You know there was a bunch of software I had, one piece was a reasonable WUSIWYG word processor that ran on DOS 4.? and a window manager even before windows 3.X came out and it ran remarkable well on a 8MHz 286, I often wondered what happeed to the disks out of curiosity. Imagine how fast it'll run on a 1.8GHz pentium, it was blisteringly fast on a 33Mhz 486SLC! I am using the keyboard from that computer right now, they just don't make them like that any more.
Software development is probably less advanced now than it was 10 years ago, because the hardware available doesn't require the efficiency, and the performance of our software is essentially the same despite our machines being something like 100 times as powerful. I don't know about that, all the old fart programming efficiency tricks I know are either automatically done by the compiler now or are hideously dangerous from a security and stability point of view. There is probably more than a little bit of speed that could be squeezed out of GCC without hurting anything except fringe, bizzaro or purely theoretical code, but even that isn't going to make massive changes in computer app speed. Better algorithms is where I'd normally put my money, but if Windows is as spaghetti as rumors have, better algorithms will be difficult to implement. Maybe Linux's biggest advantage is the code is visible and the developers fear embarrassment.
The resources went mainly into the GUI and I've worked with hardware that had magnetic core ram and a wire-wraped cpu that was made by RCA! In college the computer used the 360 OS and only had 16KB main and 16KB aux ram!. We never backed up anything because everything was on punched cards, I like the new stuff better
Steve going to be throwing a few more chairs, tfa said "rollback fixed the problem on the product-activation servers within 30 minutes... but it didnt reset the validation servers", because even a dinosaur like Ballmer knows if you load new software on a windows machine you have to "Shut off the computer, wait 30 seconds and restart!"
Seriously, I had a software support person say that to me for a SCO openServer machine and I said "ok", she said "how did you do that so fast?" and I said "I just typed in "init -hup" as root."
If Steve Ballmer isn't personally giving twitter a handjob right now, then he's neglecting his responsibility to his company. ROFLMAO, you sir made my friends list. I may have to check out twitter's latest every time I get mod points.
f you don't like the way your nation is run, you may avail yourself to the free market of nations to find one you like better, or you may build your own. HELLO MC FLY, KNOCK KNOCK, that's exactly what the Pope is going to say is immoral. He wants you to have lots and lots of babies to pay the taxes and the tithe and to never move or find a different religion without permission; like all collectivists the Holy Sea considers you chattel. Why do you think communists and theists hate each other so much, it's not because they are so different, it's because they are the same and the communists don't want to share you.
The logic of "tax havens as evil" is beyond me; generally 1. the highest individual tax bracket is higher than the highest corporate tax bracket 2. the payment of dividends isn't an expense and aren't tax deductable it should follow the the less the corporations pay in taxes means the more the individual that recieves the dividend does and at a higher rate yeilding a multiplier effect on the infamous double taxation. The other point the Pope missed is the World has chosen free trade and that's where everything is headed. Right now there is a lot of pain and suffering felt by individuals because of the Global economy finding it's way slowly to equilibrium. Why Governments felt that they were immune to the pain and suffering in a globe finding equilibrium is also beyond me. It's a lot easier for a corporation to "vote with it's feet" than it is for an individual, especially in an information economy.
You have to admit that the Bible is pretty unreadable; I've tried three times to go cover to cover and only once manage to get past genesis (the first chapter).
Firstly because catholic priests are both unmarried and celibate, it tend to make population of normally sexually orientated priests sub-optimal either in reality or imagination. The extremist protestent evangelicals have had more than their share of sex scandals as well. On the whole, they think most Christians are Protestants and don't know that the Eastern Orthodox churches even exist Here's a good one for you and a true one, I was in the National Guard and historically our chaplains have been Catholic Priests in our Battalion. I myself when I'm in a religious mood would probably be described best as an eclectic, so I look out for the Catholics who have lead so sheltered a life as not being allowed into non-catholic houses of worship. well getting to the point one January at drill I passed the Chaplain in the hallway and I looked him dead in the eyes and said "Marry Christmas Sir!", and of course He just looks at me like I'm stupid or something so I add "Today is Orthodox Christmas." well he gets that deer in the headlights look on his face and rushed back into Headquarters. To this dat I still wonder how many AWOL arrest warrants they had to cancel.
From what I'm understanding is the euro iphone will not have the same exclusive vendor lock-in because none of the EU providers has total EU coverage so there will be at least two. Europeans are less likely to get lock-in to a contract and more likely to be pay as you go or prepaid anyways.
The point he was making is that we live in a global economy and just because the US has a certain set of Laws and legal rulings doesn't mean Sweden has the same; there may even be conflicts in laws where it's illegal to do something and in another country it's illegal not to do it. AT&T helped to make this bright shiney Apple and rolled it out into the party knowing that everybody would want it, they shouldn't get upset because everybody wants it.
When I went to college marketing invovled things like research and excluded things like advertising, my hunch is people who are most likely to be all "Apple, bright shiney, must have" are also likely to be "AT&T , yuck nasty keep away" and the "marriage" was mostly wishful thinking on the part of AT&T's advertising dept. When brands are mismatched, somebody is going to get the short end of the stick.
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It is possible that after reading your profile and noticing that you have to post at zero instead of 2 like me, to assume that your people skills could use a tweak or two. Oh by the way, using AOL and working for Microsoft doesn't get your any nerd ced around here either, at least you not bragging about working here an a H1B.
Public schools at least in the US tend to take a holistic approach to schooling and feel that advancing a kid will stunt his/hers social skills; of course it doesn't really matter because social skills revolve around physically gifted kids bullying intellectually gifted kids physically and intellectually gifted kids bullying physically gifted kids intellectually.
After becoming an adult, I haven't poked around with objectivism much, but calling it communism 2.0 is like calling an adult former alter-boy a NABLA recruiting prospect! Rand was a victim of the soviets and she was vemonously anti-communistic. I'd say that the biggest problem with objectivism isn't that its a philosophy but that it's an anti-philosophy and for every error that communism has, objectivism has a larger anti-error. having said that I still recommend that people who are nerdish take a look at objectism, its sort of a right-of-passage for nerds kind of like realising that all those people with good "people skills" really have all the people skills used car saleman that lives in a house trailer and a bleached blond big-haired white trash wife; lets call him Al Bundy the high school football quaterback..
The problem is Linux is used in a spectrum of 3 obvious types, servers, workstations and desktop and the developers tend to be very sensitive to the server and workstations areas so in the end of the day it'll be test cases that favor servers vs. test cases that favor desktops. What makes me wonder is why don't they develop three, each one optimized for a particular usage pattern and just let me select the kernel I want with GRUB? It should be possible to modify init to select the correct rc.conf to each pattern as well.
No, they arranged an investment deal for one of their customers... Enron Doah... Enron money was probably illegally gained money and any investment of it would be difficult to tell from say money laundering from organized crime. Yeah that would stress me out to; you'd think that British bankers might think that that was a transaction where the bar for due diligence might be a bit higher than normal.
This really transcends sovereignty because it involves international standards, and by establishing OOXML as an ISO standard it will greatly enhance Microsoft's ability to market their product not only in Sweden but in others countries including the USA. Basically you have to read the law, some says something like "It's illegal for anyone in the United States to..." then being outside the United Sates removes you from US juridiction; however if the law is missing the "in the United States" part then you still subject to US laws and it's a matter of how much the US wants you. If your a guy like Noreaga, bin Laden, or Hussein life can become difficult. Microsoft has what about 11 Billion in the bank, most countries would assume that they could afford to pay a substantial fine; there will be plenty left after Sweden/EU decides what to do with them.
Oh no seriously the cost of an audit were certainly be more than the amount in petty cash! Next thing you'll be saying is that bribes oops make the lobbying is illegal
I just downloaded one of the said pages that the emails link too, and looking at the source its got a massive javascript script, with what looked like to me as some exploit code. I saw something like that on a page described as a comcast one-click-fix page, made me glad that I scouted out the link in Firefox running in Linux; the sent by address email whois'ed to comcast, and the page address whois'ed back to comcast, but it still looked freaky to me. I suppose it could be legit, but I also suppose comast's.asp page could be p0wned too, that would be just too funny, comcast's p0wned sever spewing emails to entice users to an infected server by warnning them they have a trojan on their machine! OBTW Clamwin did find 3 trojans on the machine this morning.
Given that the universe appears to be at least 12-13 Billion Years old, we'd have to outlive a couple Sun's to be more than short-timers in the neighborhood.
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You know there was a bunch of software I had, one piece was a reasonable WUSIWYG word processor that ran on DOS 4.? and a window manager even before windows 3.X came out and it ran remarkable well on a 8MHz 286, I often wondered what happeed to the disks out of curiosity. Imagine how fast it'll run on a 1.8GHz pentium, it was blisteringly fast on a 33Mhz 486SLC! I am using the keyboard from that computer right now, they just don't make them like that any more.
Software development is probably less advanced now than it was 10 years ago, because the hardware available doesn't require the efficiency, and the performance of our software is essentially the same despite our machines being something like 100 times as powerful.
I don't know about that, all the old fart programming efficiency tricks I know are either automatically done by the compiler now or are hideously dangerous from a security and stability point of view. There is probably more than a little bit of speed that could be squeezed out of GCC without hurting anything except fringe, bizzaro or purely theoretical code, but even that isn't going to make massive changes in computer app speed. Better algorithms is where I'd normally put my money, but if Windows is as spaghetti as rumors have, better algorithms will be difficult to implement. Maybe Linux's biggest advantage is the code is visible and the developers fear embarrassment.
The resources went mainly into the GUI and I've worked with hardware that had magnetic core ram and a wire-wraped cpu that was made by RCA! In college the computer used the 360 OS and only had 16KB main and 16KB aux ram!. We never backed up anything because everything was on punched cards, I like the new stuff better
Steve going to be throwing a few more chairs, tfa said "rollback fixed the problem on the product-activation servers within 30 minutes ... but it didnt reset the validation servers", because even a dinosaur like Ballmer knows if you load new software on a windows machine you have to "Shut off the computer, wait 30 seconds and restart!"
Seriously, I had a software support person say that to me for a SCO openServer machine and I said "ok", she said "how did you do that so fast?" and I said "I just typed in "init -hup" as root."
If Steve Ballmer isn't personally giving twitter a handjob right now, then he's neglecting his responsibility to his company.
ROFLMAO, you sir made my friends list. I may have to check out twitter's latest every time I get mod points.
f you don't like the way your nation is run, you may avail yourself to the free market of nations to find one you like better, or you may build your own.
HELLO MC FLY, KNOCK KNOCK, that's exactly what the Pope is going to say is immoral. He wants you to have lots and lots of babies to pay the taxes and the tithe and to never move or find a different religion without permission; like all collectivists the Holy Sea considers you chattel. Why do you think communists and theists hate each other so much, it's not because they are so different, it's because they are the same and the communists don't want to share you.
The logic of "tax havens as evil" is beyond me; generally
1. the highest individual tax bracket is higher than the highest corporate tax bracket
2. the payment of dividends isn't an expense and aren't tax deductable
it should follow the the less the corporations pay in taxes means the more the individual that recieves the dividend does and at a higher rate yeilding a multiplier effect on the infamous double taxation.
The other point the Pope missed is the World has chosen free trade and that's where everything is headed. Right now there is a lot of pain and suffering felt by individuals because of the Global economy finding it's way slowly to equilibrium. Why Governments felt that they were immune to the pain and suffering in a globe finding equilibrium is also beyond me. It's a lot easier for a corporation to "vote with it's feet" than it is for an individual, especially in an information economy.
You have to admit that the Bible is pretty unreadable; I've tried three times to go cover to cover and only once manage to get past genesis (the first chapter).
Firstly because catholic priests are both unmarried and celibate, it tend to make population of normally sexually orientated priests sub-optimal either in reality or imagination. The extremist protestent evangelicals have had more than their share of sex scandals as well.
On the whole, they think most Christians are Protestants and don't know that the Eastern Orthodox churches even exist
Here's a good one for you and a true one, I was in the National Guard and historically our chaplains have been Catholic Priests in our Battalion. I myself when I'm in a religious mood would probably be described best as an eclectic, so I look out for the Catholics who have lead so sheltered a life as not being allowed into non-catholic houses of worship. well getting to the point one January at drill I passed the Chaplain in the hallway and I looked him dead in the eyes and said "Marry Christmas Sir!", and of course He just looks at me like I'm stupid or something so I add "Today is Orthodox Christmas." well he gets that deer in the headlights look on his face and rushed back into Headquarters. To this dat I still wonder how many AWOL arrest warrants they had to cancel.
From what I'm understanding is the euro iphone will not have the same exclusive vendor lock-in because none of the EU providers has total EU coverage so there will be at least two. Europeans are less likely to get lock-in to a contract and more likely to be pay as you go or prepaid anyways.
The point he was making is that we live in a global economy and just because the US has a certain set of Laws and legal rulings doesn't mean Sweden has the same; there may even be conflicts in laws where it's illegal to do something and in another country it's illegal not to do it. AT&T helped to make this bright shiney Apple and rolled it out into the party knowing that everybody would want it, they shouldn't get upset because everybody wants it.
When I went to college marketing invovled things like research and excluded things like advertising, my hunch is people who are most likely to be all "Apple, bright shiney, must have" are also likely to be "AT&T , yuck nasty keep away" and the "marriage" was mostly wishful thinking on the part of AT&T's advertising dept. When brands are mismatched, somebody is going to get the short end of the stick.
It is possible that after reading your profile and noticing that you have to post at zero instead of 2 like me, to assume that your people skills could use a tweak or two. Oh by the way, using AOL and working for Microsoft doesn't get your any nerd ced around here either, at least you not bragging about working here an a H1B.
Public schools at least in the US tend to take a holistic approach to schooling and feel that advancing a kid will stunt his/hers social skills; of course it doesn't really matter because social skills revolve around physically gifted kids bullying intellectually gifted kids physically and intellectually gifted kids bullying physically gifted kids intellectually.
After becoming an adult, I haven't poked around with objectivism much, but calling it communism 2.0 is like calling an adult former alter-boy a NABLA recruiting prospect! Rand was a victim of the soviets and she was vemonously anti-communistic. I'd say that the biggest problem with objectivism isn't that its a philosophy but that it's an anti-philosophy and for every error that communism has, objectivism has a larger anti-error.
having said that I still recommend that people who are nerdish take a look at objectism, its sort of a right-of-passage for nerds kind of like realising that all those people with good "people skills" really have all the people skills used car saleman that lives in a house trailer and a bleached blond big-haired white trash wife; lets call him Al Bundy the high school football quaterback..
The problem is Linux is used in a spectrum of 3 obvious types, servers, workstations and desktop and the developers tend to be very sensitive to the server and workstations areas so in the end of the day it'll be test cases that favor servers vs. test cases that favor desktops. What makes me wonder is why don't they develop three, each one optimized for a particular usage pattern and just let me select the kernel I want with GRUB? It should be possible to modify init to select the correct rc.conf to each pattern as well.
2 out of 3 ain't bad, especially considering that the third, bin Laden, has to live like a cockroach hiding under a rock.
No, they arranged an investment deal for one of their customers... Enron
Doah... Enron money was probably illegally gained money and any investment of it would be difficult to tell from say money laundering from organized crime. Yeah that would stress me out to; you'd think that British bankers might think that that was a transaction where the bar for due diligence might be a bit higher than normal.
This really transcends sovereignty because it involves international standards, and by establishing OOXML as an ISO standard it will greatly enhance Microsoft's ability to market their product not only in Sweden but in others countries including the USA. Basically you have to read the law, some says something like "It's illegal for anyone in the United States to ..." then being outside the United Sates removes you from US juridiction; however if the law is missing the "in the United States" part then you still subject to US laws and it's a matter of how much the US wants you. If your a guy like Noreaga, bin Laden, or Hussein life can become difficult. Microsoft has what about 11 Billion in the bank, most countries would assume that they could afford to pay a substantial fine; there will be plenty left after Sweden/EU decides what to do with them.
Oh no seriously the cost of an audit were certainly be more than the amount in petty cash! Next thing you'll be saying is that bribes oops make the lobbying is illegal
My boss was able to click "OK" before the alert box had completely rendered!
I just downloaded one of the said pages that the emails link too, and looking at the source its got a massive javascript script, with what looked like to me as some exploit code. .asp page could be p0wned too, that would be just too funny, comcast's p0wned sever spewing emails to entice users to an infected server by warnning them they have a trojan on their machine! OBTW Clamwin did find 3 trojans on the machine this morning.
I saw something like that on a page described as a comcast one-click-fix page, made me glad that I scouted out the link in Firefox running in Linux; the sent by address email whois'ed to comcast, and the page address whois'ed back to comcast, but it still looked freaky to me. I suppose it could be legit, but I also suppose comast's
Women with infected blogs, OMG I bet that leaves a stain.
We've long known about a few genes getting transfered between species but this is talking about a whole genome not little pieces like genes.
Given that the universe appears to be at least 12-13 Billion Years old, we'd have to outlive a couple Sun's to be more than short-timers in the neighborhood.
Dude that's like almost right next door if you even count the Magellanic clouds that is.