20 years old and sober. I have had 4 beers, 4 glasses of wine/champagne and two rum and cokes in my entire life. Half that was legal to consume as I was in Norway. Don't think that everyone drinks just because you do or did when you were under 21.
It isn't worth getting busted (eg our football games routinely begin with cops asking for IDs for anyone with a beer in their hand) for something that isn't even all that great to begin with. Seriously, drinking has to be one of the most overrated pastimes EVER.
I think you are trolling, but in the off chance you mean what you say...
"The best part is that the Zealots won't use the MS distribution, and they will be stuck with their distributions that STILL won't get apps written for by the REAL software makers."
Umm...why? If they wrote the software and compiled in on an X86 platform they would just distribute an RPM.
Apache, MySQL those aren't examples of REAL software? Linux is not the problem if you are don't like the gui, KDE, Gnome, Ice etc are.
Software and Hardware has glitches primarily because there is little documentation for linux from many manufacturers.
I hope Microsoft does release their own distro, it is just that in order for that to happen, they will have to be split into two (or more?) companies
Apparently Microsoft will innovate some more with Virtual Desktops in Longhorn....
Bingo! A math major wants an answer that is not just accurate, that is definable correct. Ie What is the area of a circle? If you don't have a PI symbol in the answer you are WRONG! Radius of 10? 100Pi not 314 not 314.159265358979 both are wrong
An engineer doesn't care (unless the margin of error needs to be very SMALL) and says 315...
I actively trade and listen to old Louis Armstrong recordings, thank you very much!
His work with the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens should have no restrictions at all! Maybe we could get more kids listening to better music.
I do download songs from recent bands, but I also buy cds. (6 Cds in the last 6 months which is +- 1 cd of what I was buying at my height of cd buying)
[begin plug]Btw, if you like early New Orleans style jazz, I just picked up Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's new album for 12 bucks and I highly recommend it http://www.bbvd.com[end plug]
So you would say that Asimov's nonfiction could lay the foundation for other books? I never knew he wrote non fiction. Just out of curiosity does the prelude come after the first few chapters?
Area of a sphere? 4 pi r ^2...no calculus needed;-)
Of course a (an astute) calculus student would notice that when you derive the volume formula for a sphere (4/3 pi r^3) with respect to the radius you get the area.
My dad is an engineer (I will be too soon...hopefully ) and he has a novel way of find an oddly shaped area.
As long as what you are looking at has a scale of some kind you can actually cut out that area and weigh it on a (sensitive) scale. Then cut out a known square dimension from the same paper. Now you know what that area is relative to a certain weight...well now finding the original area just takes a little knowledge of proportions.
Granted it is not exactly going to score any points in the rigorous category, but it will get the answer with uncanny accuracy, which is the only category engineers have anyway:-P::silence::
Yeah I am lucky they don't have -1 geek as a moderation...
what is my point of humanity? its the right to be able to live a life where you dont have to rely on others for food, where you dont have to have two jobs to support your kids, where you can take two weeks of vacation without getting fired from your employeer.
and sincerely, is that what you have in america today?
We have those too, we just don't go as overboard. You can take two weeks vacation and be fine with your employer most of the time. We just don't start out with a month and proceed to 2 months throughout our careers like some Europeans do.
yeah, that and jury costs for relasing white police officers after beating black people up.
Yup that is all that we do over here.
it isnt socialism that makes your coke cost 25 kronor, if it was socialism it would be "people-coke" and cost exactly what it takes to produce+ship it.
No, we have elements of Socialism here in the United States (public education, parks etc). Cuba, China, N. Korea et al are not Socialists, they are Communists. I hate using the Socialist euphemism to describe the evils of those governments.
sweden and norway isnt socialistic in the marxhistic coining. we're no more socialists here than anywhere else in europe.
Well, that is simply untrue. Sweden has the most social programs of any country in the (industrialized) world. Europe is socialistic.
its just you americans that aint openminded enough to realise that there can be two kinds of meaning to a single word.
Faen, yes we are, but I will admit we aren't as open minded as you are. You are openminded enough to think that All Americans aren't openminded:p
i recommend you start training with "arab": in sweden, we have atleast two kinds of arabs "terrorist arabs", and "friendly arabs".
hint: the ones with guns are the "terrorist arabs".
Friendly arabs are what we call non muslims. (Just so you know, I am part arab myself)
From what I hear, being a rocket scientist is ver tough and extremely complex, but our rovers smashing into Mars is a screwup. That does not mean that you are a slacker because there are bugs in your code or anything else. Bugs are digital oopsies.
For example, my dad works for a building products company. They hire tons of electrical engineers to help get data to make sure everything continues to run smoothly (ie, temperatures are adjusted so produce a uniform product, etc.)
I figured I would either do "EE type stuff" or I would be doing something with controls (like what I mentioned above.)
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Isn't that a forced joke?
--Joey
This is offtopic, but what does foo mean?
--Joey
My mail server has 4 2.0ghz processors with 4 gigs of ram, a dvd writer, a highend gigabyte graphics card, and 200 gig hard drive, so there!
--Joey
I like Peter Griffin's take on Citizen Kane...
You see Orson Welles drop on his couch and whisper "rosebud".
Peter tapes over the movie and says "It was the name of the sled he had as a kid...there I just saved you two long boobless hours!"
--Joey
How about the ending? Neo stopped sentinels in "real life", meaning the real world ain't so real ;)
Seriously, greatest movie ending ever...
--Joey
20 years old and sober. I have had 4 beers, 4 glasses of wine/champagne and two rum and cokes in my entire life. Half that was legal to consume as I was in Norway. Don't think that everyone drinks just because you do or did when you were under 21.
It isn't worth getting busted (eg our football games routinely begin with cops asking for IDs for anyone with a beer in their hand) for something that isn't even all that great to begin with. Seriously, drinking has to be one of the most overrated pastimes EVER.
--Joey
My favorite way of saying that last line is:
Same shit, different shovel
--Joey
I think you are trolling, but in the off chance you mean what you say...
...
"The best part is that the Zealots won't use the MS distribution, and they will be stuck with their distributions that STILL won't get apps written for by the REAL software makers."
Umm...why? If they wrote the software and compiled in on an X86 platform they would just distribute an RPM.
Apache, MySQL those aren't examples of REAL software? Linux is not the problem if you are don't like the gui, KDE, Gnome, Ice etc are.
Software and Hardware has glitches primarily because there is little documentation for linux from many manufacturers.
I hope Microsoft does release their own distro, it is just that in order for that to happen, they will have to be split into two (or more?) companies
Apparently Microsoft will innovate some more with Virtual Desktops in Longhorn.
--Joey
Bingo! A math major wants an answer that is not just accurate, that is definable correct. Ie What is the area of a circle? If you don't have a PI symbol in the answer you are WRONG! Radius of 10? 100Pi not 314 not 314.159265358979 both are wrong
An engineer doesn't care (unless the margin of error needs to be very SMALL) and says 315...
--Joey
I actively trade and listen to old Louis Armstrong recordings, thank you very much!
His work with the Hot Fives and Hot Sevens should have no restrictions at all! Maybe we could get more kids listening to better music.
I do download songs from recent bands, but I also buy cds. (6 Cds in the last 6 months which is +- 1 cd of what I was buying at my height of cd buying)
[begin plug]Btw, if you like early New Orleans style jazz, I just picked up Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's new album for 12 bucks and I highly recommend it http://www.bbvd.com[end plug]
It is or is not accurate.
;)
That's an old indian trick; a statement of totalogy
--Joey
So you would say that Asimov's nonfiction could lay the foundation for other books? I never knew he wrote non fiction. Just out of curiosity does the prelude come after the first few chapters?
--Joey
Area of a sphere? 4 pi r ^2...no calculus needed ;-)
:-P ::silence::
Of course a (an astute) calculus student would notice that when you derive the volume formula for a sphere (4/3 pi r^3) with respect to the radius you get the area.
My dad is an engineer (I will be too soon...hopefully ) and he has a novel way of find an oddly shaped area.
As long as what you are looking at has a scale of some kind you can actually cut out that area and weigh it on a (sensitive) scale. Then cut out a known square dimension from the same paper. Now you know what that area is relative to a certain weight...well now finding the original area just takes a little knowledge of proportions.
Granted it is not exactly going to score any points in the rigorous category, but it will get the answer with uncanny accuracy, which is the only category engineers have anyway
Yeah I am lucky they don't have -1 geek as a moderation...
--Joey
I am more pissed off that he is promoting Dean for president in every message he writes regardless of the topic at hand!
--Joey
Some people thought that about IBM.
--Joey
what is my point of humanity? its the right to be able to live a life where you dont have to rely on others for food, where you dont have to have two jobs to support your kids, where you can take two weeks of vacation without getting fired from your employeer.
and sincerely, is that what you have in america today?
We have those too, we just don't go as overboard. You can take two weeks vacation and be fine with your employer most of the time. We just don't start out with a month and proceed to 2 months throughout our careers like some Europeans do.
--Joey
yeah, that and jury costs for relasing white police officers after beating black people up.
:p
Yup that is all that we do over here.
it isnt socialism that makes your coke cost 25 kronor, if it was socialism it would be "people-coke" and cost exactly what it takes to produce+ship it.
No, we have elements of Socialism here in the United States (public education, parks etc). Cuba, China, N. Korea et al are not Socialists, they are Communists. I hate using the Socialist euphemism to describe the evils of those governments.
sweden and norway isnt socialistic in the marxhistic coining. we're no more socialists here than anywhere else in europe.
Well, that is simply untrue. Sweden has the most social programs of any country in the (industrialized) world. Europe is socialistic.
its just you americans that aint openminded enough to realise that there can be two kinds of meaning to a single word.
Faen, yes we are, but I will admit we aren't as open minded as you are. You are openminded enough to think that All Americans aren't openminded
i recommend you start training with "arab": in sweden, we have atleast two kinds of arabs "terrorist arabs", and "friendly arabs".
hint: the ones with guns are the "terrorist arabs".
Friendly arabs are what we call non muslims. (Just so you know, I am part arab myself)
I paid 1 dollar for a coke in a small town (Balestrand) 25 kroner was pretty standard for a coke.
Socialism (and the taxes that support it) drive costs up for everyone.
It is like how frivolous lawsuits over here drive the costs of healthcare through the roof.
--Joey
Yeah but he lives in Norway meaning he would probably pay about 10 dollars a minute to call over here. I one time paid 4 dollars for a Coke in Bergen!
That's socialism
--Joey
"Not that hard to do, and no harder than using OSX och WinXP. "
:-P
Swedish I'll bet? Don't worry, I one time wrote "men" when I meant to say "but"
--Joey
From what I hear, being a rocket scientist is ver tough and extremely complex, but our rovers smashing into Mars is a screwup. That does not mean that you are a slacker because there are bugs in your code or anything else. Bugs are digital oopsies.
--Joey
For example, my dad works for a building products company. They hire tons of electrical engineers to help get data to make sure everything continues to run smoothly (ie, temperatures are adjusted so produce a uniform product, etc.)
I figured I would either do "EE type stuff" or I would be doing something with controls (like what I mentioned above.)
You are an EE, what do you do?
--Joey
Yes some are, but every company of any size hires electrical engineers, that is not true with computer scientists.
EE is a much broader field than CS.
--Joey
Oh my god, someone that argues pleasantly and without slander? Am I still on slashdot? :D Mod parent up. He deserves it.
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Yeah I know, it IS refreshing, but I still would feel better if I saw a 'fucktard' or two.
--Joey
Indian race? Umm...yeah. I guess I missed that in Anthropology 101 class. There are now 4 races, Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid and INDIAN.
--Joey