In the '60 people were promised that automation would make people have to work less. Instead, we see less people employed, and that puts the companies in a better position because there is more competition for jobs. Somehow we got screwed.
> Then why not try changing rocks into wine? Or chickens into hamsters?
Pick your dream: I spent twenty years doing experiments in the basement and now I can turn chickens into hamsters
- OR -
I spent twenty years doing experiments in the basement and now I can turn lead into gold
Besides, turning lead into gold is much more probable than the things you mentioned: they both already are soft, heavy metals, so they must be very similar stuff. only the color is a bit different.
If you haven't already done so, you should really read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson, it tells about some other amazing things Newton spent his time on, and it really shows you how scientists have struggled to uncover what we now consider to be basic knowledge. The things our ancestors did for science are really mindblowing.
> The fact that Newton was attempting something that was so obviously beyond reach
That's always easy said afterwards, but please try to explain to me why lead cannot be transformed in gold. Oh, I almost forgot: you cannot use the concept of atoms in your explanation.
That's more or less the setup I'm using too. I have the big router/home server with a shared 120GB harddisk, and a backup server controlled by a timer. At 2AM the timer turns on the computer and it makes it's backup using rdiff-backup. As it only copies differences in changed files, I don't really worry about the backup size, at the moment it's merely 1.6GB. After the backup, it generates a log in html and copies it back to the main server.
at a first glance I see a surprising number of pairs of dots very near to each other. Is this some kind of bug in the data or the mapping process? Am I just inventing patterns where there aren't any? Or perhaps there's some strange tendency for sex offenders to settle in pairs...
Well, both the perpetrators and the victims got mixed up in the same database, but who cares! I'm not letting this minor inconvenience get in the way of this weekend's lynching frenzy I got planned! Wanna come too? (don't forget to bring your own beer!).
When I see those mechanical clocks, and all those machines, music boxes and early mechanical robots (playing piano etc.), I feel those people are our geeky ancestors. Those were the first programmable machinery, and a vital step towards computing. Even today, a clock is still the center of a computer.
The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color.
Have you tried knoppix? It has quite a reputation of autodetecting hardware and auto-configuring the system.
The only things I had troubles with are my philips webcam (it's been a mess since the previous author abandoned the development), and some sound drivers. Nothing really serious.
I don't see why Apple would leak the software on purpose like some claim. They could also give the first version of osx86 away for free, and gain a lot of support and media attention for that move, instead of the "oh, look, it's leaked on the Internet"-approach.
Summary: some guy tried to get a newsworthy quote from Linus, he says the interviewer's questions don't make sense and ends with "Ask somebody who uses both."
"Today a lot of people own cars, but they are still not easy to use. People have to train for months and have to pass exams to be able to drive on the road without being a road-hazard."
Now I agree it would be easier to have one big button on the PC called "do what I want you to do", but unfortunately computers lack the psychic abilities to do that.
Same here. I just started using it, let's see.. on march 17(grin) for personal use and it's been working great. I haven't tried Exchange integration. The integration with kontact works well, so I swapped it with kmail (also integrated in kontact) on my taskbar.
I suppose a wire is easier to make than a transistor (less steps etc., I don't know the exact processes). Plus, mothing says that 50% more wires = 50% less errors, it could be 90% less errors, for example.
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Damn! That means I'm stuck with info! And I hate info!
In the '60 people were promised that automation would make people have to work less. Instead, we see less people employed, and that puts the companies in a better position because there is more competition for jobs. Somehow we got screwed.
> Then why not try changing rocks into wine? Or chickens into hamsters?
Pick your dream:
I spent twenty years doing experiments in the basement and now I can turn chickens into hamsters
- OR -
I spent twenty years doing experiments in the basement and now I can turn lead into gold
Besides, turning lead into gold is much more probable than the things you mentioned: they both already are soft, heavy metals, so they must be very similar stuff. only the color is a bit different.
If you haven't already done so, you should really read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson, it tells about some other amazing things Newton spent his time on, and it really shows you how scientists have struggled to uncover what we now consider to be basic knowledge. The things our ancestors did for science are really mindblowing.
> The fact that Newton was attempting something that was so obviously beyond reach
That's always easy said afterwards, but please try to explain to me why lead cannot be transformed in gold. Oh, I almost forgot: you cannot use the concept of atoms in your explanation.
Don't forget the poor bastard who will have to clean off all the dirt once they're ripe to sell.
I have designed a helicopter with Mu=NaN. Now beat that!!!
May 18 1995.
Or else some other day.
And in case you never heard of mountain dew (as I did), here are the ingredients after searching around a bit:
Contents: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, concentrated orange juice and other natural flavors, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), caffeine, sodium citrate, gum arabic, erythorbic acid (preserves freshness), calcium disodium EDTA (to protect flavor), brominated vegetable oil and yellow 5
That's not good for goldfish. Luckily it's not alcoholic.
I think the fish wiggles too long for it to be from the battery only, maybe the fish was still barely alive and the shock agitated him.
I'll categorize it as animal sadism.
That's more or less the setup I'm using too. I have the big router/home server with a shared 120GB harddisk, and a backup server controlled by a timer. At 2AM the timer turns on the computer and it makes it's backup using rdiff-backup. As it only copies differences in changed files, I don't really worry about the backup size, at the moment it's merely 1.6GB. After the backup, it generates a log in html and copies it back to the main server.
All this I wrote in bash in one afternoon.
at a first glance I see a surprising number of pairs of dots very near to each other. Is this some kind of bug in the data or the mapping process? Am I just inventing patterns where there aren't any? Or perhaps there's some strange tendency for sex offenders to settle in pairs ...
Well, both the perpetrators and the victims got mixed up in the same database, but who cares! I'm not letting this minor inconvenience get in the way of this weekend's lynching frenzy I got planned! Wanna come too? (don't forget to bring your own beer!).
When I see those mechanical clocks, and all those machines, music boxes and early mechanical robots (playing piano etc.), I feel those people are our geeky ancestors. Those were the first programmable machinery, and a vital step towards computing. Even today, a clock is still the center of a computer.
As long as you don't mind picking up the soap, I guess..
The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color.
Hey, IBM is Mr. Blue! Microsoft is Mr. Pink!
Have you tried knoppix? It has quite a reputation of autodetecting hardware and auto-configuring the system.
The only things I had troubles with are my philips webcam (it's been a mess since the previous author abandoned the development), and some sound drivers. Nothing really serious.
> Can't the CO2 just escape through the holes made to extract the fuel?
In that case, it will just become a tourist attraction known as the Soda Sea.
I don't see why Apple would leak the software on purpose like some claim. They could also give the first version of osx86 away for free, and gain a lot of support and media attention for that move, instead of the "oh, look, it's leaked on the Internet"-approach.
Summary: some guy tried to get a newsworthy quote from Linus, he says the interviewer's questions don't make sense and ends with "Ask somebody who uses both."
> Perhaps this is the "second coming" !
Pff.. I had my second coming at the age of 12.
"Today a lot of people own cars, but they are still not easy to use. People have to train for months and have to pass exams to be able to drive on the road without being a road-hazard."
Now I agree it would be easier to have one big button on the PC called "do what I want you to do", but unfortunately computers lack the psychic abilities to do that.
It was added not long after the first red beans meal.
Dupe! Please, posters, is it that hard to check if your comments have already been mentioned?
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(sorry if I sounded harsh, it was meant as semi-satiric).
Are you in any way related to the soup nazi? I'm a big fan..
Same here. I just started using it, let's see.. on march 17(grin) for personal use and it's been working great. I haven't tried Exchange integration. The integration with kontact works well, so I swapped it with kmail (also integrated in kontact) on my taskbar.
I suppose a wire is easier to make than a transistor (less steps etc., I don't know the exact processes). Plus, mothing says that 50% more wires = 50% less errors, it could be 90% less errors, for example.
I want to see an aroma blocker plugin in firefox.