My guess is that he got the machine thirty years ago, it did what he needed, and he never felt a need to replace it.
Exactly. Coincidentally, he did the same with a girl, 10 years ago.
MY questions are: Why are people questioning the hardware choices of a psycho kidnapper? Are they actually looking for a coherent thought process they can relate too? Do they want to find one? Should they turn themselves in the nearest psychiatric ward if they do?
This is being promoted by Microsoft as a Release Candidate 1 [...] In reality, this is a late alpha (unoptimized, feature incomplete, substantial bugs remain) or at best an early beta (feature complete, largely optimized, some bugs remain), but based on reports calling this a Beta is being generous. But to call it a release candidate is absurd.
"Absurd", "the industry's standard behaviour"... same difference.
I lost a job to a small company (who's entire QA department consisted of lil' ol' me) who had NEW, UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES in their release candidates. "We'll patch it if a user complains" was their response to bugs I was finding near the end. *sigh*
Anyway, they had made a point of telling me all about their emulation of Microsoft's development process in the begining. Huh, I guess I was wrong to doupt their commitment to the process.
We need to start working on carbon sequestration right now, unless you want 140 degree summers across the entire midwest belt. And we need to use carbon taxes as our main source of governmental revenue, not stupid things like employment taxes.
Oh great, tax people for working out, breathing out CO2, and not the fatties, storing carbon in their blubber. That won't backfire, will it?
I really think that unless we do something immediately, the habitability of at least half the landmass on Earth will be be jeapordy.
And as I demonstrated above, your plan will hit their hitability. By gods man! What's a few floods compared to that?!
When "IT" was first announced, I thought Kamen had come up with a new form of fuel that would replace petroleum and really "change the world".
When "IT" was first announced, I didn't hear about it, because I ignore marketing hype. When colleagues kept pestering me about it, I told them it was all a big marketing hype campaign and they would be really disapointed... they didn't listen. Then when people started complaining about what a letdown the segway was compared to what they had built up in their minds that it could be, I only wanted a strong drink. People are dumb.
Profiling by race and religion flies in the face of everything we've struggled to achieve in the last century. I think it was Martin Luther King who said:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
So, by race, maybe, but by religion... that falls under the content of their character.
The suits at Apple may try to innocently play this off like you can run Windows and OS X separately and without interference, but you know as well as I do that they're hoping Windows users will begin to spend a little time with OS X, become hooked, and then essentially ditch their former love.
No, I do not share that point of view, at all. No matter how you set it up as a subversive ("take that you suits!") consensus.
To me, the clear market is people who want both, deep down, but go for owning the cheapest of the two. Now they can have both in one box, and Apple sells that box; Apple likes selling boxes.
he's exploited Australian stereotypes, generally made the whole country a laughing stock
Now now, he may have exploited Australian stereotypes, but we were all laughing at you looooong before he came along, and will be long after his death:
You're Australian? Did your family keep the shackles as an heirloom?
"reproduced successfully" "offspring" These are not words which one generally uses with regards to people
This one does, and would like to request that you offer the courteous good-graces to shove your politically-correct bullshit up your's.
He was using the language of evolutionary biology to educate an ignorant poster about the proper use of the "darwin award" cultural reference. Conversely, your holier-than-thou attitude serves no purpose besidses edifying your pretences of moral superiority through verbal taboos.
it seems to be the less intelligent people who are having all the kids while smarter professional couples have less or no children.
It is human instinct to have more children when each child has a lesser chance of success.
Therefore, the poor and uneducated, who risk loosing their children to malutrition, violence, disease, etc, have more children (backups) than the rich and opulent, who do not fear for their survival quite as much.
P.S. Do not equate intelligence with professional achievement, lest you are forced to rate yourself as dumber than your pointy-haired boss.
Steve Irwin was a respectd scientist, his field was ecological conservationism. He completed surveys and took blood samples, he gathered data, and he made documentaries to educate the public about misunderstood "monsters".
Give me a fucking break. Unless you actually had friends/family DIE in that - you aren't dealing with pain, you're feeling a loss of national pride and perhaps suddenly feeling a bit more vulnerable.
Speak for yourself, some of us aren't completely narcissistic and can feel empathy for the dead without a need for personnal loss.
People should STFU right after something like this happens just for a week or two
People (i.e. you) should pratice what they preach.
What does the source of the name have to do with anything?
It matters if the reason it is a know brand is because it is the name of a successfull videogame to start with, or if it is something else being milked through the videogame format as an alternative profit avenue.
Simply put: Repeated sucess of a videogame line != first time sucess of a videogame line;
But my point is, these are units which can easily be felt as a part of you, not as an arbitrary definition. A room twelve feet wide is twice your wingspan. If it's eight feet tall, that's about how high you can reach.
You have no point: A room 4 meters wide is twice your wingspan. If it's 2.5m high, that's about how high you can reach. And forget about spouting nonsense regarding the EXACT measure of the very vague "your wingspan". People aren't all the same height.
A piece of wood shouldn't be 13 millimeters thick and 1.23 meters wide.
15mm and 1.25m will do nicely. It only sucks if you're converting one standard measure from a system to another. ex: "Butter should be sold by 454g", etc.
If we end up with 20 planets, so be it. 25 is about classroom size anyhow
Now you're using the average number of student per classroom in your area to infer the definition of a planet so their total number can coincide with it?
I don't get it. We've got architects over here in Europe using the metric system. Exactly what's your point?
His point is that the system he learned as a kid seems better to him.
It is a wholly subjective appreciation which he attemps to validate through rationalisations such as "as an architect", but he cannot convey the purported superiority this way since it is just a cover for his emotional attachment to the system in question.
The International Unit system is better to the British Imperial system because it was designed to be better. The latter, being a rag tag amassment of haphazard conventions, is quaint.
P.S. As a canadian I use both, metric for big stuff, inches and pounds for people...
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My guess is that he got the machine thirty years ago, it did what he needed, and he never felt a need to replace it.
Exactly.
Coincidentally, he did the same with a girl, 10 years ago.
MY questions are: Why are people questioning the hardware choices of a psycho kidnapper? Are they actually looking for a coherent thought process they can relate too? Do they want to find one? Should they turn themselves in the nearest psychiatric ward if they do?
I never understood this MS terminology. From my point of view a Release Candidate is in a shape that I could just recompile
Ah, there you go. It's not the tecchies that call when it is time for a release candidate, it's either marketing or the investors.
Psychotic, isn't it?
This is being promoted by Microsoft as a Release Candidate 1 [...] In reality, this is a late alpha (unoptimized, feature incomplete, substantial bugs remain) or at best an early beta (feature complete, largely optimized, some bugs remain), but based on reports calling this a Beta is being generous. But to call it a release candidate is absurd.
"Absurd", "the industry's standard behaviour"... same difference.
I lost a job to a small company (who's entire QA department consisted of lil' ol' me) who had NEW, UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES in their release candidates.
"We'll patch it if a user complains" was their response to bugs I was finding near the end.
*sigh*
Anyway, they had made a point of telling me all about their emulation of Microsoft's development process in the begining. Huh, I guess I was wrong to doupt their commitment to the process.
We need to start working on carbon sequestration right now, unless you want 140 degree summers across the entire midwest belt. And we need to use carbon taxes as our main source of governmental revenue, not stupid things like employment taxes.
Oh great, tax people for working out, breathing out CO2, and not the fatties, storing carbon in their blubber.
That won't backfire, will it?
I really think that unless we do something immediately, the habitability of at least half the landmass on Earth will be be jeapordy.
And as I demonstrated above, your plan will hit their hitability. By gods man! What's a few floods compared to that?!
When "IT" was first announced, I thought Kamen had come up with a new form of fuel that would replace petroleum and really "change the world".
When "IT" was first announced, I didn't hear about it, because I ignore marketing hype.
When colleagues kept pestering me about it, I told them it was all a big marketing hype campaign and they would be really disapointed... they didn't listen.
Then when people started complaining about what a letdown the segway was compared to what they had built up in their minds that it could be, I only wanted a strong drink. People are dumb.
Profiling by race and religion flies in the face of everything we've struggled to achieve in the last century. I think it was Martin Luther King who said:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
So, by race, maybe, but by religion... that falls under the content of their character.
The suits at Apple may try to innocently play this off like you can run Windows and OS X separately and without interference, but you know as well as I do that they're hoping Windows users will begin to spend a little time with OS X, become hooked, and then essentially ditch their former love.
No, I do not share that point of view, at all. No matter how you set it up as a subversive ("take that you suits!") consensus.
To me, the clear market is people who want both, deep down, but go for owning the cheapest of the two. Now they can have both in one box, and Apple sells that box; Apple likes selling boxes.
This way no one can report about the 'insecurity' of the OSX platform
Then what, pray tell, are you doing right there in that post of yours?
there are no exploits, see? As long as you're patched and up to date!
That's right, they get him to shut up about the how-to, they fix the hole, and voilà: no exploits in the wild! Everybody wins.
stereotyping americans as arrogant fat self loving over patriotic wankers
Go in any wallmart in south carolina to get the full 3D effect.
With that kind of influence it makes you wonder what he might have achieved if he hadn't died.
Perhaps it is for the better that the world shall never know the True Horror of his fearsome lizard army.
Now now, he may have exploited Australian stereotypes, but we were all laughing at you looooong before he came along, and will be long after his death:
Notice that none of those were Irwin-related
"reproduced successfully" "offspring" These are not words which one generally uses with regards to people
This one does, and would like to request that you offer the courteous good-graces to shove your politically-correct bullshit up your's.
He was using the language of evolutionary biology to educate an ignorant poster about the proper use of the "darwin award" cultural reference. Conversely, your holier-than-thou attitude serves no purpose besidses edifying your pretences of moral superiority through verbal taboos.
it seems to be the less intelligent people who are having all the kids while smarter professional couples have less or no children.
It is human instinct to have more children when each child has a lesser chance of success.
Therefore, the poor and uneducated, who risk loosing their children to malutrition, violence, disease, etc, have more children (backups) than the rich and opulent, who do not fear for their survival quite as much.
P.S. Do not equate intelligence with professional achievement, lest you are forced to rate yourself as dumber than your pointy-haired boss.
This is showbiz news, not science news!
Steve Irwin was a respectd scientist, his field was ecological conservationism.
He completed surveys and took blood samples, he gathered data, and he made documentaries to educate the public about misunderstood "monsters".
I always figured that an animal would ultimately kill him. I always thought it would be a croc.
I always knew it would never be a croc.
Guy knew his crocs.
Give me a fucking break. Unless you actually had friends/family DIE in that - you aren't dealing with pain, you're feeling a loss of national pride and perhaps suddenly feeling a bit more vulnerable.
Speak for yourself, some of us aren't completely narcissistic and can feel empathy for the dead without a need for personnal loss.
People should STFU right after something like this happens just for a week or two
People (i.e. you) should pratice what they preach.
If he's that big of a threat, what's he doing out of jail in the first place?
Making room in there for pot-heads.
... underestimating the intelligence of the american public.
And they know it.
Eventually. With millions of them...
What does the source of the name have to do with anything?
It matters if the reason it is a know brand is because it is the name of a successfull videogame to start with, or if it is something else being milked through the videogame format as an alternative profit avenue.
Simply put: Repeated sucess of a videogame line != first time sucess of a videogame line;
But my point is, these are units which can easily be felt as a part of you, not as an arbitrary definition. A room twelve feet wide is twice your wingspan. If it's eight feet tall, that's about how high you can reach.
You have no point: A room 4 meters wide is twice your wingspan. If it's 2.5m high, that's about how high you can reach.
And forget about spouting nonsense regarding the EXACT measure of the very vague "your wingspan". People aren't all the same height.
A piece of wood shouldn't be 13 millimeters thick and 1.23 meters wide.
15mm and 1.25m will do nicely.
It only sucks if you're converting one standard measure from a system to another. ex: "Butter should be sold by 454g", etc.
If we end up with 20 planets, so be it. 25 is about classroom size anyhow
Now you're using the average number of student per classroom in your area to infer the definition of a planet so their total number can coincide with it?
Have you THE BRAIN WORMS?!?
I don't get it. We've got architects over here in Europe using the metric system. Exactly what's your point?
His point is that the system he learned as a kid seems better to him.
It is a wholly subjective appreciation which he attemps to validate through rationalisations such as "as an architect", but he cannot convey the purported superiority this way since it is just a cover for his emotional attachment to the system in question.
The International Unit system is better to the British Imperial system because it was designed to be better. The latter, being a rag tag amassment of haphazard conventions, is quaint.
P.S. As a canadian I use both, metric for big stuff, inches and pounds for people...
So? If there's [millions of] trans-Neptunian objects out there big enough to be called planets, our system has more planets. What's the big deal?
We're running out of gods to name them!
Easy: Give them cookies.
Men really are that easy : )