I used to hate Superman. I liked Batman and human superheros better. What kind of a turtured soul can you have when you can't even be hurt? How about being uncorrupted by ultimate power? No, Smallville gets it right. Internal conflict between a evil destiny and being raised with a apple pie morality. Good stuff. It also helps explain his relationship with Lex Luthor.
Nothing is free and in the case of Mono the true cost has yet to be determined. Adopting Mono exposes your development IP issues you don't have to deal with by using alternatives. MS is evil. This is fact. They will crush any competitor using any possible tactic. They have in the past and they will in the future.
A few years back a thief broke into our van while we were at the beach with my parents. We didn't notice the theft until later that afternoon(only the credit cards were stolen). On one card the crooks racked up nearly $15K in less than 15 minutes at Dillards. We met with the Dillards manager the next day only to be told that their corporate policy it to not check ID or validate the signature.
Contact the copyright owner and see if they will license you a copy of the code under other licensing terms. That is a fundamental rihgt of a copyright owner.
I would surmise the purpose of NeroLinux is to give an alternative to platform switchers so they can use somthing similar to their Windows product. It would a be a prudent move for Nero to keep their base for the cost of doing the parallel development. A better comparison would be between the Windows version and the Linux version from a user's standpoint.
I have a hard time believing you were in charge of anything. Welsome to the world of government contracting. Sometimes you have to justify your existance and sometimes outsiders have different priorities. Flaming about world politics you probably know very little about will not help your cause.
Since I started having an accountant prepare my taxes three years ago there has not been a year where he did not save me far for than the small amount of money he charges to to my taxes. If you have kind of investments or run a small business then the reduction in liability from having a professional do your taxes is worth it.
I believe the much more prevalent fear in the intelligence community is the fear of a dirty bomb that would spread radioactive material over a large area. The technological knowhow needed is minimal and logistics required is simple. Hence the yellowcake story a few years ago.
Keep in mind that when you think of terrorism you are talking a form a asymmetric warefare with the primary goal of causing fear. So terrorists often use low tech means to get as many people as possible fearful.
The press and hollywood are horrible on this issue. From the current series of 24 that misinfoms about turning all the nation's nuclear power stations into atomic bombs with a mythical bloackbox "Dobson device". Movies like True Lies that make it look like an Joe Shmo can hijack a train, grab a nuke bobmb and use it.
So, Nuclear Power Nuclear Bomb
Terrorists would rather kill civilians
Even if you could manage to steal an ICBM very few people in the world could figure out what to do with it.
Good point. I often wonder if the US-France public display is a global version of Good Cop-Bad Cop because we are so far distant from certain countries. But then again we are talking about the French.
(1) Anyone who seriously studies history will recognize that giving all the military power to the government is a bad thing. Out weapons stance gaurantees we will never be invaded. It also empowers each American to defend tiher life, liberty and proper ty.
(2) Smart people recognize that all change is not bad change and that knee-jerk reactions often cause problems worse than what is being reacted to. Smart Americans also recognize that certain treaties written in Europe are little more than scams to force the US to pay Europeans for their failure to dominate the world economy.
Years ago I dealt with the same sorts of problems in chatrooms. Every time I would try to hold a decent conversation some dork would interject him or herself into the discussion for the sole purpose of pissing people off. Eventually I gave up. It wasn't till years alter that I came to Slashdot that I found somthing that works marginally better. Still, I see litte difference between the problems with Orkut and what chatrooms and forums deal with. Most popular sites end up with metamoderators that can help with the problem.
But don't get up on a high horse over this. Slashdot and sites like Kuro5hin can be just as bad. Try posting something remotely conservative on either site and you'll see what I mean.
A Libbie Tried To Make Change My Experiment Results
When I started college I wanted to be a biologist. After a year of wrangling with lame pseudo science I just plain gave up on biology. Biologists tend to make up some wild ass assertion and try to find the facts to meet that assertion. The straw that broke the camel's back was when a lab professor gave me a "B" because I wouldn't fudge a lab experiment. The experiment was supposed to show a specific photosynthetic reaction in the absence of light. During the weekend some lab assistant left the lab door open and spoiled the experiment. The lab professor said to pretend that the experiment had gone as planned. I spoke to her and said I didn't think that was a good precedent to set with students and she just got mad at me. The paper I turned in explained the failed experiment as well as what should have happened. She hosed me by giving nearly everyone else an "A" and me a "B" in what should have been easy credit. Only one of the two non-"A" grades I earned in undergrad school. Both were for disagreeing with a professor and standing my ground.
So I think a bigger problem is that the biology field is populated with too many pseudo-soft science adherents. What is taken for science in the biology community is shameful.
Folks, lelieve it when you see it. Make sure to read the caveat at the bottom of the page: Folks, take these ramblings as the virtually unedited observations from each day of the Kazaa trial. At best, it's anti journalism. The other side is going to misconsture everything in their favor and present it that way to be as damaging as possible.
I think this mindset tends to miss the obvious point. Industry wide (pick any industry), large IT projects fail. The same is true of medium and small projects too. Arbitrarily focusing on U.S. Govenrment projects is pointless.
Having worked for a large private sector business that sold its soul up the SAP river I know a little about how systemic this problem is. Managers foolishly believe marketing material and expect miracles. From what I have seen your best hope is to start a bunch of projects and hope at least one produces somthing useful. But this goes in the face of ERP.
I guess I'm saying that you should view your business environment as an ecosystem and make sure you maintain enough (software) diversity in the system to hopefully overcome any obstacles.
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I used to hate Superman. I liked Batman and human superheros better. What kind of a turtured soul can you have when you can't even be hurt? How about being uncorrupted by ultimate power? No, Smallville gets it right. Internal conflict between a evil destiny and being raised with a apple pie morality. Good stuff. It also helps explain his relationship with Lex Luthor.
The Code Of Federal Regulations requires that you store paint in a paint storage locker. The outside uses special paint the inside does not.
Nothing is free and in the case of Mono the true cost has yet to be determined. Adopting Mono exposes your development IP issues you don't have to deal with by using alternatives. MS is evil. This is fact. They will crush any competitor using any possible tactic. They have in the past and they will in the future.
I needed my nose rubbed in the fact that I have a shitass job.
A few years back a thief broke into our van while we were at the beach with my parents. We didn't notice the theft until later that afternoon(only the credit cards were stolen). On one card the crooks racked up nearly $15K in less than 15 minutes at Dillards. We met with the Dillards manager the next day only to be told that their corporate policy it to not check ID or validate the signature.
Contact the copyright owner and see if they will license you a copy of the code under other licensing terms. That is a fundamental rihgt of a copyright owner.
I would surmise the purpose of NeroLinux is to give an alternative to platform switchers so they can use somthing similar to their Windows product. It would a be a prudent move for Nero to keep their base for the cost of doing the parallel development. A better comparison would be between the Windows version and the Linux version from a user's standpoint.
I have the same problem. The only relief I get is at home where my wife's nagging covers the sound.
Punching holes in the roof.
You are limited in the length of the tube and the bumber of internal reflectors.
Dust will settle on the reflectors.
Pay Firefox developers to make Yahoo the default search engine.
Add a professionally designed porn search feature and cache the results.
I have a hard time believing you were in charge of anything. Welsome to the world of government contracting. Sometimes you have to justify your existance and sometimes outsiders have different priorities. Flaming about world politics you probably know very little about will not help your cause.
Since I started having an accountant prepare my taxes three years ago there has not been a year where he did not save me far for than the small amount of money he charges to to my taxes. If you have kind of investments or run a small business then the reduction in liability from having a professional do your taxes is worth it.
Keep in mind that when you think of terrorism you are talking a form a asymmetric warefare with the primary goal of causing fear. So terrorists often use low tech means to get as many people as possible fearful.
The press and hollywood are horrible on this issue. From the current series of 24 that misinfoms about turning all the nation's nuclear power stations into atomic bombs with a mythical bloackbox "Dobson device". Movies like True Lies that make it look like an Joe Shmo can hijack a train, grab a nuke bobmb and use it.
Hoooookay?
What a bastard that Gates must be to blackmail Danishes.
Good point. I often wonder if the US-France public display is a global version of Good Cop-Bad Cop because we are so far distant from certain countries. But then again we are talking about the French.
(1) Anyone who seriously studies history will recognize that giving all the military power to the government is a bad thing. Out weapons stance gaurantees we will never be invaded. It also empowers each American to defend tiher life, liberty and proper ty.
(2) Smart people recognize that all change is not bad change and that knee-jerk reactions often cause problems worse than what is being reacted to. Smart Americans also recognize that certain treaties written in Europe are little more than scams to force the US to pay Europeans for their failure to dominate the world economy.
Made the mistake of typing Freshmeat.com instead of Freshmeat.net a few times at work. A few years ago it was pretty raunchy.
But don't get up on a high horse over this. Slashdot and sites like Kuro5hin can be just as bad. Try posting something remotely conservative on either site and you'll see what I mean.
When I started college I wanted to be a biologist. After a year of wrangling with lame pseudo science I just plain gave up on biology. Biologists tend to make up some wild ass assertion and try to find the facts to meet that assertion. The straw that broke the camel's back was when a lab professor gave me a "B" because I wouldn't fudge a lab experiment. The experiment was supposed to show a specific photosynthetic reaction in the absence of light. During the weekend some lab assistant left the lab door open and spoiled the experiment. The lab professor said to pretend that the experiment had gone as planned. I spoke to her and said I didn't think that was a good precedent to set with students and she just got mad at me. The paper I turned in explained the failed experiment as well as what should have happened. She hosed me by giving nearly everyone else an "A" and me a "B" in what should have been easy credit. Only one of the two non-"A" grades I earned in undergrad school. Both were for disagreeing with a professor and standing my ground.
So I think a bigger problem is that the biology field is populated with too many pseudo-soft science adherents. What is taken for science in the biology community is shameful.
Kant...stop...self...must..post...stupid...comment
Folks, lelieve it when you see it. Make sure to read the caveat at the bottom of the page: Folks, take these ramblings as the virtually unedited observations from each day of the Kazaa trial. At best, it's anti journalism. The other side is going to misconsture everything in their favor and present it that way to be as damaging as possible.
Having worked for a large private sector business that sold its soul up the SAP river I know a little about how systemic this problem is. Managers foolishly believe marketing material and expect miracles. From what I have seen your best hope is to start a bunch of projects and hope at least one produces somthing useful. But this goes in the face of ERP.
I guess I'm saying that you should view your business environment as an ecosystem and make sure you maintain enough (software) diversity in the system to hopefully overcome any obstacles.
Microsoft briefly experimented with somthing called Windows Scripting Components (WSC). It allowed you to create a COM object interface in XML.
I though the problem with the airline industry wasn't plane capacity but the more nimble competitors cherrypicking the mist profitable connections.