you know, everything that is taught in highschool and below MUST be part of the domain, they can not push a creationist agenda etc.
Just out of curiosity, which high-school was preventing evolution-positive from being viewed on the internet? Both this post and it's parent seem to indicate that creationism is being pushed in the schools. While I'm sure that's true in the religious schools, I can't imagine it being the case in a public school. It was quite the opposite in my school. In fact, putting pro-creationism material out within the school would have probably been grounds for suspension. What am I missing?
Epoxy was invented by the Shell Chemical Co. in the 1950s
Uh, I'm not sure where you got this, but as far as I know, it was invented prior to 1939 by I.G. Farben Industrie of Germany. At least, that's when they filed the patent. Maybe Shell invented a type of epoxy?
However, I've heard that popup blockers and tabbed browsing are making their way into IE
It'll be nice to have this, but this is really just another good argument for competition and choice. If Mozilla (and Opera) didn't have this first, how long would it have been before the features came to IE? The same can be said for things that appeared in IE first and finally made their way to Netscape / Mozilla. This is why it's really nice to have some choices.
Do you mean your mind, or actually your brain (and likely other, including gonadal) tissue turning buttery?
Homer: Mmmmm. Buttery brain.
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So, does the new licensing plan allow them to basically, delay new technologies?
It does, but I'm not sure that is what's happening here. I'm certainly no big Microsoft fan, but I suspect it's more likely that there are other forces at work here.
There are some serious changes promised in Longhorn. They may be taking longer to work some of the kinks out.
Court approval of the settlement with DOJ may give them incentive to retool their business plan to find ways around the contraints, or achieve their goals while working within those constraints.
EU pressure may be giving them pause to consider just what they will be releases in the next version. If I recall, the EU investigation was more concerned with the server side of things.
Security and stability -- maybe after getting slapped around so much lately about security and stability, they are taking the time to nail down some of the problems. I think given the current security-frenzy that the United States is going through that security holes will matter much more in the next release than it has in the past.
Linux -- it's entirely possible that Microsoft is taking the time to make roll out something that has a better chance of removing this thorn in their side.
Companies looking for temp workers (heaven forbid they think about actually hiring someone) have a long and detailed laundry list of "buzz words" that they think are job requirements/necessary skill sets. If your resume doesn't hit in the word matching then out it goes.
This is, unfortunately, very true. If you look at today's job market, you have to have very specialized and detailed skills that fit the exact current needs at the time. However, to *keep* a job, you have to be more of a generalist; you must prove that you can learn new things very quickly.
I buy either capsules or caplets with both herbs ground up in them -- any local pharmacy here (United States). I'm not sure what country you're in, but if you are anywhere in Europe, you should be able to find something similar. While living in Germany, we even found an oral suspension for our child that worked pretty well. I haven't managed to find that here.
The most important of the herbs is probably the Echinacea, which is the immune system booster. The Goldenseal may actually increase your drainage, but is helpful in getting rid of the little nasties as your body beats them down.
The bottle I currently have contains 225 mg of Echinacea and 50 mg of Goldenseal in TWO caplets. It recommends a dosage of two caplets daily. When I'm sick, I take this dosage three times a day. Because I'm not a doctor, I don't recommend that you do this -- try smaller dosages first. I've just found that this particular dosage schedule works for me. I also have a colleague in Germany who suffered from similar problems, and she now takes a small Echinacea supplement daily -- hasn't had a problem since. However, I don't know if the body will build up a "tolerance" to this kind of usage, so I haven't tried it.
Finally, beware that Echinacea has some rather interesting side-effects for your digestive system, similar to antibiotics. I'm not sure if this is due to an intestinal reaction to the herb itself, or if it enables your body to start fighting the "good" E. Coli that live in your intestines. (I suspect the former because the herb itself does not attack the bacteria.) Every time I start taking the stuff, it takes a couple days for my digestive system to adjust, and then I'm ok after that.
Try Ocean nasal spray before you get the infection.
Yeah, this is a good idea. I use something similar if I can catch the symptoms in time. Sometimes it only takes one night with the heat on (if the weather changes suddenly) to do the damage.
No, but there are antiviral medications, which help your body fight off viruses. I had to take one (for the first time) a couple months ago because I had the shingles. The doctor told me I was too young to be getting the shingles, but stopped just short of recommending a job change.:-)
Isn't this just another strain of the MRSA [cdc.gov] (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) superbug.
No. This one's even worse. It's resistant to Vancomycin, which is the last line of defense. Because of it's side-effects, Vancomycin is avoided whenever possible. If that doesn't get rid of the bug, you either die, or your own immune system has to deal wit it.
What doesn't help is the way that antibiotics have been indiscriminately and thoughtlessly prescribed these last several years for even the slightest ailments.
Amen. I've actually gotten to the point where I get angry when I hear my mother-in-law tell my wife to go get some antibiotics because she has a cold. I've tried calmly explaining to her that antibiotics don't do anything to help a cold, but she's so used to years of doctors prescribing them for such that she can't get over it.
I routinely suffer from sinusitis twice a year (when I turn on the heat and when I turn on the AC), so getting rid of infections is a big deal for me. I am not a doctor, but for the past couple years I've managed to completely avoid antibiotics. Instead, I take Echinacea and Goldenseal three times a day until the infection goes away. I've found that it's usually just about as effective as antibiotics, and since it's still my body that's doing all the work, there's no added fear of adaptation. Of course, this remedy wouldn't work if my immune system were in really bad shape.
...is attributed to the mixing of antibiotics, including methicillin, with heroin by Detroit drug users...
Yes, but the article *should* have mentioned animal farming as one of the culprits. In my mind, reckless doping the animals with antibiotics is ultimately far worse than the mixing of antibiotics by drug users.
PJ 1.2 is functionally equivalent to java 1.1. You notice this most when you have to work with the awt.
Yeah, you're right -- AWT is a major pain to work with. I wasn't aware that PJ 1.2 was limited to that environment. It seems like Sun could at least devise a scaled-down version of Swing to replace AWT in PJ. Although, some may consider AWT to *be* a scaled-down version of Swing.
Is this from personal experience? Or do you have an article to cite? Or is it just a troll?
A desktop operating system - especially one as unfriendly as Linux - does not automatically make a great consumer device OS
This is smelling more and more like a troll. The SL-5xxx series uses a form of embedded Linux, which is clearly not the same animal. Linux itself is the kernel. All the extra crap you get on top of it is part of the distribution. The 5xxx series doesn't use KDE. It doesn't use Gnome. None of the stuff that you would use to determine whether the desktop was friendly or not exists on this machine. Instead, they use an embedded version of Qt. If you'd like to cite some articles about disappointment with this approach, I'd be more than happy to change my opinion.
And the Java implementation was an out of date joke.
Out of date? Oh, now I know this is a troll; the 5xxx series uses PersonalJava 1.2, which is the same spec that is CURRENTLY available from Sun.
Basically Sharp didn't appear to care at all about the quality of the software on the 5500.
You know, I'd much rather have them concentrate on the hardware more. Software can always be replaced. I have a Compaq iPaq sitting at home in a drawer that no longer gets used. Why? Because the hardware is mostly junk. Low battery life. And it crashes if you look at it wrong, losing EVERYTHING on it. And the backup process was just too S-L-O-W to be worth it. It's just not reliable. At least this new unit is designed with the flash memory to hold your data, even in the event of a complete power failure. That would have been a nice feature on the iPaq (instead of having to buy a flash card).
Netflix is certainly the better deal, you can get about 12 movies per month on the 3 out plan for $20 a month. These are all high quality DVD quality. AND you can watch them for as long as you like, as many times as you like, as many days as you like until you send them back.
Pardon my ignorance, but has anybody that uses this service ever had a situation where a movie they sent back was never received? What happens then?
why is it only windows compatible when it should work just fine on the mac?
I would suspect because a Mac can't run the Movie Manager software. Maybe after a while, they'll consider porting this piece of the puzzle to other platforms (not likely).
I just ran the letter by one of my German colleagues, and the response I got back was: "I can't believe that this was sent to a consumer! If I'd receive a letter like this, I would consider it more than just insulting." She also asked me if I was just joking.
I think that pretty much gets the point across. Them's fightin' words.:-)
2) make sit-ups each morning and evening to avoid back pains.
Since sit-ups constitute a highly repetitive task, wouldn't it be better if I just write a program to do them for me? That way, it'll free up my time for things which require more thought.:-)
When someone eventually sues over the binary drivers packaged with the Linux kernel, people will lose their intellectual property.
The FSF knows this and loves it -- they are out to push their agendas.
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You forgot to include the part about the secret alliance between the FSF and Microsoft. After all, the real function of the FSF is to invalidate intellectual property so that it can be used by MS.
</sarcasm>
However, in the case of antimatter propellant, instead of a reactive force, the propellant will just annhilate the surrounding matter, and nothing will happen to the vehicle. In fact, an antimatter rocket would only work in an antimatter universe, and in that case it would be no more powerful or efficient than our current rockets.
Reading the article might be helpful. The concept doesn't use the reactive force of propellant leaving the vehicle. Instead, the vehicle is driven by lobbing antimatter toward a "sail" extended from the front of the vehicle. The sail is propelled by two forces: that from the reaction of the antimatter with the matter in the sail, and a secondary fission reaction with fissionable material impregnated into the sail. In effect, the sail just drags the rest of the vehicle along with it.
However, one thing I would be concerned about is the fact the space is not really a perfect vacuum. There *is* matter out there. What happens when the antimatter stream encounters other matter in space? I presume the rest of the vehicle would have to be built to withstand a nearby "misfire" in that case.
If you simply tell them "Put this number on your do not call list" then they are obligated by law to do so
This is the approach I use until one of them tries to either convince me that they can't, or that it will take 3 months for the entry to take effect. That's when I go off the deep end and start yelling.
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Just out of curiosity, which high-school was preventing evolution-positive from being viewed on the internet? Both this post and it's parent seem to indicate that creationism is being pushed in the schools. While I'm sure that's true in the religious schools, I can't imagine it being the case in a public school. It was quite the opposite in my school. In fact, putting pro-creationism material out within the school would have probably been grounds for suspension. What am I missing?
Uh, I'm not sure where you got this, but as far as I know, it was invented prior to 1939 by I.G. Farben Industrie of Germany. At least, that's when they filed the patent. Maybe Shell invented a type of epoxy?
Maybe that's exactly what he should do. And then when they "settle," Bill the writer can make sure that his legal fees are part of the settlement.
It'll be nice to have this, but this is really just another good argument for competition and choice. If Mozilla (and Opera) didn't have this first, how long would it have been before the features came to IE? The same can be said for things that appeared in IE first and finally made their way to Netscape / Mozilla. This is why it's really nice to have some choices.
Yeah. That way, when you put the phone up to your ear, you could say that you could hear the ocean. :-)
Homer: Mmmmm. Buttery brain.
It does, but I'm not sure that is what's happening here. I'm certainly no big Microsoft fan, but I suspect it's more likely that there are other forces at work here.
- There are some serious changes promised in Longhorn. They may be taking longer to work some of the kinks out.
- Court approval of the settlement with DOJ may give them incentive to retool their business plan to find ways around the contraints, or achieve their goals while working within those constraints.
- EU pressure may be giving them pause to consider just what they will be releases in the next version. If I recall, the EU investigation was more concerned with the server side of things.
- Security and stability -- maybe after getting slapped around so much lately about security and stability, they are taking the time to nail down some of the problems. I think given the current security-frenzy that the United States is going through that security holes will matter much more in the next release than it has in the past.
- Linux -- it's entirely possible that Microsoft is taking the time to make roll out something that has a better chance of removing this thorn in their side.
Or, I could just be grasping at straws.This is, unfortunately, very true. If you look at today's job market, you have to have very specialized and detailed skills that fit the exact current needs at the time. However, to *keep* a job, you have to be more of a generalist; you must prove that you can learn new things very quickly.
I buy either capsules or caplets with both herbs ground up in them -- any local pharmacy here (United States). I'm not sure what country you're in, but if you are anywhere in Europe, you should be able to find something similar. While living in Germany, we even found an oral suspension for our child that worked pretty well. I haven't managed to find that here.
The most important of the herbs is probably the Echinacea, which is the immune system booster. The Goldenseal may actually increase your drainage, but is helpful in getting rid of the little nasties as your body beats them down.
The bottle I currently have contains 225 mg of Echinacea and 50 mg of Goldenseal in TWO caplets. It recommends a dosage of two caplets daily. When I'm sick, I take this dosage three times a day. Because I'm not a doctor, I don't recommend that you do this -- try smaller dosages first. I've just found that this particular dosage schedule works for me. I also have a colleague in Germany who suffered from similar problems, and she now takes a small Echinacea supplement daily -- hasn't had a problem since. However, I don't know if the body will build up a "tolerance" to this kind of usage, so I haven't tried it.
Finally, beware that Echinacea has some rather interesting side-effects for your digestive system, similar to antibiotics. I'm not sure if this is due to an intestinal reaction to the herb itself, or if it enables your body to start fighting the "good" E. Coli that live in your intestines. (I suspect the former because the herb itself does not attack the bacteria.) Every time I start taking the stuff, it takes a couple days for my digestive system to adjust, and then I'm ok after that.
Yeah, this is a good idea. I use something similar if I can catch the symptoms in time. Sometimes it only takes one night with the heat on (if the weather changes suddenly) to do the damage.
No, but there are antiviral medications, which help your body fight off viruses. I had to take one (for the first time) a couple months ago because I had the shingles. The doctor told me I was too young to be getting the shingles, but stopped just short of recommending a job change. :-)
No. This one's even worse. It's resistant to Vancomycin, which is the last line of defense. Because of it's side-effects, Vancomycin is avoided whenever possible. If that doesn't get rid of the bug, you either die, or your own immune system has to deal wit it.
Amen. I've actually gotten to the point where I get angry when I hear my mother-in-law tell my wife to go get some antibiotics because she has a cold. I've tried calmly explaining to her that antibiotics don't do anything to help a cold, but she's so used to years of doctors prescribing them for such that she can't get over it.
I routinely suffer from sinusitis twice a year (when I turn on the heat and when I turn on the AC), so getting rid of infections is a big deal for me. I am not a doctor, but for the past couple years I've managed to completely avoid antibiotics. Instead, I take Echinacea and Goldenseal three times a day until the infection goes away. I've found that it's usually just about as effective as antibiotics, and since it's still my body that's doing all the work, there's no added fear of adaptation. Of course, this remedy wouldn't work if my immune system were in really bad shape.
Yes, but the article *should* have mentioned animal farming as one of the culprits. In my mind, reckless doping the animals with antibiotics is ultimately far worse than the mixing of antibiotics by drug users.
Yeah, you're right -- AWT is a major pain to work with. I wasn't aware that PJ 1.2 was limited to that environment. It seems like Sun could at least devise a scaled-down version of Swing to replace AWT in PJ. Although, some may consider AWT to *be* a scaled-down version of Swing.
Is this from personal experience? Or do you have an article to cite? Or is it just a troll?
A desktop operating system - especially one as unfriendly as Linux - does not automatically make a great consumer device OS
This is smelling more and more like a troll. The SL-5xxx series uses a form of embedded Linux, which is clearly not the same animal. Linux itself is the kernel. All the extra crap you get on top of it is part of the distribution. The 5xxx series doesn't use KDE. It doesn't use Gnome. None of the stuff that you would use to determine whether the desktop was friendly or not exists on this machine. Instead, they use an embedded version of Qt. If you'd like to cite some articles about disappointment with this approach, I'd be more than happy to change my opinion.
And the Java implementation was an out of date joke.
Out of date? Oh, now I know this is a troll; the 5xxx series uses PersonalJava 1.2, which is the same spec that is CURRENTLY available from Sun.
Basically Sharp didn't appear to care at all about the quality of the software on the 5500.
You know, I'd much rather have them concentrate on the hardware more. Software can always be replaced. I have a Compaq iPaq sitting at home in a drawer that no longer gets used. Why? Because the hardware is mostly junk. Low battery life. And it crashes if you look at it wrong, losing EVERYTHING on it. And the backup process was just too S-L-O-W to be worth it. It's just not reliable. At least this new unit is designed with the flash memory to hold your data, even in the event of a complete power failure. That would have been a nice feature on the iPaq (instead of having to buy a flash card).
Pardon my ignorance, but has anybody that uses this service ever had a situation where a movie they sent back was never received? What happens then?
I would suspect because a Mac can't run the Movie Manager software. Maybe after a while, they'll consider porting this piece of the puzzle to other platforms (not likely).
I think that pretty much gets the point across. Them's fightin' words. :-)
We're totally off-topic now, but I would suspect Ford's latest financial results are drive enough to convert their servers to Linux.
Since sit-ups constitute a highly repetitive task, wouldn't it be better if I just write a program to do them for me? That way, it'll free up my time for things which require more thought. :-)
<sarcasm>
You forgot to include the part about the secret alliance between the FSF and Microsoft. After all, the real function of the FSF is to invalidate intellectual property so that it can be used by MS.
</sarcasm>
Reading the article might be helpful. The concept doesn't use the reactive force of propellant leaving the vehicle. Instead, the vehicle is driven by lobbing antimatter toward a "sail" extended from the front of the vehicle. The sail is propelled by two forces: that from the reaction of the antimatter with the matter in the sail, and a secondary fission reaction with fissionable material impregnated into the sail. In effect, the sail just drags the rest of the vehicle along with it.
However, one thing I would be concerned about is the fact the space is not really a perfect vacuum. There *is* matter out there. What happens when the antimatter stream encounters other matter in space? I presume the rest of the vehicle would have to be built to withstand a nearby "misfire" in that case.
The list must be outdated. Pennsylvania has a "do not call" website now as well.
This is the approach I use until one of them tries to either convince me that they can't, or that it will take 3 months for the entry to take effect. That's when I go off the deep end and start yelling.