Articles like this one always make me wonder... A couple of relatives of mine worked for IBM for many a year, mostly back before MS became what it is today... I've heard stories about the software (and even hardware) that never got outside the doors, but was developed and used internally. One can debate the merits of those decisions either way - but how much of Microsoft's code do you think never gets used outside of Redmond?
And, a minor point, but... if you're getting tens of thousands of smart cards, I sure hope you're not paying 50 bucks a piece for them.
This is yellow journalism at its finest. Try searching for anything on MSN.com - you'll never find anywhere near as many results as you will on Google. It's got nothing to do with linux, it's got everything to do with the type of search being done.
No, I'm sorry, you're wrong. A console, a stack of punchcards, a bunch of relays on the front of the machine - these are all user interfaces. That's why there's such a thing as a GUI, and a UI, and they're not the same.
See User Interface
Well... technically, no. Without any kind of User Interface, we'd have to use our telekinetic powers to manipulate electrons flowing about the transistors directly. And I don't know about you, but I'm not usually awake enough to do that when I'm checking BBC News & Slashdot before I head off to work...
We (well, my wife and the people I was there with) were pretty amused when the "please don't pirate movies" ad was followed by the coke ad where the couple is watching the movies in the apartment building next to theirs through the telescope.
Well, if we're to believe the article, only cells with "an activated RAS pathway" are consistently affected by the virus. Now, I suppose that most cells don't generally have this, and that's why they are unaffected. But... are there any non-cancerous conditions in which this happens? They you've just got a very, very effective way of killing whatever set of cells that is...
This isn't the national DNC registry that's been debated to the (n+5)th degree in recent months - that's the Federal Trade Commission, not the Federal Communications Commission. This is the older set of rules where you could inform individual companies not to contact you again.
If "improving" has recently been redefined to mean "adding pretty pictures, sounds, bugs, and security holes a blind, illiterate schoolchild from Chicago could see."
I can't say this about every store in world, and I have been out of retail for almost five years, but most of the places I worked had a bigger loss of profit from employee-caused shrink than customer caused. Less employees actually means less shrink, not more.
Besides the technological problems, there's numerous treaties (signed by all the nations with a serious chance of 'colonization' of any celestial body in the next century) against the appropriation of any celestial body. For instance:
the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
Obviously, if your time machine works properly, the order should be:
1) Send humans back in time, and have them return safely. 2) Don't kill or have sex with your ancestors. 3) Resolve causation paradoxes 4) Master physics to manipulate time as degree of freedom 5) Build time-travel capsule
Well, based on the insane size of the Death Star, I'd guess it would probably be closer to hundreds of thousands, if not millions - remember how huge the trench the X-Wings and Y-Wings flew down was? And you couldn't see that at all in the full model...
> 1) Charities, because checking the DMA list, or the new DMC list, costs $1000+ per campaign;
Non-profits are exempt from having to follow the law in any event.
>I suspect that the DMC list will be a failure until they start offering the screening list for free, or screening services at very low cost (e.g.
>$250 per campaign) with rapid turnaround. Otherwise, some telemarketer will challenge the law in court as "exceptionally
>burdensome" and they will win.
It's not a matter of "per campaign", it's a matter of "per area code per year." Any telemarketing firm is going to most likely buy the whole list at $7,375 for the entire U.S.
And the first five area codes are free, in any event - a local newspaper should have no problem getting the numbers they need.
>With the only side effect being that a little >extra Helium is released into our atmosphere
Although if cold fusion were proven real tommorrow, and all the planet's electricity generated by it by next year, sometime in 2320 the atmosphere would be about 1.5% helium, and we'd all sound kind of squeaky.
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Articles like this one always make me wonder... A couple of relatives of mine worked for IBM for many a year, mostly back before MS became what it is today... I've heard stories about the software (and even hardware) that never got outside the doors, but was developed and used internally. One can debate the merits of those decisions either way - but how much of Microsoft's code do you think never gets used outside of Redmond?
And, a minor point, but... if you're getting tens of thousands of smart cards, I sure hope you're not paying 50 bucks a piece for them.
For example... Beer.
Google versus MSN
Or how about... trucks?
Google versus MSN
No, I'm sorry, you're wrong. A console, a stack of punchcards, a bunch of relays on the front of the machine - these are all user interfaces. That's why there's such a thing as a GUI, and a UI, and they're not the same. See User Interface
Well... technically, no. Without any kind of User Interface, we'd have to use our telekinetic powers to manipulate electrons flowing about the transistors directly. And I don't know about you, but I'm not usually awake enough to do that when I'm checking BBC News & Slashdot before I head off to work...
Didn't you ever see Voyager? ;)
True, but if you want to be that fatalistic about it, why not just blindfold yourself and go play in traffic?
We (well, my wife and the people I was there with) were pretty amused when the "please don't pirate movies" ad was followed by the coke ad where the couple is watching the movies in the apartment building next to theirs through the telescope.
Well, if we're to believe the article, only cells with "an activated RAS pathway" are consistently affected by the virus. Now, I suppose that most cells don't generally have this, and that's why they are unaffected. But... are there any non-cancerous conditions in which this happens? They you've just got a very, very effective way of killing whatever set of cells that is...
This isn't the national DNC registry that's been debated to the (n+5)th degree in recent months - that's the Federal Trade Commission, not the Federal Communications Commission. This is the older set of rules where you could inform individual companies not to contact you again.
Don't you love alphabet soup?
If "improving" has recently been redefined to mean "adding pretty pictures, sounds, bugs, and security holes a blind, illiterate schoolchild from Chicago could see."
(tilts head) "something better" is subjective.
40 years to retirement? Good lord, man, it's more like 20 for most federal employees.
I can't say this about every store in world, and I have been out of retail for almost five years, but most of the places I worked had a bigger loss of profit from employee-caused shrink than customer caused. Less employees actually means less shrink, not more.
If it's good enough for Webster's, it's good enough for us.
Obviously, if your time machine works properly, the order should be:
1) Send humans back in time, and have them return safely.
2) Don't kill or have sex with your ancestors.
3) Resolve causation paradoxes
4) Master physics to manipulate time as degree of freedom
5) Build time-travel capsule
Well, based on the insane size of the Death Star, I'd guess it would probably be closer to hundreds of thousands, if not millions - remember how huge the trench the X-Wings and Y-Wings flew down was? And you couldn't see that at all in the full model...
Non-profits are exempt from having to follow the law in any event.
>I suspect that the DMC list will be a failure until they start offering the screening list for free, or screening services at very low cost (e.g.
>$250 per campaign) with rapid turnaround. Otherwise, some telemarketer will challenge the law in court as "exceptionally
>burdensome" and they will win.
It's not a matter of "per campaign", it's a matter of "per area code per year." Any telemarketing firm is going to most likely buy the whole list at $7,375 for the entire U.S.
And the first five area codes are free, in any event - a local newspaper should have no problem getting the numbers they need.
>But when I have a tidy savings and enough >expierience that I can start again in a town >anew, I just might be browsing Slashdot from >Canada.
Yes, and when you've saved enough to own a map, you'll realize that Vancouver is in Canada.
I guess they didn't put much emphasis on geography during the Cold War, eh?
>With the only side effect being that a little >extra Helium is released into our atmosphere
Although if cold fusion were proven real tommorrow, and all the planet's electricity generated by it by next year, sometime in 2320 the atmosphere would be about 1.5% helium, and we'd all sound kind of squeaky.