You know I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but since I moved to 2000 from NT I just don't get BSODs anymore. Never. It just doesn't crash. I used to get BSODs all the time relating to my SCSI controller (most NT crashes _were_ a result of bad drivers).
This is old news, you can't used the crashing to bash 'em anymore, just use one of the other million things wrong with them, like including buffer overflow exploits.
Don't get me wrong I hate receiving calls as much as the next guy, but their argument is that the U.S. Congress over-reached when they made exceptions for political calls and charities in the do-not-call list.
How come the Republican party can call me, but Sears can't?
I think _NEITHER_ should be able to if I ask, but if you tie the two together there is no way in hell Congress would vote for that.
I didn't mention the NW passage, you mentioned the entire polar ice cap melting would have no effect on sea-level, this is a common, and unfortunate, misconception/over simplification.
From here: If Greenland's ice sheet melts, the world's sea level will rise six metres, enough to put many Nunavut communities under water.
That was my point. You were wrong.
From here "out of my ass""If nothing is done to stabilize our climate and sea levels rise as much as 6 meters (20 feet), you'll flood the southern half of Florida, the southern half of Louisiana.
I picked USA Today for your benefit. I could quote you a thousand more articles from more reputable sources if you like. The point is this: Greenland is an Island covered with glacial ice, as is Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island and others in the artic. If the Polar cap melts (which by itself would indeed not affect sea levels) then the ice on these islands would of course melt also. Which WOULD lead to sea level rise. So, if as you suggested, all the ice in the artic melted, then the sea level would rise.
Despite common misconception the northern ice-pack IS partly above land. See Greenland, Baffin Island, and the Queen Elizabeth Islands. These are about the size of the western United States. I find it extremely hard to believe that if the ice packs above all this land melted it would result in no sea level change.
The article mentions North America, not America, and despite what some Americans, e.g. General Hull circa 1812, Canada is not part of the United States of America, yet it is part of North America.
Interestingly enough both Mexico AND Panama are also part of North America and yet not U.S. States(Central America is a geo-politcal zone, not a continent).
The fact that the pages are in the index, just further down is not an example that the program has blind spots, but rather if search on generic items it will bring the most likely search results based on your meagre help. If I take the author's example of 'apple' you see how weak an argument this is. If I simply use this single word then the results will be the most likely - apple computers. If I had a brain in my head I could do the following and get TOTALLY different results:
"apple computers" "apple records" "apple trees"
If you want to do research on apples, then you better be doing more than typing 'apple' into google.;)
>>..so to make this thing fly 2.6 million light years, you need 2.6 million light years of extension cord.
Wrong.
There are these nifty little things called PROTONS which can travel vast distances without wires, you may have heard of them. These devices could be powered by microwave installations on the ground, which, I believe, is what they are suggesting.
Have you watched it lately? I saw it a year ago and the Nazi stuff not only there it is VERY heavy handed.
I think the fact that we saw this as kids coloured our view of what the show was about, at 10 years old the Nazi parallels are not obvious, but at 30 they are painfully lame.
If the US embraces technology as much as they are planning to, then the first country that figures out that the way to beat them is to destroy that technology (think massive EMP, anti-satellite etc.) is going to whip their ass. 200,000 soldiers with useless heads up displays and no ability to communicate with command is exactly what I would want if I was an ememy commander.
Scientists have only identified the virus in only about 40% of the patients infected with SARS, and they have identified in patients who DON'T have SARS. Which means that cracking the genetic code of this virus will mean exactly jack sh*t for finding a cure.
I find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that you have never asked anyone else what the 3D perception of the world is to them, especially comparing the Television and a window.
As an AI grad (and being a carnivore) I know a little about depth perception, and despite what most people think two eyes are NOT required for depth perception. Try it yourself: Look at an object six feet away, notice the depth you feel, close and eye, notice the depth loss, now sway side to side, notice the return of depth perception?
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime"
He isn't being charged.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial"
He isn't being prosecuted.
Those are some pretty nasty loopholes.
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That it was mandatory for all Journalists to take a minimum course in physics, statistics, biology, logic and history.
Causation and corelation are not the same thing.
Countries with a large IT industry tend to be highly developed, do not tend to have large organized crime, and tend to have stricter piracy laws. These all help keep piracy down.
This does not imply however that increasing piracy laws will increase the IT industry.
A=>B does not mean B=>A
It's like saying that countries with sea-access tend to have navy's, so if a country gets a navy it will have sea access.
I am talking about when a director sees a movie when they are young, they love it, then they get famous and powerful and try to foist that same feeling they had onto their audience, it fails like clockwork.
Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE Jackson fan, but whenever Directors decide to remake a movie that inspired them when they were young (especially if this is THE movie that made them decide to direct) the results are ALWAYS (pun intended) a mistake:
Always: Steven Spielberg Village of the Damned: John Carpenter Swept Away: Guy Ritchie etc.
To be fair to the academy this is new territory, and it would be difficult to distinguish between what Serkis accomplished, and what voice actors do for animated movies. Having said that, James Baskett won a special oscar for his performance in "Song of the South" wherein he interacted with animated characters. Why can't Serkis get the same treatment?
I love the way you just completely overlook the fact that the original poster WAS RIGHT. Both examples he gave were evidence of News Corp. choosing profits over the truth, and by truth I mean they didn't tell a lie, but they made sure the truth wasn't told.
Ideology may be a way to ruin your brain, but conservatism and right-wing corporatism is a sure way to ruin your heart.
Jeff, Jeffrey, or God forbid Geoffrey has been in a free fall since I was born.
When I was born (70's) Jeffrey was still a respectable 15 (having rocketed to number 10 the previous decade). Now, however, it comes in a dismal 121 right after the dreadful, Tristan, Eduardo, Paul, Carter, Edward, Jaden(!), Brendan, Kaleb(!), Oscar, Hayden, Joel, and Colton.
Jaden is my friends cat's names for chr*tsakes, the humility!:(
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You know I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but since I moved to 2000 from NT I just don't get BSODs anymore. Never. It just doesn't crash. I used to get BSODs all the time relating to my SCSI controller (most NT crashes _were_ a result of bad drivers).
This is old news, you can't used the crashing to bash 'em anymore, just use one of the other million things wrong with them, like including buffer overflow exploits.
Don't get me wrong I hate receiving calls as much as the next guy, but their argument is that the U.S. Congress over-reached when they made exceptions for political calls and charities in the do-not-call list.
How come the Republican party can call me, but Sears can't?
I think _NEITHER_ should be able to if I ask, but if you tie the two together there is no way in hell Congress would vote for that.
I didn't mention the NW passage, you mentioned the entire polar ice cap melting would have no effect on sea-level, this is a common, and unfortunate, misconception/over simplification.
From here:
If Greenland's ice sheet melts, the world's sea level will rise six metres, enough to put many Nunavut communities under water.
That was my point. You were wrong.
From here "out of my ass" "If nothing is done to stabilize our climate and sea levels rise as much as 6 meters (20 feet), you'll flood the southern half of Florida, the southern half of Louisiana.
I picked USA Today for your benefit. I could quote you a thousand more articles from more reputable sources if you like.
The point is this: Greenland is an Island covered with glacial ice, as is Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island and others in the artic. If the Polar cap melts (which by itself would indeed not affect sea levels) then the ice on these islands would of course melt also. Which WOULD lead to sea level rise. So, if as you suggested, all the ice in the artic melted, then the sea level would rise.
End of story.
Hey Moron,
Before you pontificate and try to talk down to someone you should check your facts.
Take a look at a map of the Canadian Artic. See all those islands up there (including Ellesmere island which is featured in the article)?
Covered with glacial ice.
See Greenland right beside it?
Covered with glacial ice.
If the entire Artic polar ice cap melts, and the glacial ice of these islands with it. Then yes smarty-pants you WILL have rising sea-levels.
Actually (just to out geek you all):
Red Wizard only existed in Gauntlet II. Gauntlet I didn't allow you to choose your colour, only the character, and the Warrior was Red.
The game _does_ say "XXX needs food badly" (if you weren't joking).
-ShieldWolf
Why do Microsoft competitors keep using the word ONE?
Netscape ONE
Sun ONE
PalmOne
Is this synergy, coincidence, or lame marketing?
Despite common misconception the northern ice-pack IS partly above land. See Greenland, Baffin Island, and the Queen Elizabeth Islands. These are about the size of the western United States. I find it extremely hard to believe that if the ice packs above all this land melted it would result in no sea level change.
The article mentions North America, not America, and despite what some Americans, e.g. General Hull circa 1812, Canada is not part of the United States of America, yet it is part of North America.
Interestingly enough both Mexico AND Panama are also part of North America and yet not U.S. States(Central America is a geo-politcal zone, not a continent).
Ashcroftian (look mom, I made a new word!)...
No you didn't.
The fact that the pages are in the index, just further down is not an example that the program has blind spots, but rather if search on generic items it will bring the most likely search results based on your meagre help. If I take the author's example of 'apple' you see how weak an argument this is. If I simply use this single word then the results will be the most likely - apple computers. If I had a brain in my head I could do the following and get TOTALLY different results:
;)
"apple computers"
"apple records"
"apple trees"
If you want to do research on apples, then you better be doing more than typing 'apple' into google.
I haven't used Netscape as my default browser for years but I use Mozilla Firebird 0.6 as my default browser.
The reasons:
- Tabbed browsing, yes it is that good.
- NO pop-ups, image blocking etc.
- It is ROCK SOLID.
- It renders sites visually indistinguishable from IE
When I go back to IE I am struck by how many pop-ups I get and I find it maddening, how do you people stand it?
>>..so to make this thing fly 2.6 million light years, you need 2.6 million light years of extension cord.
Wrong.
There are these nifty little things called PROTONS which can travel vast distances without wires, you may have heard of them. These devices could be powered by microwave installations on the ground, which, I believe, is what they are suggesting.
Have you watched it lately? I saw it a year ago and the Nazi stuff not only there it is VERY heavy handed.
I think the fact that we saw this as kids coloured our view of what the show was about, at 10 years old the Nazi parallels are not obvious, but at 30 they are painfully lame.
If the US embraces technology as much as they are planning to, then the first country that figures out that the way to beat them is to destroy that technology (think massive EMP, anti-satellite etc.) is going to whip their ass. 200,000 soldiers with useless heads up displays and no ability to communicate with command is exactly what I would want if I was an ememy commander.
Scientists have only identified the virus in only about 40% of the patients infected with SARS, and they have identified in patients who DON'T have SARS. Which means that cracking the genetic code of this virus will mean exactly jack sh*t for finding a cure.
Not to be insensitive but are you lying?
I find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that you have never asked anyone else what the 3D perception of the world is to them, especially comparing the Television and a window.
As an AI grad (and being a carnivore) I know a little about depth perception, and despite what most people think two eyes are NOT required for depth perception. Try it yourself: Look at an object six feet away, notice the depth you feel, close and eye, notice the depth loss, now sway side to side, notice the return of depth perception?
As much as I agree with you please notice:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime"
He isn't being charged.
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial"
He isn't being prosecuted.
Those are some pretty nasty loopholes.
That it was mandatory for all Journalists to take a minimum course in physics, statistics, biology, logic and history.
Causation and corelation are not the same thing.
Countries with a large IT industry tend to be highly developed, do not tend to have large organized crime, and tend to have stricter piracy laws. These all help keep piracy down.
This does not imply however that increasing piracy laws will increase the IT industry.
A=>B does not mean B=>A
It's like saying that countries with sea-access tend to have navy's, so if a country gets a navy it will have sea access.
It is a logical falicy.
And Titanic is a remake of what movie?
I am talking about when a director sees a movie when they are young, they love it, then they get famous and powerful and try to foist that same feeling they had onto their audience, it fails like clockwork.
Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE Jackson fan, but whenever Directors decide to remake a movie that inspired them when they were young (especially if this is THE movie that made them decide to direct) the results are ALWAYS (pun intended) a mistake:
Always: Steven Spielberg
Village of the Damned: John Carpenter
Swept Away: Guy Ritchie
etc.
Peter, for God Sakes don't do it.
This similarly wacked out product IS NOT:
Who brushes their teeth by their computer!?!?
Small correction:
"Greetings. I am the Democratic, peaceloving, openminded, and elected President Eroeg W. Hsub, from the plant Htrae."
To be fair to the academy this is new territory, and it would be difficult to distinguish between what Serkis accomplished, and what voice actors do for animated movies. Having said that, James Baskett won a special oscar for his performance in "Song of the South" wherein he interacted with animated characters. Why can't Serkis get the same treatment?
I love the way you just completely overlook the fact that the original poster WAS RIGHT. Both examples he gave were evidence of News Corp. choosing profits over the truth, and by truth I mean they didn't tell a lie, but they made sure the truth wasn't told.
Ideology may be a way to ruin your brain, but conservatism and right-wing corporatism is a sure way to ruin your heart.
Jeff, Jeffrey, or God forbid Geoffrey has been in a free fall since I was born.
:(
When I was born (70's) Jeffrey was still a respectable 15 (having rocketed to number 10 the previous decade). Now, however, it comes in a dismal 121 right after the dreadful, Tristan, Eduardo, Paul, Carter, Edward, Jaden(!), Brendan, Kaleb(!), Oscar, Hayden, Joel, and Colton.
Jaden is my friends cat's names for chr*tsakes, the humility!