Are they going to reimburse me for buying extra RAM for my daughter's new Toshiba laptop that had 512 MB of RAM with Vista, officially offered for sale at a store that way, but with 64 MB of it reserved for video RAM, leaving the system with a whopping 448 MB of RAM? And it takes about 10 minutes to start up because the HDD is running virtually nonstop, thrashing as it pages in the minimal amount of stuff needed? And opening a web page or a simple program takes almost as long, for the same reason?
Someone decided that was a valid, acceptable configuration for a Windows Vista machine.
Is Linus a superstar programmer in the sense of this topic, or is he just a superstar organizer and promoter? Would he be likely to contribute meaningfully to cracking the alien code in Contact? Could he crank out a complete clone of Minefield in a few hours just for the hell of it?
> "The beckoning promise of personal fabrication".
I'll take a Shania Twain and Sela Ward, circa age 42, a Sandra Bullock circa age 38, and a Valeri Bertinelli circa age 25, all with nonsentient robot minds tuned to be physically in love with me...and each other.
Then a Kate Beckinsale fabrication knocks on the door, and she's Shania's daughter and, well, they miss each other so much...so very much...damnit, the future's gonna r00l!!!!!!!!!!! Where's that holodeck?!?!?
> The newfound filaments and sheets of dark matter form gigantic features stretching > across more than 270 million light-years of space
The Silver Surfer could surf that far in less than a second! Even if he created a black hole, which is easy to do, both Superman and the Hulk can hold a black hole in their hand!
Double bullshit. The same thing was said when oil drilling was first introducted in Alaska. Know what happened to oil prices? Nothing. Know why? Because the bulk of the oil had high sulphur content and so was shipped to Japan where their environmental laws were more lax than ours were at the time. Very little went to the U.S.
You do realize oil is an international thing, and that if some buffoon mandated Alaska oil all go to the US, that would drive down US oil prices, which would make foreign oil suppliers divert oil away froom the US to Japan or China or somewhere, which would pay more. US prices would go back up until they matched the world market prices.
There are some recalled politicians in California who'd like to have a word with you about the folly of mandating prices on commodities within your state with no control over external prices.
A 5% change in the sun's energy output (w.r.t. whatever frequencies warm the Earth) should cause about a 15 degree Celsius swing in average temperature (@roughly 300 Kelvin).
No, because that loses elections rather than wins them. Politics is a game of convincing the masses of concrete canyon dwellers that they're Good People for dictating how Alaskans and Montanans should use their land.
For a large sample of data that is in the general bell curve shape, that statement is statistically equivalent. You are dismissed, for that, and for misspelling several words along with improper grammar and capitalization.
See also: Brilliant plan by Democrats, announced today, to tax the profits of the evil oil companies.
Quite frankly, if I were an oil company, and had politicians getting elected promising to ram a pitchfork up my ass, all the while they claim they're gonna decimate oil with alternative fuels, I'd be dragging ass too in constructing new oil pipelines, infrastructure, refineries, and the like, when, if said politicians have their way, much of that new stuff'll be useless in a few years as oil use decreases and thus you cannot recoup your billions.
Screw that government and the people that elect it. Raise prices!
Do not mark this flamebait. This is a serious analysis. That it upsets you, well, read my.sig.
Destroying our environment and chances for survival?
Please list measures of actual human prosperity that are decreasing rather than increasing in support of the proposal that humanity is in danger, from anything other than government intervention. Please allow a granularity of at least 10 years, and preferrably somewhat longer.
California? Yeah, "I'm suing! Because of the oil companies, environmental change is wearing away my seaside mansion, and I've had to move my Escalade and Jaguar and Silver Cloud back 2000 yards down the driveway!"
I thought it was because we're trained to let whining kids slide on doing their homework, even as we fill them with complements as to how damned awesome-o they are.
They fled tyrrany to come to freedom so they could do more than just be a cog in some angry thug's low-end civilization? Assigned a job and given a dachau and allowed to keep stuff from the West in a bizarre aping of capitalism as a driving force, all the while the thug decries the evils of capitalism, as long as he keeps churning out Great Scientific Works (or keeps getting gold medals at teh Olympics)? Otherwise, go jam into that one room apartment with the rest of your family.
Uhhhh, yeah. Seems to me that sticking around in said country is much more of a traitor to your people, by continuing to support it, then fleeing at the first chance would be.
Massive flooding of the network could lead to a sudden burst, sustained power draw as hard drives and perhaps network electronics were taken to full capacity, and then some. If the power supply couldn't handle it, foomp! Especially an aging or perhaps poorly-tested or inadequate one for the total max load.
I doubt the pingbomber (or whatever it was) knew this would, or could happen. Still, it could raise charges from merely whatever DDOS penalties are to reckless or malicious destruction of property, if not outright endangering lives.
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Are they going to reimburse me for buying extra RAM for my daughter's new Toshiba laptop that had 512 MB of RAM with Vista, officially offered for sale at a store that way, but with 64 MB of it reserved for video RAM, leaving the system with a whopping 448 MB of RAM? And it takes about 10 minutes to start up because the HDD is running virtually nonstop, thrashing as it pages in the minimal amount of stuff needed? And opening a web page or a simple program takes almost as long, for the same reason?
Someone decided that was a valid, acceptable configuration for a Windows Vista machine.
Is Linus a superstar programmer in the sense of this topic, or is he just a superstar organizer and promoter? Would he be likely to contribute meaningfully to cracking the alien code in Contact? Could he crank out a complete clone of Minefield in a few hours just for the hell of it?
> Ask them who Knuth is.
Guy who wrote a trilogy of computer science algorithm standards.
> Just ask them who CowboyNeal is.
Slashdot editor and creator/subject of the intensly boring and unfunny "last choice" of Slashdot's poll.
- Next, ask them for their slashdot uid
No problem with that. I've even abandoned 3 with lower numbers.
- Engage them in open discussion in a thread or 3. Easy enough to do - just look at their profile page and track their latest comments.
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I love stuff like "Must have 5 years of Java experience" -- 2 years after Java was released.
Well, the "citizen scientists" have already created pages for Superman, Wolverine, and Magneto.
If the asteroid is known to be coming close, but missing, with high certainty, please do not "tag" it until after it goes by, thx bie.
> "The beckoning promise of personal fabrication".
I'll take a Shania Twain and Sela Ward, circa age 42, a Sandra Bullock circa age 38, and a Valeri Bertinelli circa age 25, all with nonsentient robot minds tuned to be physically in love with me...and each other.
Then a Kate Beckinsale fabrication knocks on the door, and she's Shania's daughter and, well, they miss each other so much...so very much...damnit, the future's gonna r00l!!!!!!!!!!! Where's that holodeck?!?!?
> The newfound filaments and sheets of dark matter form gigantic features stretching
> across more than 270 million light-years of space
The Silver Surfer could surf that far in less than a second! Even if he created a black hole, which is easy to do, both Superman and the Hulk can hold a black hole in their hand!
You do realize oil is an international thing, and that if some buffoon mandated Alaska oil all go to the US, that would drive down US oil prices, which would make foreign oil suppliers divert oil away froom the US to Japan or China or somewhere, which would pay more. US prices would go back up until they matched the world market prices.
There are some recalled politicians in California who'd like to have a word with you about the folly of mandating prices on commodities within your state with no control over external prices.
A 5% change in the sun's energy output (w.r.t. whatever frequencies warm the Earth) should cause about a 15 degree Celsius swing in average temperature (@roughly 300 Kelvin).
No, because that loses elections rather than wins them. Politics is a game of convincing the masses of concrete canyon dwellers that they're Good People for dictating how Alaskans and Montanans should use their land.
For a large sample of data that is in the general bell curve shape, that statement is statistically equivalent. You are dismissed, for that, and for misspelling several words along with improper grammar and capitalization.
See also: Brilliant plan by Democrats, announced today, to tax the profits of the evil oil companies.
.sig.
Quite frankly, if I were an oil company, and had politicians getting elected promising to ram a pitchfork up my ass, all the while they claim they're gonna decimate oil with alternative fuels, I'd be dragging ass too in constructing new oil pipelines, infrastructure, refineries, and the like, when, if said politicians have their way, much of that new stuff'll be useless in a few years as oil use decreases and thus you cannot recoup your billions.
Screw that government and the people that elect it. Raise prices!
Do not mark this flamebait. This is a serious analysis. That it upsets you, well, read my
Destroying our environment and chances for survival?
Please list measures of actual human prosperity that are decreasing rather than increasing in support of the proposal that humanity is in danger, from anything other than government intervention. Please allow a granularity of at least 10 years, and preferrably somewhat longer.
I won't be holding my breath.
California? Yeah, "I'm suing! Because of the oil companies, environmental change is wearing away my seaside mansion, and I've had to move my Escalade and Jaguar and Silver Cloud back 2000 yards down the driveway!"
Hold still while I slap you.
+1 hundred trillion, Insightful
Very well then. Consenting adults can get circumcised if they wish.
Please leave the non-consenting babies out of it, thx bie.
So it's illegal to do it in the UK unless the child is Muslim or Jewish?
I.e. moral relavatism rears it's ugly, ugly head. QED
Lifting a general plot outline and re-doing the characterization and dialog isn't "plagiarism" in the sense you're talking.
That's why these other versions by other people are just footnotes instead of things studied in English classes to this day.
I thought it was because we're trained to let whining kids slide on doing their homework, even as we fill them with complements as to how damned awesome-o they are.
...just keep your mouth shut.
They fled tyrrany to come to freedom so they could do more than just be a cog in some angry thug's low-end civilization? Assigned a job and given a dachau and allowed to keep stuff from the West in a bizarre aping of capitalism as a driving force, all the while the thug decries the evils of capitalism, as long as he keeps churning out Great Scientific Works (or keeps getting gold medals at teh Olympics)? Otherwise, go jam into that one room apartment with the rest of your family.
Uhhhh, yeah. Seems to me that sticking around in said country is much more of a traitor to your people, by continuing to support it, then fleeing at the first chance would be.
Yeah, those idiots! :rollseyes:
Massive flooding of the network could lead to a sudden burst, sustained power draw as hard drives and perhaps network electronics were taken to full capacity, and then some. If the power supply couldn't handle it, foomp! Especially an aging or perhaps poorly-tested or inadequate one for the total max load.
I doubt the pingbomber (or whatever it was) knew this would, or could happen. Still, it could raise charges from merely whatever DDOS penalties are to reckless or malicious destruction of property, if not outright endangering lives.