I didn't say they were all insecure in their beliefs. I said that the violent minority is. I made an effort to be clear about that, too.
You are also an idiot because you don't understand that there are different cultures in this world. Perhaps rather than looking at them through your eyes, you look at what those cartoons would mean to a person that was raised to revere god above all else and then has to deal with some hip western journalist making a joke about that.
lol. I'm the one that should understand that? I understand perfectly well that there are different cultures in the world, and I tolerate just about all of them almost equally (cannibalism and genocide squick me, but other than that I'm a live and let live kind of guy). Extermist Muslims, though, think that their culture is the only culture that matters and should be respected by all. I call bullshit on that. I think that they need to understand that their culture isn't the only one and they need to accept that some will not revere Allah or Muhammad as highly as they will, and they will just need to remind themselves of his high holiness instead of bombing embassies and rioting in the streets.
Oooh, diatribe. And just one more point. Western Christian fundamentalism is on the rise. And that scares me alot more than the muslims. And just one more point, with regards to the war on terrorism. Muslims have killed 5k (approx) americans. We've killed more than 100K of them in the last few years and if you go back 100 years, the numbers are much worse.
Actually, you know what's on the rise? Western conversion to Islam. I watched an interesting documentary on google video this afternoon, about the western conversion to Islam following the time of 9/11.
Here's a great example of the name-calling I mentioned earlier. You call me an idiot, but I know I'm not an idiot, so it doesn't really matter what you say and I don't need to go out of my way to make you think like me by bombing your house or something extreme like that, because I don't care what you think about me. These extremist Muslims on the other hand evidently care a whole lot about what other people think about them, but they fail to realise how they're affecting the opinion people hold of them by acting out so violently. Like I said, totally juvenile (like you, btw)...
What is the technical feasibility of a button that is labeled "shrink heap" which would move all used memory to the beginning of the heap and truncate the heap, thereby freeing the unused memory?
ie: XXXXXXXXXU becomes UXXXXXXXXX and then the (XXXXXXXXX) block is dropped, leaving the amount of consumed memory at one page (U)?
What is the ease of implementation of such a feature? Could you ballpark it on a difficulty scale of 1 (least) to 10 (most)?
There's something about "offensive" writing. It's up to those who are offended to become offended. There's nothing innately offensive about the writing itself. No writing is offensive until interpreted by the offended party.
I'm not a Muslim, so all of those various comics simply elicited a chuckle from me, the same as the numerous comical portrayals of Jesus elicit a chuckle from me, the same as the humorous portrayals of Athiests elicit a chuckle from me... None of those comics are offensive to me. On that note, actually, why is it that whenever Jesus is portrayed comically, nobody riots in the streets? When the movie Dogma came out...no rioting...right? And yet somebody writes up some cartoons where Muhammad says "Stop, stop, we're out of virgins!" and suddenly people are bombing embassies. Seriously, WTF?
That some Muslims reacted so violently to these cartoons suggests only one thing to me, that they're insecure in their belief of the prophet Muhammad. They act as if what somebody says about Muhammad is enough to make it the truth and they violently oppose that truth. They are unable to just shrug and say "shows how much they know. ha! those infidels will burn in the pits of despair!" or whatever. Why can't they just do that? Why must they be so "offended" by this? In my opinion, it's because they aren't secure in their beliefs, and that's why they can't just let it go.
This is like the classical schoolyard name-calling fight, where the bully calls a kid "stupid face" and the kid believes he has a stupid face instead of believing in himself and knowing that the truth is otherwise. In other words, it's totally juvenile and these violent reactionaries just make these violent Muslims look like a bunch of immature little kids. At least, that's how it looks to me.
I know people who, when they want to read their hotmail account, google search "hotmail" instead of typing www.hotmail.com in the address bar. One of my uncles in particular is very reluctant to just type in URLs, he will google search EVERYTHING, even if it's a domain name.
So, yes, the website for BMW is one that some people need to search for.
As opposed to what, exactly? Isn't "longest" usually a relative measure of, uhm, length?
Do you mean longest in terms of distance or duration? I'm fairly certain you ment distance, but you were totally ambiguous in the posting even though you made an attempt to clarify parenthetically.
It seems to me that it would be unwise to stick a tag next to (or under, or otherwise near) your name which affirmed your membership in a GLBT-friendly guild in a game which is permeated by GLBT-unfriendliness. Something like this will only generate more harassment for these people, not less as is the hope of the guild's creators. Blizzard isn't punishing anyone, they're trying to avoid the customer support nightmare that will ensue when all of the 14 year-olds start calling the "Rainbow Family" (or whatever the guild name will be) members all sorts of derogatory things, which will cause a slew of customer complaints.
If these people don't draw attention to their sexuality, they're far less likely to be insulted because of it. If they display the "Hey look at me I'm gay!" tag next to their name, they're going to be the target of much more abuse than if they did not display any such tag. Are you too intellectually lazy to realize that?
All of that aside, the manner in which one wishes to engage in sex as an act has no place in a game that itself has nothing to do with sex as an act.
The story here is, actually, that one's sexual orientation has no place in a game that has nothing to do with sex. "straight-friendly" and "gay-friendly" and "[insert any sexual orientation here]-friendly" guilds do not have a place in WoW. (I mean, not until the only way to create hybrid race characters is for night elves and gnomes to get freaky. Wouldn't that be a trip? I used to play on a MUD that had that feature.)
As somebody who works for Microsoft (permatemp), I can say that it is NOT American-centered, at least in terms of their workforce. I work at the main campus in Redmond, and I would say that 30% of the workforce here is imported from somewhere, with most coming from Russia or India, but still a fair number from Pakistan, Turkey, China and Korea.
All they'd have to do to appear less American-centered is take a camera and walk down a hallway showing the names on peoples' office doors. Of course, a few commercials showing their products in different languages couldn't hurt--or better yet, a commercial showing somebody sitting at their desk at Microsoft running Arabic/Chinese/Korean/etc Windows and Arabic/Chinese/Korean/etc MS Office.
I haven't named it at all, actually. It's called Headtrax.
2) the last time I looked I swear the count was right around 65k
The count for employees only is 66,647. The count for Vendors is 37,475. The count for "other" (temps, interns, etc) is 7,556. This brings the total to more than 110,000. (actually, more than 111,000)
lol, why? Why would I have any reason to lie? There's an internal utility used to track headcount and build organization charts, the number is available to anyone in the company, whether intern, contractor, or full-time employee.
Ok, I just asked a friend of mine who uses gmail and this is the conversation:
me: you use gmail, right? her: yep me: is there a dot in the left half of your address? her: yes her: and i have had problems with that particular dot. me: what kind of problems? her: getting mail that is meant for someone with the same gmail address, only minus the dot her: because apparently, when you create the account, and log in thereafter, gmail distinguishes between dot and no-dot me: yeah, it seems to be a widespread problem. her: but when it's actually directing mail, it does NOT distinguish. her: which makes no goddamn sense me: yeah, well. it is still in "beta" her: well isn't that kindof a basic kind of thing? email getting to the proper address?.... me: dots aren't technically supported in the email specification. her: well then why let two separate addresses be created, one with and one without a dot? me: that's an excellent question. They don't appear to allow it anymore, but they may have at one point.
So the story may have been corrected, but the plot still thickens...
a big enough black hole would keep swallowing matter and thus become even bigger.
Yes, big enough, and there's not enough matter in a laboratory to create such an object, nor do we have technology sufficient enough to compress the mass present in a laboratory into a space small enough to create a threatening black hole. (by "threatening" I mean one that wouldn't evaporate instantly)
There's something known as the Schwarzschild radius, which is more or less the "event horizon" of an object of a given mass. Only an object whose radius is itself smaller than its Schwarzschild radius can be considered a black hole. An object the size of, say, Mount Everest, has a Schwarzschild radius of about a nanometer. You would therefore need to compress Mount Everest into a volume slightly less than 4.19 cubic nanometers in order for it to become a black hole.
According to wikipedia, the Schwarzschild radius is roughly calculable with the equation: r = m * 1.48 * 10^-27, where r is the radius in meters and m is the mass in kilograms. A 1 kilogram mass would have a Schwarzschild radius of 1.48 * 10^-27 meters, while a proton is 10^-15 meters in diameter. So you'd have to compress 1 kilogram of matter into a space many orders of magnitude smaller than a proton before you'd have to worry about black holes. Like I said, we lack the technology...
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
There's a difference between "inducing hypothermia" and "inducing and then reversing the effects of clinical DEATH"
Besides, you still have the original source file (even if it is PDF), you run it through the loader program to get it on the ebook. What's the problem?
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I didn't say they were all insecure in their beliefs. I said that the violent minority is. I made an effort to be clear about that, too.
You are also an idiot because you don't understand that there are different cultures in this world. Perhaps rather than looking at them through your eyes, you look at what those cartoons would mean to a person that was raised to revere god above all else and then has to deal with some hip western journalist making a joke about that.
lol. I'm the one that should understand that? I understand perfectly well that there are different cultures in the world, and I tolerate just about all of them almost equally (cannibalism and genocide squick me, but other than that I'm a live and let live kind of guy). Extermist Muslims, though, think that their culture is the only culture that matters and should be respected by all. I call bullshit on that. I think that they need to understand that their culture isn't the only one and they need to accept that some will not revere Allah or Muhammad as highly as they will, and they will just need to remind themselves of his high holiness instead of bombing embassies and rioting in the streets.
Oooh, diatribe. And just one more point. Western Christian fundamentalism is on the rise. And that scares me alot more than the muslims. And just one more point, with regards to the war on terrorism. Muslims have killed 5k (approx) americans. We've killed more than 100K of them in the last few years and if you go back 100 years, the numbers are much worse.
Actually, you know what's on the rise? Western conversion to Islam. I watched an interesting documentary on google video this afternoon, about the western conversion to Islam following the time of 9/11.
Here's a great example of the name-calling I mentioned earlier. You call me an idiot, but I know I'm not an idiot, so it doesn't really matter what you say and I don't need to go out of my way to make you think like me by bombing your house or something extreme like that, because I don't care what you think about me. These extremist Muslims on the other hand evidently care a whole lot about what other people think about them, but they fail to realise how they're affecting the opinion people hold of them by acting out so violently. Like I said, totally juvenile (like you, btw)...
What is the technical feasibility of a button that is labeled "shrink heap" which would move all used memory to the beginning of the heap and truncate the heap, thereby freeing the unused memory?
ie: XXXXXXXXXU becomes UXXXXXXXXX and then the (XXXXXXXXX) block is dropped, leaving the amount of consumed memory at one page (U)?
What is the ease of implementation of such a feature? Could you ballpark it on a difficulty scale of 1 (least) to 10 (most)?
There's something about "offensive" writing. It's up to those who are offended to become offended. There's nothing innately offensive about the writing itself. No writing is offensive until interpreted by the offended party.
I'm not a Muslim, so all of those various comics simply elicited a chuckle from me, the same as the numerous comical portrayals of Jesus elicit a chuckle from me, the same as the humorous portrayals of Athiests elicit a chuckle from me... None of those comics are offensive to me. On that note, actually, why is it that whenever Jesus is portrayed comically, nobody riots in the streets? When the movie Dogma came out...no rioting...right? And yet somebody writes up some cartoons where Muhammad says "Stop, stop, we're out of virgins!" and suddenly people are bombing embassies. Seriously, WTF?
That some Muslims reacted so violently to these cartoons suggests only one thing to me, that they're insecure in their belief of the prophet Muhammad. They act as if what somebody says about Muhammad is enough to make it the truth and they violently oppose that truth. They are unable to just shrug and say "shows how much they know. ha! those infidels will burn in the pits of despair!" or whatever. Why can't they just do that? Why must they be so "offended" by this? In my opinion, it's because they aren't secure in their beliefs, and that's why they can't just let it go.
This is like the classical schoolyard name-calling fight, where the bully calls a kid "stupid face" and the kid believes he has a stupid face instead of believing in himself and knowing that the truth is otherwise. In other words, it's totally juvenile and these violent reactionaries just make these violent Muslims look like a bunch of immature little kids. At least, that's how it looks to me.
no, a chair.
If you didn't hate the person, why would you kill them?
Because you were paid to do so?
You're a geek, though.
I know people who, when they want to read their hotmail account, google search "hotmail" instead of typing www.hotmail.com in the address bar. One of my uncles in particular is very reluctant to just type in URLs, he will google search EVERYTHING, even if it's a domain name.
So, yes, the website for BMW is one that some people need to search for.
The longest...in length...
As opposed to what, exactly? Isn't "longest" usually a relative measure of, uhm, length?
Do you mean longest in terms of distance or duration? I'm fairly certain you ment distance, but you were totally ambiguous in the posting even though you made an attempt to clarify parenthetically.
Bush wasn't elected the first time though, the supreme court appointed him.
Which country is this and why are you there?
Or to ride a bus.
It seems to me that it would be unwise to stick a tag next to (or under, or otherwise near) your name which affirmed your membership in a GLBT-friendly guild in a game which is permeated by GLBT-unfriendliness. Something like this will only generate more harassment for these people, not less as is the hope of the guild's creators. Blizzard isn't punishing anyone, they're trying to avoid the customer support nightmare that will ensue when all of the 14 year-olds start calling the "Rainbow Family" (or whatever the guild name will be) members all sorts of derogatory things, which will cause a slew of customer complaints.
If these people don't draw attention to their sexuality, they're far less likely to be insulted because of it. If they display the "Hey look at me I'm gay!" tag next to their name, they're going to be the target of much more abuse than if they did not display any such tag. Are you too intellectually lazy to realize that?
All of that aside, the manner in which one wishes to engage in sex as an act has no place in a game that itself has nothing to do with sex as an act.
The story here is, actually, that one's sexual orientation has no place in a game that has nothing to do with sex. "straight-friendly" and "gay-friendly" and "[insert any sexual orientation here]-friendly" guilds do not have a place in WoW. (I mean, not until the only way to create hybrid race characters is for night elves and gnomes to get freaky. Wouldn't that be a trip? I used to play on a MUD that had that feature.)
As somebody who works for Microsoft (permatemp), I can say that it is NOT American-centered, at least in terms of their workforce. I work at the main campus in Redmond, and I would say that 30% of the workforce here is imported from somewhere, with most coming from Russia or India, but still a fair number from Pakistan, Turkey, China and Korea.
All they'd have to do to appear less American-centered is take a camera and walk down a hallway showing the names on peoples' office doors. Of course, a few commercials showing their products in different languages couldn't hurt--or better yet, a commercial showing somebody sitting at their desk at Microsoft running Arabic/Chinese/Korean/etc Windows and Arabic/Chinese/Korean/etc MS Office.
1) you haven't named that utility correctly yet
I haven't named it at all, actually. It's called Headtrax.
2) the last time I looked I swear the count was right around 65k
The count for employees only is 66,647. The count for Vendors is 37,475. The count for "other" (temps, interns, etc) is 7,556. This brings the total to more than 110,000. (actually, more than 111,000)
lol, why? Why would I have any reason to lie? There's an internal utility used to track headcount and build organization charts, the number is available to anyone in the company, whether intern, contractor, or full-time employee.
I permatemp for MS and I checked the headcount before posting. The number is accurate.
They also have 10,000 open positions (fulltime, contract & intern)
It's not like they've got 110,000 employees or anything...
Why would you want to take it *off* the ebook reader?
Because I just want to? I take MP3s off my MP3 player. Why shouldn't I be able to take ebooks off my "ebook player"?
Ok, I just asked a friend of mine who uses gmail and this is the conversation:
me: you use gmail, right?
her: yep
me: is there a dot in the left half of your address?
her: yes
her: and i have had problems with that particular dot.
me: what kind of problems?
her: getting mail that is meant for someone with the same gmail address, only minus the dot
her: because apparently, when you create the account, and log in thereafter, gmail distinguishes between dot and no-dot
me: yeah, it seems to be a widespread problem.
her: but when it's actually directing mail, it does NOT distinguish.
her: which makes no goddamn sense
me: yeah, well. it is still in "beta"
her: well isn't that kindof a basic kind of thing? email getting to the proper address?....
me: dots aren't technically supported in the email specification.
her: well then why let two separate addresses be created, one with and one without a dot?
me: that's an excellent question. They don't appear to allow it anymore, but they may have at one point.
So the story may have been corrected, but the plot still thickens...
a big enough black hole would keep swallowing matter and thus become even bigger.
Yes, big enough, and there's not enough matter in a laboratory to create such an object, nor do we have technology sufficient enough to compress the mass present in a laboratory into a space small enough to create a threatening black hole. (by "threatening" I mean one that wouldn't evaporate instantly)
There's something known as the Schwarzschild radius, which is more or less the "event horizon" of an object of a given mass. Only an object whose radius is itself smaller than its Schwarzschild radius can be considered a black hole. An object the size of, say, Mount Everest, has a Schwarzschild radius of about a nanometer. You would therefore need to compress Mount Everest into a volume slightly less than 4.19 cubic nanometers in order for it to become a black hole.
According to wikipedia, the Schwarzschild radius is roughly calculable with the equation: r = m * 1.48 * 10^-27, where r is the radius in meters and m is the mass in kilograms. A 1 kilogram mass would have a Schwarzschild radius of 1.48 * 10^-27 meters, while a proton is 10^-15 meters in diameter. So you'd have to compress 1 kilogram of matter into a space many orders of magnitude smaller than a proton before you'd have to worry about black holes. Like I said, we lack the technology...
You say that like supreme beings don't like playing with their toys the same as we do.
What the hell happened? Who suddenly decided that kids weren't capable of this?
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The people who operate public schools, that's who. Read "The Underground History of American Education" by John T. Gatto for more insight: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.h
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17649225-1376 2,00.html
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
There's a difference between "inducing hypothermia" and "inducing and then reversing the effects of clinical DEATH"
Besides, you still have the original source file (even if it is PDF), you run it through the loader program to get it on the ebook. What's the problem?
Getting it off the ebook reader?
Don't cross the streams--er, galaxies!
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didn't hotlink "newegg.com" -200 points
I'm guessing zero revenue, because you didn't link to their website.