Knowing that there's a large and ready source of water, which conveniently can be broken down into oxygen and hydrogen, once we get a decent portable power supply (fusion maybe?).
This may make the Jovian and Saturnian satellites the prime real estate (aside from Earth) in the Solar System (whoa, echoes of Larry Nivem) Who needs the dry, dusty Moon or Mars.
Of course, all bets are off if life is discovered on Titan or Ganymede. Greenpeace would probably start a petition to leave the environment alone, so the single celled organisms can prosper while humanity suffers on an increasingly overpopulated Earth. Then again, if it's the Chinese that get their first, well, we know how what they did to the Three Rivers Gorge, goodbye extraterrestial life, hello New Gangzhou!
with the bathwater? While there is not debate about the henious anti-trust violations that MicroSoft has committed, there is also no doubt about the many benefits that Microsoft has brought to personal computing. The modern multimedia computer is a result of Microsoft setting and enforcing multimedia standards. The proliferation of Windows apps is mostly due to the ease of creating them in Microsoft's Visual Basic. The commonality of the WIMP (Windows, Icons and Microsoft Pointer) interface have allowed Joe and Jane Sixpack, as well as Grandma Sixpack onto the internet and brought computing to the masses.
Please, while a vocal minority of underwashed "geeks" with poor social skills may be clamoring for a return to the "Dark Ages" of the command line where a freakish ability to memorize long arcana was the primary talent needed for computer administration, the masses of America, the Joe Sixpacks, the MCSE's, and the VB developers want you to remember just who it was that brough a GUI to America.
Please, let's not spread the DivX
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Please, let us geeks do one thing right, for once, and respect the memory of J.R.R Tolkien and his family and pay to see this movie, instead of rushing off to edonkey, KaZaa, or alt.binaries.erotica.furry-feet to download a crappy handheld Sonycam divx of the film.
Please, geeks, leave your computer, go to a theater, mix with fellow geeks and lovers and LOTR and watch this in a theater, 40 feet wide in Dolby, as it was meant to be seen. Who knows, you may even like meeting other people!
The reasons MUDs like EverCrack are so popular is the level of fake human interaction they provide. If your partner in an exploring party isn't feelign well, you can do without them.
contrrast this to real life, where if your wife, or girlfriend or roommate has unpleasant emotions, you have to deal with them, you can't just shutdown the program.
Getting back on topic, if these MUD's get too realistic, no one will play them. Who wants a gorgeous cybergirlfriend who gets PMS?
This sounds like a dangerous piece of software for Intel to allow, dangerous to the MPAA at least. Do you suppose they will allow this, to make their movies even easier to pirate? I bet they sue Intel over this.
This project apparently takes place at MIT, but each picture showed an attractive young female, for a total of two attractive young females!
After 11 years on the software field, I know attractive young females are only about 5% of the software population (even counting testers), so this whole thing sounds like a Halloween prank.
more of the same d00d, when is GiZ coming back? Because of the 3 month old baby, I'm tired and horny, and I have new job responsibilities which take some getting used to.
I see motherfuckin at adequacy occasionally, but no one else, except for the adequacy trolls. Where does the GiZ crowd hang out?
The Linux Fault Threshhold, the point at which Linux lets you down and the apologists come out of the woodwork. Adequacy did an apparently satirical article on this very thing.
and the airline can supply us with cotton robes an d sturdy slippers in the very rare event of a crash landing that doesn't kill everyone instantly.
Or we could just fly naked. These terrorists spend years in the hills away from women, and then they get on a plane load of naked hotties. What do you think would really be on their mind?
Iraq is a lot flatter than Afghanistan
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Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help.
Gosh, do you think maybe a computer can scan millions of faces a lot quicker than a $6.00/hour bored rent-a-cop?
does it have interesting computer and technology news, or is it just another healdine grabbing puff piece media whore weblog?
Hey Scott Adams, your 15 minutes are up
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I'm getting a little tired of your big faceless corporations suck, so have your big faceless corporation buy my products to tell you how to improve your big faceless corporation and I'm such a cool rebel hacker in a big faceless corporation I have Dilbert stuff all over schtick.
That rant being said, I want a cubicle size commensurate with my job load, if we can't backfill two people, so I have to work harder to make up for that, I want two cubicles.
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Knowing that there's a large and ready source of water, which conveniently can be broken down into oxygen and hydrogen, once we get a decent portable power supply (fusion maybe?).
This may make the Jovian and Saturnian satellites the prime real estate (aside from Earth) in the Solar System (whoa, echoes of Larry Nivem) Who needs the dry, dusty Moon or Mars.
Of course, all bets are off if life is discovered on Titan or Ganymede. Greenpeace would probably start a petition to leave the environment alone, so the single celled organisms can prosper while humanity suffers on an increasingly overpopulated Earth. Then again, if it's the Chinese that get their first, well, we know how what they did to the Three Rivers Gorge, goodbye extraterrestial life, hello New Gangzhou!
Please, while a vocal minority of underwashed "geeks" with poor social skills may be clamoring for a return to the "Dark Ages" of the command line where a freakish ability to memorize long arcana was the primary talent needed for computer administration, the masses of America, the Joe Sixpacks, the MCSE's, and the VB developers want you to remember just who it was that brough a GUI to America.
Please, geeks, leave your computer, go to a theater, mix with fellow geeks and lovers and LOTR and watch this in a theater, 40 feet wide in Dolby, as it was meant to be seen. Who knows, you may even like meeting other people!
contrrast this to real life, where if your wife, or girlfriend or roommate has unpleasant emotions, you have to deal with them, you can't just shutdown the program.
Getting back on topic, if these MUD's get too realistic, no one will play them. Who wants a gorgeous cybergirlfriend who gets PMS?
So quick, apt-get it before it gets banned!
Hot damn, I am so sick of platonic truths, and the way they want you there at 3 am to jump start their car, but you'll only be friends with them.
though perhaps the moderator moderating that post has never read Huxley's classic on control and censorship, 1984.
This project apparently takes place at MIT, but each picture showed an attractive young female, for a total of two attractive young females!
After 11 years on the software field, I know attractive young females are only about 5% of the software population (even counting testers), so this whole thing sounds like a Halloween prank.
communities.msn.com and search for porn
Be a law abiding citizen and pay for training out of your own pocket.
Does anyone else see something wrong with this?
perhaps they can discover what happened to it, and when it will come back.
Tomorrow Linux will conquer the world, starting a thousand year rule of a proper operating system, administered by uber-users.
but sometimes they hit the target perfectly.
more of the same d00d, when is GiZ coming back? Because of the 3 month old baby, I'm tired and horny, and I have new job responsibilities which take some getting used to.
I see motherfuckin at adequacy occasionally, but no one else, except for the adequacy trolls. Where does the GiZ crowd hang out?
The Linux Fault Threshhold, the point at which Linux lets you down and the apologists come out of the woodwork. Adequacy did an apparently satirical article on this very thing.
cf. Glomar Explorer
d00d, what's up with geekizoid?
I can certainly tell you about puking babies.
Boy, jus tlike Katz to pick up a 30 year old trend and call it new.
Of course, in the '70;s it was blue collar workers like steel and auto workers.
In the early 90's it was mid level managers.
Now it's affecting geeks who's geekiness is being able to start Front Page and write wysiwig web pages.
As someone who worked through the 90-91 recession, this is nothing new, keep your skills up to date and keep rolling with the punches.
and the airline can supply us with cotton robes an d sturdy slippers in the very rare event of a crash landing that doesn't kill everyone instantly.
Or we could just fly naked. These terrorists spend years in the hills away from women, and then they get on a plane load of naked hotties. What do you think would really be on their mind?
and you know what that means!
Gosh, do you think maybe a computer can scan millions of faces a lot quicker than a $6.00/hour bored rent-a-cop?
she looked hot in the picture, and she named her book "Joystick Nation", shemust be a nympho.
I'd let the massager go home at night, he probably has a cat to take care of.
does it have interesting computer and technology news, or is it just another healdine grabbing puff piece media whore weblog?
That rant being said, I want a cubicle size commensurate with my job load, if we can't backfill two people, so I have to work harder to make up for that, I want two cubicles.