2,000 words, and they never listed the "Before" list. And in the text following the "After" list, they implied that there's still a group of organisms not in the list, meaning all these guys really did was move some entries between two branches.
Worthless. Come back when (a) it's done and (b) it's written-up clearly enough that the facts can be listed in two sentences.
(Not really, but I have a Yorkie at home...this is a Cedar Mill, used essentially as a thin client in a big enterprise network that no doubt has a Clovertown on it somewhere...)
Parts of that Linux kernel you're typing on haven't changed in 18 years.
Variables whose choice of basic type involves an assumption of any kind leave open just this sort of risk that the use-case space left unimplemented by the assumption is entered.
People understand the Y2K kind of date error. But there are hundreds if not thousands of such assumptions made - and not documented - in coding any program of significant size.
Sign or veto bills, command the military, enforce the laws, present the State of the Union every year, negotiate with sovereign powers, and pardon turkeys and felons alike.
It's what I wouldn't do that you'd be impressed with.
I wouldn't change the world just to benefit me or my family.
I wouldn't start a war just because my political allies want one and we have a malleable excuse at hand.
I wouldn't sinecure traitors.
I wouldn't dismantle the government, which does far more good than the loudmouth at the back of the auditorium seems to think.
I wouldn't pass the buck.
I wouldn't allow gigantic deficits to hide massive mismanagement, profit cronies, and enable ideological manipulation of local politics.
I wouldn't get caught. Don't ask "at what?" That's part of not getting caught. It wouldn't be any of your business in the first place, or I'd let you in on it in the first place.
Then I'd run for a second term, and maybe a third, if things go my way.
so he can get through something we would consider "less onerous" but is still an affront to the Constitution.
Okay, so by 2012 I should have a gaming platform
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with a CPU, a GPU, a PPU, a P'PU, a SAPU, a DIADRPU[TM], a TBNPU, and a CULCAOPU
* Central Processing Unit * Graphics Processing Unit * Physics Processing Unit * Panic Processing Unit * Sexual Arousal Processing Unit * DRM Infringement Attempt Detection and Reporting Processing Unit(R) * Terabit Network Processing Unit * Computer Upgrade Loan Consolidation Assistance Offer Processing Unit
Your car analogy is 100% dead-on. Microsoft should be allowed to pack any app into its OS that it wants. Provided you or a third-party accessory vendor has the right and access to modify it to remove that app and make your add-on accessory work, the way you can with any car.
I've never had any trouble running third-party browsers, media players, or apps on a Windows system (far less trouble than I usually have getting things installed and working on Linux, in fact). Although they are never as well-integrated as they could be, that is almost always the fault of the application designer, who failed to read or comprehend the documentation for the API.
This is different from 5-10 years ago, when the documentation for the API was nonexistent or (deliberately?) obfuscatory. If Microsoft is still making it impossible to write apps for the OS with public documentation, then sure, Microsoft should be punished. But they shouldn't be hamstrung just because Opera developers are lamers.
Firefox kills Opera, IMO. I don't see them pestering the government to harass their competitors. Maybe because it also kills IE.
It does mention them, but you have the Bill of Rights' purpose backwards. It doesn't mandate that the government protect your rights from interference by other citizens, only that the government not interfere with your rights.
The Constitution elsewhere gives the Congress the authority to make laws, the Executive the authority to enforce laws, and the Judiciary the authority to adjudicate laws.
It is then up to you to elect people who will write laws which protect your rights from people other than the government.
So this thread makes a valid point. If we aren't protected from these invasions of privacy due to a total lack of security in the operational features of our banking system, it's up to us to tell our public servants to make our laws to protect us better. And it's our fault if we continue to allow the banking corporations to write the laws that make their business cheaper to run and their liability negligible for the lack of security over the money they have borrowed from us (yes, you are a creditor to them, with a creditor's rights over them; read your account agreement and the federal banking regulations, before giving your money to just anyone who puts up a red brick fast-food type "bank" and asks for it).
Actually, they don't. They do get the whole CPU for 10 ms, but the memory, swap, and disk are still shared among all the virtual subsystems. I'm not sure how devices are handled, but if the virtualization software allows them to continue handling requests started by one virtual machine while another takes its time slice on the CPU, they may not get control of those, either.
I have every right to belittle anyone, and you have no right to take that away from me.
And yes, I have given away 80% of my fortune. BECAUSE of fuckbags like Bill Gates manipulating the markets, outsourcing the Internet Economy that I and my fellow Americans spent a $trillion to build, and creating an army of half-brained apologists for their greed.
That guy, Tom, who still pretends to run the place? He's the new Aunt Jemima or Betty Crocker or Ronald Reagan: a cartoon, owned by a corporate entity to make you feel like you're dealing with something homey.
All bullshit.
Your Myspace page is now the property (read the TOS) of one of the kings of the Republican conspiracy.
Cameras shortly before then required the photographer to stick his head under a shroud and focus the image on a camera-obscura plate, then insert the wet-glass photographic plate.
Then everyone had to hold their precise position for an extended time, sometimes several minutes.
If a flash was available, it was created by igniting a hod full of explosive powder, and nobody could flinch.
Frankly, if people from the 1920s arrived in this era, they'd be over 80 years old.
And there's millions of 'em.
(Hint: I'm saying Dvorak's being a voluble dunce. And he always kinda has been.)
Spreadsheets are handy, but yes they contain errors, and if all of the formulae in them are created without testing (ymmv) those errors will propagate and not be caught.
Accounting software goes through a directed QA process (ymmv) and will catch errors (ymmv) and will refuse to propagate them (ymmv).
So the solution is: BUY ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE. Stop using your own spreadsheets for legal records. They're no better than your input, and are capable of making the result worse.
Are the results going to be free to the public, or hidden behind a trade association membership form?
I've tried to get answers out of food-industry associations before. Forget it unless you want to join, which sometimes requires proof of corporate activity, and always requires a hefty fee.
So if this "available to everyone in the industry" thing isn't "free to everyone," Kraft will get the secrets that fill out their copious internal data, but you won't learn how to break off a big chunk of hteir market share unless you're already a lesser-learned competitor.
Apparently, being a fat, rich, mindless tool of your own artistic failure cum monetary overkill means you're too dumb to recognize a good thing when you have it under contract.
The biggest growth industries in America will be massage/handjob artist, vinyl-siding salesman, and bedpan-washer.
The technology industry was excellent jobs for highly-skilled people. And we had so many of them we had to import that level of worker to get them done.
Rather than competing with other countries for the good of the nation, the corporations running the show decided to compete with each other for a race to the bottom.
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What a worthless article that is.
2,000 words, and they never listed the "Before" list. And in the text following the "After" list, they implied that there's still a group of organisms not in the list, meaning all these guys really did was move some entries between two branches.
Worthless. Come back when (a) it's done and (b) it's written-up clearly enough that the facts can be listed in two sentences.
Clovertown + Yorkfield = Cloverfield.
I'm posting from one now!
(Not really, but I have a Yorkie at home...this is a Cedar Mill, used essentially as a thin client in a big enterprise network that no doubt has a Clovertown on it somewhere...)
Parts of that Linux kernel you're typing on haven't changed in 18 years.
Variables whose choice of basic type involves an assumption of any kind leave open just this sort of risk that the use-case space left unimplemented by the assumption is entered.
People understand the Y2K kind of date error. But there are hundreds if not thousands of such assumptions made - and not documented - in coding any program of significant size.
With a little formal training, Excel becomes a serious tool.
The parts of it that you can "pick up by yourself" amount to glitzy version of SuperCalc.
Sign or veto bills, command the military, enforce the laws, present the State of the Union every year, negotiate with sovereign powers, and pardon turkeys and felons alike.
It's what I wouldn't do that you'd be impressed with.
I wouldn't change the world just to benefit me or my family.
I wouldn't start a war just because my political allies want one and we have a malleable excuse at hand.
I wouldn't sinecure traitors.
I wouldn't dismantle the government, which does far more good than the loudmouth at the back of the auditorium seems to think.
I wouldn't pass the buck.
I wouldn't allow gigantic deficits to hide massive mismanagement, profit cronies, and enable ideological manipulation of local politics.
I wouldn't get caught. Don't ask "at what?" That's part of not getting caught. It wouldn't be any of your business in the first place, or I'd let you in on it in the first place.
Then I'd run for a second term, and maybe a third, if things go my way.
so he can get through something we would consider "less onerous" but is still an affront to the Constitution.
with a CPU, a GPU, a PPU, a P'PU, a SAPU, a DIADRPU[TM], a TBNPU, and a CULCAOPU
* Central Processing Unit
* Graphics Processing Unit
* Physics Processing Unit
* Panic Processing Unit
* Sexual Arousal Processing Unit
* DRM Infringement Attempt Detection and Reporting Processing Unit(R)
* Terabit Network Processing Unit
* Computer Upgrade Loan Consolidation Assistance Offer Processing Unit
Ford has a right to keep you from making a profit from their trademark.
If you put pictures of a Ford online and there are ads on the page, you're infringing.
Your car analogy is 100% dead-on. Microsoft should be allowed to pack any app into its OS that it wants. Provided you or a third-party accessory vendor has the right and access to modify it to remove that app and make your add-on accessory work, the way you can with any car.
I've never had any trouble running third-party browsers, media players, or apps on a Windows system (far less trouble than I usually have getting things installed and working on Linux, in fact). Although they are never as well-integrated as they could be, that is almost always the fault of the application designer, who failed to read or comprehend the documentation for the API.
This is different from 5-10 years ago, when the documentation for the API was nonexistent or (deliberately?) obfuscatory. If Microsoft is still making it impossible to write apps for the OS with public documentation, then sure, Microsoft should be punished. But they shouldn't be hamstrung just because Opera developers are lamers.
Firefox kills Opera, IMO. I don't see them pestering the government to harass their competitors. Maybe because it also kills IE.
It does mention them, but you have the Bill of Rights' purpose backwards. It doesn't mandate that the government protect your rights from interference by other citizens, only that the government not interfere with your rights.
The Constitution elsewhere gives the Congress the authority to make laws, the Executive the authority to enforce laws, and the Judiciary the authority to adjudicate laws.
It is then up to you to elect people who will write laws which protect your rights from people other than the government.
So this thread makes a valid point. If we aren't protected from these invasions of privacy due to a total lack of security in the operational features of our banking system, it's up to us to tell our public servants to make our laws to protect us better. And it's our fault if we continue to allow the banking corporations to write the laws that make their business cheaper to run and their liability negligible for the lack of security over the money they have borrowed from us (yes, you are a creditor to them, with a creditor's rights over them; read your account agreement and the federal banking regulations, before giving your money to just anyone who puts up a red brick fast-food type "bank" and asks for it).
Actually, they don't. They do get the whole CPU for 10 ms, but the memory, swap, and disk are still shared among all the virtual subsystems. I'm not sure how devices are handled, but if the virtualization software allows them to continue handling requests started by one virtual machine while another takes its time slice on the CPU, they may not get control of those, either.
I have every right to belittle anyone, and you have no right to take that away from me.
And yes, I have given away 80% of my fortune. BECAUSE of fuckbags like Bill Gates manipulating the markets, outsourcing the Internet Economy that I and my fellow Americans spent a $trillion to build, and creating an army of half-brained apologists for their greed.
>there's lots of content, but none of it is any damn good.
So's the human race.
That guy, Tom, who still pretends to run the place? He's the new Aunt Jemima or Betty Crocker or Ronald Reagan: a cartoon, owned by a corporate entity to make you feel like you're dealing with something homey.
All bullshit.
Your Myspace page is now the property (read the TOS) of one of the kings of the Republican conspiracy.
"Gambling information," in legal terms, does not have this broad meaning.
It means the information necessary to conduct the game, wager on it, and inform the winners and losers.
For instance, it does not include the NFL/NBA/etc. odds printed in your local newspaper.
They're going to screw up and not actually end up banning gambling on the Internet...
Right.
Like they're going to decommission even one of those functioning nukes before its shelf-life runs out.
The 1920's were weird.
Cameras shortly before then required the photographer to stick his head under a shroud and focus the image on a camera-obscura plate, then insert the wet-glass photographic plate.
Then everyone had to hold their precise position for an extended time, sometimes several minutes.
If a flash was available, it was created by igniting a hod full of explosive powder, and nobody could flinch.
Frankly, if people from the 1920s arrived in this era, they'd be over 80 years old.
And there's millions of 'em.
(Hint: I'm saying Dvorak's being a voluble dunce. And he always kinda has been.)
Spreadsheets are handy, but yes they contain errors, and if all of the formulae in them are created without testing (ymmv) those errors will propagate and not be caught.
Accounting software goes through a directed QA process (ymmv) and will catch errors (ymmv) and will refuse to propagate them (ymmv).
So the solution is: BUY ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE. Stop using your own spreadsheets for legal records. They're no better than your input, and are capable of making the result worse.
Craigslist ads have been around for several years. And ain't all that.
Are the results going to be free to the public, or hidden behind a trade association membership form?
I've tried to get answers out of food-industry associations before. Forget it unless you want to join, which sometimes requires proof of corporate activity, and always requires a hefty fee.
So if this "available to everyone in the industry" thing isn't "free to everyone," Kraft will get the secrets that fill out their copious internal data, but you won't learn how to break off a big chunk of hteir market share unless you're already a lesser-learned competitor.
Carly Fiorina was the strongest proponent of sending American jobs to India, effectively creating an entire industry of telecommuting.
Now HP is saying telecommuting is bad?
Face it. Corporations want to be slave-drivers, and it's only through democratic lawmaking that we keep them from getting their wish.
The biggest benefit of something like this is that now the only footprint needed on the desk is keyboard and the smallest LCD flatpanel you can buy.
Time for office designers to realize that the 2 inches of wall between cubicles is low-hanging-fruit in the search for space.
Hope you like your coworkers, because you're going to be literally rubbing elbows with them from now on.
We, the people of THIS country, tolerate the regressive tax of Capitalism because it does make OUR standard of living better.
Or it did, until these people decided to use it to make OTHER countries' standard of living grow and ours shrink.
Time to stop tolerating Capitalism and regulate the shit out of it.
For instance, by reinstating the 25% tax on outsourced payroll that Bush cut to 6% in in his first tax-cut package.
>New episodic Sam & Max games are on the way...
Ah, but more importantly, it's because Lucas let the rights to the IP revert to the characters' creator.
Apparently, being a fat, rich, mindless tool of your own artistic failure cum monetary overkill means you're too dumb to recognize a good thing when you have it under contract.
Those boomers aren't dying.
Those boomers are retiring.
What kind of services do retirees need?
The biggest growth industries in America will be massage/handjob artist, vinyl-siding salesman, and bedpan-washer.
The technology industry was excellent jobs for highly-skilled people. And we had so many of them we had to import that level of worker to get them done.
Rather than competing with other countries for the good of the nation, the corporations running the show decided to compete with each other for a race to the bottom.