I've seen thoughts like this, many times, and it never fails to amuse me. Making the assumption that everyone is like yourself, and only needs to be shown the golden path to knowledge before joyously drinking of the waters thereof, is common. Here's a fact for you: one-quarter of the U.S. population works stocking store shelves, ringing up purchases, and serving food to you critical thinkers. How does scenarios and simulation, projection and extrapolation help these people? It doesn't, not one bit. They're going to keep opening cardboard cases with razor blades and putting the cans on the shelf all in a row so that you won't complain to the store manager that the Wolfgang Puck's Seven Bean with Italian Sausage is mixed in with the Chicken Parmesan with Pasta. These people don't ravenously consume books on logic when they attain 10 years of age. I don't mean to be harsh, but it just seems that you've never met anybody like this, and if you have, likely dismissed them as inferior stock whose only contribution to the human race would be involuntary sterilization.
Hahaha, yeah, right the NSA is going to share their intelligence with some corporation. I realize it must sound plausible from Europe, but from here it's simply ridiculous that the NSA would lower itself so and possibly compromise its intelligence-gathering activities so that some corporation can win some temporary contract. How does this help the national security of the USA?
If there is espionage, it is more than adequately explained by the mundane activities of trash-sifting, corrupt employees, and the like. It's pretty difficult to feel sympathy for Airbus, as well, since they're a government-subsidized consortium funded by taxes, not a corporation that doesn't get any help (well Boing can probably get any laws passed it wants by calling in favors from its campaign donation activities, but that's hardly the same).
20Mb RAM = 4Mb internal, plus a single slot that will take a 2Mb, 4Mb, 8Mb, or 16Mb stick of specialty notebook RAM.
Put linux on it, it'll run like a charm. Don't install X though, X is and has always been a hog. If you do install X, for heaven's sake don't use KDE or Gnome, use twm or one of the other ones. The problem you have under Windows in MS-Office, this will slow the mightiest mega-hurtz machine to a crawl.
I think he was talking about alt.2600. Notice the term "posted"? Oh, that's right, people don't know what USENET is nowadays. It's for the best, really.
It's long been said that Texans elect the worst scoundrels from their home districts and send them off to the Capitol. Hence, they're out of the way, and can't do any mischief in the local community. This might make for buffoons on C-SPAN, but Texans are not widely known for caring for the opinions of outsiders.
You want openly corrupt politicians, look at Louisana. Ask any Louisanan about the "Elect the Crook, not the Kook" bumper stickers of a few years back.
Don't worry...when an episode calls for it, they'll have a visit from a time traveler, or change decades of Trek history by changing the way an invention came to be, or what have you...it's not required that the show's writers be able to eat without drooling.
NASA's problem is that it can't do anything space-related without inventing new technologies to do it. Remember the outcry when it was insisted that NASA do things the way everybody else does, by using technology that actually exists today? NASA employees hated it, because it meant their jobs became less exciting and more mundane...results-oriented rather than process-oriented. Inventing new technologies, NASA-style, is fabulously expensive, and having defense contractors do the work for you is like having Microsoft take over development of Kerberos...they don't do what's best for the project, they do what's best for themselves.
According to the geneva convention convention it is illegal to use weapons directly at personel
Huh? Illegal to use weapons? How are you supposed to kill the enemy soldiers then? That doesn't make any sense. If you're going to knock the USA, at least knock them for something that actually exists.
1. Dell is in Round Rock, not Austin.
2. Yes! No more people move to Austin! Austin is full! We don't want you! Go away! If it takes false figures from a slashdot troll about how racist Austin is to scare people away, so be it! Just leave and never come back!
Then why did they make a movie last year called "Scary Movie" with the Wayans, and there is an exact same movie "Scary Movie" with different actors, different plot, and a much better movie poster.
They also made a movie called "Bad Boys" last year, which was a shocker to me because I always think of the Sean Penn/Ally Sheedy movie.
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What, making up evidence isn't the hallmark of an operating system that has Made It? Anybody remember Microsoft attempting to fool the judge with falsified evidence? If you're going to fight the pigs, you're going to get mud on you.
This piece should be titled, "Amateur Physics for the Amateur Pool Player Who Is An Engineering Major In His Spare Time". The Introduction was promising, but page 1 has a big nasty equation right in the middle of the page!
Quickly leafing through the rest of the document, I found not a single page without radicals, sigmas, or integrals, and indeed several pages had nothing but! In conclusion, the reading of this document should be avoided in the same manner one would avoid the reading of the source code to X.
they wanted 35k for that suv. i said to myself
"self, they are trying to screw you... it's ok to just steal it". since they were going to try to charge
me too much, self and i decided to steal the car.
This is, in fact, exactly how things work in Eastern Europe and Central America. Cars are ridiculously expensive, so they are stolen in neighboring prosperous countries, transported, and sold at substantially below market value. These thieves would be out of business in a second if car makers charged reasonable prices.
Success? Amazing economic performance? You mean the way the Japanese economy actually contracted last year? The keiretsu are a major cause of Japan's stagnation. The reluctance to "restructure" them (i.e. go through rounds and rounds of painful layoffs, like the USA did during the 80s and early 90s) is why Japan's recession has lasted so inexplicably long. Maybe you're just blatantly trolling, or karma whoring, but the Japanese economy isn't the job destroyer it was during the 80s. Their economy overheated and popped back in 1989, and they've been in the toilet ever since.
What's the relevance to Nintendo? I dunno, you didn't mention them either.
The internet was run by (funded by) the government. The concept of paying a monthly fee for admission to this network, as the question asker cannot evidently envision a network without, did not exist.
Would there be a credible "space defense" by putting up an impenetrable shield of jagged space junk? We'd seal ourselves up on the Earth for thousands of years, but we'd be safe from the aggressive alien menace our space probes discovered out in orbit around Jupiter.
So, every time my company wants to make me sign a piece of paper, I should go pay $250 to some lawyer so he can look at it and call me back in two weeks? I'm sorry, but when people say, "ask a lawyer", it's not just like calling up the helpdesk to get the address of the local DHCP server. There are so many pitfalls in "getting a lawyer" it's not even funny. Calling a random lawyer out of the yellow pages is about as successful as calling a random MCSE to come in and fix your network.
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Vega? eh? There's no such character in Street Fighter. Just the red dude and the white dude, duking it out.
If there is espionage, it is more than adequately explained by the mundane activities of trash-sifting, corrupt employees, and the like. It's pretty difficult to feel sympathy for Airbus, as well, since they're a government-subsidized consortium funded by taxes, not a corporation that doesn't get any help (well Boing can probably get any laws passed it wants by calling in favors from its campaign donation activities, but that's hardly the same).
What if you didn't contribute to the cable commissioner's last re-election campaign? Why should he do anything for you?
Put linux on it, it'll run like a charm. Don't install X though, X is and has always been a hog. If you do install X, for heaven's sake don't use KDE or Gnome, use twm or one of the other ones. The problem you have under Windows in MS-Office, this will slow the mightiest mega-hurtz machine to a crawl.
I think he was talking about alt.2600. Notice the term "posted"? Oh, that's right, people don't know what USENET is nowadays. It's for the best, really.
The www does NOT mean the internet, the two terms are NOT interchangeable, despite what "Wired" magazine insists.
You want openly corrupt politicians, look at Louisana. Ask any Louisanan about the "Elect the Crook, not the Kook" bumper stickers of a few years back.
Don't worry...when an episode calls for it, they'll have a visit from a time traveler, or change decades of Trek history by changing the way an invention came to be, or what have you...it's not required that the show's writers be able to eat without drooling.
I'll be happy as long as they don't make this series "Political Correctness in Space", like they did with The Next Generation and V'ger.
At least this site is honest and up-front about being biased.
NASA's problem is that it can't do anything space-related without inventing new technologies to do it. Remember the outcry when it was insisted that NASA do things the way everybody else does, by using technology that actually exists today? NASA employees hated it, because it meant their jobs became less exciting and more mundane...results-oriented rather than process-oriented. Inventing new technologies, NASA-style, is fabulously expensive, and having defense contractors do the work for you is like having Microsoft take over development of Kerberos...they don't do what's best for the project, they do what's best for themselves.
Huh? Illegal to use weapons? How are you supposed to kill the enemy soldiers then? That doesn't make any sense. If you're going to knock the USA, at least knock them for something that actually exists.
2. Yes! No more people move to Austin! Austin is full! We don't want you! Go away! If it takes false figures from a slashdot troll about how racist Austin is to scare people away, so be it! Just leave and never come back!
-A former Austinite.
They also made a movie called "Bad Boys" last year, which was a shocker to me because I always think of the Sean Penn/Ally Sheedy movie.
What, making up evidence isn't the hallmark of an operating system that has Made It? Anybody remember Microsoft attempting to fool the judge with falsified evidence? If you're going to fight the pigs, you're going to get mud on you.
This piece should be titled, "Amateur Physics for the Amateur Pool Player Who Is An Engineering Major In His Spare Time". The Introduction was promising, but page 1 has a big nasty equation right in the middle of the page! Quickly leafing through the rest of the document, I found not a single page without radicals, sigmas, or integrals, and indeed several pages had nothing but! In conclusion, the reading of this document should be avoided in the same manner one would avoid the reading of the source code to X.
This is, in fact, exactly how things work in Eastern Europe and Central America. Cars are ridiculously expensive, so they are stolen in neighboring prosperous countries, transported, and sold at substantially below market value. These thieves would be out of business in a second if car makers charged reasonable prices.
What's the relevance to Nintendo? I dunno, you didn't mention them either.
Lawyers.
The internet was run by (funded by) the government. The concept of paying a monthly fee for admission to this network, as the question asker cannot evidently envision a network without, did not exist.
Would there be a credible "space defense" by putting up an impenetrable shield of jagged space junk? We'd seal ourselves up on the Earth for thousands of years, but we'd be safe from the aggressive alien menace our space probes discovered out in orbit around Jupiter.
Why is it always "timothy" who posts these brain-dead stories? This fellow is really gullible, or really hasty, one of the two.
Rock me Dr. Zaurus!
So, every time my company wants to make me sign a piece of paper, I should go pay $250 to some lawyer so he can look at it and call me back in two weeks? I'm sorry, but when people say, "ask a lawyer", it's not just like calling up the helpdesk to get the address of the local DHCP server. There are so many pitfalls in "getting a lawyer" it's not even funny. Calling a random lawyer out of the yellow pages is about as successful as calling a random MCSE to come in and fix your network.