If , as is generally agreed, Mars is somewhat older than Earth, and was stripped of it's atmosphere and lost it's magnetic core in it's death throes, then it's plate tectonics wouldn't be at a "primitive" stage, but an advanced state of entropy, essentially.. having slowed down due to cooling of the interior of the planet.. Since it's generally conceded that the first two conditions on Mars occurred, then what kind of scientist would compare the third condition (plate tectonics) to an *early* stage? It's ludicrous..
I don't see how this is a big problem for either the consumer , or M$.. there's so many other non M$ options out there, that it'll be a lot easier on microsoft support techs, with the huge drop in windows users, they'll have less of a workload.. Microsoft employees will get a lot more free time with the huge drop in profits, they'll be able to go fishing or spend a year with their kids, after being laid off.. people selling used non microsoft tablets and computers will find it easier to sell them.. and even (heaven forbid) Apple will become less hated as everybody realizes it's only them or linux..
Here's an "also viewed" item that sounds a little hairy..but anyone even know what it *is*? " Harcos Labratory Nuclear Energy Powder Uranium Yellowcake Flavor"
Incidentally, I forgot to say what I upgraded to, only ONE major release up.. "Snow Leopard".. That's all it took to turn a fast iMAc into a paperweight..;-(
OK.. How's this for youmy iMAc came standard in late 2009-2010 with OSX Leopard..
However, after upgrading it feels like I'm back on a 386.. it takjes anywhere from 1 to 2 seconds for the desktop to register a click, and waiting fot *itunes* to respond to input is so slow i can get a frikkin coffee before it loads the track i clicked./. Onsome apps I can actually see the tect being written across the page before my eyes.. It's a nightmare, unacceptable for a core 32 DUo 2,6 GHz.. When I boot into Vista, with all the 'Eye candy" loaded, however, it is blindingly fast and responsive on the identical machine..
OSX = 386, at least in my eyes
I might just second what you say.. In all my dealings with y'all down south.. the southerners (that's from Arizona and Texas to Georgia) have always been MOST cordial.. Back before the "innernut" I used to do a lot of mail order for collecting rare surf and blues records, and always had the best dealings with y'all down there!
Man oh man there is a lot of people on here debating "regulation" VS "free market" vs this philosophy vs that model... The article wasn't about frikin ABSTRACTS.. It was about the MILLIONS of fucking people that have NO money for food.. clothes, medicine, that live in rat infested cockroach ridden slum lord ripoff tenements with crackheads next door, that will NOVER get a job no matter how hard they try because of WHERE THEY HAVE TO LIVE.. That get spit on and called "welfare bums" even despite all thiis, and have absolutely NO WAY OUT. THAT IS WHAT POOR MEANS.. guys, and there's a whole shitload more americans every day, especially black and latino, ending up there.. It is an absolute disgrace, y'all.. and one day, we all will face judgement for this mess.. That is what the article was about...
Trying to take credit for "inventing" the internet is about as exciting as taking credit for inventing the telephone wiring networks..
People don't CARE who "invented" the telephone network.. they only care about who invented the TELEPHONE! Same with the 'net.. Look, *really*, to give fair credit, it was as much the Universities, besides the military that "invented" the internet (and what brilliant "tech" writer at WSJ used the "series of tubes" analogy? Krikeys!)..
Nobody CARES who laid down all the wires.. People only care about the WWW, which is the only part that they are ever exposed to..Sheese! Must be an election year....
Look, the simple ones yes, everybody can read.. but the ones that show planetary alignments, that could not have been visible to pre-telescope populations, have NOT been decoded, because they assume that because the obvious explanation would have required non-existent technology, they "must mean something else".. so the experts pore over these pictograms trying to assign a meaning that was never meant, and failing.. and the MAJORITY of stone pictograms.. all over the world.. fall into THAT category.
No, they're NOT equally wrong.. Firstly, I'd point out that I'm *neither* an excessively "open minded" left winger, who will believe absolutely everything put to them that supports their belief system, or a stubbornly *close minded* right-winger, who will believe absolutely everything put to them that supports their belief system..
Although at THIS point they certainly appear equally wrong, there IS a difference.. but not by much.. Conservatived don't want to, and are not able to, in any case, LEARN facts that don't sit well with them.. Left wingers don't want to, and are not able to, BELIEVE facts that don't sit well with them..;-)..
The oceans are already dying off at an alarming rate due to dissolved carbon dioxide, creating carbonic acid.. hell this was even in the NEWS recently..
Where's the proof that by algae pulling even more carbon in, we wouldn't have an even HIGHER level of CO2 saturation?
OK this is officially the most stupid thing i have read today for sure.. Political correctness has surely crossed over into the twilite zone.. How is "big boobs" any more "sexist" than "long legs" , or "gams" as they used to say in the '40s.. I wish MS would have just stood their ground and said enough is enough.. And a Patch? Really? is this intended to no longer offend any decompilers or crackers who may be "offended" ?
Unfortunately, "providing essential services" doesn't appear to be very high on the list of priorities these days for governments, what with this mad rush to privatise all the services that *used* to be run by the gov't, because they couldn't be run at a profit.. like health care, social services, transportation, etc etc..
It appears to me that it's some dumb attempt to create outside jobs instead of in-house programming... a "Make Work" program. if you will.. For the Senate to insist on that when dealing with a Department of Defense contract, though is (IMHO) stupid.. the more people in the general public know the ins and outs of military files, the less secure they are.. And for the military to 'open source' this is INSANE... as now there'll be teams of crackers trying to find out how to gain access into the DoD files, courtesy of the DoD themselves... Sheesh.....
Wow! That's one heckuva list there.. Unlike (apparently) most people nowadays, I only want a phone to make phone calls (!) but seeing as I currently have to replace my dead one, I needed to know some of this stuff.. THX!
Or just stay out of Europe. In case you've not seen the news lately, the EU is turning into a pretty violent place with citizens attacking police & vice versa.
No kidding.. I'd say that the EU is self-destructing.. from the inside..
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If , as is generally agreed, Mars is somewhat older than Earth, and was stripped of it's atmosphere and lost it's magnetic core in it's death throes, then it's plate tectonics wouldn't be at a "primitive" stage, but an advanced state of entropy, essentially.. having slowed down due to cooling of the interior of the planet.. Since it's generally conceded that the first two conditions on Mars occurred, then what kind of scientist would compare the third condition (plate tectonics) to an *early* stage? It's ludicrous..
Better call the Cryptozoologists..
I don't see how this is a big problem for either the consumer , or M$.. there's so many other non M$ options out there, that it'll be a lot easier on microsoft support techs, with the huge drop in windows users, they'll have less of a workload.. Microsoft employees will get a lot more free time with the huge drop in profits, they'll be able to go fishing or spend a year with their kids, after being laid off.. people selling used non microsoft tablets and computers will find it easier to sell them.. and even (heaven forbid) Apple will become less hated as everybody realizes it's only them or linux..
*nobody* would be safe.. unless they love a 30 to 45 below zero climate *all year round*.
... New York has cool summers to reduce air conditioning costs.
Er.. I gather you haven't been there recently?..
It just occurred to me i may be wrong, as it could bond to an O2 molecule.. sorry...
That's Dihydrogen Dioxide there can be no such thing as "hydrogen dioxide", as hydrogen only has one link.. unless thats a "common" name for it
Here's an "also viewed" item that sounds a little hairy..but anyone even know what it *is*? " Harcos Labratory Nuclear Energy Powder Uranium Yellowcake Flavor"
Thought that was peroxide (H202)?
Incidentally, I forgot to say what I upgraded to, only ONE major release up.. "Snow Leopard".. That's all it took to turn a fast iMAc into a paperweight..;-(
OK.. How's this for youmy iMAc came standard in late 2009-2010 with OSX Leopard.. However, after upgrading it feels like I'm back on a 386.. it takjes anywhere from 1 to 2 seconds for the desktop to register a click, and waiting fot *itunes* to respond to input is so slow i can get a frikkin coffee before it loads the track i clicked ./. Onsome apps I can actually see the tect being written across the page before my eyes.. It's a nightmare, unacceptable for a core 32 DUo 2,6 GHz.. When I boot into Vista, with all the 'Eye candy" loaded, however, it is blindingly fast and responsive on the identical machine..
OSX = 386, at least in my eyes
Well, don't worry.. looks like corn is on it's way out...
I might just second what you say.. In all my dealings with y'all down south.. the southerners (that's from Arizona and Texas to Georgia) have always been MOST cordial.. Back before the "innernut" I used to do a lot of mail order for collecting rare surf and blues records, and always had the best dealings with y'all down there!
Man oh man there is a lot of people on here debating "regulation" VS "free market" vs this philosophy vs that model... The article wasn't about frikin ABSTRACTS.. It was about the MILLIONS of fucking people that have NO money for food.. clothes, medicine, that live in rat infested cockroach ridden slum lord ripoff tenements with crackheads next door, that will NOVER get a job no matter how hard they try because of WHERE THEY HAVE TO LIVE.. That get spit on and called "welfare bums" even despite all thiis, and have absolutely NO WAY OUT. THAT IS WHAT POOR MEANS.. guys, and there's a whole shitload more americans every day, especially black and latino, ending up there.. It is an absolute disgrace, y'all.. and one day, we all will face judgement for this mess.. That is what the article was about...
Trying to take credit for "inventing" the internet is about as exciting as taking credit for inventing the telephone wiring networks.. People don't CARE who "invented" the telephone network.. they only care about who invented the TELEPHONE! Same with the 'net.. Look, *really*, to give fair credit, it was as much the Universities, besides the military that "invented" the internet (and what brilliant "tech" writer at WSJ used the "series of tubes" analogy? Krikeys!).. Nobody CARES who laid down all the wires.. People only care about the WWW, which is the only part that they are ever exposed to..Sheese! Must be an election year....
Look, the simple ones yes, everybody can read.. but the ones that show planetary alignments, that could not have been visible to pre-telescope populations, have NOT been decoded, because they assume that because the obvious explanation would have required non-existent technology, they "must mean something else".. so the experts pore over these pictograms trying to assign a meaning that was never meant, and failing.. and the MAJORITY of stone pictograms.. all over the world.. fall into THAT category.
No, they're NOT equally wrong.. Firstly, I'd point out that I'm *neither* an excessively "open minded" left winger, who will believe absolutely everything put to them that supports their belief system, or a stubbornly *close minded* right-winger, who will believe absolutely everything put to them that supports their belief system.. Although at THIS point they certainly appear equally wrong, there IS a difference.. but not by much.. Conservatived don't want to, and are not able to, in any case, LEARN facts that don't sit well with them.. Left wingers don't want to, and are not able to, BELIEVE facts that don't sit well with them.. ;-)..
The oceans are already dying off at an alarming rate due to dissolved carbon dioxide, creating carbonic acid.. hell this was even in the NEWS recently.. Where's the proof that by algae pulling even more carbon in, we wouldn't have an even HIGHER level of CO2 saturation?
OK this is officially the most stupid thing i have read today for sure.. Political correctness has surely crossed over into the twilite zone.. How is "big boobs" any more "sexist" than "long legs" , or "gams" as they used to say in the '40s.. I wish MS would have just stood their ground and said enough is enough.. And a Patch? Really? is this intended to no longer offend any decompilers or crackers who may be "offended" ?
Unfortunately, "providing essential services" doesn't appear to be very high on the list of priorities these days for governments, what with this mad rush to privatise all the services that *used* to be run by the gov't, because they couldn't be run at a profit.. like health care, social services, transportation, etc etc..
It appears to me that it's some dumb attempt to create outside jobs instead of in-house programming... a "Make Work" program. if you will.. For the Senate to insist on that when dealing with a Department of Defense contract, though is (IMHO) stupid.. the more people in the general public know the ins and outs of military files, the less secure they are.. And for the military to 'open source' this is INSANE... as now there'll be teams of crackers trying to find out how to gain access into the DoD files, courtesy of the DoD themselves... Sheesh.....
Wow! That's one heckuva list there.. Unlike (apparently) most people nowadays, I only want a phone to make phone calls (!) but seeing as I currently have to replace my dead one, I needed to know some of this stuff.. THX!
Indeed. But Slashdot is known for pointless arguments.
Certainly they no longer add "Stuff that Matters" to the sub-title ;-)
Or just stay out of Europe. In case you've not seen the news lately, the EU is turning into a pretty violent place with citizens attacking police & vice versa.
No kidding.. I'd say that the EU is self-destructing.. from the inside..
I'm wondering if, in fact, our governments haven't been applying "indentured servitude" towards all of their citizens..