Although I can't find substantiation online, I know that Robert Heinlein asserted that the DoD spends NASA's YEARLY budget every single day of the year.
On the positive side, Finnish security firm F-Secure said that 2004 was the best-ever year for the capture, arrest and sentencing of virus writers and criminally-minded hackers.
In total, eight virus writers were arrested and some members of the so-called 29A virus writing group were sentenced.
If the asteroid changes the earths speed by 3microseconds, would this have the slightest impact on the calculations on which the NASA scientist and others are trying to make.
The speed that was affected was the speed at which the earth ROTATED on its axis.
The speed at which the earth REVOLVES around Sol in its orbit remains unchanged by this event.
when the sea retreats suddenly, it's time to find out how fast you can run.
I figure that if you surveyed the people who lived on the coastal regions that at least 90% of them - and that's a way conservative estimate - would probably be blithely ignorant of this.
I learned it from Sir Arthur in his book "Childhood's End," myself.
It's kind of like when you're at a rock concert and you see a pyro tech start running -- try and keep up with him.:)
OK? So that's proof that any retard windows user can hop on linux and it'll work just fine?
-snip flame-
I mean this logic you're using is retarded.
Straw man argument. You're begging the question... I never once suggested that I thought that the user would "hop on linux and it'll work fine." I'm trying to reduce MY tech support load, and I feel a lot better supporting linux than XP.
All they want to do is surf and chat and do emails.
Joe User can't fix a Windows problem any more than he can fix a Linux problem.
To drive home the point, how about this very reference from this morning? It took a sysadmin with VERY MUCH clue 5 hours to nuke all the stuff off a Wintel machine, and all it takes for it to come undone is one little click on the IE icon.
I cleaned up a friend's machine last month. The father was sure the kids were surfing pr0n sites and nasty bits that he didn't want them to go into. To prove it wasn't their fault I logged on and I opened IE. We waited about 5 minutes with my hands off of the keyboard while we chatted about this 'n that. I logged off and re-ran the spyware and malware scanners. 50 hits in 5 minutes. He was stunned.
I couldn't get him to go to Linux, but at least he's running Firefox now.
I disagree. From the beginning Roddenberry meant this to be a "Horatio Hornblower in outer space," not just something that would help the unwashed to relate to space travel.
"It's been a long time since our leading competitors actually made a computer"
Last time I cracked open a Dell it was when my daughter accidentally dumped Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup into her keyboard. I found standoffs and little plastic parts Superglued in place on her ostensibly new Dell LT.
Ever since then I've taken Dell computer assembly practices with a HUGE grain of salt.
My grand-dad was a railroad telegrapher. He once told the supervisor that he was going to take the afternoon off and go fishing. His supervisor said "Dick, I'd appreciate it if you ASKED me if you can take the afternoon off."
My grand-dad looked at him witheringly. "I will NEVER ask you if I can leave work. I may, however, ask you if I can come back..."
1. Put a paint shaker in the middle of the floor. 2. Put an open can of paint in the paint shaker. 3. Turn it on. Run out of the room very quickly.
Everything in the room is now covered with paint.
4. Wait until the paint dries. 5. Cover every part of the room you really wanted painted with masking tape.
Leave the floor, switch plates, etc. uncovered. 6. Put an open can of paint remover in the paint shaker. 7. Turn it on. Run out of the room very quickly.
Everything not covered with masking tape is now clean again.
8. Remove the masking tape. 9. Remove the paint shaker and sludge from the floor.
I used to work at Lucent's Micro fab in Allentown PA. The supply lines for the "scary stuff" were all encased in coaxial lines filled with inert gas at higher than atmospheric pressure, so that you'd have to breach both lines to have an "incident."
I too have heard that it's the most evil 30 seconds of life that you'll ever finish with, but of course there were never any problems with that crap.
They had enough problems selling enough chips to keep me employed, and in that they failed miserably.
I have kept old versions of browsers around for fun and testing, and FireFox asks whether to install into a different directory, even only when 0.9.3 is around to be updated.
Yeah, but I still get a lot of flakiness with it that I don't get with Moz. Maybe I'll do it again when I get some free time but the important thing is that I'm NOT using IE on my home network. (Work's another matter. I keep telling them that they're too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet, but they don't listen.)
I'm currently using Moz and have been since it was Netscape. I tried to download the 0.x releases of FF and had nothing but problems with them... I must have done this 4 or 5 times and I always heave a deep sigh, do the uninstall and then go back to Moz.
My conundrum; Should I download the 1.0 pre-release just because I really, really wanna be part of the party?:)
(I'm thinking that I need to uninstall Moz to put in FF, but I'm too lazy to check, and I have Moz working perfectly. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
Slightly OT: Speaking of "part of the party," I have six gmail invites. Send me email at gmail.com if you want one. I've run out of techie friends.
you'll leave open ports on the back of your computer, and we all know how bad those are.
Don't I know it. I had a friend who once had one of those open ports, and a family of mice decided to make a home in there. What a shambles they made of the inside of the box.
Yep, I knew that -- along with Bill Shatner. Let's face it, however, the first time you see Scotty without the brogue it really twists your senses for a second.
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The entire Apollo program cost approximately as much as Queen Isabella spent to send Christopher Columbus to the new world.
In percentages, it's about 0.12% of our GDP at its peak.
Although I can't find substantiation online, I know that Robert Heinlein asserted that the DoD spends NASA's YEARLY budget every single day of the year.
All that money. *snort*
'broke 100,000 what?'
Broke 100,000 opinions that computing is safe from compromise.
from TFA:
On the positive side, Finnish security firm F-Secure said that 2004 was the best-ever year for the capture, arrest and sentencing of virus writers and criminally-minded hackers.
In total, eight virus writers were arrested and some members of the so-called 29A virus writing group were sentenced.
Eight? EIGHT??
(deep sigh)
If the asteroid changes the earths speed by 3microseconds, would this have the slightest impact on the calculations on which the NASA scientist and others are trying to make.
The speed that was affected was the speed at which the earth ROTATED on its axis.
The speed at which the earth REVOLVES around Sol in its orbit remains unchanged by this event.
..on the scam is available here.
:)
Darn it, one of these days I'm gonna get an article submitted.
when the sea retreats suddenly, it's time to find out how fast you can run.
:)
I figure that if you surveyed the people who lived on the coastal regions that at least 90% of them - and that's a way conservative estimate - would probably be blithely ignorant of this.
I learned it from Sir Arthur in his book "Childhood's End," myself.
It's kind of like when you're at a rock concert and you see a pyro tech start running -- try and keep up with him.
Their IT director is really sharp, but he faces some real problems.
:)
Is this the first, second or third envelope?
imagine what quality decisions you can make if you simply look for "systems that don't suck."
Well, the decisions may not be of higher quality, but the decision tree is that much more robust.
...let's do it with a light, careful hand.
I propose four quarters, each with 3 months of 30/30/31 days.
In the middle of the year, which is to say after the end of the second quarter, insert a built-in holiday of one day. It doesn't belong to any month.
Remember the ST:TOS episode "Return of the Archons?" Maybe we can call it "Festival." (Well, a guy can hope.)
Every four years, this holiday lasts two days.
Simple.
OK? So that's proof that any retard windows user can hop on linux and it'll work just fine?
-snip flame-
I mean this logic you're using is retarded.
Straw man argument. You're begging the question... I never once suggested that I thought that the user would "hop on linux and it'll work fine." I'm trying to reduce MY tech support load, and I feel a lot better supporting linux than XP.
All they want to do is surf and chat and do emails.
Nice try, though.
This bears repeating:
Joe User can't fix a Windows problem any more than he can fix a Linux problem.
To drive home the point, how about this very reference from this morning? It took a sysadmin with VERY MUCH clue 5 hours to nuke all the stuff off a Wintel machine, and all it takes for it to come undone is one little click on the IE icon.
I cleaned up a friend's machine last month. The father was sure the kids were surfing pr0n sites and nasty bits that he didn't want them to go into. To prove it wasn't their fault I logged on and I opened IE. We waited about 5 minutes with my hands off of the keyboard while we chatted about this 'n that. I logged off and re-ran the spyware and malware scanners. 50 hits in 5 minutes. He was stunned.
I couldn't get him to go to Linux, but at least he's running Firefox now.
I disagree. From the beginning Roddenberry meant this to be a "Horatio Hornblower in outer space," not just something that would help the unwashed to relate to space travel.
And how OT are we now?
"It's been a long time since our leading competitors actually made a computer"
Last time I cracked open a Dell it was when my daughter accidentally dumped Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup into her keyboard. I found standoffs and little plastic parts Superglued in place on her ostensibly new Dell LT.
Ever since then I've taken Dell computer assembly practices with a HUGE grain of salt.
My grand-dad was a railroad telegrapher. He once told the supervisor that he was going to take the afternoon off and go fishing. His supervisor said "Dick, I'd appreciate it if you ASKED me if you can take the afternoon off."
My grand-dad looked at him witheringly. "I will NEVER ask you if I can leave work. I may, however, ask you if I can come back..."
Isn't that simply a ten dollar word for inbreeding?
1. Put a paint shaker in the middle of the floor.
2. Put an open can of paint in the paint shaker.
3. Turn it on. Run out of the room very quickly.
Everything in the room is now covered with paint.
4. Wait until the paint dries.
5. Cover every part of the room you really wanted painted with masking tape.
Leave the floor, switch plates, etc. uncovered.
6. Put an open can of paint remover in the paint shaker.
7. Turn it on. Run out of the room very quickly.
Everything not covered with masking tape is now clean again.
8. Remove the masking tape.
9. Remove the paint shaker and sludge from the floor.
I used to work at Lucent's Micro fab in Allentown PA. The supply lines for the "scary stuff" were all encased in coaxial lines filled with inert gas at higher than atmospheric pressure, so that you'd have to breach both lines to have an "incident."
I too have heard that it's the most evil 30 seconds of life that you'll ever finish with, but of course there were never any problems with that crap.
They had enough problems selling enough chips to keep me employed, and in that they failed miserably.
... in school?
And weren't they beat up regularly?
... then I guess take-out is cheaper than home-cooked.
People can't handle "rolling" cars.
LOL
allowing me to use my wheeled car on roads no longer polluted by hordes of unqualified idiots.
Meaning all you'll have to be worried about is the aluminum rain when they collide.
Make sure you have the laws passed BEFORE you start the venture, not the other way 'round.
I have kept old versions of browsers around for fun and testing, and FireFox asks whether to install into a different directory, even only when 0.9.3 is around to be updated.
Yeah, but I still get a lot of flakiness with it that I don't get with Moz. Maybe I'll do it again when I get some free time but the important thing is that I'm NOT using IE on my home network. (Work's another matter. I keep telling them that they're too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet, but they don't listen.)
I'm currently using Moz and have been since it was Netscape. I tried to download the 0.x releases of FF and had nothing but problems with them... I must have done this 4 or 5 times and I always heave a deep sigh, do the uninstall and then go back to Moz.
:)
My conundrum; Should I download the 1.0 pre-release just because I really, really wanna be part of the party?
(I'm thinking that I need to uninstall Moz to put in FF, but I'm too lazy to check, and I have Moz working perfectly. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
Slightly OT: Speaking of "part of the party," I have six gmail invites. Send me email at gmail.com if you want one. I've run out of techie friends.
you'll leave open ports on the back of your computer, and we all know how bad those are.
Don't I know it. I had a friend who once had one of those open ports, and a family of mice decided to make a home in there. What a shambles they made of the inside of the box.
Oh, wait...
Yep, I knew that -- along with Bill Shatner. Let's face it, however, the first time you see Scotty without the brogue it really twists your senses for a second.