If YOU had a cell phone and YOU had something that you deemed important enough to talk to someone about wherever you were, who do you care about most? Your job, your success in business, or some nearby person who you'll never see again, and who has some kind of insane twisted fixation on someone else talking on a cell phone? Seriously...I don't mind when other people are talking on their cell phones. You guys are acting like nut cases here. Why don't you pick something else to notice about other people and hassle them about, like loud footsteps, breathing, blinking too much, not laughing the same way you do, or anything else that will send you into a blind rage? Psychos.
On virtually any other point about Microsoft I would likely agree with you, but on this one, you're wrong.
At this location on Microsoft's web site you can download the Word 97/2000 Viewer. It runs on 95, NT, 2000, and XP. You can also search "viewer" on Microsoft's web site and come up with viewers for their other applications, including a version of Word Viewer that works on Windows 3.1. I've tested the viewer and it works fine. Many government sites actually offer a download or link to get the Word Viewer.
There's nothing wrong with bashing Microsoft over their bloated software, or Machiavellian anti-competition tactics, but this time you just threw this assertion out that was entirely false.
One interesting addendum to the above: SUSE Linux to receive international EAL2 rating. Since SUSE is owned by Novell now, it also has the backing of a company that had, at least some time ago, the most popular network suite in corporations. Still in use a lot of places, actually.
Actually it's possible...I've opened my laptop lots of times and repaired problems such as a blank screen or non-charging battery (tracked down and replaced a missing SMD resistor, and identified a blown SMD fuse, respectively). That's because it's out of warranty now. However, it had a 4-year warranty...it was heavily used during that period and had many parts replaced, including the screen and nearly two entire outer casing replacements. I DID have a padded case, it was just around a busy engineering student 24/7 and naturally got beat up. So I wholeheartedly recommend getting the maximum warranty, it saved me probably $1,500 in parts, let alone having to replace the thing.
But if you're up a creek without a paddle, there IS always eBay. You can continually watch for parts or entire nonfunctioning laptops for parts. Hard drives and memory can be purchased anywhere, everything else you need to find someone parting out a laptop. Sometimes a screen or other submodule will work in multiple models of laptops from the same manufacturer.
All it takes is an M.D., several weeks, and a few inches to make the difference.
Why not? Why can't mothers terminate their unwanted children? All the same arguments work; no time to properly care for the child, doesn't have a daddy and she wants him/her to grow up with a daddy, finances are tight and can't afford a kid. These arguments are valid for any dependent children. It would be an awfully strange world where you can't spank your kids but you can have an M.D. give them a painless injection. Right now we're only a few inches and weeks away from that world.
I remember someone on here, a while back during one of the SCO stories, wondered what would happen if Microsoft released the source code, but under such a devious license that contamination would be fatal to an open-source project.
Maybe someone at Microsoft thought that was a neat idea.
*** CONSPIRACY THEORY END ***
As far as looking at the code: the only real reason to examine it is to find new exploits. No developer is going to slave over that source in order to find bugs and repair them, since there is no legal way to do it.
It take two people to conceive a life. It should also take two people to decide to not go through with bringing that life to full term in this world. With that said, the mother in this case has more power to pull the plug, but in a normal relationship, this should be a mutual decision, and not something in which he has no input at all.
Really? That's great. You live a perfect world. But if you look around yourself a bit more, you'll find lots of other things you can fix by equating "should" with reality.
Tell me - *exactly* when does a "human embryo" become a "human"?
It's the simplest question in the world. You want the truth? You want to know exactly when an embryo or fetus becomes a human?
It becomes a human the moment that the woman carrying it decides she wants it, and it is a tragedy if something goes wrong. She'll sing to it, look at the sonographs, eat right, and buy baby supplies.
If she doesn't want it, it's a simply a piece of extra tissue and can be terminated and disposed of.
Got it? Good.
By the way, the father's view on the issue either way happens to be irrelevant.
Here's the plan: Set up little script to email yourself in about ten minutes. Then start the demonstration. Conclude by stating that the speed of the connection is so high, that the interfrequency lightwave convergence effect results in small but measurable relativistic effects.
Prove this by checking your email across the link, where you have an email dated five minutes into the future! Sure enough, five minutes later, the email comes in on your other computer.
Silent keyboards are easy to find; those roll-up ones would be a good choice and you can stow it away for daytime keyboarding with your favorite clicky keyboard.
For the mouse, I suggest using a touch pad. Some come with mappable areas that you could configure as the right mouse button. Left-clicking/tapping should be completely silent. Sure, a touchpad is no good for FPS games, but you should be keeping your roommate awake while you play games either!
I don't have any sympathy for the light problem. When I was in college, I averaged four to five hours of sleep on a good night. I could, and often did, sleep with the room fluorescents on full blast.
Ok, I'll bite: if the Indians perceive this as merely putting the fat Americans in their place, maybe they should remember that all those fat Americans somehow, in spite of their slothlike lazy habits, produced all the wealth that countries like India are siphoning out. And if they don't care about the fate of American workers, why should we care about theirs? "Oh, it's only serving to equalize the number of jobs, and the wealth." Come on! The cost of living in America is very high compared to that in India. You have to spend a lot of money to survive. While programmers in India get wages that allow them to buy large houses and retain servants, the average tech worker here is struggling to hold down a two-bedroom and make car and student loan payments.
Ah, so first you make a couple of claims that are based only on conjecture, one of which actually works against your claim; then you realize they are not convincing enough, so you close the argument by saying "And if you don't agree with this, you are ignorant?" Silly you, don't you realize the sun revolves around the earth? It's scientific fact. And the smallest possible particles are protons, neutrons, and electrons, all of which are indivisible? This gets back to the post that started this thread; you must not cling too tightly to what are thought as scientifically proven facts. If you do, soon you lose track of why you think a certain thing, and only focus on the fact that you do believe it.
There's a little concept I came up with, called "The Theory of Evolution of The Theory of Evolution." It is possible to take the identical principles that evolutionists claim shaped living species, and apply them to the development of the theory itself. You take a stress; in this case, perhaps a desire to prove the concept of creation wrong, for whatever reasons. So you float a few arguments, look for examples that support your point. Some of these arguments and examples will be thrown out, or disproved, so you move to arguments that require more and more effort to throw out and disprove. Over many years, and across many researchers and scholars, a gradual building of knowledge is gathered. Bones are assembled, animals are conjectured from these bones, dating methods developed. And all the while, the theory itself is evolving: a certain nook in a fossil looks slightly different if the viewer assumes evolution is taking place. The more firmly set that theory becomes, the bolder the scientist can become in making assertions that are based on assumed evolutionary principles. Eventually, the theory itself is no longer subject to questioning. The words "probably" and "might have" become read as "definitely" and "did." Theories that were easy to disprove fell away, and the ones that survive are based on thousands of observations, each successively building upon the next with the assumption of evolution coloring how the results are perceived, and those results applied to future observations. At the end, you have evolved an entire system that is based on a single belief, but that belief has influenced so many successive observations that everything is taken as an item of proof. Unfortunately, you are no longer left with a simple way to prove the theory; all that is left is blind faith and name-calling, as you have shown here.
Ummm, no, what I am looking for is the continous process, instead of the discrete differences. Are you saying that my mistake is not assuming there is a continous process in the first place? To prove evolution, do you have to first assume that there is a continous process in between the different steps, even if there isn't direct proof of that?
What is the source for your incremental whale evolution evidence? I haven't seen variations that are close enough, or else they are so close as to be possible with varying genetic trait expression.
Actually, I'd like to see the proof involving fossils. Why are fossils of complete, different animals incredibly common, yet fossils of incremental intermediate species are so impossibly rare, and always extrapolated from small fragments of bone or proven to be hoaxes? Shouldn't the intermediate species make up the overwhelming bulk of all fossils?
I'm not saying anything one way or another, but I have yet to find anyone able to explain that to me. With the current theories, either a supernatural force came and put complete species here, or a supernatural force came and removed the intermediate products of evolution.
What is the level of actual interest in technology? Is it merely seen as a way to get money, or Indians going into it because they have a real interest and curiosity?
I started a Robotics Meetup in the hopes of getting robotics clubs running in places that don't have them, but it hasn't been very successful. Only 82 members worldwide. However, of the top five cities, three are Indian, the top two being Mumbai and New Delhi with 11 and 10 members respectively. I just want to know if this is a factor of high population, or if Indians are entering technology because they enjoy it.
Support is absolutely dismal. It's actually the same way for many of Sprint's phones. For about two years, developers on Sprint's Developer Forums have begged and begged for even a hint of the data sync protocols. The USB cables have a serial converter, and appear as another com port...but SyncML doesn't work, random AT codes don't work, nothing. Finally, FutureDial managed to get support, but all you can do is sync contacts. And these phones have nice calendars, alarms, countdown timers, SMS, notepads, ringers, wallpaper...none of which can be accessed. Sprint JUST came out with a contact syncing program, which is actually FutureDial's program. Other phones have had this for years and years, you can upload applications, ringers, etc. Nokia has been pretty decent about this, realizing that customers might actually want to use their phones now, instead of waiting two years for an basic contact sync application you still have to plunk cash down for.
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I think the old adage needs to be updated: If you want to eat sausage, obey the laws, and use C#, you should never watch them being made.
I once put Windows 95 on a 386DX-25 with 8MB of RAM. I had to transfer the install files in with the parallel port, and before that, I had to DoubleSpace the drive to get the install files and Windows on the same hard disk.
It actually ran OK, you could surf the web in IE 3, play Soltaire and draw crooked smilies in Paintbrush. I even splurged and used the red brick tile wallpaper.
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If YOU had a cell phone and YOU had something that you deemed important enough to talk to someone about wherever you were, who do you care about most? Your job, your success in business, or some nearby person who you'll never see again, and who has some kind of insane twisted fixation on someone else talking on a cell phone? Seriously...I don't mind when other people are talking on their cell phones. You guys are acting like nut cases here. Why don't you pick something else to notice about other people and hassle them about, like loud footsteps, breathing, blinking too much, not laughing the same way you do, or anything else that will send you into a blind rage? Psychos.
On virtually any other point about Microsoft I would likely agree with you, but on this one, you're wrong.
At this location on Microsoft's web site you can download the Word 97/2000 Viewer. It runs on 95, NT, 2000, and XP. You can also search "viewer" on Microsoft's web site and come up with viewers for their other applications, including a version of Word Viewer that works on Windows 3.1. I've tested the viewer and it works fine. Many government sites actually offer a download or link to get the Word Viewer.
There's nothing wrong with bashing Microsoft over their bloated software, or Machiavellian anti-competition tactics, but this time you just threw this assertion out that was entirely false.
Sooo..."CmdrTaco" is actually the name his mother gave him at birth, and "Rob Malda" is his internet pseudonym?
I once had a teacher whose recurring theme, loudly stated in every applicable situation plus several more, was that "INTUITION SUCKS!!!"
I never did get around to asking him how he knew that, or if it was kind of a gut feeling he had.
One interesting addendum to the above: SUSE Linux to receive international EAL2 rating. Since SUSE is owned by Novell now, it also has the backing of a company that had, at least some time ago, the most popular network suite in corporations. Still in use a lot of places, actually.
Actually it's possible...I've opened my laptop lots of times and repaired problems such as a blank screen or non-charging battery (tracked down and replaced a missing SMD resistor, and identified a blown SMD fuse, respectively). That's because it's out of warranty now. However, it had a 4-year warranty...it was heavily used during that period and had many parts replaced, including the screen and nearly two entire outer casing replacements. I DID have a padded case, it was just around a busy engineering student 24/7 and naturally got beat up. So I wholeheartedly recommend getting the maximum warranty, it saved me probably $1,500 in parts, let alone having to replace the thing.
But if you're up a creek without a paddle, there IS always eBay. You can continually watch for parts or entire nonfunctioning laptops for parts. Hard drives and memory can be purchased anywhere, everything else you need to find someone parting out a laptop. Sometimes a screen or other submodule will work in multiple models of laptops from the same manufacturer.
All it takes is an M.D., several weeks, and a few inches to make the difference.
Why not? Why can't mothers terminate their unwanted children? All the same arguments work; no time to properly care for the child, doesn't have a daddy and she wants him/her to grow up with a daddy, finances are tight and can't afford a kid. These arguments are valid for any dependent children. It would be an awfully strange world where you can't spank your kids but you can have an M.D. give them a painless injection. Right now we're only a few inches and weeks away from that world.
*** CONSPIRACY THEORY BEGIN ***
I remember someone on here, a while back during one of the SCO stories, wondered what would happen if Microsoft released the source code, but under such a devious license that contamination would be fatal to an open-source project.
Maybe someone at Microsoft thought that was a neat idea.
*** CONSPIRACY THEORY END ***
As far as looking at the code: the only real reason to examine it is to find new exploits. No developer is going to slave over that source in order to find bugs and repair them, since there is no legal way to do it.
The fact that you are asking yourself those questions is the reason I posted this.
It take two people to conceive a life. It should also take two people to decide to not go through with bringing that life to full term in this world. With that said, the mother in this case has more power to pull the plug, but in a normal relationship, this should be a mutual decision, and not something in which he has no input at all.
Really? That's great. You live a perfect world. But if you look around yourself a bit more, you'll find lots of other things you can fix by equating "should" with reality.
Tell me - *exactly* when does a "human embryo" become a "human"?
It's the simplest question in the world. You want the truth? You want to know exactly when an embryo or fetus becomes a human?
It becomes a human the moment that the woman carrying it decides she wants it, and it is a tragedy if something goes wrong. She'll sing to it, look at the sonographs, eat right, and buy baby supplies.
If she doesn't want it, it's a simply a piece of extra tissue and can be terminated and disposed of.
Got it? Good.
By the way, the father's view on the issue either way happens to be irrelevant.
Time machine? Great idea!
Here's the plan: Set up little script to email yourself in about ten minutes. Then start the demonstration. Conclude by stating that the speed of the connection is so high, that the interfrequency lightwave convergence effect results in small but measurable relativistic effects.
Prove this by checking your email across the link, where you have an email dated five minutes into the future! Sure enough, five minutes later, the email comes in on your other computer.
Silent keyboards are easy to find; those roll-up ones would be a good choice and you can stow it away for daytime keyboarding with your favorite clicky keyboard.
For the mouse, I suggest using a touch pad. Some come with mappable areas that you could configure as the right mouse button. Left-clicking/tapping should be completely silent. Sure, a touchpad is no good for FPS games, but you should be keeping your roommate awake while you play games either!
I don't have any sympathy for the light problem. When I was in college, I averaged four to five hours of sleep on a good night. I could, and often did, sleep with the room fluorescents on full blast.
Ok, I'll bite: if the Indians perceive this as merely putting the fat Americans in their place, maybe they should remember that all those fat Americans somehow, in spite of their slothlike lazy habits, produced all the wealth that countries like India are siphoning out. And if they don't care about the fate of American workers, why should we care about theirs? "Oh, it's only serving to equalize the number of jobs, and the wealth." Come on! The cost of living in America is very high compared to that in India. You have to spend a lot of money to survive. While programmers in India get wages that allow them to buy large houses and retain servants, the average tech worker here is struggling to hold down a two-bedroom and make car and student loan payments.
Ah, so first you make a couple of claims that are based only on conjecture, one of which actually works against your claim; then you realize they are not convincing enough, so you close the argument by saying "And if you don't agree with this, you are ignorant?" Silly you, don't you realize the sun revolves around the earth? It's scientific fact. And the smallest possible particles are protons, neutrons, and electrons, all of which are indivisible? This gets back to the post that started this thread; you must not cling too tightly to what are thought as scientifically proven facts. If you do, soon you lose track of why you think a certain thing, and only focus on the fact that you do believe it.
There's a little concept I came up with, called "The Theory of Evolution of The Theory of Evolution." It is possible to take the identical principles that evolutionists claim shaped living species, and apply them to the development of the theory itself. You take a stress; in this case, perhaps a desire to prove the concept of creation wrong, for whatever reasons. So you float a few arguments, look for examples that support your point. Some of these arguments and examples will be thrown out, or disproved, so you move to arguments that require more and more effort to throw out and disprove. Over many years, and across many researchers and scholars, a gradual building of knowledge is gathered. Bones are assembled, animals are conjectured from these bones, dating methods developed. And all the while, the theory itself is evolving: a certain nook in a fossil looks slightly different if the viewer assumes evolution is taking place. The more firmly set that theory becomes, the bolder the scientist can become in making assertions that are based on assumed evolutionary principles. Eventually, the theory itself is no longer subject to questioning. The words "probably" and "might have" become read as "definitely" and "did." Theories that were easy to disprove fell away, and the ones that survive are based on thousands of observations, each successively building upon the next with the assumption of evolution coloring how the results are perceived, and those results applied to future observations. At the end, you have evolved an entire system that is based on a single belief, but that belief has influenced so many successive observations that everything is taken as an item of proof. Unfortunately, you are no longer left with a simple way to prove the theory; all that is left is blind faith and name-calling, as you have shown here.
Ummm, no, what I am looking for is the continous process, instead of the discrete differences. Are you saying that my mistake is not assuming there is a continous process in the first place? To prove evolution, do you have to first assume that there is a continous process in between the different steps, even if there isn't direct proof of that?
What is the source for your incremental whale evolution evidence? I haven't seen variations that are close enough, or else they are so close as to be possible with varying genetic trait expression.
Actually, I'd like to see the proof involving fossils. Why are fossils of complete, different animals incredibly common, yet fossils of incremental intermediate species are so impossibly rare, and always extrapolated from small fragments of bone or proven to be hoaxes? Shouldn't the intermediate species make up the overwhelming bulk of all fossils?
I'm not saying anything one way or another, but I have yet to find anyone able to explain that to me. With the current theories, either a supernatural force came and put complete species here, or a supernatural force came and removed the intermediate products of evolution.
What is the level of actual interest in technology? Is it merely seen as a way to get money, or Indians going into it because they have a real interest and curiosity?
I started a Robotics Meetup in the hopes of getting robotics clubs running in places that don't have them, but it hasn't been very successful. Only 82 members worldwide. However, of the top five cities, three are Indian, the top two being Mumbai and New Delhi with 11 and 10 members respectively. I just want to know if this is a factor of high population, or if Indians are entering technology because they enjoy it.
And your point is?
Things that contain water often look crystalline when, oh, I don't know, they're frozen?
Support is absolutely dismal. It's actually the same way for many of Sprint's phones. For about two years, developers on Sprint's Developer Forums have begged and begged for even a hint of the data sync protocols. The USB cables have a serial converter, and appear as another com port...but SyncML doesn't work, random AT codes don't work, nothing. Finally, FutureDial managed to get support, but all you can do is sync contacts. And these phones have nice calendars, alarms, countdown timers, SMS, notepads, ringers, wallpaper...none of which can be accessed. Sprint JUST came out with a contact syncing program, which is actually FutureDial's program. Other phones have had this for years and years, you can upload applications, ringers, etc. Nokia has been pretty decent about this, realizing that customers might actually want to use their phones now, instead of waiting two years for an basic contact sync application you still have to plunk cash down for.
I think the old adage needs to be updated: If you want to eat sausage, obey the laws, and use C#, you should never watch them being made.
That machine is like a Cray compared to a 386DX-25. They would sell machines like that in stores, running Windows 95.
I once put Windows 95 on a 386DX-25 with 8MB of RAM. I had to transfer the install files in with the parallel port, and before that, I had to DoubleSpace the drive to get the install files and Windows on the same hard disk.
It actually ran OK, you could surf the web in IE 3, play Soltaire and draw crooked smilies in Paintbrush. I even splurged and used the red brick tile wallpaper.