No flying until Wright brothers? Now I have heard everything... We didn't need Wright brothers to fly. Montgolfier brothers in France took people up much earlier. Of course, that was a hot air balloon... (No comment about French amount of hot air offered) Also otto Lilienthal (IIRC) built gliders before Wright brothers got their thing airborne. What we owe to Wrights is first flight under motorized power. That gave much more control to flying, but it doesn't mean that before them there was no way to fly...
Well, with a large enough bunch of correct identities, you could bring a whole shipment of people, with real papers, into harbor. No need to try to find the weak point of the border, just come straight in, let the cargo show the correct (but not theirs) ientities, and voila, one shipment in country, next one coming in soon....
Hmm... Got any links or something on where to find about those two Finns? I know of Matthias Rust's landing in Moscow dropped a lot of heads, but I didn't remember that thing in mid-70's. Not implausible, but just curious on details.
But were those the dark hours for NASA AND JPL? As opposed to NASA OR JPL join? Use some basic logical deduction, and you can see that he probably meant darkest for Nasa and JPL working together... But I might be off, an JPL has blame to take for those two accidents...
Could have been the one on whom Rambo was based. Of course, the part had to be rewritten a lot to make it acceptable for the white, american consumer to view...
This is a very goo idea. How could it work? Maybe some way to acquire a coding task, then way to submit your 'answer' for checking, and if it doesn't check out there'd be some hints on what didn't exactly 'fly'? I think it'd be a whole lot of trouble to set up, but it'd be really nice project. Maybe it could be started small with a mailing-list spreading the coding problems and some people doing the analysis of the submitted answer sources. Hmm... Now, what'd this take to set up? I'd like to enroll in this kind of coursework.
Hmm... I wonder what the English think of you turning Gulf stream to flow in reverse... A whole lot of people're going to complain, especially in Scotland, now that they don't have temperate weather anymore...
hat said, you think private corporations would be interested in space exploration? Think more on space exploitation... And minimal costs. So no fancy deep space probes, just stuff that can sniff where there's something the private sector needs for its short-time growth.
I think the problems here are these: 1) distributed.net can be configured to take also the non-idling cycles. 2) Distributed.net offers money prizes. 3) He didn't have permission, pure and simple.
Main problem probably is the money prizes, he used unauthorized computertime to have a chance making money. It's like someone loans your power tools to break into liquor store to rob the till.
If we got ALL the brilliant ones to agree, MS would be out of business in some time. But we'd also see brilliant programmers starve to death or get into fistfights over the few 'acceptable job opportunities' until we get rid of management in big customer corps who buy things only when it works on MS platform. Face it,a s long as someone buys MS based apps, there'll be MS platform. As long as there's platform, people in Purchasing will be purchasing MS platform based stuff.
Maybe we should start to educate the people who are in charge of purchasing, explain to them that even if Linux doesn't come with impressive-looking papersa (that bear no lialibity to the company that made the software the papers come with) it is actually more reliable than MS platform, and that yes, whatever app need they have, it's covered on Linux. (And hope as hell someone has done the cover-up, or cover it yourself before you talk to purchasing.)
I guess it's limited because of two points:
1) I am not involved in drug culture
2) Even if I was, i wouldn't use american english slang,
But as this was a joke, and I am not interested in learning drug slang, I will let this pass.
Yes, Loki has a (single) ton of games for Linux.
Problem is, there's about several tons worth fo games already developed or in development for Windows.
Not that quantity would rule out quality, but in a large quantity there's statistically higher chances for quality. Weak argument with Windows involved, I admit, since Windows warps laws of statistics around MS Profit. (Statistically, MS should already be dead, as it's really chancy for a company to stay in business while pissing off so many people...)
Just my 0.02E
Well, nothing bad in being selective on employer choosing. Too bad, if you are strictly and zealously against anything MS, you are cutting the possible employers in programming field down a lot. And those that can keep employing you even further down, I'd think? Face it, as long as MS 'rules' there's going to be more job opportunities regarding MS products than non-MS. Especially since the most of programming jobs with no MS taint would involve quite narrow specialized fields.
In The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones most episodes began with Indy recalling his history as an old, and I mean OLD, man. One-eyed, lot of scars. But I must admit, I liked the series, especially adventures during the First World War (Indy in Belgian military intelligence) and then Prohibition when Indy and Elliot Ness were in Chicago...
Well, persoal belief I have is that no matter how you gamble, you lose. Stocks, roulette, blackjack... Only some of the gams screw you way less. And of course, everyone is always cheating the gamblers.
Anyway, I am not sure I'd say the method I mentioned would maximize winnings in roulette, just minimize losses if I -have to- play...
I assume the target isn't to predict coming weather, but try to find out attractors for what kind of changes happen when the 'start situation dials' are turned a bit. Distributing these simulations to multiple units doing the simulations at the same time, then sending the results back to be centrally compared might (and probably will) give us some better models at predicting the way things are going to turn if we know data about the current situation.
Hmm... I assume that casinos wouldn't like me betting in roulette doing thing like this:
Assume 10 credits (dollars, diamonds, whatever of equal value)
5 credits on first third.
4 credits on second third.
1 credit on a row on the last third.
I think I used to calculate that this would give a bit of better chance of breaking even n roulette. Now, would this be unacceptable to the casinos? (Assume european roulette rules...:)
Umm... The lawyers don't think they add value, it's the law. See, in the Europe, there's this stupid tax, VAT, that is paid to the country where you buy something, no matter what. (Althought I think at least some countries exempt medicines from the tax...) In Finland, it's most commonly 22% of the value of purchase. So, when I pay my ADSL bill, I pay the actual bill and the taxes, and every n months, the company I paid my ADSL bill to gives the tax amount to Finnish tax office.
Nasty, but happens in Europe.
It happened twice in the last century 'cause American public didn't want to let their country get in early, but only after their own people were hurt. (Read Lusitania in regard of the First, Pearl harbour for the Second) If the United States of Cowardly Idiots had gotten on the bandwagon earlier, the wars might have been smaller. And who knows, maybe, with the current arrogant attitude of USA, the next big war will start with someone repeating Pearl, but this time being a bit more thorough with it?
The theory is not new nor surprising, but then, the theory is not the news here.
I see this here often, when something is news that relates to old theories on something. People mistake the old theory was the reason for news, when in fact the actualy news is that there is some new evidence pointing this way or that way, possibly strenghtening the theory's case or shooting it so full of holes it'll whistle in the wind...
It would be nice if people could separate the news and background in their thinking on: "What is this doing here, it's old already?"
Don't know if you have kept your eyes closed, but I have seen people drink contmainated water becuase they have nothing else to drink. That doesn't mean they have survived the experience, though.
The problem here is that it's not really client who does the 'highlighting'. People seem to assume that since it's the web browser (a client to the web server) it's also the person reading the web page that is benefitting from the 'smart links'. But what it really is, is M$ pushing their 'filter' between the web publisher and people who have/like to use M$ viewer to read the said web pages. In case it's a 'have to' situation, like some large organizations, it might be that the users are not allowed to fiddle with files like that one that contains those 'smart tags'. I have seen that happen when the sys administration, fed up with idiot users installing everything and it's beta on their computer complain when the system breaks down and admins have to sit on the system several days because they need to figure out non-standard paths and all. It's easier to disable any installation powers than to keep cleaning after idiots...
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No flying until Wright brothers? Now I have heard everything... We didn't need Wright brothers to fly. Montgolfier brothers in France took people up much earlier. Of course, that was a hot air balloon... (No comment about French amount of hot air offered) Also otto Lilienthal (IIRC) built gliders before Wright brothers got their thing airborne. What we owe to Wrights is first flight under motorized power. That gave much more control to flying, but it doesn't mean that before them there was no way to fly...
Well, with a large enough bunch of correct identities, you could bring a whole shipment of people, with real papers, into harbor. No need to try to find the weak point of the border, just come straight in, let the cargo show the correct (but not theirs) ientities, and voila, one shipment in country, next one coming in soon....
Hmm... Got any links or something on where to find about those two Finns? I know of Matthias Rust's landing in Moscow dropped a lot of heads, but I didn't remember that thing in mid-70's. Not implausible, but just curious on details.
But were those the dark hours for NASA AND JPL? As opposed to NASA OR JPL join? Use some basic logical deduction, and you can see that he probably meant darkest for Nasa and JPL working together... But I might be off, an JPL has blame to take for those two accidents...
Could have been the one on whom Rambo was based. Of course, the part had to be rewritten a lot to make it acceptable for the white, american consumer to view...
This is a very goo idea. How could it work? Maybe some way to acquire a coding task, then way to submit your 'answer' for checking, and if it doesn't check out there'd be some hints on what didn't exactly 'fly'? I think it'd be a whole lot of trouble to set up, but it'd be really nice project. Maybe it could be started small with a mailing-list spreading the coding problems and some people doing the analysis of the submitted answer sources. Hmm... Now, what'd this take to set up? I'd like to enroll in this kind of coursework.
Hmm... I wonder what the English think of you turning Gulf stream to flow in reverse... A whole lot of people're going to complain, especially in Scotland, now that they don't have temperate weather anymore...
hat said, you think private corporations would be interested in space exploration? Think more on space exploitation... And minimal costs. So no fancy deep space probes, just stuff that can sniff where there's something the private sector needs for its short-time growth.
I think the problems here are these: 1) distributed.net can be configured to take also the non-idling cycles. 2) Distributed.net offers money prizes. 3) He didn't have permission, pure and simple. Main problem probably is the money prizes, he used unauthorized computertime to have a chance making money. It's like someone loans your power tools to break into liquor store to rob the till.
Maybe we should start to educate the people who are in charge of purchasing, explain to them that even if Linux doesn't come with impressive-looking papersa (that bear no lialibity to the company that made the software the papers come with) it is actually more reliable than MS platform, and that yes, whatever app need they have, it's covered on Linux. (And hope as hell someone has done the cover-up, or cover it yourself before you talk to purchasing.)
I guess it's limited because of two points:
1) I am not involved in drug culture
2) Even if I was, i wouldn't use american english slang,
But as this was a joke, and I am not interested in learning drug slang, I will let this pass.
Yes, Loki has a (single) ton of games for Linux.
Problem is, there's about several tons worth fo games already developed or in development for Windows.
Not that quantity would rule out quality, but in a large quantity there's statistically higher chances for quality. Weak argument with Windows involved, I admit, since Windows warps laws of statistics around MS Profit. (Statistically, MS should already be dead, as it's really chancy for a company to stay in business while pissing off so many people...)
Just my 0.02E
Well, nothing bad in being selective on employer choosing. Too bad, if you are strictly and zealously against anything MS, you are cutting the possible employers in programming field down a lot. And those that can keep employing you even further down, I'd think? Face it, as long as MS 'rules' there's going to be more job opportunities regarding MS products than non-MS. Especially since the most of programming jobs with no MS taint would involve quite narrow specialized fields.
Guess I have to make a crank call here... You prbably meant the word that could also mean 'structural surface defect' ie. crack?
Something in order of 'Raise the Titanic' based on Clive Cussler's book? Hohumm... Done and flopped out of memory of people, I think?
In The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones most episodes began with Indy recalling his history as an old, and I mean OLD, man. One-eyed, lot of scars. But I must admit, I liked the series, especially adventures during the First World War (Indy in Belgian military intelligence) and then Prohibition when Indy and Elliot Ness were in Chicago...
Anyway, I am not sure I'd say the method I mentioned would maximize winnings in roulette, just minimize losses if I -have to- play...
I assume the target isn't to predict coming weather, but try to find out attractors for what kind of changes happen when the 'start situation dials' are turned a bit. Distributing these simulations to multiple units doing the simulations at the same time, then sending the results back to be centrally compared might (and probably will) give us some better models at predicting the way things are going to turn if we know data about the current situation.
Assume 10 credits (dollars, diamonds, whatever of equal value)
5 credits on first third.
4 credits on second third.
1 credit on a row on the last third.
I think I used to calculate that this would give a bit of better chance of breaking even n roulette. Now, would this be unacceptable to the casinos? (Assume european roulette rules...:)
Umm... The lawyers don't think they add value, it's the law. See, in the Europe, there's this stupid tax, VAT, that is paid to the country where you buy something, no matter what. (Althought I think at least some countries exempt medicines from the tax...) In Finland, it's most commonly 22% of the value of purchase. So, when I pay my ADSL bill, I pay the actual bill and the taxes, and every n months, the company I paid my ADSL bill to gives the tax amount to Finnish tax office. Nasty, but happens in Europe.
It happened twice in the last century 'cause American public didn't want to let their country get in early, but only after their own people were hurt. (Read Lusitania in regard of the First, Pearl harbour for the Second) If the United States of Cowardly Idiots had gotten on the bandwagon earlier, the wars might have been smaller. And who knows, maybe, with the current arrogant attitude of USA, the next big war will start with someone repeating Pearl, but this time being a bit more thorough with it?
I see this here often, when something is news that relates to old theories on something. People mistake the old theory was the reason for news, when in fact the actualy news is that there is some new evidence pointing this way or that way, possibly strenghtening the theory's case or shooting it so full of holes it'll whistle in the wind...
It would be nice if people could separate the news and background in their thinking on: "What is this doing here, it's old already?"
Don't know if you have kept your eyes closed, but I have seen people drink contmainated water becuase they have nothing else to drink. That doesn't mean they have survived the experience, though.
The problem here is that it's not really client who does the 'highlighting'. People seem to assume that since it's the web browser (a client to the web server) it's also the person reading the web page that is benefitting from the 'smart links'. But what it really is, is M$ pushing their 'filter' between the web publisher and people who have/like to use M$ viewer to read the said web pages. In case it's a 'have to' situation, like some large organizations, it might be that the users are not allowed to fiddle with files like that one that contains those 'smart tags'. I have seen that happen when the sys administration, fed up with idiot users installing everything and it's beta on their computer complain when the system breaks down and admins have to sit on the system several days because they need to figure out non-standard paths and all. It's easier to disable any installation powers than to keep cleaning after idiots...