One thing that you don't consider is unknown risks of unknown diseases.
One of the main reasons for the sexual revolution of the late 60's early 70's was the development of the pill (elimination of one of the biggest problems associated with sexual promiscuity). With most STD's treatable, if not curable, people let loose.
It wasn't until the 80's that people realized that maybe all that promiscuity wasn't such a good idea. No one else can say with any certainty that another STD epidemic won't show up after AIDS is controlled/eradicated/whatever.
the various BSD's don't have the rabid hordes of evangelists that Linux has. So many IT people are fans of Linux, but don't know much and have not tried any of the BSD's. My room mate used to bad mouth the BSD's all the time (after playing with freeBSD for all of five minutes), but after seeing enough posts about openBSD's stability and security, he tried it for his webserver and DNS and he loves it (though he'll still bad mouth freeBSD on occasion).
The rest of the world outside of of /.
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thinks a cracker is either: A) a kind of baked good; or B) a white boy.
The rest of the world thinks "hacker = guy who breaks into computers and stuff". this is how the language has evolved. deal with it. you can't force people to change something like this (even though it hasn't stopped people from trying, a la "couriel" or "thru").
The top links are for 'featured sites' (~= 'ads') and 'sponsored sites' (~= 'ads') and after you get past the ads, the results are roughly similar to google's results, with linux.org and redhat.com being in the same #1 and #3 spots, and linuxjournal surpassing linux.com as the #2 spot.
Yes, the difference being that it is not easily discernible that the "featured" and "sponsored" sites are paid for or some such. All ads on google are obviously ads. furthermore, on msn.com you have to scroll down about 1/3 of the page to get to the real, untainted results.
i'd also like to point out: msn.com: 1 - 15 ao about 542 [pages containing] "linux" google.com: 1 - 10 of about 57,500,000
I read somewhere recently (forgive me, I remember not where) of a new-ish theory that if the rate of expansion continues to increase that the universe will be ripped apart. that is to say, the rate of expansion would be so great that not only gravity would fail, but even strong and weak forces. All matter would be torn to shreds as it accelerated ever faster and faster.
IANAP, so anyone who is one, or studying to become one care to comment?
wrote with Dennis Ritchie(which is the main inventor of C).
<nazi class="grammar"> First off, which is in the wrong case. which is the objective case. It should be the nominative form, that. Second, that/which is the wrong word. Dennis Ritchis is a person, and therefore should be substituted by the pronoun who (not whom, as that would cause that same nominative/objective problem again). </nazi>
There are plenty of people out there who are perfectly genetically healthy human beings, who through no fault of there own, are unable to reproduce naturally. Some people are adversely affected by chemicals in the environment, making it difficult to conceive a child, others (like some women who have had abortions) are not able to either. There are still others who can't for any multitude of reasons that are not part of the equation of the traditional Darwinian notion of natural selection.
Now then, maybe these people ought to just adopt, but I don't think they should be prevented from attempting to have their "own" offspring if they are willing to put up the time and money neccesary.
but the fonts are sometime mess up How do you mean? Like Times New Roman becomes Helvetica without you changing it, or the fonts just look bad? Printing an imported MS Word document never looks the same way as printing an original MS Word document. Are you printing using OO.o in windows? Printing in Linux is pretty crappy over all (IMHO), so it's probably unfair to compare printing in OO.o under Linux to printing under MS Word in Windows.
1) look at the border. discern the word/phrase there. 2) do a google image search for that word phrase with the filtering off. 3) feel eyes melt out of your skull in horror. 4) ???? 5) profit.
If you mean computers to be all computers, then there are easily tens of thousands of computers running OS/2 (many, many ATM's for example). If you mean PC's, well, that's different, though I'd wager there are probably several thousand pc's with high speed access running BeOS or OS/2, and probably more Amiga's out there than either of us would expect.
The actions in: Libya (1986); Iraq (1991); Bosnia (1995); Sudan (1998); Yugoslavia (1999); Afghanistan (2001-02); were all either in direct response to military agression of the leaders of those nations, acting against terrorist groups operating out of those nations, deposing a brutal regime (with the the international (UN) community in support of said deposing), or any combination of those three.
There were certainly good reasons to be involved militarily in several of the other places you list. Communism was a real threat (not to the point that McCarthy or Ann Coulter would have one believe), and it was partly the intervention of the U.S. that kept the world from ending up living in Soviet-style Communist squalor.
The war on drugs, though, yeah, that's pretty much just stupid. I'll give you that one.
Iraq (2003)? Well, if anyone had bothered to plan for what to do when the war was over other than "Guard Oilwells," things might have turned out really well there, and the people would already be on there way to a more prosperous and better tommorrow. As it is, Our Glorious Idiot is looking like he's going to completely fuck it up before it gets any better.
In most civilized countries of which I know, fraud (i.e., falsifying information to get access to goods and/or services to which one is not normally entitled) is illegal.
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in an unusually ironic twist, Microsoft has started talking smack about their own products
finally microsoft does something innovative.
One thing that you don't consider is unknown risks of unknown diseases.
One of the main reasons for the sexual revolution of the late 60's early 70's was the development of the pill (elimination of one of the biggest problems associated with sexual promiscuity). With most STD's treatable, if not curable, people let loose.
It wasn't until the 80's that people realized that maybe all that promiscuity wasn't such a good idea. No one else can say with any certainty that another STD epidemic won't show up after AIDS is controlled/eradicated/whatever.
so is that web address supposed to be Andrew Hitchcock or Andre Whitchcock? /me prepares to get modded off-topic.
must be running their website on that PII he mentioned.
amazing how your sig is now suddenly on topic.
the various BSD's don't have the rabid hordes of evangelists that Linux has. So many IT people are fans of Linux, but don't know much and have not tried any of the BSD's. My room mate used to bad mouth the BSD's all the time (after playing with freeBSD for all of five minutes), but after seeing enough posts about openBSD's stability and security, he tried it for his webserver and DNS and he loves it (though he'll still bad mouth freeBSD on occasion).
thinks a cracker is either:
A) a kind of baked good;
or
B) a white boy.
The rest of the world thinks "hacker = guy who breaks into computers and stuff". this is how the language has evolved. deal with it. you can't force people to change something like this (even though it hasn't stopped people from trying, a la "couriel" or "thru").
I wasn't pointing out that as how MSN was skewing results; i was merely pointing how vastly superior google is in terms of its searching capability.
The top links are for 'featured sites' (~= 'ads') and 'sponsored sites' (~= 'ads') and after you get past the ads, the results are roughly similar to google's results, with linux.org and redhat.com being in the same #1 and #3 spots, and linuxjournal surpassing linux.com as the #2 spot.
Yes, the difference being that it is not easily discernible that the "featured" and "sponsored" sites are paid for or some such. All ads on google are obviously ads. furthermore, on msn.com you have to scroll down about 1/3 of the page to get to the real, untainted results.
i'd also like to point out:
msn.com: 1 - 15 ao about 542 [pages containing] "linux"
google.com: 1 - 10 of about 57,500,000
Score:-1, Dork ;P
I read somewhere recently (forgive me, I remember not where) of a new-ish theory that if the rate of expansion continues to increase that the universe will be ripped apart. that is to say, the rate of expansion would be so great that not only gravity would fail, but even strong and weak forces. All matter would be torn to shreds as it accelerated ever faster and faster.
IANAP, so anyone who is one, or studying to become one care to comment?
Now all you whiny Euro-trash types here on /. can't talk about how much better and more enlightened Europe is than the good ole' USofA.
Of course, this now means one less place to which I can flee when the fit really hits the shan here in Coporateland.
touche'!
wrote with Dennis Ritchie(which is the main inventor of C).
<nazi class="grammar">
First off, which is in the wrong case. which is the objective case. It should be the nominative form, that.
Second, that/which is the wrong word. Dennis Ritchis is a person, and therefore should be substituted by the pronoun who (not whom, as that would cause that same nominative/objective problem again).
</nazi>
There are plenty of people out there who are perfectly genetically healthy human beings, who through no fault of there own, are unable to reproduce naturally. Some people are adversely affected by chemicals in the environment, making it difficult to conceive a child, others (like some women who have had abortions) are not able to either. There are still others who can't for any multitude of reasons that are not part of the equation of the traditional Darwinian notion of natural selection.
Now then, maybe these people ought to just adopt, but I don't think they should be prevented from attempting to have their "own" offspring if they are willing to put up the time and money neccesary.
Actually, you have to pay either BMI or ASCAP to sing Happy Birthday. They own the rights to songs, RIAA owns the rights to sound recordings.
but the fonts are sometime mess up
How do you mean? Like Times New Roman becomes Helvetica without you changing it, or the fonts just look bad?
Printing an imported MS Word document never looks the same way as printing an original MS Word document.
Are you printing using OO.o in windows? Printing in Linux is pretty crappy over all (IMHO), so it's probably unfair to compare printing in OO.o under Linux to printing under MS Word in Windows.
1) look at the border. discern the word/phrase there.
2) do a google image search for that word phrase with the filtering off.
3) feel eyes melt out of your skull in horror.
4) ????
5) profit.
the OS that the article is referring to is. . .Windows. The systems hijacked are Windows system.
;P
REALLY?! I could have never figured that out on my own.
I was just trying to be a little funny, that's all.
So would there be several species in a genus, or several families in a genus?
Several species to a genus, hence the joke.
Also several genuses to a family, several families in an order, and so on...
Most recognized genuses have the luxury of working with little to no distraction.
Most recognized genuses also have the luxury of being made up of several different species.
If you mean computers to be all computers, then there are easily tens of thousands of computers running OS/2 (many, many ATM's for example). If you mean PC's, well, that's different, though I'd wager there are probably several thousand pc's with high speed access running BeOS or OS/2, and probably more Amiga's out there than either of us would expect.
The actions in:
Libya (1986);
Iraq (1991);
Bosnia (1995);
Sudan (1998);
Yugoslavia (1999);
Afghanistan (2001-02);
were all either in direct response to military agression of the leaders of those nations, acting against terrorist groups operating out of those nations, deposing a brutal regime (with the the international (UN) community in support of said deposing), or any combination of those three.
There were certainly good reasons to be involved militarily in several of the other places you list. Communism was a real threat (not to the point that McCarthy or Ann Coulter would have one believe), and it was partly the intervention of the U.S. that kept the world from ending up living in Soviet-style Communist squalor.
The war on drugs, though, yeah, that's pretty much just stupid. I'll give you that one.
Iraq (2003)? Well, if anyone had bothered to plan for what to do when the war was over other than "Guard Oilwells," things might have turned out really well there, and the people would already be on there way to a more prosperous and better tommorrow. As it is, Our Glorious Idiot is looking like he's going to completely fuck it up before it gets any better.
Gosh, I wonder who it does affect? I mean, who's left?
Amiga, Commodore, Atari ST, BeOS, AtheOS, OS/2...
In most civilized countries of which I know, fraud (i.e., falsifying information to get access to goods and/or services to which one is not normally entitled) is illegal.