I would love to read it in it's original form. But apparently the retard you hired to build your web page has no idea what the web is, and instead assumed it's just another form of print media. That retard also never bothered to test if the page would even work with other web browsers -- even if I resize my browser half the text is off that weird window you want to restrict my reading to for no apparent reason, and some of the text is BEHIND that worthless eyecandy. Also, shouldn't there be a scroll bar or something, or is that only if I use IE?
This is almost as bad as a defence contractor website I visited. Whoever wrote the page must have used a 640x480 monitor, because the font was microscopic and they somehow found a way to override the user's settings and disabled font resizing, making the page completely unreadable unless I changed my monitor to 640x480. But it was just the way THEY wanted it, just like print media.
That is true at places like Air Force bases and buildings owned by defence contractors, but in the building I work in (which is rented by a certain defence contractor) just has badges you hold against readers to get into the building and any room in that building.
I have been waiting forever for the 700p to come out! I was going to go with cingular or unlocked GSM, but now I'm not sure.
For starters, is cingular selling customer data to the government?
And it has been pointed out that if cingular phones have less than 4 out of 5 antenna bars they totally garble the conversation. I have confirmed this is the case with two different friends by asking them how many antenna bars they have when their phone started dropping multiple words from every sentence. One had a 650p (3 of 5 bars) and the other some newish flip phone (3 full bars and 2 half bars, whatever that means).
But then again Sprint doesn't work well in my house on my old, old phone and I usually have to outdoors, and half the time it doesn't even ring when someone calls... Will a newer phone work better? Do they all suck?
I have been saying this for over five years (maybe even seven) now: the day someone makes a sporty hybrid convertible (350zx or z3/4 would be nice, but even a seabring or mustang would do) is the day I buy a brand new car.
Five years.
I'm pretty sure the only way this will happen is if I start my own car company.
They hate freedom because they are liberal, and the are liberal because they are educated. That's why universities, higher education, intellectuals and people who think for themselves must be demonized.
Don't flame me: I'm just repeating what the really angry conservatives scream at me when I ask how one terrorist attack 5 years ago makes us more at risk now (and thus necessitate giving up fundamental freedoms we have never given up before) than during the Revolutionary War, Civil War, 1812, WWI, WWII, Cold War...
Even though the message is too short to really do any statistical analysis, I would argue that since there is only one repeating digraph it was encrypted with something other than a substitution cipher.
The odd number of characters rules out a lot of other cuphers, assuming the judge is a kind man.
Because he's got a wife who is so supportive and caring and willing to stick with him through tough times and fight the good fight with him. Why, what did you think I was going to say? Awwwwww, nooooo, come on... get your mind out of the gutter. You should be ashamed! Pervert.
The last EA game I bought (Command and Conquere Generals) had so many bugs it was basically unplayable out of the box. 12 months later there were still so many bugs that every other game ended literally in a few seconds at the hands of a cheater. 3+ years on I'm still holding my breath for the "ladder kit" that was promised. Their response to user complaints? They had one employee who would troll the message boards 1 day a week and make empty promises about balance issues, map hacks and cheats.
Then they released a buggy expansion pack (no, there was no ladder kit in it)
EA has some amazing programmers, artists and designers, but their management has found a way to turn gold into lead. They bought Westwood and turned an award winning franchise into a fiasco. And in a misguided effort to push people towards the new bug-riddled C&C they killed the established C&C comminity by shutting down all the game servers and forum servers for the older releases.
It boggles the mind how irrational and out of touch they are with their customers and employees.
I wouldn't want his job for even more basic reasons than that: He works 12 hour days 7 days a week travels often and isn't even rich.
I also hear about young lawyers and doctors making well over 6 figures but I'm not jealous of them, either, because when you divide their salary by the 100 hours a week they work I'm making a lot more than them AND I have time to enjoy it.
But back to the other guy, it would be nice to be surrounded by nude models all the time...
Yeah, they are great, right now. Kind of like Sony was years back when they were trying to become popular. Now that Apple is popular, I wonder if they will follow Sony's route...
10 or so years ago a screwed up my 200 disc Sony CD player by moving it with a discs still in it, just like the stickers and instruction manual said not to. It was a few days out of waranty, but they fixed it anyway. In fact, I bought that CD player because I loved my walkman and discman so much, and they both lasted for like 10 years.
Years later I upgraded to a Sony receiver and high end DVD player and bought a Sony big screen. A year or so after that the receiver randomly crashed and had to be power-cycled, and the DVD player overheated after a few seconds and shut down for half an hour or so and wouldn't even eject the DVD. I checked online and half the users complained of the same problem. I called Sony and they: denied they ever heard of either problem, refused to let me send them information documenting the wide spread problems, wanted me to pay $176 just to LOOK at the DVD player (never mind parts and labor).
So I fixed the DVD player with layers of tinfoil and silver paste (I couldn't find any coper sheets)(and later I bought a non-sony divx player for $50), and deal with the receiver until I find a nice non-Sony replacement.
If that's the only reason you have a 100Mb line (to utilize 0.5MB of it), you are wasting roughly 95% of your money. However, I'm assuming there are numerous servers and dozens of users -- not exactly the typical home user's environment.
With the possible exception of p2p (with very local peers), or being extremely close to a source of data to which you must have high speed access, the article is correct. If you are going over the backbone, you're bottle-necked. Other than bragging rights, what's the point of having 80% un-utilized bandwidth versus wasting 20%? It's like duct-taping a fire hose to the end of your garden hose and calling it faster.
Mine cable went up from 1.5mbps to 3mbps and I didn't notice until I saw the commercials advertizing the free upgrade. I rarely use p2p or download, I play net games and use the web. I would say I'm a typical user, or typical adult user, but lately it seems like everyone is obsessed with p2p but me.
That said, of course I want more bandwidth:). For free. Now.
Some full bandwidth, full resolution HDTV would be nice, too. The HDTV over cable here in San Antonio is so bad it's worse than analog. Watching a basketball game is a headache of jagged, lightning-bolt-like lines on the court and a frozen blotch of fans in the background that updates once a second.
Like cold fusion, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so I will wait for tons of verification before getting too excited.
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out the scientists forgot that they were spinning their superconductors though Earth's magnetic field and thus generating a current which in turn caused their readings...
Years ago I was playing a card game with friends where knowing what suit your partner was strong in would be a big advantage. They were joking around saying things like "I really LOVE my cards wink wink" or something about a "girl's best friend" or needing to fix their cat. So I started saying "Baby seals. Baby seals!"
They all looked at me really weird. Then they burst out laughing for a long time. Then they all looked at me really weird again.
I don't remember the Chinese making a star, but I did see that episode where the Air Force blew up a star with a stargate opened to a black hole...
Anyway, solar isn't as regional as you think. Solar water heaters will work in any state except Alaska all winter long, as long as you shovel the snow off of them. Hopefully sometime soon photovoltaic cells will be efficient enough to them practical in Northern states.
As for storage, there is no need for storage. With personally owned equipment you just sell your excess back to the grid for profit or credit for rainy days. Literllay. For large scale plants, if they actually were in the predicament of having too much power (unlikely) then just turn off one of the 1960's coal turbines for a while.
As for hydrogen, it's all hype. It's also an (extremely inefficient) form of storage, not a source.
People will buy it for the same reason they buy a Prius: not because it has a good long term cost/benefits ratio, but because it's the right thing to do. Not just for the environment, but for our reliance on terrorist-funding oil.
I have heard myths that solar panels take more energy to construct than they produce in their lifetime, but if that were true the typical solar panel factory would need several Hoover Damns next door. So I will ASSUME the environment comes out ahead. But I am no manufacturing engineer, so for all I know they are made out of baby seals.
If Google is up-front and honest with the Chinese people and alerts them that this-and-that link is blocked, then I see no harm done by Google as China would have blocked it anyway.
If Google clandestinely omits results, in effect covering-up for China's censorship and secretly helping them oppress 2 billion people, then Google can go to hell.
But, even if they go the first route and Do No Evil, with their expertise they may inadvertantly become better at censoring than the Chinese government is.
I'm all for teching both science and religion in public school: science in science class and religion in religion class.
I just don't understand all the fear and hatred of evolution, those who believe in it, and teaching kids about it. People make these crazy statements like "people who believe Drawin hate God and/or don't see a need for God" or "you can't be Christian and believe in this-or-that-science."
The only good explaination I have heard yet (besides that it's "faith," period) is that they don't like the idea that our creation would be left to chance. But as I said, if God already knew the outcome then the "chance" was 100% that we would end up how he wanted.
Personally, I think God has better things to do than micro-manage a pitiful species like us.
Sadly, most American Christians see nothing wrong or un-American about forcing non-Christians to follow Christian beliefs. (this issue, gay marriage, numerous other hot-button issues, etc.) It's really quite sad how unimportant religious freedom is to some of the most religious people. Well, as long as they are in the majority, anyway. I'm sure it will suddenly be cause #1 if Islam ever becomes the majority.
ANYWAY, my question is to you or any creationist who rejects the "randomness" of evolution. If God created the universe and the rules that govern it (which no scientist can disprove), and if God knows all, then there is no randomness, is there? He already knew exactly where evolution would take his creation, didnt He?
I hope you realize you have now swapped sims with everyone he has ever swapped sims with, and everyone who swapped sims with them, and so on, you dirty dirty whore.
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I would love to read it in it's original form. But apparently the retard you hired to build your web page has no idea what the web is, and instead assumed it's just another form of print media. That retard also never bothered to test if the page would even work with other web browsers -- even if I resize my browser half the text is off that weird window you want to restrict my reading to for no apparent reason, and some of the text is BEHIND that worthless eyecandy. Also, shouldn't there be a scroll bar or something, or is that only if I use IE?
This is almost as bad as a defence contractor website I visited. Whoever wrote the page must have used a 640x480 monitor, because the font was microscopic and they somehow found a way to override the user's settings and disabled font resizing, making the page completely unreadable unless I changed my monitor to 640x480. But it was just the way THEY wanted it, just like print media.
That is true at places like Air Force bases and buildings owned by defence contractors, but in the building I work in (which is rented by a certain defence contractor) just has badges you hold against readers to get into the building and any room in that building.
I have been waiting forever for the 700p to come out! I was going to go with cingular or unlocked GSM, but now I'm not sure.
For starters, is cingular selling customer data to the government?
And it has been pointed out that if cingular phones have less than 4 out of 5 antenna bars they totally garble the conversation. I have confirmed this is the case with two different friends by asking them how many antenna bars they have when their phone started dropping multiple words from every sentence. One had a 650p (3 of 5 bars) and the other some newish flip phone (3 full bars and 2 half bars, whatever that means).
But then again Sprint doesn't work well in my house on my old, old phone and I usually have to outdoors, and half the time it doesn't even ring when someone calls... Will a newer phone work better? Do they all suck?
I have been saying this for over five years (maybe even seven) now: the day someone makes a sporty hybrid convertible (350zx or z3/4 would be nice, but even a seabring or mustang would do) is the day I buy a brand new car.
Five years.
I'm pretty sure the only way this will happen is if I start my own car company.
They hate freedom because they are liberal, and the are liberal because they are educated. That's why universities, higher education, intellectuals and people who think for themselves must be demonized.
Don't flame me: I'm just repeating what the really angry conservatives scream at me when I ask how one terrorist attack 5 years ago makes us more at risk now (and thus necessitate giving up fundamental freedoms we have never given up before) than during the Revolutionary War, Civil War, 1812, WWI, WWII, Cold War...
Even though the message is too short to really do any statistical analysis, I would argue that since there is only one repeating digraph it was encrypted with something other than a substitution cipher.
The odd number of characters rules out a lot of other cuphers, assuming the judge is a kind man.
A stream cipher, perhaps?
NERD FIGHT!!!!
Adama told Baltar that he thought the bomb must have been stolen from his lab...
I love the show because it's one of the few shows that:
1) has character development
2) is totally unpredictable
That said, please tell me the season finale was some sort of dream sequence...
Because he's got a wife who is so supportive and caring and willing to stick with him through tough times and fight the good fight with him. Why, what did you think I was going to say? Awwwwww, nooooo, come on... get your mind out of the gutter. You should be ashamed! Pervert.
The last EA game I bought (Command and Conquere Generals) had so many bugs it was basically unplayable out of the box. 12 months later there were still so many bugs that every other game ended literally in a few seconds at the hands of a cheater. 3+ years on I'm still holding my breath for the "ladder kit" that was promised. Their response to user complaints? They had one employee who would troll the message boards 1 day a week and make empty promises about balance issues, map hacks and cheats.
Then they released a buggy expansion pack (no, there was no ladder kit in it)
EA has some amazing programmers, artists and designers, but their management has found a way to turn gold into lead. They bought Westwood and turned an award winning franchise into a fiasco. And in a misguided effort to push people towards the new bug-riddled C&C they killed the established C&C comminity by shutting down all the game servers and forum servers for the older releases.
It boggles the mind how irrational and out of touch they are with their customers and employees.
I wouldn't want his job for even more basic reasons than that:
He works 12 hour days
7 days a week
travels often
and isn't even rich.
I also hear about young lawyers and doctors making well over 6 figures but I'm not jealous of them, either, because when you divide their salary by the 100 hours a week they work I'm making a lot more than them AND I have time to enjoy it.
But back to the other guy, it would be nice to be surrounded by nude models all the time...
People who talk like that need some face time with my low hanging fruit.
Yeah, they are great, right now. Kind of like Sony was years back when they were trying to become popular. Now that Apple is popular, I wonder if they will follow Sony's route...
10 or so years ago a screwed up my 200 disc Sony CD player by moving it with a discs still in it, just like the stickers and instruction manual said not to. It was a few days out of waranty, but they fixed it anyway. In fact, I bought that CD player because I loved my walkman and discman so much, and they both lasted for like 10 years.
Years later I upgraded to a Sony receiver and high end DVD player and bought a Sony big screen. A year or so after that the receiver randomly crashed and had to be power-cycled, and the DVD player overheated after a few seconds and shut down for half an hour or so and wouldn't even eject the DVD. I checked online and half the users complained of the same problem. I called Sony and they: denied they ever heard of either problem, refused to let me send them information documenting the wide spread problems, wanted me to pay $176 just to LOOK at the DVD player (never mind parts and labor).
So I fixed the DVD player with layers of tinfoil and silver paste (I couldn't find any coper sheets)(and later I bought a non-sony divx player for $50), and deal with the receiver until I find a nice non-Sony replacement.
If that's the only reason you have a 100Mb line (to utilize 0.5MB of it), you are wasting roughly 95% of your money. However, I'm assuming there are numerous servers and dozens of users -- not exactly the typical home user's environment.
:). For free. Now.
With the possible exception of p2p (with very local peers), or being extremely close to a source of data to which you must have high speed access, the article is correct. If you are going over the backbone, you're bottle-necked. Other than bragging rights, what's the point of having 80% un-utilized bandwidth versus wasting 20%? It's like duct-taping a fire hose to the end of your garden hose and calling it faster.
Mine cable went up from 1.5mbps to 3mbps and I didn't notice until I saw the commercials advertizing the free upgrade. I rarely use p2p or download, I play net games and use the web. I would say I'm a typical user, or typical adult user, but lately it seems like everyone is obsessed with p2p but me.
That said, of course I want more bandwidth
Some full bandwidth, full resolution HDTV would be nice, too. The HDTV over cable here in San Antonio is so bad it's worse than analog. Watching a basketball game is a headache of jagged, lightning-bolt-like lines on the court and a frozen blotch of fans in the background that updates once a second.
Like cold fusion, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so I will wait for tons of verification before getting too excited.
Wouldn't it be funny if it turns out the scientists forgot that they were spinning their superconductors though Earth's magnetic field and thus generating a current which in turn caused their readings...
Years ago I was playing a card game with friends where knowing what suit your partner was strong in would be a big advantage. They were joking around saying things like "I really LOVE my cards wink wink" or something about a "girl's best friend" or needing to fix their cat. So I started saying "Baby seals. Baby seals!"
They all looked at me really weird. Then they burst out laughing for a long time. Then they all looked at me really weird again.
I don't remember the Chinese making a star, but I did see that episode where the Air Force blew up a star with a stargate opened to a black hole...
Anyway, solar isn't as regional as you think. Solar water heaters will work in any state except Alaska all winter long, as long as you shovel the snow off of them. Hopefully sometime soon photovoltaic cells will be efficient enough to them practical in Northern states.
As for storage, there is no need for storage. With personally owned equipment you just sell your excess back to the grid for profit or credit for rainy days. Literllay. For large scale plants, if they actually were in the predicament of having too much power (unlikely) then just turn off one of the 1960's coal turbines for a while.
As for hydrogen, it's all hype. It's also an (extremely inefficient) form of storage, not a source.
People will buy it for the same reason they buy a Prius: not because it has a good long term cost/benefits ratio, but because it's the right thing to do. Not just for the environment, but for our reliance on terrorist-funding oil.
I have heard myths that solar panels take more energy to construct than they produce in their lifetime, but if that were true the typical solar panel factory would need several Hoover Damns next door. So I will ASSUME the environment comes out ahead. But I am no manufacturing engineer, so for all I know they are made out of baby seals.
So are you correcting him or just out-nerding him?
If Google is up-front and honest with the Chinese people and alerts them that this-and-that link is blocked, then I see no harm done by Google as China would have blocked it anyway.
If Google clandestinely omits results, in effect covering-up for China's censorship and secretly helping them oppress 2 billion people, then Google can go to hell.
But, even if they go the first route and Do No Evil, with their expertise they may inadvertantly become better at censoring than the Chinese government is.
I'm all for teching both science and religion in public school: science in science class and religion in religion class.
I just don't understand all the fear and hatred of evolution, those who believe in it, and teaching kids about it. People make these crazy statements like "people who believe Drawin hate God and/or don't see a need for God" or "you can't be Christian and believe in this-or-that-science."
The only good explaination I have heard yet (besides that it's "faith," period) is that they don't like the idea that our creation would be left to chance. But as I said, if God already knew the outcome then the "chance" was 100% that we would end up how he wanted.
Personally, I think God has better things to do than micro-manage a pitiful species like us.
Sadly, most American Christians see nothing wrong or un-American about forcing non-Christians to follow Christian beliefs. (this issue, gay marriage, numerous other hot-button issues, etc.) It's really quite sad how unimportant religious freedom is to some of the most religious people. Well, as long as they are in the majority, anyway. I'm sure it will suddenly be cause #1 if Islam ever becomes the majority.
;P
ANYWAY, my question is to you or any creationist who rejects the "randomness" of evolution. If God created the universe and the rules that govern it (which no scientist can disprove), and if God knows all, then there is no randomness, is there? He already knew exactly where evolution would take his creation, didnt He?
Or do you doubt God
It does if it uses a turbine engine. Ask Jay Leno...
I hope you realize you have now swapped sims with everyone he has ever swapped sims with, and everyone who swapped sims with them, and so on, you dirty dirty whore.
Start grabbing them out of orbit and sell them on ebay to goldenpalace for $25,000 each. That way they can clean space and make a profit!