Is it *silver* bullets you don't need (e.g. lead bullets would be OK)?
Or is it silver *bullets* you don't need (e.g. you just need silver pistols, or other silver weaponry besides ammunition)?
I am a bit confused about what you are asking for.
Anyway, your right to bear silver arms is guaranteed by the Constitution, and I guess that includes silver bullets too, although you say you don't need them. Well, whatever shakes you boat.
When you've worked out what kind of weapons you need, let us know.
I know it's a hard problem, so I'm not looking for any silver bullets.
Yeah. I guess silver bullets aren't much use against something hard. You might want those titanium tipped bullets. Now they are good against hard things.
I (an Australian) got over 90% for this test, without cheating (i.e. without using Google or Wikipedia etc to look up answers) - just using the knowledge I already had.
Reading this reminds me, for some strange reason, of a tone-deaf man at a brilliant musical concert who looks around and says, "I can't see why everyone is so ecstatic. It doesn't sound very good to me." If you prefer, think of a blind man at an art gallery trying to understand what the attraction is.
The answer to "why do we exist?" might be something that you are not very attuned to. I would tell you, but if you don't know it already then you probably wouldn't recognise the answer even if I told you. Mind you, "music" and "art" would be good answers, even if they are the weak spots of the tone-deaf and the blind. Not the very best answers, but still good.
In the minds of the common person, kiddy porn conflates two quite separate things: pornography consisting of images of children in all sorts of abusive situations, and ordinary adult pornography that children can access through Google searches.
The average mum'n'dad isn't going to stop and think that real child pornography is rarely found in your typical Google search. What they are imagining is their teenager seeing ordinary adult pornography in Google searches (a much more likely situation). So they think the "child pornography" problem is much more pervasive than it really is.
All they see is the words "children" and "pornography".
And you cannot tell the difference between "get them while young *to pay money all their lives*" versus "get them while young *to be free from having to pay money all their lives*"?
With the notable exception of advanced degrees at Harvard, most fields of study terminate at a "Doctor of Philosophy" degree for this very reason.
Um, I think you will find that lots of universities around the world have higher doctorates, not just Harvard. *All* the Australian universities I attended or have even looked at - major and regional - had PhDs but also had the higher degrees of DLitt, DSc, etc which are only awarded to scholars with extensive and outstanding research publications in their field.
In a recession FEWER people still need computers - especially the corporate types that MS makes their money from. Bankruptcy and cost-cutting (don't upgrade to Vista!) increase during recession - as do staff cuts (= fewer computers needed).
The good thing about open source operating systems is that you can pad the OS with extra zero bytes too so that the viruses cannot recognise the OS and don't know how to infect it.
We threaten to delete all backups, publish their private email on the web, disable their laptops and generally sabotage the whole company if they try to kick us out.
I thought all IT guys justified their jobs this way.
A manufacturer brings out a small car. Next year, they increase the engine from 1200cc or 1300c to 1500cc. And they switch from 2-door or 3-door to 4-door or 5 door. And so on.
In a few years, they have to bring out a *new* smaller model, as their "small" model is now too big.
It is all because people want a "small" model that has "added bigness".
Come to think of it, the same thing happens with programming languages. We start with a simple, easy-to-use scripting language. Then people say, "But we need this or that feature that more sophisticated languages have". Before you know it, the simple easy-to-use language has grown into yet another complex, high-powered language which only a full time professional can use.
So someone invents a new simple-to-use language....
I have a strict policy regarding netbooks and other PCs: if you (the vendor) won't sell me the OS I want, I *will* go somewhere else. Asus - I *won't* buy any of your Windows-based PCs. Ever. If you drop Linux, I *will* drop you, like a stone.
So, choose between your customers and Microsoft. If you tie your fortunes to Microsoft, you will lose a *growing* number of customers.
And I will not even buy a Linux version of any model, if the price has been made deliberately higher than the matching Windows model in order to appease Microsoft.
Microsoft does not tell me what PC I may buy. No one elected them to government. It is time for a Declaration of Software Independence. The customer is king, not Microsoft.
OK, but *apart* from computers, organized roads, efficient data models, efficient sorting algorithms, and countless other instruments that are critical to today's society, what has Rome^h^h^h^hresearch ever done for us???
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I don't understand your question.
Is it *silver* bullets you don't need (e.g. lead bullets would be OK)?
Or is it silver *bullets* you don't need (e.g. you just need silver pistols, or other silver weaponry besides ammunition)?
I am a bit confused about what you are asking for.
Anyway, your right to bear silver arms is guaranteed by the Constitution, and I guess that includes silver bullets too, although you say you don't need them. Well, whatever shakes you boat.
When you've worked out what kind of weapons you need, let us know.
I know it's a hard problem, so I'm not looking for any silver bullets.
Yeah. I guess silver bullets aren't much use against something hard. You might want those titanium tipped bullets. Now they are good against hard things.
I (an Australian) got over 90% for this test, without cheating (i.e. without using Google or Wikipedia etc to look up answers) - just using the knowledge I already had.
Hmm... I expect his body was hidden in the last place they looked. It always seems to work out that way for me.
Have you tried running your search algorithm in reverse?
Reading this reminds me, for some strange reason, of a tone-deaf man at a brilliant musical concert who looks around and says, "I can't see why everyone is so ecstatic. It doesn't sound very good to me." If you prefer, think of a blind man at an art gallery trying to understand what the attraction is.
The answer to "why do we exist?" might be something that you are not very attuned to. I would tell you, but if you don't know it already then you probably wouldn't recognise the answer even if I told you. Mind you, "music" and "art" would be good answers, even if they are the weak spots of the tone-deaf and the blind. Not the very best answers, but still good.
What do you mean by "eternal"?
For example, if time is circular rather than linear, then there would be no beginning or end, but time would be finite.
And within a universe with circular time, there could be no first posts, just an eternal repetition of the same posts.
Wait...
In a world of 99 uniform dumbasses and 1 genius, 99% would be below mean intelligence.
And if the genius is an Evil Genius, the 99% will be slaves. (Thinking out aloud) Presumably around half of them would be sex slaves...
Hmmm. Evil Genius ... maybe I should switch from being a Goody-goody Genius. Purely for scientific research, of course.
In the minds of the common person, kiddy porn conflates two quite separate things: pornography consisting of images of children in all sorts of abusive situations, and ordinary adult pornography that children can access through Google searches.
The average mum'n'dad isn't going to stop and think that real child pornography is rarely found in your typical Google search. What they are imagining is their teenager seeing ordinary adult pornography in Google searches (a much more likely situation). So they think the "child pornography" problem is much more pervasive than it really is.
All they see is the words "children" and "pornography".
So they repealed Godwin's Law, did they?
And you cannot tell the difference between "get them while young *to pay money all their lives*" versus "get them while young *to be free from having to pay money all their lives*"?
The MS shills are out in droves tonight I see.
When I was at school micro-computers had not even been invented. An office suite back then was a desk and a set of nicely upholstered chairs.
anyone who trolls patents are in violation.
No, anyone ELSE who trolls patents is in violation.
Halliburton themselves could have a field day trolling the whole marketplace with patents.
Some of us fear that that would be their aim.
With the notable exception of advanced degrees at Harvard, most fields of study terminate at a "Doctor of Philosophy" degree for this very reason.
Um, I think you will find that lots of universities around the world have higher doctorates, not just Harvard. *All* the Australian universities I attended or have even looked at - major and regional - had PhDs but also had the higher degrees of DLitt, DSc, etc which are only awarded to scholars with extensive and outstanding research publications in their field.
However, he wears a hat AND has an "unhealthy" interest in programming languages. So maybe it will succeed after all.
In a recession FEWER people still need computers - especially the corporate types that MS makes their money from. Bankruptcy and cost-cutting (don't upgrade to Vista!) increase during recession - as do staff cuts (= fewer computers needed).
The good thing about open source operating systems is that you can pad the OS with extra zero bytes too so that the viruses cannot recognise the OS and don't know how to infect it.
We threaten to delete all backups, publish their private email on the web, disable their laptops and generally sabotage the whole company if they try to kick us out.
I thought all IT guys justified their jobs this way.
Maybe they could call it a "Repository".
Suppository would be more appropriate.
As in "Where do I put this?"
These people serve a valuable role in society, but it is not within the corridors of power.
They are called "prophets".
They preach absolute righteousness and call for repentance (i.e. changing your ways).
They also wear odd clothing and have long beards, but that is a secondary qualification.
trying to get the average person to open a terminal in Linux to run anything would be like trying to walk a cow down a flight of stairs.
Well how did the cow get up the stairs in the first place?
(And don't tell me you keep cows in your basement).
But seriously. As a practical matter, anyone stuck behind state censorship can use a friend's OpenVPN and proxy in another country.
You insensitive clod! I don't have any friends.
I just post on Slashdot so that I can pretend that I have friends.
That's no muon, it's a space station!
I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if millions of voices suddenly cried "Out!"
Sadly, it is like cars.
A manufacturer brings out a small car. Next year, they increase the engine from 1200cc or 1300c to 1500cc. And they switch from 2-door or 3-door to 4-door or 5 door. And so on.
In a few years, they have to bring out a *new* smaller model, as their "small" model is now too big.
It is all because people want a "small" model that has "added bigness".
Come to think of it, the same thing happens with programming languages. We start with a simple, easy-to-use scripting language. Then people say, "But we need this or that feature that more sophisticated languages have". Before you know it, the simple easy-to-use language has grown into yet another complex, high-powered language which only a full time professional can use.
So someone invents a new simple-to-use language....
I have a strict policy regarding netbooks and other PCs: if you (the vendor) won't sell me the OS I want, I *will* go somewhere else. Asus - I *won't* buy any of your Windows-based PCs. Ever. If you drop Linux, I *will* drop you, like a stone.
So, choose between your customers and Microsoft. If you tie your fortunes to Microsoft, you will lose a *growing* number of customers.
And I will not even buy a Linux version of any model, if the price has been made deliberately higher than the matching Windows model in order to appease Microsoft.
Microsoft does not tell me what PC I may buy. No one elected them to government. It is time for a Declaration of Software Independence. The customer is king, not Microsoft.
Why is it always a trinket that gives you powers - why is it never a pair of pants or a left shoe.
You mean, something like the Bra of Power?
There are plenty of movies made about that.
OK, but *apart* from computers, organized roads, efficient data models, efficient sorting algorithms, and countless other instruments that are critical to today's society, what has Rome^h^h^h^hresearch ever done for us???