"NASA states that for their next mission they will only consider missions without a nuclear power source. This is a sad thing to hear, because it shows just how short-sighted and unambitious they have become."
See I took it to mean the opposite. I took it to mean NASA would be more innovative and be using next generation power and propulsion systems in future long range missions.
"We have 300 to 1,000 threat dreams per year -- one to four per night and just under half are aggressive encounters: physical aggression such as fistfights, and nonphysical aggression such as verbal arguments."
I think I have maybe 10 angry or scary dreams a year. Most of the times my dreams are weird but nothing like they describe.
Two that come to mind that were odd and a bit geeky too (well I AM on Slashdot) was one I always use as an example when telling about the style of dreams I typically have and the second was one I had last night.
The one I had last night literally just involved me and Zach Braff (JD from Scrubs) hanging out playing Wii and then driving to some fast food place drive thru to get food. Though keep in mind I watch a lot of Scrubs too, but that isn't an uncommon style of dream for me.
The other, is one I had a few months back but also a common style of dream. The dream was just a typical basement house party. We were hanging around downstairs, music playing, a keg in the corner, and I was in the dream sitting there talking to a few people. I wasn't dreaming about any party specifically in the past, the dream was just like a representation of a typical basement party. Anyway, the only thing that was different is that there were no doors in the basement. People were casually coming and going from the party via a worm hole in the floor of the basement in the middle of the room. But in my dream it was such a casual "matter of fact" that it was there like "duh, how else would you leave and enter a party?".
That's what my dreams are like. Though I am a pretty happy go lucky geek type. They need to stop running these dream studies with all these angry, people with pent up rage it would seem:)
A room for handling security problems at Microsoft.... they should have turned the second room into a Starbucks, because you know they are using the room 24/7:)
Actually I'd say it's a MUCH bigger sub group then you think. The majority of college kids rely on their PC as their only form of watching TV, movies,etc. Now they don't make up 25% of the martet. But they are a big chunk of the demographic using such services. How they use them is in said 3" box on their monitors;-)
"If I was running a labratory that was working on some cutting edge military technology, why would I have any of the labs computers connected to the Internet????"
Umm hellllo. How do you expect the scientists to check their myspace??;-)
"It's interesting when different people have different opinions."
No it isn't. Every person seems to have a different opinion about everything. Finding a person with a different opinion is about as interesting as finding out that there's porn on the internet.
I agree. I have used NetSol for years. They may not be the cheapest guys around but it seems most of the "inexpensive" guys either have awful quality, are shady,etc. The list goes on. NetSol has always given me quality service, and more then likely not going anywhere anytime soon. I'd rather pay a little extra for quality and piece of mind.
Copyrighted videos are all over YouTube and typically they ONLY take them down without legal action. The reason this one has escalated is because the user in question uploaded a video of 24 BEFORE it was aired. Fox noticed, and had a court subpoenas the information. Typically it's not like Google or YouTube to go after a user, they just remove the content. But if a court subpoenas the information Google/YouTube really has no choice but to comply.
I quit caffiene (even chocolate) for over a year. I hate coffee so mine was mainly diet soda. I started back after a year because I saw NO positive effects that were promised by quitting caffiene. Primarily I was told I'd sleep better and have more energy. By the end of the year I was even more exhusted and my sleep was no better. In fact I had less energy because of the lack of caffiene in my system.
Not at all. If you twist it around like that you can make it sound like that, like you were trying to do.
I didn't say it was an absolute. I was saying it was more of a rule of thumb.
Plus "any thing at all" is a blanket statement. Try not to take what I said and skew it to a worst case scenario to attempt to prove some sort of point.
What I was saying is that they have to keep their share holders in mind. Google's main competition is staying in the china search market. It would have been suicide to not stick with the censored search results. Plus the fact Google is staying in an international market place with Billions of users is not hurting anyone directly or otherwise. Google is a business, it should not have affairs in politics. If the US wants to be the shining night and try to reform China then that's there call. Google needs to be worried about profit and markets. Google doesn't build the guns used by Chinese military to shoot citizens, they are providing a search engine for internet users. Let's not spin this whole situation into something it's not (like many of the posters ahve done).
If I could add more mod points to this post I would. Google is a pub. traded company. Once a company goes public it's first loyalty has to be to it's stock holders. It's not up Google to make a humanatarian call. It had the "choice" of a censored google or no google at all. They made the right choice. All these soap box posts about how evil China is and Google is evil for bowing down to the pressure is pure dribble and has nothing to do with good business choices.
"The point of college *is* to make yourself more employable."
I would say you are wrong. The point of college is to further your education in your field of interest. College focuses you in from the general studies you learned in high school. Grad school further focuses your undergrad even more within your field.
Employers have made getting degrees a requirenment but does not mean that the point of college is to make your self more employable. Better chance for employment is a benfifit of college not the reason (most) attend.
Unfort. in our culture, for those reasons, it is like a teacher offering required extra credit.
How did you have to "pick up" Calc II to minor in math if you were already a CS major? We had ot do through Calc III just to complete first semester of my second year as a CS major?
Well with out some guidelines people are too likely to abuse free speech. Though the extremeist will say there is no such thing as too far for free speech. Your freedoms are only guarenteed until they interfere with the freedoms of others. Once there is overlap some middle ground has to be layed down unless that person feels their freedoms are any more important then others?
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I don't think that's it. Microsoft always seems to clean up at THAT award ceremony. ;-)
"Safe money says PCs stay at 8 CPUs or below for the next 15 years."
;-)
Until Doom 6 comes out and requires 8 or more. I think we'll see a huge surge in 8+ core processors
"NASA states that for their next mission they will only consider missions without a nuclear power source. This is a sad thing to hear, because it shows just how short-sighted and unambitious they have become."
See I took it to mean the opposite. I took it to mean NASA would be more innovative and be using next generation power and propulsion systems in future long range missions.
"I know that I pretty much stopped dreaming about the time I hit puberty."
;-)
That's a shame. The good dreams don't start until puberty
"We have 300 to 1,000 threat dreams per year -- one to four per night and just under half are aggressive encounters: physical aggression such as fistfights, and nonphysical aggression such as verbal arguments."
:)
I think I have maybe 10 angry or scary dreams a year. Most of the times my dreams are weird but nothing like they describe.
Two that come to mind that were odd and a bit geeky too (well I AM on Slashdot) was one I always use as an example when telling about the style of dreams I typically have and the second was one I had last night.
The one I had last night literally just involved me and Zach Braff (JD from Scrubs) hanging out playing Wii and then driving to some fast food place drive thru to get food. Though keep in mind I watch a lot of Scrubs too, but that isn't an uncommon style of dream for me.
The other, is one I had a few months back but also a common style of dream. The dream was just a typical basement house party. We were hanging around downstairs, music playing, a keg in the corner, and I was in the dream sitting there talking to a few people. I wasn't dreaming about any party specifically in the past, the dream was just like a representation of a typical basement party. Anyway, the only thing that was different is that there were no doors in the basement. People were casually coming and going from the party via a worm hole in the floor of the basement in the middle of the room. But in my dream it was such a casual "matter of fact" that it was there like "duh, how else would you leave and enter a party?".
That's what my dreams are like. Though I am a pretty happy go lucky geek type. They need to stop running these dream studies with all these angry, people with pent up rage it would seem
A room for handling security problems at Microsoft.... they should have turned the second room into a Starbucks, because you know they are using the room 24/7 :)
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But remember. It's neither if it is true.
"At the one nanometer scale, water is a viscous fluid and could be a much better lubricant," added another one.""
Oh good I was wondering when KY could finally enter into the water market.
Actually I'd say it's a MUCH bigger sub group then you think. The majority of college kids rely on their PC as their only form of watching TV, movies,etc. Now they don't make up 25% of the martet. But they are a big chunk of the demographic using such services. How they use them is in said 3" box on their monitors ;-)
Considering Australia started as an island prison colony, I'd say their repressiveness actually seems quite loose in comparison ;-)
A butterfly flaps it's wings in Asia , and the dow drop 400 points in the US... brilliant.
Your Nobel Prize is in the mail. Don't call us. We'll cal you.
"If I was running a labratory that was working on some cutting edge military technology, why would I have any of the labs computers connected to the Internet????"
;-)
Umm hellllo. How do you expect the scientists to check their myspace??
"It's interesting when different people have different opinions."
No it isn't. Every person seems to have a different opinion about everything. Finding a person with a different opinion is about as interesting as finding out that there's porn on the internet.
I agree. I have used NetSol for years. They may not be the cheapest guys around but it seems most of the "inexpensive" guys either have awful quality, are shady,etc. The list goes on. NetSol has always given me quality service, and more then likely not going anywhere anytime soon. I'd rather pay a little extra for quality and piece of mind.
Copyrighted videos are all over YouTube and typically they ONLY take them down without legal action. The reason this one has escalated is because the user in question uploaded a video of 24 BEFORE it was aired. Fox noticed, and had a court subpoenas the information. Typically it's not like Google or YouTube to go after a user, they just remove the content. But if a court subpoenas the information Google/YouTube really has no choice but to comply.
You hit it right on the nose. Mod his comment up people! :)
Where does one draw the line?
He was a businessman. But also a business man with the world record (1093)of patents for inventions.
I quit caffiene (even chocolate) for over a year. I hate coffee so mine was mainly diet soda. I started back after a year because I saw NO positive effects that were promised by quitting caffiene. Primarily I was told I'd sleep better and have more energy. By the end of the year I was even more exhusted and my sleep was no better. In fact I had less energy because of the lack of caffiene in my system.
Not at all. If you twist it around like that you can make it sound like that, like you were trying to do.
I didn't say it was an absolute. I was saying it was more of a rule of thumb.
Plus "any thing at all" is a blanket statement. Try not to take what I said and skew it to a worst case scenario to attempt to prove some sort of point.
What I was saying is that they have to keep their share holders in mind. Google's main competition is staying in the china search market. It would have been suicide to not stick with the censored search results. Plus the fact Google is staying in an international market place with Billions of users is not hurting anyone directly or otherwise. Google is a business, it should not have affairs in politics. If the US wants to be the shining night and try to reform China then that's there call. Google needs to be worried about profit and markets. Google doesn't build the guns used by Chinese military to shoot citizens, they are providing a search engine for internet users. Let's not spin this whole situation into something it's not (like many of the posters ahve done).
If I could add more mod points to this post I would. Google is a pub. traded company. Once a company goes public it's first loyalty has to be to it's stock holders. It's not up Google to make a humanatarian call. It had the "choice" of a censored google or no google at all. They made the right choice. All these soap box posts about how evil China is and Google is evil for bowing down to the pressure is pure dribble and has nothing to do with good business choices.
I think Google made the right call.
"The point of college *is* to make yourself more employable."
I would say you are wrong. The point of college is to further your education in your field of interest. College focuses you in from the general studies you learned in high school. Grad school further focuses your undergrad even more within your field.
Employers have made getting degrees a requirenment but does not mean that the point of college is to make your self more employable. Better chance for employment is a benfifit of college not the reason (most) attend.
Unfort. in our culture, for those reasons, it is like a teacher offering required extra credit.
How did you have to "pick up" Calc II to minor in math if you were already a CS major? We had ot do through Calc III just to complete first semester of my second year as a CS major?
"That should be "Fucked Up Beyond All Repair".
Wikipedia says you are both right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
Well with out some guidelines people are too likely to abuse free speech. Though the extremeist will say there is no such thing as too far for free speech. Your freedoms are only guarenteed until they interfere with the freedoms of others. Once there is overlap some middle ground has to be layed down unless that person feels their freedoms are any more important then others?