I don't see how that would be possible, considering we have the Western world's absolute stupidest politicians, who are chosen by the Western world's most fervently anti-intellectual electorate.
Cost of Cassini mission per day (max): $821,917.81 Cost of Iraq War per day (min): $225,563,909.77 Cassini mission body count (since 10/15/97): 0 Iraq war body count (since 3/19/03) (min): 15,094
Anybody can present the numbers. But who's listening, really?
Gee, am I glad we're spending what remaining money we have left as a country blowing up Brown People instead of funding more projects like this. I'll tell ya... seeing those flag-draped coffins is much more gratifying than these silly pictures.
Er.
Oh, yeah... I'm also happy we spent all that money to fill in the hole we had already dug for the SSC. Now that's priorites, baby!
TV is dying, folks. While the symptoms may not be outwardly apparent yet, the insides are rotting away like so much necrotic carcinoma. How much longer can TV keep going while a greater and greater (what is it now, over half?) part of the US (and world) establishes broadband connectivity?
Do you think people can split themselves in two?
TV already shot itself in the foot when it spawned 400-channel versions of itself and divided up the interest by its newfound extra channels. All that's left now is to watch as the shows go to crap, the heads roll and the whole burgeoning monstrosity becomes cannibalized by BigBand.
Am I the only one who thinks that case isn't, um, how to put this, worthy of its own/. article? For Crissakes, it's not even a proper hypercube! I know it's the holidays and everyone's all fat 'n' content, but can't you come up with better filler than this?
OK, so you can't make a friggin' hypercube... But then don't call it that! Sheesh! And if you *must* use the name, can't you make it more interesting than just some white lights shining through plexiglass? How about some mirrors or something inside to at least mimic the illusion of having an actual tesseract case?
So lessee... it's possible to hack a bluetooth phone from over a mile away so that it can be used without the owner actually ever even knowing about it and people are surprised the protocol's being dropped?
Actually, this could be the biggest sea-change in years. Major change comes slowly but surely (see: Google) and the significance of a functioning-out-of-the-box Linux laptop install (where problematic wireless issues most often arise) cannot be overstated.
Much can be said for how far Linux has come, but there's a long way to go, especially where finding and configuring hardware is concerned. (Don't reply with the sycophantic "Have you seen how good kxxxawsum is?"; yes, I have.) This looks like a major step.
No, but Redmond wasn't releasing betas with that title either, were they? And if they were to start talking now about new projects titled ShortHorn, HungShort, or LongAndShortOfIt, don't think I wouldn't post a similar critique!
I recently bought a D-Link 802.11g+ card. The loaf at Best Buy expressed doubts about whether D-Link's 108Mbps "protocol" (compression, etc on regular g) would work with Netgear's 108Mbps protocol and he suggested I buy the same company's brand for the entire network.
Naturally, I ignored him. It works fine.
If D-Link can keep making devices that perform reliably and interact correctly with those of other manufacturers, I say "Great!"
It never ceases to disappoint to see just how stupid our country is getting. Here we are in the midst of the biggest internal and external disaster this country has seen in a long time, and there are still buffoons credible enough to believe otherwise.
Let's go down the list here, shall we?
"Could you elaborate on why you think the current President is dumber than Dan Quayle?" Because we have far more evidence of Chimpdick's stupidity than that of Quayle's - though it's very, very close.
"Although there are a few issues I disagree with Bush on, (Microsoft case being one) I hate to think what we would have done if Gore would have been elected. We probably would be paying the Afgan people not to hurt us anymore." This must draw lots of laughs when you post it on your Neanderthal freeper sites, but here, it just looks like you're talking out of your self-centered ass. Care to provide any evidence to back up your assertion? Are you really this thick or are you just trolling?
"In my opinion one of the worst leaders of the U.S. was the smartest (Jimmy Carter)." Thankfully, you are at least aware that it is an opinion, not a statement of fact.
"So I would also contend that you can't draw just upon intelligence as a determining factor of leadership." So you admit Shrub is an idiot? Brilliant.
"I do have to say that I find most Liberals view of conservatives funny." I do have to say that no one here cares. Next.
"But when you compare republicans to democrats over the last few years, I think you will see that the democrates haven't put up the brightest people either." Ah, the You-Did-It-Too Argument. Brilliant.
"Bush VS Gore. Neither one seems that bright to me." I fear for your child. Thank goodness you only had one.
"I have read Gores first book and I can say that it must be easy to write a book that just quotes other people..." You obviously read a lot. But please, go on.
"Bush VS Clinton. Well if I was looking on ways to seduce under age women Clinton would win, but overall, about the same." Sure, if you ignore foreign policy, the economy, human rights, intelligence and affability, international respect, leadership, vision and effectiveness. The level of ignorance necessary to write such a statement is breathtaking.
"Regan VS Mondale - Well... today I would probably choose Mondale, (bad joke) but back in the 80's Regan." You can't even spell the name of your favorite sock puppet. Congratulations.
"Reagan VS ??? - Forget the guy, but he seemed Intelligent at the time. But given that he got crushed... I will have to take Reagan." Well, surprise, surprise! It turns out you base your opinions on what others think! Shocking! Here I was thinking you were capable of independent thought!
"Reagan VS Carter - Carter wins. Too bad he was the worst president in the last 40 years." Could you share your categories for "worst", please, Meat Puppet?
"Someone please tell him that we still have oil, and the year is 2003. God I loved gas rationing, and negotiating with terrorist." Little wonder then, that you love Chimp and Cheney. They've been negotiating contracts with "the terrorists" all along. Surely, you know this?
"I could keep going back, but you get the idea." Certainly do. You're a brainless load with not a jot of original thought in your post. You enjoy being a brainless load and are in fact proud enough of it to post it to the world. Congratulations. Again.
"I will give GW credit for one thing, he does make decisions on what he believes to be correct." Uh, who doesn't? What a profoundly idiotic thing to say.
"He doesn't let the press or polls dictate his decisions." Right. Which is why he and his junta have spent a record-breaking amount of money on polling. Uneducated twit.
But this was so flagrant; it was almost exactly 24 hours after the memepool entry. Not only was it a repeat, it was a very late repeat. And it's not the first time.
I realize it may be a little "late", but can you explain just why the GCC version has to be the same? Isn't executable code just executable code? They're not sharing libraries, are they?
This ought to work wonders with MS's fast user switching.
Hell, you should be able to set up a crude animation by using each account as a framebuffer in sequence and then loading up a couple a' employess with some nitrous!
Have you ever seen what happens when you put rubber into liquid nitrogen? Now extrapolate that to a few degrees Kelvin and you'll see why this idea (lovely as it might be otherwise) is DOA.
Good point. I'm not claiming it would be an easy thing to do, but the "it's too hard" mentality always succombs to the pressures of progress anyway. We may as well start thinking about that next thing now. Face it, the ethernet cables in those downtown towers will fry under the data loads which will likely be the norm in ten-twenty years; let's at least prepare for the replacement that will surely come. It should be generic (non-specialized) to delay the next replacement cycle by as long as possible.
Can anyone please tell me what the point of putting real juice down Ethernet would be? Isn't Ethernet like 30 years old? Why don't we come up with a new FireWire/USB type plug with a configurable interface, set it up with +5V, +12V, Ground, Data Send and Data Check, set up generic, open hardware-level frames capable of wrapping all other protocols and a spankin' new cable/plug combo which would shield the voltage lines? I mean, Christ, let's move on. Why are people still talking about Ethernet? Oh, and a better endplug would be nice; one that releases with a sharp jerk, stays put with a slow tug and has a satisfying, soft "click" when engaged.
I realize I will get downmodded for this, but I am being quite serious.
First, the leading distributors, including MDK, RH, and SUSE, have scored some LARGE maintenance/support contracts lately (you've read about Munich, right?).
Of course. And why do you think that happened? It's because all the distros you named have created specific, industry-appealing packages of themselves. You've essentially proven my point. And if these distros continue to move that way, more and more attention will fall to making the distro adapt to business usage and less and less will go to appealing to the home geeks. This is self-evident, no?
Can you please tell me who these "big boys" are, and how FOSS users will be forced to ride in the same car with those M$ billionaire criminal monopolists?
I don't really understand how your question applies to what I said, but the "big boys" are any and all large-cap companies that currently invest huge amounts of money for their IT. In other words, not the home user.
I also admit to a total confusion as to why you feel my post was "FUDsterish".
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I don't see how that would be possible, considering we have the Western world's absolute stupidest politicians, who are chosen by the Western world's most fervently anti-intellectual electorate.
Cost of Cassini mission per day (max): $821,917.81
Cost of Iraq War per day (min): $225,563,909.77
Cassini mission body count (since 10/15/97): 0
Iraq war body count (since 3/19/03) (min): 15,094
Anybody can present the numbers. But who's listening, really?
Gee, am I glad we're spending what remaining money we have left as a country blowing up Brown People instead of funding more projects like this. I'll tell ya... seeing those flag-draped coffins is much more gratifying than these silly pictures.
Er.
Oh, yeah... I'm also happy we spent all that money to fill in the hole we had already dug for the SSC. Now that's priorites, baby!
TV is dying, folks. While the symptoms may not be outwardly apparent yet, the insides are rotting away like so much necrotic carcinoma. How much longer can TV keep going while a greater and greater (what is it now, over half?) part of the US (and world) establishes broadband connectivity?
Do you think people can split themselves in two?
TV already shot itself in the foot when it spawned 400-channel versions of itself and divided up the interest by its newfound extra channels. All that's left now is to watch as the shows go to crap, the heads roll and the whole burgeoning monstrosity becomes cannibalized by BigBand.
I guess that depends on both caster and castee's level and saving throw, but the good news is that maximum damage is only 15d6.
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Ah.
Well, chalk that up to my (apparently beneficial, if the posts here are to be taken seriously) ignorance of the movie, then!
I do, however, maintain that this sort of thing doesn't really qualify for its own article. (Must get that last word in, dammit.)
Click here instead! Or just send me your PayPal number and I'll do it for you. Honest Injun!
Am I the only one who thinks that case isn't, um, how to put this, worthy of its own /. article? For Crissakes, it's not even a proper hypercube! I know it's the holidays and everyone's all fat 'n' content, but can't you come up with better filler than this?
OK, so you can't make a friggin' hypercube... But then don't call it that! Sheesh! And if you *must* use the name, can't you make it more interesting than just some white lights shining through plexiglass? How about some mirrors or something inside to at least mimic the illusion of having an actual tesseract case?
My $0.02...
Well, whatever; back to eating.
So lessee... it's possible to hack a bluetooth phone from over a mile away so that it can be used without the owner actually ever even knowing about it and people are surprised the protocol's being dropped?
Much can be said for how far Linux has come, but there's a long way to go, especially where finding and configuring hardware is concerned. (Don't reply with the sycophantic "Have you seen how good kxxxawsum is?"; yes, I have.) This looks like a major step.
No, but Redmond wasn't releasing betas with that title either, were they? And if they were to start talking now about new projects titled ShortHorn, HungShort, or LongAndShortOfIt, don't think I wouldn't post a similar critique!
- Birdfire
- Sunfried
- Friedbird
- Furredbread
- Bunfriar
- Sunblurred
- Slurredbird
- Blurbird
- Boredslurred
- Slartibird
- Currybird
This will go a loooong way to convincing people to switch from silly and confusing Microsoft products! Er...Looks like D-Link's been doing its homework.
I recently bought a D-Link 802.11g+ card. The loaf at Best Buy expressed doubts about whether D-Link's 108Mbps "protocol" (compression, etc on regular g) would work with Netgear's 108Mbps protocol and he suggested I buy the same company's brand for the entire network.
Naturally, I ignored him. It works fine.
If D-Link can keep making devices that perform reliably and interact correctly with those of other manufacturers, I say "Great!"
How does this blather get modded as interesting?
M$ will NOT acquire BitTorrent (even if it was acquirable, which is questionable) because there is NO PROFIT to be made.
Jesus, people.
Let's go down the list here, shall we?
Certainly do. You're a brainless load with not a jot of original thought in your post. You enjoy being a brainless load and are in fact proud enough of it to post it to the world. Congratulations. Again.
You have a point.
But this was so flagrant; it was almost exactly 24 hours after the memepool entry. Not only was it a repeat, it was a very late repeat. And it's not the first time.
Just my $.02
You people need to stop posting stories that originated on memepool as joke material! Have you no journalistic character? Parroting is not news!
Christ!
I realize it may be a little "late", but can you explain just why the GCC version has to be the same? Isn't executable code just executable code? They're not sharing libraries, are they?
Now that there'll be an official, legal, centralized authority, does this mean that the plugins/modules will finally work with each other?
This ought to work wonders with MS's fast user switching.
Hell, you should be able to set up a crude animation by using each account as a framebuffer in sequence and then loading up a couple a' employess with some nitrous!
Prolly give epileptics a fit, though....
[sheepishly retracts back under his bridge]
Have you ever seen what happens when you put rubber into liquid nitrogen? Now extrapolate that to a few degrees Kelvin and you'll see why this idea (lovely as it might be otherwise) is DOA.
I wonder how much of that project was unwittingly (or unwillingly) funded by US taxpayers.
Good point. I'm not claiming it would be an easy thing to do, but the "it's too hard" mentality always succombs to the pressures of progress anyway. We may as well start thinking about that next thing now. Face it, the ethernet cables in those downtown towers will fry under the data loads which will likely be the norm in ten-twenty years; let's at least prepare for the replacement that will surely come. It should be generic (non-specialized) to delay the next replacement cycle by as long as possible.
Umm, hello...
Can anyone please tell me what the point of putting real juice down Ethernet would be? Isn't Ethernet like 30 years old? Why don't we come up with a new FireWire/USB type plug with a configurable interface, set it up with +5V, +12V, Ground, Data Send and Data Check, set up generic, open hardware-level frames capable of wrapping all other protocols and a spankin' new cable/plug combo which would shield the voltage lines? I mean, Christ, let's move on. Why are people still talking about Ethernet? Oh, and a better endplug would be nice; one that releases with a sharp jerk, stays put with a slow tug and has a satisfying, soft "click" when engaged.
I realize I will get downmodded for this, but I am being quite serious.
First, the leading distributors, including MDK, RH, and SUSE, have scored some LARGE maintenance/support contracts lately (you've read about Munich, right?).
Of course. And why do you think that happened? It's because all the distros you named have created specific, industry-appealing packages of themselves. You've essentially proven my point. And if these distros continue to move that way, more and more attention will fall to making the distro adapt to business usage and less and less will go to appealing to the home geeks. This is self-evident, no?
Can you please tell me who these "big boys" are, and how FOSS users will be forced to ride in the same car with those M$ billionaire criminal monopolists?
I don't really understand how your question applies to what I said, but the "big boys" are any and all large-cap companies that currently invest huge amounts of money for their IT. In other words, not the home user.
I also admit to a total confusion as to why you feel my post was "FUDsterish".