No, if you read it carefully it means that each subscriber receives 1.4 million DVDs each day. I can assure you that they've never sent me over a million at once though so these numbers might be a little off. In any case, 4,200,000 * 1,200,000 = 5,040,000,000,000 DVDs a day, so as you can see your math is flawed.
Some time ago I was in a vehicle being dropped off at my dorm on the Sunday prior to Big Game. It was about 2 am. We got pulled over a block from the dorm. When the cops noticed that we had red paint on our hands rather than blue and gold they asked where we lived, saw that it was just down the street, and indicated that we all needed showers before going to bed. Given that we were pulled over without any real cause I'm surprised at the damage Cal students were able to do to The Thinker over the years.
If someone looking at the machines causes them to be compromised then how on earth can you put them in voting booths when hundreds of people will have physical access to them in a private setting? If you depend on completely restricting access to the machines then you've already lost, haven't you? I applaud the clerk for taking this stand. The very idea that the machines can't be inspected by a third party shows just how fragile such systems are. If they were truely secure it wouldn't matter who looked at them or how.
The article implies that you have to be enrolled using this system in order to it to be used to verify your identity. So it isn't any use in finding those that there is a high resolution photograph of without the 2d pattern projected on them to generate the 3d surface. This is only useful for proving that someone is carrying their own valid document, not for picking known criminals out of crowds.
My wife prefers to use Macs. However, she is a physician at LDS Hospital and in order to check on her patients from home she has to use their web app. You would think that this would be great for her given her preference for Mac OS, but in fact it is not. The website uses ActiveX controls and is unusable on anything other than IE under Windows. We've actually held off on buying another Mac until there was confirmation that at least a dual booting scenario was possible. Later solutions such as VMWare and Wine will do for her needs, but for now knowing that we can do this gives us a warm fuzzy as we wait until April 1 before making our decision on what model to purchase.
Yes, the $100 laptop will HURT children, and Bill Gates sees this and is trying to prevent it. He is motivated by pure charity.
There are a few issues at play here that Gates feigns ignorance of. First is that the laptop will improve over time. It won't always have a crap screen. It might not always have a crank. It doesn't need to have a floppy disk drive. Eventually cheap thumb drives could be used instead.
Let's face it, this isn't going to be a big success initially in places where starvation is day to day concern. But in areas such as India and South America it will be a boon to computer education initially and education in general later. And some of those students are going to become Linux experts. Others will have positive exposure to OO.o or other open source projects. These kids are going to get it into their heads that software should be free (as in beer at least). Worst of all, none of these kids is going to get that kind of exposure to Windows. And thus we see Gate's motivation in denigrating the project.
I can get up to 172 MB before the nastygrams start coming. I have set up my notes to delete after 3 months and to cache attachemnts locally after three weeks. I still run into trouble sometimes. I really wish I had all my email available to me. I have projects that go away for years only to reappear and it would be great to be able to pull up all the old contact info.
Anyhow, I find it amazing that the limit hasn't gone up at all in the 7.5 years I've been here, yet Google can offer me 2 gigs (and counting) for free.
He's right. You're whoring out your sig and he pointed it out. His complaint isn't about sigs in general, just about yours and how it relates to your actual post.
I think we've come to the end of this conversation. You obviously don't understand science, which neither proves nor attempts to prove any such thing. I find your lack of understanding odd given the side of this debate you've taken up. In any case, I wish you all the best in your meaningless life, and hope that one day you do find meaning and purpose.
We're discussing two different things. When you brought up life's great questions I assumed you meant the important ones. I would also rely on science to inform my children about the age of the planet and the universe. But that isn't really that important of a question, is it? "Why do I exist?" is a much more important one, don't you think? And science isn't going to give you any meaning there.
Depending on where you look some LDS believe that there was no beath prior to the fall of Adam and Eve, which would imply that evolution did not (and could not) happen at all. Others are much more open the idea of evolution, including the current president of the church.
I'll give him actual explanations for life's greatest questions.
Which at some point boil down to either, "I don't know." or beliefs on your part.
Don't you think it is strange that you think you have answers to life's great questions? Where am I from? Why am I here? Where do I go from here? Why am I concious? Do I have free will?
Somehow you are able to categorize your beliefs as superior to mine, but I doubt that you are answering these questions purely with science.
No you don't. You're making assumptions. I didn't even mention religion. I'm talking about raising children and equipping them to function in the world. That may or may not include religion. I'm certainly telling my kids what has worked for me and what problems I've seen with it. But of course I'm going to give my kids my point of view. You will do the same. Yours is that religion is irrational. That is a belief that you are going to pass on to them, right? Or are you just never going to mention it?
I'm going to make up my own number. 90 percent of LDS people don't know what their church's stand on evolution is.
I'd go even further and say that 90% of Mormons think they know the position of the church on evolution and they are wrong. Wrong in that they don't know what the position is, and wrong in that they assume that it is anti-evolution. The official position is that the church takes no position on the matter. Evolution is not incompatible with LDS beliefs.
The Muslims and the Scientologists are saying the same thing about their children.
You'll do the same to yours, assuming you have any. It is called raising children. We all teach our children what we think is best for them. Get over it. The alternative is to teach them nothing and let their idiot friends and the state take over. A winning combo, I assure you.
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No, if you read it carefully it means that each subscriber receives 1.4 million DVDs each day. I can assure you that they've never sent me over a million at once though so these numbers might be a little off. In any case, 4,200,000 * 1,200,000 = 5,040,000,000,000 DVDs a day, so as you can see your math is flawed.
Some time ago I was in a vehicle being dropped off at my dorm on the Sunday prior to Big Game. It was about 2 am. We got pulled over a block from the dorm. When the cops noticed that we had red paint on our hands rather than blue and gold they asked where we lived, saw that it was just down the street, and indicated that we all needed showers before going to bed. Given that we were pulled over without any real cause I'm surprised at the damage Cal students were able to do to The Thinker over the years.
If someone looking at the machines causes them to be compromised then how on earth can you put them in voting booths when hundreds of people will have physical access to them in a private setting? If you depend on completely restricting access to the machines then you've already lost, haven't you? I applaud the clerk for taking this stand. The very idea that the machines can't be inspected by a third party shows just how fragile such systems are. If they were truely secure it wouldn't matter who looked at them or how.
A digital signature across the files on the document would be what indicates the docs are valid. It is all there in the ICAO specs.
The article implies that you have to be enrolled using this system in order to it to be used to verify your identity. So it isn't any use in finding those that there is a high resolution photograph of without the 2d pattern projected on them to generate the 3d surface. This is only useful for proving that someone is carrying their own valid document, not for picking known criminals out of crowds.
I thought that the editors didn't bother to read this given all the errors, but it turns out that and editor wrote it, right?
has no familiarity with the material or any concept of how to spell. Here's a hint: Cylon. Here's another: Adama.
BWJones,
My wife prefers to use Macs. However, she is a physician at LDS Hospital and in order to check on her patients from home she has to use their web app. You would think that this would be great for her given her preference for Mac OS, but in fact it is not. The website uses ActiveX controls and is unusable on anything other than IE under Windows. We've actually held off on buying another Mac until there was confirmation that at least a dual booting scenario was possible. Later solutions such as VMWare and Wine will do for her needs, but for now knowing that we can do this gives us a warm fuzzy as we wait until April 1 before making our decision on what model to purchase.
Yes, the $100 laptop will HURT children, and Bill Gates sees this and is trying to prevent it. He is motivated by pure charity.
There are a few issues at play here that Gates feigns ignorance of. First is that the laptop will improve over time. It won't always have a crap screen. It might not always have a crank. It doesn't need to have a floppy disk drive. Eventually cheap thumb drives could be used instead.
Let's face it, this isn't going to be a big success initially in places where starvation is day to day concern. But in areas such as India and South America it will be a boon to computer education initially and education in general later. And some of those students are going to become Linux experts. Others will have positive exposure to OO.o or other open source projects. These kids are going to get it into their heads that software should be free (as in beer at least). Worst of all, none of these kids is going to get that kind of exposure to Windows. And thus we see Gate's motivation in denigrating the project.
Should it effect me?
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No, but it might affect you.
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I can get up to 172 MB before the nastygrams start coming. I have set up my notes to delete after 3 months and to cache attachemnts locally after three weeks. I still run into trouble sometimes. I really wish I had all my email available to me. I have projects that go away for years only to reappear and it would be great to be able to pull up all the old contact info.
Anyhow, I find it amazing that the limit hasn't gone up at all in the 7.5 years I've been here, yet Google can offer me 2 gigs (and counting) for free.
He's right. You're whoring out your sig and he pointed it out. His complaint isn't about sigs in general, just about yours and how it relates to your actual post.
I think we've come to the end of this conversation. You obviously don't understand science, which neither proves nor attempts to prove any such thing. I find your lack of understanding odd given the side of this debate you've taken up. In any case, I wish you all the best in your meaningless life, and hope that one day you do find meaning and purpose.
We're discussing two different things. When you brought up life's great questions I assumed you meant the important ones. I would also rely on science to inform my children about the age of the planet and the universe. But that isn't really that important of a question, is it? "Why do I exist?" is a much more important one, don't you think? And science isn't going to give you any meaning there.
Depending on where you look some LDS believe that there was no beath prior to the fall of Adam and Eve, which would imply that evolution did not (and could not) happen at all. Others are much more open the idea of evolution, including the current president of the church.
Sharing any kind of blind faith beliefs with others is immoral and unethical. If you don't know something then don't pretend that you do.
I don't have blind faith. I've tested an proven my faith.
I'll give him actual explanations for life's greatest questions.
Which at some point boil down to either, "I don't know." or beliefs on your part.
Don't you think it is strange that you think you have answers to life's great questions? Where am I from? Why am I here? Where do I go from here? Why am I concious? Do I have free will?
Somehow you are able to categorize your beliefs as superior to mine, but I doubt that you are answering these questions purely with science.
Yeah, I know what you think you're doing.
No you don't. You're making assumptions. I didn't even mention religion. I'm talking about raising children and equipping them to function in the world. That may or may not include religion. I'm certainly telling my kids what has worked for me and what problems I've seen with it. But of course I'm going to give my kids my point of view. You will do the same. Yours is that religion is irrational. That is a belief that you are going to pass on to them, right? Or are you just never going to mention it?
Again, you are misinformed. The official position, first articulated in the 1930s and repeated since then is that there is no position.
I'm going to make up my own number. 90 percent of LDS people don't know what their church's stand on evolution is.
I'd go even further and say that 90% of Mormons think they know the position of the church on evolution and they are wrong. Wrong in that they don't know what the position is, and wrong in that they assume that it is anti-evolution. The official position is that the church takes no position on the matter. Evolution is not incompatible with LDS beliefs.
The Muslims and the Scientologists are saying the same thing about their children.
You'll do the same to yours, assuming you have any. It is called raising children. We all teach our children what we think is best for them. Get over it. The alternative is to teach them nothing and let their idiot friends and the state take over. A winning combo, I assure you.
I bought two and used two. It is much easier with two. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, but that is what works for me.
That depends on how you go about obtaining it. The article mentions that you can get it for free. Did you read it?
The price does not include the OS. check the article:
Total price: US$525.46 with LCD, US$461.02 with CRT, not including shipping and handling (2/21/2006, no OS)
I took apart my Mac mini before turning it on to put more ram in it. This involved the purchase of putty knives.