It makes the kid look bad if he was advocating that behavoir. It makes the kid look good if he was challenging the rhetoric of the speaker, implying the *AA could clamp down all they want with massive fines and jail time, and all it would do is move the supernodes offshore. I'd like to know what the *AA heads have planned to deal with that.
Read CmdrTaco's journal. I don't know if it's been fixed, but he explains there have been server issues, especially with the code that deals out mod points.
How are cars that drive themselves "out there?" A bus doesn't drive itself, and trains are mostly automatic because they drive on a fixed track, with speeds in a lookup table for segments of the route. That method may be scalable to speed limits on roads, but does not help with collision detection, routing, re-routing (in case of accidents or construction), red-lights/stop signs, etc. We've still got a ways to go before Johhny Cab drive us around.
I don't click on a lizard icon to launch "mozilla", I click on (a poor image of) a flame, which maybe is supposed to look bird-like, maybe not. When I launch the mail and newsgroup reader, I click on a blue version of the same flame with some sort of square-ish shape in the foreground.
Seperating the mozilla suite into firebird, thunderbird, and whatever the other one is named was (and is) a great idea for usability, but it hurt their branding process. Not only do most people not recognize the icon (it is the only allowed app on a public terminal I support), the lizard icon isn't anywhere in the browser.
Problem is that the vast majority of the anti-nuclear people are immune to reason and prefer to ignore facts
How do you know this? Who are the anti-nuclear people you're referring to? I don't care about the anti-nuclear nutjobs anymore than the [pro|anti]* nutjobs because they make up a very small share of the population.
I care about the majority of people, who are not exposed to facts and reason, because facts and reason do not make good TV or movies. The media takes the easy way out, and we are worse off for it, just like we'll be worse off when the headline "nuclear advocates rename reactors to slip approval past public" is the headline on every newspaper.
Getting people to change their minds is hard, but taking the easy way out won't solve anything.
As if doublespeak isn't popular enough (See TIA, MS "features", etc) now geeks are getting in on it too. People don't like something? We'll just change it's name. From now on, I'll refer to Linux's command line interface as "Happy Fun Software with Patented 'EZ4U' technology!" when talking to non-techies. Or, if I want to argue something is positive and good, maybe I'll
I had an NT domain server die on me (fscked boot sector) while my boss was installing patches that required an upgrade to IE 6. Granted NT is not supported anymore (I think), but I'm at a.edu in California. I hold off on patches on domain or database servers, because I don't want to rollback half a day's worth of transactions, or run around saying "FSS, don't log off or reboot!"
All I'm saying is: States shouldn't have a "downtown." Cities have downtowns. States don't. Also, states don't have a singular university everyone goes to on the weekends; they have many universities, located conveniently is cities. (And some cities may have more than one University).
Therefore, Rhode Island is a city. And not a very big city. QED.
Related to your point, I work at a.edu (in California no less). Funding being what it is, we just phased out 75mhz processor, 32MB RAM Win95 machines. We also had our NT domain server die last week when my boss tried to upgrade to IE6 for some security/firewall patch. It was ten years old, and had been upgraded to a dual PIII 300.
I thought this stuff was dead years ago (decades, in tech world time), but a lot of people still depend on it. Not everyone can afford to buy new computers every 1-2 years.
The point is they held out against just such an arrangement for so long. After all, they are an organization of distributors and publishers, why aren't theydistributing and publishing online? They whined about losing profits (with dubious evidence) for years with no action taken until someone wanted to do it for them (Apple). Still, all they've done now is sign a piece of paper saying Apple can do this. They aren't actually doing anything to take advantage of technological change.
And it means I can get books without having to go out in the sun, or talk to girls, or any of the other things that make me tremble like a chihuahua on speed.
Just because I choose a username (IthnkImParanoid) does not mean I am not also assigned a unique identifier (410494). I would guess this is how most websites do it because, as it always seems to be the case with software patents, this way just makes sense from a technical (database) perspective.
So, while it may be easy to work around, MS effectively patented the logical way of doing things. Which is why patents are a joke.
Totally off-topic, but I think his point was that almost impossible is pretty shitty. I would assume, with personal experience (for what little it's worth) backing this up, that people born to poor families are not, on average, any less intelligent or capable than people born to rich families. Given that, the frequency of "rags to riches" stories over the entire population may be higher than that of an aristocracy, but is still lower than I would expect from a true meritocracy.
Societies/economies based on human's own motivation and drive are not bad.
I would say that any society/economy that fails to take the motivation and drive of individuals into account is destined to fail (communism). However, that does not mean a society that does take those things into account is necessarily good. Think of the impact anti-capitalistic measures (worker safety requirments, equal rights laws) have had, and read about "The Tragedy of the Commons" if you haven't already to see where allowing motivation/drive to run unchecked can be a bad thing.
Was the "voluntary" prayer organized read by the teachers? Is the fact the prayer was crafted by the New York State Board of Regents inconsequential? Most (if not all) prayer-in-school cases I've heard had voluntary student participation that was "voluntary" in the same way the boss selling candy bars for his kid is "voluntary."
Congratulations on playing the terrorist card. I could *never* get tired of *that* comparison.
Look, ping floods, virus attacks, and 100-200 spam emails I have to sort through every day suck. It makes my job more difficult, it makes my connection slower and/or more expensive, and it generally degrades my whole internet experience, but spam isn't killing any babies. FFS, if you think Viagra adverts and mortgage rate quotes are terrorism, you need to watch some news footage of actual terrorism, where you can see some wounded and dead people and understand the word terrorism.
This habit of applying terrorism labels to every harmful crime really cheapens the definition of the word. Yes, spam is harmful and network intrusions should be prosecuted in these cases to the extent of the law. But no one has died from DDoSes. You should be able to express your anger and indignance at spammers and crackers without drawing comparisons to the most horrific, evil practices in the world.
The typical way to provide "unbiased" coverage in mainstream media today is not to report objectively, but rather to get subjective reports from two extreme positions. As examples, watch pretty much any cable news show, or Hannity and Colmes in particular. The problem is, while it may be far more entertaining in a Jerry Springer 'oh-no-he-didn't!1!!' way to watch "spokespeople" (tools) from two sides flame and troll each other, the tools are pretty much never right and never admit to the slightest flaw in their reasoning. This sort of black-and-white fight, and the winner is right* approach to achieving objectivity is killing rational discourse in our society. If it ever existed.
FYI, the windows key still crashes full screen games, especially MMORPGS that don't like you alt-tabbing out in case you're doing so to run some evil cheating software. I ripped mine out while playing DAoC a while back.
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$100,000 / 900,000 children = .11 dollars/child
It may not sound like much, but that extra two cents adds up to buying a lot of hohos for miss Struthers.
It makes the kid look bad if he was advocating that behavoir. It makes the kid look good if he was challenging the rhetoric of the speaker, implying the *AA could clamp down all they want with massive fines and jail time, and all it would do is move the supernodes offshore. I'd like to know what the *AA heads have planned to deal with that.
Read CmdrTaco's journal. I don't know if it's been fixed, but he explains there have been server issues, especially with the code that deals out mod points.
How are cars that drive themselves "out there?" A bus doesn't drive itself, and trains are mostly automatic because they drive on a fixed track, with speeds in a lookup table for segments of the route. That method may be scalable to speed limits on roads, but does not help with collision detection, routing, re-routing (in case of accidents or construction), red-lights/stop signs, etc. We've still got a ways to go before Johhny Cab drive us around.
Which is why California can have legal medical marijuana, and Oregon can allow euthanization of terminally ill patients.
Oh wait, no they can't.
For better or for worse, there are alot of cases where the Federal Government trumps state laws.
I don't click on a lizard icon to launch "mozilla", I click on (a poor image of) a flame, which maybe is supposed to look bird-like, maybe not. When I launch the mail and newsgroup reader, I click on a blue version of the same flame with some sort of square-ish shape in the foreground.
Seperating the mozilla suite into firebird, thunderbird, and whatever the other one is named was (and is) a great idea for usability, but it hurt their branding process. Not only do most people not recognize the icon (it is the only allowed app on a public terminal I support), the lizard icon isn't anywhere in the browser.
Wesley Crusher from ST:TNG.
I care about the majority of people, who are not exposed to facts and reason, because facts and reason do not make good TV or movies. The media takes the easy way out, and we are worse off for it, just like we'll be worse off when the headline "nuclear advocates rename reactors to slip approval past public" is the headline on every newspaper.
Getting people to change their minds is hard, but taking the easy way out won't solve anything.
As if doublespeak isn't popular enough (See TIA, MS "features", etc) now geeks are getting in on it too. People don't like something? We'll just change it's name. From now on, I'll refer to Linux's command line interface as "Happy Fun Software with Patented 'EZ4U' technology!" when talking to non-techies. Or, if I want to argue something is positive and good, maybe I'll
EXPLAIN MY POSITION WITH REASON AND FACTS
No wait, changing names is much easier. Silly me.
Long enough that you couldn't copy it, word for word, in less than 3 minutes?
I had an NT domain server die on me (fscked boot sector) while my boss was installing patches that required an upgrade to IE 6. Granted NT is not supported anymore (I think), but I'm at a .edu in California. I hold off on patches on domain or database servers, because I don't want to rollback half a day's worth of transactions, or run around saying "FSS, don't log off or reboot!"
All I'm saying is: States shouldn't have a "downtown." Cities have downtowns. States don't. Also, states don't have a singular university everyone goes to on the weekends; they have many universities, located conveniently is cities. (And some cities may have more than one University). Therefore, Rhode Island is a city. And not a very big city. QED.
Hard and fruity* candy in the shape of the common circular floatation device. Popular american candy.
*YOU'RE hard and fruity.
This method of giving directions works quite well when your state is only 8 city blocks wide.
Related to your point, I work at a .edu (in California no less). Funding being what it is, we just phased out 75mhz processor, 32MB RAM Win95 machines. We also had our NT domain server die last week when my boss tried to upgrade to IE6 for some security/firewall patch. It was ten years old, and had been upgraded to a dual PIII 300.
I thought this stuff was dead years ago (decades, in tech world time), but a lot of people still depend on it. Not everyone can afford to buy new computers every 1-2 years.
The point is they held out against just such an arrangement for so long. After all, they are an organization of distributors and publishers, why aren't they distributing and publishing online? They whined about losing profits (with dubious evidence) for years with no action taken until someone wanted to do it for them (Apple). Still, all they've done now is sign a piece of paper saying Apple can do this. They aren't actually doing anything to take advantage of technological change.
And it means I can get books without having to go out in the sun, or talk to girls, or any of the other things that make me tremble like a chihuahua on speed.
Just because I choose a username (IthnkImParanoid) does not mean I am not also assigned a unique identifier (410494). I would guess this is how most websites do it because, as it always seems to be the case with software patents, this way just makes sense from a technical (database) perspective.
So, while it may be easy to work around, MS effectively patented the logical way of doing things. Which is why patents are a joke.
I would say that any society/economy that fails to take the motivation and drive of individuals into account is destined to fail (communism). However, that does not mean a society that does take those things into account is necessarily good. Think of the impact anti-capitalistic measures (worker safety requirments, equal rights laws) have had, and read about "The Tragedy of the Commons" if you haven't already to see where allowing motivation/drive to run unchecked can be a bad thing.
Was the "voluntary" prayer organized read by the teachers? Is the fact the prayer was crafted by the New York State Board of Regents inconsequential? Most (if not all) prayer-in-school cases I've heard had voluntary student participation that was "voluntary" in the same way the boss selling candy bars for his kid is "voluntary."
Congratulations on playing the terrorist card. I could *never* get tired of *that* comparison.
Look, ping floods, virus attacks, and 100-200 spam emails I have to sort through every day suck. It makes my job more difficult, it makes my connection slower and/or more expensive, and it generally degrades my whole internet experience, but spam isn't killing any babies. FFS, if you think Viagra adverts and mortgage rate quotes are terrorism, you need to watch some news footage of actual terrorism, where you can see some wounded and dead people and understand the word terrorism.
This habit of applying terrorism labels to every harmful crime really cheapens the definition of the word. Yes, spam is harmful and network intrusions should be prosecuted in these cases to the extent of the law. But no one has died from DDoSes. You should be able to express your anger and indignance at spammers and crackers without drawing comparisons to the most horrific, evil practices in the world.
Some weird decimal system that's not base ten? That would be strange.
The typical way to provide "unbiased" coverage in mainstream media today is not to report objectively, but rather to get subjective reports from two extreme positions. As examples, watch pretty much any cable news show, or Hannity and Colmes in particular. The problem is, while it may be far more entertaining in a Jerry Springer 'oh-no-he-didn't!1!!' way to watch "spokespeople" (tools) from two sides flame and troll each other, the tools are pretty much never right and never admit to the slightest flaw in their reasoning. This sort of black-and-white fight, and the winner is right* approach to achieving objectivity is killing rational discourse in our society. If it ever existed.
*No, I am not Jesse Jackson.
FYI, the windows key still crashes full screen games, especially MMORPGS that don't like you alt-tabbing out in case you're doing so to run some evil cheating software. I ripped mine out while playing DAoC a while back.