Begone, evil christian demon! Back to the depths of heaven with you! In the name of science I command you! Leave this poor persons body, and restore common sense once again! *spritzes turpentine around and lights it*
Please tell me you don't think bodies "explode" in near vacuum!
Hint: Its not air pressure that holds our bodies together.
Let's just put it this way, it helps keep us alive in many ways. Explode, no... that only happens to cars that flip over in the movies.
Exploding is the least of our problems:) The animals from those depths are so keenly adapted that their entire bodies are made for those pressures. I was watching the Discovery channel once about deep sea life, and they were showing fish that looked utterly gorgeous.. they took them to the surface and by then they were just shapeless oozes of gel (in the water).
It's just icing on the cake, it's not the meat of the whole matter.
We all know his stance is rediculous, but this incident really puts a sweet coating on the whole deal, and will force quite a few people to actually stop and think for a second about the whole thing instead of just passing it through like it was a budget increase or something.
Hey, considering even with a Windows 2000/XP interfa ce most people can't grasp the concept I don't think we really need to worry about ordinary people "using" computers.
I quote "using" because quite frankly, the average individual doesn't really use their computer, they just sit in front of it and stare at web pages.
Nah, there are issues with 2.4.20 for some people. I've seen it on one of my systems, with the same setup software-wise. I slapped on 2.4.19 and everything was hunky-dory.
That's awesome, 2 capture cards dumping data down to disk... I've been wanting to do that for a while now for my house.
I'd also like to add to all of this that back when SMP was being added to the Linux kernel, multi-processor systems were being used by some academic companies (college, etc) and research was being done to implement on more than 4 processors before 2.4 came out. 2.4 was a major enhancement if I remember correctly, as it was able to thread tasks over more than 2 processors much better and not leave them mostly idle during heavy loads. At that time, alot of different researches were going on to implement the first ideas of clustering on Linux which added enhancements to the kernel by nature from people working on fine-tuning the kernel to atomize the processing of the kernel for multiprocessor and clustering.
As far as I can tell IBM helped out with some filesystem updates, organizing Linux in general with the public, and porting Linux to the mainframe. (which was being done before IBM came to play with Linux, they just "took it over" so to speak)
Ahh well... history is written by the victor. We'll see what happens I guess, since there's not much we can do other than sit back and watch the clash of the titans.
Your right, and I hear that alot from people. (what the previous person said)
They ask what assembler language is, and you explain how it works... they look at you with a wierd look and ask you why the hell you would use something that simple with no structure.
Elegance definately comes to play with assembler...
When a Nextel does anything, everything goes bonkers. I fail to believe a Nextel uses a normal cell frequency considering when I had a Nextel it always disconnected my modem I used it. (through LINE NOISE)
I've never had that problem with AT&T, Verizon, nor Sprint. Of course, neither of those phones can be used as walkie-talkies either:-)
I know myself, when I talk on the cell phone I sometimes drive. I have no problem driving and talking at the same time... sometimes even avoiding other people attempting to swerve into my car at the same time. Company business is important, and if some people can't accept the fact that others have to speak with other people at certain times then I don't know what to say.
When a normal person talks on the cell phone, it's relatively silent, unless they are special or just rude. If people don't like hearing part of the conversation, then they shouldn't be listening in! it's worse than someone complaining about your diarehea sounds when your in the bathroom.
It was an AT&T digital phone, and I pulled it out of my pocket to look at it after we took off.. I watched the signal degrade as we rose, and it was pretty rapid. There was no signal whatsoever at full altitude, and I flew across the US from Baltimore, MD to Albuquerque, NM.
I turned it off a little while after watching the signal fade and waiting about 30 minutes to see if it would catch any other towers. I did turn it back on once I hit ground to call the person who was going to pick me up. I had full signal (on the ground, inside the plane), so the whole Faraday cage thing doesn't seem to stop digital:P
I'm just trying to imagine how milk was harvested before the domestication of cattle...
I'm picturing a mass army of hunters, with painted bodies to blend in to the environment, silently stalking the herd of cows. Suddenly, a violent explosion of activity occurs, and thousands of hunters bolt towards the herd with bucket in hand, tackling the slower cows and draining the milk from their teets.
Lactose intolerancy is a little bit more than just some farts... it's not like eating chili or something:)
It can really mess your day up... the major side effect of lactose intolerance is massive gastrointestinal issues stemming from the lactose not being broken down. I have it, and believe me it's not just gas or I could definately handle that.
I hear everyone saying that it takes money to do this, but honestly how much cash does it take? Like it's a rich mans sport or something? Trinkets are left.. you don't leave a playstation.
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Oh great, I see questions like that on college entry exams... :P
you want people to be blocked out due to their inability to figure out logic?
heheh
Flamebait? LOL
:)
Man, we've got a bunch of far too serious people here
that, my friends, is considered a joke.
Begone, evil christian demon! Back to the depths of heaven with you! In the name of science I command you! Leave this poor persons body, and restore common sense once again!
*spritzes turpentine around and lights it*
And to top it all off, he thought about the women with his creation, also!
I don't know about you, but if I feel a strange movement in my pocket the first instinct is to get that thing out of there! :)
man, you're just full of rage and resentment against the world and society in general.
are you a republican?
What's the problem?
Please tell me you don't think bodies "explode" in near vacuum!
Hint: Its not air pressure that holds our bodies together.
Let's just put it this way, it helps keep us alive in many ways. Explode, no... that only happens to cars that flip over in the movies.
Exploding is the least of our problems
The animals from those depths are so keenly adapted that their entire bodies are made for those pressures. I was watching the Discovery channel once about deep sea life, and they were showing fish that looked utterly gorgeous.. they took them to the surface and by then they were just shapeless oozes of gel (in the water).
It's just icing on the cake, it's not the meat of the whole matter.
We all know his stance is rediculous, but this incident really puts a sweet coating on the whole deal, and will force quite a few people to actually stop and think for a second about the whole thing instead of just passing it through like it was a budget increase or something.
yeah sure, the same goes with a person... just depressurize them for 24 hours and let them survive in near vacuum.
Those breeds need the pressure to stay alive.
Hey, considering even with a Windows 2000/XP interfa ce most people can't grasp the concept I don't think we really need to worry about ordinary people "using" computers.
I quote "using" because quite frankly, the average individual doesn't really use their computer, they just sit in front of it and stare at web pages.
Nah, there are issues with 2.4.20 for some people. I've seen it on one of my systems, with the same setup software-wise. I slapped on 2.4.19 and everything was hunky-dory.
That's awesome, 2 capture cards dumping data down to disk... I've been wanting to do that for a while now for my house.
I'd also like to add to all of this that back when SMP was being added to the Linux kernel, multi-processor systems were being used by some academic companies (college, etc) and research was being done to implement on more than 4 processors before 2.4 came out. 2.4 was a major enhancement if I remember correctly, as it was able to thread tasks over more than 2 processors much better and not leave them mostly idle during heavy loads. At that time, alot of different researches were going on to implement the first ideas of clustering on Linux which added enhancements to the kernel by nature from people working on fine-tuning the kernel to atomize the processing of the kernel for multiprocessor and clustering.
As far as I can tell IBM helped out with some filesystem updates, organizing Linux in general with the public, and porting Linux to the mainframe. (which was being done before IBM came to play with Linux, they just "took it over" so to speak)
Ahh well... history is written by the victor. We'll see what happens I guess, since there's not much we can do other than sit back and watch the clash of the titans.
But a Maserati looks damned good.
Running redhat/mandrake 9 pretty much means there isn't a grasp of configuring a network on Linux :P
I just can't believe this got modded as informative! LOL
OMG.. this is hilarious.
The reason I ever use the term *nix is to include all the nix systems, such as xenix, linux, unix, etc...
Never has trademark or copyright come to my mind...
Your right, and I hear that alot from people. (what the previous person said)
They ask what assembler language is, and you explain how it works... they look at you with a wierd look and ask you why the hell you would use something that simple with no structure.
Elegance definately comes to play with assembler...
When a Nextel does anything, everything goes bonkers. I fail to believe a Nextel uses a normal cell frequency considering when I had a Nextel it always disconnected my modem I used it. (through LINE NOISE)
:-)
I've never had that problem with AT&T, Verizon, nor Sprint. Of course, neither of those phones can be used as walkie-talkies either
Yep... and to further the conspiracy, the interference steered a couple of those planes into buildings!
I perfectly agree with you!
I know myself, when I talk on the cell phone I sometimes drive. I have no problem driving and talking at the same time... sometimes even avoiding other people attempting to swerve into my car at the same time. Company business is important, and if some people can't accept the fact that others have to speak with other people at certain times then I don't know what to say.
When a normal person talks on the cell phone, it's relatively silent, unless they are special or just rude. If people don't like hearing part of the conversation, then they shouldn't be listening in! it's worse than someone complaining about your diarehea sounds when your in the bathroom.
Yes... I have, but it wasn't on purpose.
:P
It was an AT&T digital phone, and I pulled it out of my pocket to look at it after we took off.. I watched the signal degrade as we rose, and it was pretty rapid. There was no signal whatsoever at full altitude, and I flew across the US from Baltimore, MD to Albuquerque, NM.
I turned it off a little while after watching the signal fade and waiting about 30 minutes to see if it would catch any other towers. I did turn it back on once I hit ground to call the person who was going to pick me up. I had full signal (on the ground, inside the plane), so the whole Faraday cage thing doesn't seem to stop digital
I'm just trying to imagine how milk was harvested before the domestication of cattle...
I'm picturing a mass army of hunters, with painted bodies to blend in to the environment, silently stalking the herd of cows. Suddenly, a violent explosion of activity occurs, and thousands of hunters bolt towards the herd with bucket in hand, tackling the slower cows and draining the milk from their teets.
That, my friend, is Darwin in action =)
Lactose intolerancy is a little bit more than just some farts... it's not like eating chili or something :)
It can really mess your day up... the major side effect of lactose intolerance is massive gastrointestinal issues stemming from the lactose not being broken down. I have it, and believe me it's not just gas or I could definately handle that.
I hear everyone saying that it takes money to do this, but honestly how much cash does it take?
Like it's a rich mans sport or something? Trinkets are left.. you don't leave a playstation.
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Dan
it must be because of my companies migration to GNU/Linux. that's what did it... ;)