Another person I know got his wife into a highly experimental program for the treatment of adult lukemia. The hard part was finding the program -- getting into it wasn't too complicated, except for the need to provide loding for himself and his wife for several months a few thousand miles from home. (Happily, the experiment succeeded, and it has been in total remission for many years -- quite a feat considering they'd put her chances of living at less than 10% when it was found.)
I'm sure there are some which are very difficult to get into, but that isn't always the case.
Dealing with the 'real' world is no different than dealing with 'any other world'
Congratulations, your statement has assumed the lofty title of The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Read on Slashdot.
nothing happens unless we 'wish hard enough' for it to happen
To a limited extent, I agree. Or rather, nothing begins to happen without the impetus of sufficient motivation. The problem is, you refuse to acknowledge that much more is required to bring such a wish to fruition -- in some cases, more than what is possible in the ugly old "hurty" real world. You can wish so hard you pass out, but that still isn't going to change the fact that the minute you realize your "mud machine" dream of kumbaya haromony, some twisted freak who wasn't playing along is going to show up to spoil the day.
Hell, the simple fact that we're arguing is evidence enough that just because you have a good idea doesn't mean that everyone else is going to drop what they're doing to help you realize it. And you clearly can't do it on your own, otherwise I'm sure you would have.
It's the real world. Welcome. We've been waiting for you.
And you've gone from idle speculation to actually inventing dialogue. Nice.
Nobody said "NT based" except you.
If you went to the trouble to say "NT based" instead of NT, I might wonder if you meant something other than NT4. If you just said "NT", as the article did, then yeah, I'd assume you meant NT4, and so would everyone else in the IT biz that I've met or known in the past several years.
Forget it.
They absolutely are NT-based. But they are not NT, and no one refers to them that way. THAT was the point you tried to make -- that when the article said the ship ran NT, it could be Win2K or some later OS. Your assumption was false. Those operating systems simply are not COMMONLY referred to as "NT" by anyone in my experience -- which is broad.
Dealing with the real world, the way things actually work, is not the same as liking or preferring it. It should go without saying that most people pine for the utopian ideal. "People like you" are sufficiently disconnected to expect it will happen if we all just wish hard enough.
You're probably one of those people to whom nothing seriously bad has happened yet.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
And the number of ill intentioned people required to oppress well-meaning people is vanishingly small.
I'd also point out that the US defense budget is only a fraction of the total budget. So the US does, in fact, spend quite a bit more on other things. It's also worth noting that a very large portion of the US defense budget is expended protecting people who aren't even Americans.
Rather inconvenient facts for people like you.
I don't believe anyone -- not even you -- is so naive that you truly believe it is that simple in practice. The world really does contain a very, very large number of petty-minded, truly dangerous, downright bad, rotten-to-the-core people. The world is home to people who kill for pleasure. It is a place where jealousy and the urge to own and control is so strong that outright genocide is attempted on a fairly regular basis.
You can't risk turning your sword into a garden hoe, unless you feel like sharing the product of your labor with the gang that lives down the road.
Those are the sad facts of the real world, and all the well-wishing and beatific optimism in the universe isn't going to change it.
but I can't advocate kicking some poor third-worlder in the teeth to make it so
1. Nobody kicked anybody in the teeth. They've always been poor.
2. No need to worry, it your decision. The decision will be made for you.
3. They're not getting a slice. The rich will still be rich when this plays out.
In other words: You are not in control here.
Support operations DO generate income.. REPEAT BUSINESS! If I buy a product and your support SUCKS I will NOT buy from you again.
Exactly. Case in point: Lexar Media.
I bought several of their 256MB CF cards. On one specific machine -- my very new main desktop machine -- their USB Jumpshot reader would not work properly. After politely struggling with their overwhelmingly crappy outsourced Indian support, I simply gave up, threw the Jumpshot connector in the trash, and resigned myself to using the CF reader built into my laptop.
They lost all of my business for any future purchases, and I recommend against purchasing their products whenever I am asked for an opinion on CF media by friends, relatives, etc.
Is it a drop in the bucket? Sure. But who knows? Maybe others will do the same. It certainly isn't hurting me to "vote with my dollars" this way, and in this case it is directly attributable to their decision to save a few bucks by outsourcing their support.