What wonderful news! Let me just say to the developers that made this happen:
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Re:What the hell is this crap?!
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RAD with Ruby
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Where's the thought provoking stories from the olden days of the site?
This is known as "Star Wars Syndrome". It's the delusion that the content used to be good, when in reality, the sufferer was just less discriminating.
What's funny is that he *should* be right. Very, very few desktop users will need 64 bit addressing in the near future. Whatever.
Re:Disconnect and motivation
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The Music Man
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Actually, it does make sense. A pirate is someone who deprives another of their wealth. I'd say a single music sharer is much more damaging to the recording industry profits than a single downloader. So, to call the sharers "pirates" is probably more appropriate.
I fail to see how that's related specifically to CS, unless they went around screaming out "fire in the hole" and "it's gonna blow!".
I don't know - even that's pretty thin. Now if they were throwing flashbangs in front of each other as they tried to enter the house I could see the connection.
How about counting *every* absentee vote, regardless of whether the race is close or not. How about not announcing even preliminary results until all votes have been made and all absentee votes have been counted.
That's silly and useless. Why not announce a winner if the other parties have been mathmatically determined to be unable to win? That's like playing all 7 games in the World Series even though Team A already won games 1 through 4.
Hmmm - I thought it was a speech, but it looks like you're right. Regardless, I stand by my assertion that few people would be so foolish as to confess voting fraud in such a public manner (and I think it's been demonstrated that a fundraiser invitational is public).
The wording is slippery enough that the message could be interpreted either way. However, I think it hurts the anti-Bush cause (that's really what this is) when people choose the most outlandish and sensational intepretation and hand that out as a talking point everywhere they speak.
[...] the system that relies on private vendor companies with lovely quotes like "I'm committed to delivering Ohio's electoral votes to the President"
First, let me state that I think electronic voting in its current form is horribly broken. The best solution is a paper printout that gets deposited in a lockbox before the voter leaves.
That said - I am so sick of hearing the above quote bandied about as though it unmasks some voting conspiracy. Let's go over this one more time for the slow kids:
Whoever wins the election will be the president, right? (Save the Supreme Court jokes.) Therefore whatever machine is used to vote will be delivering votes to the president. Whether the president is Kerry or Bush, that statement still holds true.
Do you really think that anyone would be so foolish as to confess voting fraud in a public speech? I'll grant you it could have been worded more clearly, but there is nothing illicit about that quote.
Yes, what a fool. There are no compatibility problems between Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, etc. I have no trouble mixing and matching packages between any of the Linux distros.
The problem with studies like those is that no matter how hard they try, there is just no way to account for all the variables.
People that drink a glass of red wine in the evening are likely to be more affluent than the average Coke and Cheetos connoisseur. They will therefore typically have access to much better healthcare and possibly take better care of themselves in general. So how do you figure out if it's the glass of wine in the evening, the yoga classes, the bottled waters, etc. The answer - you can't.
I'll bet you'd also find that owning a luxury vehicle appears to result in a longer lifespan as well.
Given your logic, I must assume that you have no possessions which do not serve a fundamental human need? You have no luxury items, no games, no entertainment items, etc. After all, money spent on those things could have been sent to starving children in third world countries.
People are starving RIGHT NOW! Why are you wasting earning potential (that could be redirected to their welfare) arguing with an anonymous poster on a recreational forum?!?
The AC is right. Your original post suggesting that any money not spent on solving basic world problems is wasted was just plain silly.
Okay, how about this time we wait until AFTER they start using the algorithm before we tell them it's been hacked. I'm looking at you Edward Felton.;-)
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So was this the previous crew?
This is silly, they just have cause and effect backwards. The real truth is that only mutants use their cell phones that much.
What wonderful news! Let me just say to the developers that made this happen:
Click click pop click click pop click pop click click pop click pop click click pop pop click pop pop pop click pop click click pop pop click pop pop click pop click click pop pop click pop pop click click pop click pop click click pop click pop click click pop pop click pop pop pop click click pop click pop click pop click click pop pop click pop click click pop pop click pop pop click pop
Pop pop click!!!
Where's the thought provoking stories from the olden days of the site?
This is known as "Star Wars Syndrome". It's the delusion that the content used to be good, when in reality, the sufferer was just less discriminating.
What's funny is that he *should* be right. Very, very few desktop users will need 64 bit addressing in the near future. Whatever.
Actually, it does make sense. A pirate is someone who deprives another of their wealth. I'd say a single music sharer is much more damaging to the recording industry profits than a single downloader. So, to call the sharers "pirates" is probably more appropriate.
I fail to see how that's related specifically to CS, unless they went around screaming out "fire in the hole" and "it's gonna blow!".
I don't know - even that's pretty thin. Now if they were throwing flashbangs in front of each other as they tried to enter the house I could see the connection.
How about counting *every* absentee vote, regardless of whether the race is close or not. How about not announcing even preliminary results until all votes have been made and all absentee votes have been counted.
That's silly and useless. Why not announce a winner if the other parties have been mathmatically determined to be unable to win? That's like playing all 7 games in the World Series even though Team A already won games 1 through 4.
Voting early is like walking out of a baseball game in the 7th inning.
I mean, what's more interesting, watching the red light change green or watching Neo take the red pill?
Watching the red light.
As they say in Texas: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool mah... can't be fooled again"
Hmmm - I thought it was a speech, but it looks like you're right. Regardless, I stand by my assertion that few people would be so foolish as to confess voting fraud in such a public manner (and I think it's been demonstrated that a fundraiser invitational is public).
The wording is slippery enough that the message could be interpreted either way. However, I think it hurts the anti-Bush cause (that's really what this is) when people choose the most outlandish and sensational intepretation and hand that out as a talking point everywhere they speak.
[...] the system that relies on private vendor companies with lovely quotes like "I'm committed to delivering Ohio's electoral votes to the President"
First, let me state that I think electronic voting in its current form is horribly broken. The best solution is a paper printout that gets deposited in a lockbox before the voter leaves.
That said - I am so sick of hearing the above quote bandied about as though it unmasks some voting conspiracy. Let's go over this one more time for the slow kids:
Whoever wins the election will be the president, right? (Save the Supreme Court jokes.) Therefore whatever machine is used to vote will be delivering votes to the president. Whether the president is Kerry or Bush, that statement still holds true.
Do you really think that anyone would be so foolish as to confess voting fraud in a public speech? I'll grant you it could have been worded more clearly, but there is nothing illicit about that quote.
No amount of surgery is going to rescue this question. I can tell you right now what the answer would be from either candidate:
"I would appoint someone who is non-partisan and fair. Blah blah blah..."
Let's ask questions that require them to take a position on an issue and explain it. Not some vague question they can answer in their sleep.
They claim a 99.991% accuracy. Apparently this is 10 times more accurate then a human.
Isn't a human 100% accurate by definition?
"I could have sworn I wanted to read that email, but I guess I was wrong."
Except the "Don't be Evil" policy is a corporate disadvantage.
Oh, I know, that's definitely going to be modded a troll. Whatever.
Yes, what a fool. There are no compatibility problems between Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, etc. I have no trouble mixing and matching packages between any of the Linux distros.
Or there's GNUvo. The only problem with it is that it doesn't let you record any shows about capitalism.
I thought an apostrophe was a warning that an "S" is on the way.
The problem with studies like those is that no matter how hard they try, there is just no way to account for all the variables.
People that drink a glass of red wine in the evening are likely to be more affluent than the average Coke and Cheetos connoisseur. They will therefore typically have access to much better healthcare and possibly take better care of themselves in general. So how do you figure out if it's the glass of wine in the evening, the yoga classes, the bottled waters, etc. The answer - you can't.
I'll bet you'd also find that owning a luxury vehicle appears to result in a longer lifespan as well.
Given your logic, I must assume that you have no possessions which do not serve a fundamental human need? You have no luxury items, no games, no entertainment items, etc. After all, money spent on those things could have been sent to starving children in third world countries.
I applaud your charity.
People are starving RIGHT NOW! Why are you wasting earning potential (that could be redirected to their welfare) arguing with an anonymous poster on a recreational forum?!?
The AC is right. Your original post suggesting that any money not spent on solving basic world problems is wasted was just plain silly.
Okay, how about this time we wait until AFTER they start using the algorithm before we tell them it's been hacked. I'm looking at you Edward Felton. ;-)
Don't you realize how advantageous it is to release this information on the anneversary of the twin towers attack?
Good point. I forgot that every national intelligence agency and all the world's news bureaus were under the control of the Bush administration.
(By the way - does anyone know the emoticon for eye rolling?)
You lost me at 1).