The problem is that the right people are not reproducing. Ideally, all groups should have the same birth rates. Western europe and japan for example have incredibly low birth rates while the third world is growing out of control. This is entiry economic. The west has access to relatively cheap birth control while actually raising a child is dredfully expensive if you do everything society requires of you. The third world can't afford contraceptives, while the standard of living allows for far cheaper child rearing. Also, population growth is not linear in these countries. China and india already with over a billion people have the capacity to grow much faster than the west. The third world needs access to cheap contraceptives. And the west should get their priorities straight.
The universe went through a period of extreme expansion from about a trillionth of a second to a billionth of a second where it expanded much faster than light through some unknown mechanism.
It doesn't exist. Not existing is not the same as being empty, unfortunately true nothingness is not a concept our human minds can deal with because our monkey ancestors never encountered it in their day-to-day lives.
Great.:-/ Just when I got my arms around dealing with empty strings, nulls, pointers to nulls, and null pointers, now I have to deal with the non-existance of null.
My father was a dieselfitter. He worked in a lady's underwear shop. When woman would come in not knowing their size, he would look at them, then say "Dies'll fit her"
Anyone got a good supply of fast PPC motherboards?
The worst case here is that people will have to flash their bios before installing linux. That's a serious problem for mainstream acceptance and dual booting, but not much for people who know what they're doing. I bet motherboard manufacturers will find an elegant way around this. Dual bios motherboards are already avaiable.
At a previous job, people started calling me SMOAK. "Supreme Master Of All Knowledge". It appears I answered one too many obscure technical question off the top of my head.
Since we're talking about silly names for places, because my daughter looses things in her room all the time, we call it Holly's Triangle.
It's just the rural and residential streets it sucks at...
My wife and I are going to Novosibirsk in Siberia to adopt a child in a few weeks. I went to Mapquest to see where our hotel is in the city and to familarize myself with different parts of town. You can see what I got in the link, just try to zoom in a bit.:-) Can't expect them to know everything everywhere I guess.
I'm amazed by how many people believe in a science? religion? that relies on the idea that the earth is the center of the solar system and everything else, including the sun, revolves around it.
With all this, I think the new PC form factor should be a cube, about 3 feet on all sides.
I'm not sure I like this. If they do this, the next thing you know, they'll be wanting to add my biological and technological distinctivness to theirown. We'll be servicing that damn thing forever! Then they'll stick a laser pointer on my head and an rj-45 up my ass!
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just because somebody doesn't like it doesn't mean their dumb or unsophisticated.
No, but I know another sign!
The problem is that the right people are not reproducing. Ideally, all groups should have the same birth rates. Western europe and japan for example have incredibly low birth rates while the third world is growing out of control. This is entiry economic. The west has access to relatively cheap birth control while actually raising a child is dredfully expensive if you do everything society requires of you. The third world can't afford contraceptives, while the standard of living allows for far cheaper child rearing. Also, population growth is not linear in these countries. China and india already with over a billion people have the capacity to grow much faster than the west. The third world needs access to cheap contraceptives. And the west should get their priorities straight.
MSH (Microsoft SHell),
Did anyone else read this as Microsoft's Hell?
1) Inflationary model.
The universe went through a period of extreme expansion from about a trillionth of a second to a billionth of a second where it expanded much faster than light through some unknown mechanism.
Alan Greenspan was controling the inflation.
It doesn't exist. Not existing is not the same as being empty, unfortunately true nothingness is not a concept our human minds can deal with because our monkey ancestors never encountered it in their day-to-day lives.
:-/ Just when I got my arms around dealing with empty strings, nulls, pointers to nulls, and null pointers, now I have to deal with the non-existance of null.
Great.
Do 97% of the world's significant scientists come from the West?
No, they come from India.
How can any Malaysians have prior space exploration experience
Maybe these are the same people on dice asking for 8 years of dotnet experience.
And the beverages the cafeterias are giving the kids are polluted with 2,1 dihydrogen oxide, a powerful solvent!
Think about the technology from 1983, would you use that over the current technology?
I know this kid in afghanistan that uses his commodore 64 to surf the web and post to slashdot.
I get a nice clean statement telling me what I have purchased.
And so does everyone else. Believe it or not, some of us are still concerned with privacy.
My father was a dieselfitter. He worked in a lady's underwear shop. When woman would come in not knowing their size, he would look at them, then say "Dies'll fit her"
"It will be more tasty than Western food."
Yeah, but will they be hungry again an hour later?
General Protection has it. It's always his fault.
Or maybe the thrill of consuming large quantities of caffiene, then seeing if you can make it through LOTR without a bathroom break.
Anyone got a good supply of fast PPC motherboards?
The worst case here is that people will have to flash their bios before installing linux. That's a serious problem for mainstream acceptance and dual booting, but not much for people who know what they're doing. I bet motherboard manufacturers will find an elegant way around this. Dual bios motherboards are already avaiable.
I feel compelled to point out that there's nothing in the article SAYING the bios would prevent other OSes from being installed.
Windows isn't done 'till Linux doesn't run
1,000,000 of those bright orange 50' extension cords so we can run the power back down to Earth.
Maybe those power cords could double as a space elevator!
I used to watch all my porn on fast forward. Then I hurt meself.
At a previous job, people started calling me SMOAK. "Supreme Master Of All Knowledge". It appears I answered one too many obscure technical question off the top of my head.
Since we're talking about silly names for places, because my daughter looses things in her room all the time, we call it Holly's Triangle.
It's just the rural and residential streets it sucks at...
:-) Can't expect them to know everything everywhere I guess.
My wife and I are going to Novosibirsk in Siberia to adopt a child in a few weeks. I went to Mapquest to see where our hotel is in the city and to familarize myself with different parts of town. You can see what I got in the link, just try to zoom in a bit.
I can see it now: Bonjour! Nous sommes les Borg! On ne peut pas resister! What am I saying? The Borg can't be French. The Borg actually win battles.
Besides Linux, they even got Minix and Xinu in there
Can we please leave the Scientologists out of this?
I'm amazed by how many people believe in a science? religion? that relies on the idea that the earth is the center of the solar system and everything else, including the sun, revolves around it.
Were you typing this on your amiga in 40 column mode? It almost looks like haiku:
Oh my Amiga!
How I wish the floppy drive
would shut the fuck up
With all this, I think the new PC form factor should be a cube, about 3 feet on all sides.
I'm not sure I like this. If they do this, the next thing you know, they'll be wanting to add my biological and technological distinctivness to theirown. We'll be servicing that damn thing forever! Then they'll stick a laser pointer on my head and an rj-45 up my ass!