"Maybe aliens are everywhere, aware of us, and simply choosing not to communicate."
I think this is most likely. To reach space you have lots of self-control so that you don't..uh..risk wiping out your civilization.
Once you reach that point of sophistication, you would feel that we humans are so damn annoying, unpredictable and of little use that you would want to avoid us at all cost.
That or we are an experiment they have been running for billion+ years and don't want to contaminate it. kinda like what we earthlings do when we send out space probes.
Easier said than done. Many developers are lazy and create apps that only work if the USER is an administrator. Other times it will only work if the user that installed the app is the USER (Again, need administrator to install it in the first place!).
"why don't they just arrest those responsible for all this horrible activity?"
That requires REAL work and you can't abuse it as easily as an Internet Filter. If it can't be abused, then the politicians cannot is it to get more $ "for their campaign".
With the pricing of AutoCAD today, what you spend every year on AutoCAD upgrades and new licenses you could hire a programmer to do the changes that *YOU* care about. Also, that programmer could be paid as well by other firms. So in the end everybody wins. You effectively cut out the Marketing/Sales middle men.
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"Maybe aliens are everywhere, aware of us, and simply choosing not to communicate."
I think this is most likely.
To reach space you have lots of self-control so that you don't..uh..risk wiping out your civilization.
Once you reach that point of sophistication, you would feel that we humans are so damn annoying, unpredictable and of little use that you would want to avoid us at all cost.
That or we are an experiment they have been running for billion+ years and don't want to contaminate it. kinda like what we earthlings do when we send out space probes.
Easier said than done.
Many developers are lazy and create apps that only work if the USER is an administrator. Other times it will only work if the user that installed the app is the USER (Again, need administrator to install it in the first place!).
BTW: Fixing this is my bread and butter.
[citation needed] or else corps will try to patent it.
"Microsoft or anyone else is free to take the code close it up and sell a product that makes the open version obsolete or at best less featured."
That the "Extinguish" part of MS' EEE strategy.
Tim's on him laptop at home in his bedroom
(In a IM window) Hey Tim, what does "little Timmy" look like?
(Tim sends a picture of "little Timmy")
(In the IM window) Wow, that's so b
At that instant SWAT teams blow-up the front door of both of their houses and arrest them on the spot
Both are now on the Sex Offender lists for the rest of their lives.
We do it here daily in the USA.
Just be happy you don't live in Canada.
We have a DNC but our very own government SELLS the list to foreign telemarketers.
http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/ontario/story.html?id=1176350
[citation needed]
It's so that girls can change the color of their fingernails just by touching them, just like in Total Recall.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Fingernail+color+%22Total+Recall%22&btnG=Search&meta=
They should talk about the mounting hardware.
I bought a cheap scope once to go on a pellet gun.
The cheap scope fell apart from the vibrations.
Could the iPod become "iParts" on the ground just from the recoil shocks?
I wish I had mod point for you.
Because the tag system on /. has been hijacked for month and Taco doesn't see anything wrong with that.
If the RIAA wins, our culture will stagnate and be forever held hostage by profiteering bribers.
The new culture will come from "free-er" China, etc where no RIAA equivalent exists, yet.
"why don't they just arrest those responsible for all this horrible activity?"
That requires REAL work and you can't abuse it as easily as an Internet Filter.
If it can't be abused, then the politicians cannot is it to get more $ "for their campaign".
Follow the money. You always get your answer.
Don't get caught or make it "legal".
Shrub and co. did the later.
I'm not a telco guy but I am aware of the 48VDC standard.
Why didn't they just do the same for servers in a datacenter?
With the pricing of AutoCAD today, what you spend every year on AutoCAD upgrades and new licenses you could hire a programmer to do the changes that *YOU* care about. Also, that programmer could be paid as well by other firms. So in the end everybody wins. You effectively cut out the Marketing/Sales middle men.
I heard here were going from MS visualization to VMWare.
I don't know if we even considered MS HyperV.
At that time you could choose Windows ME or Windows 2000.
MS had a hard time to get people off Win9x.
Windows ME fixed that in a jiffy.
Yes
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22LED+backlight%22+%22LCD+TV%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
The idea or sending Asteroids towards Mars is a good idea but some might see it as too scary.
What if it misses Mars, loops around the sun and then hits the earth or another planet?
The Greenest is the Fit-PC
http://www.fit-pc.com/new/
but you wont get performance or Vista running...
Good luck with creating that Martian atmosphere.
The solar wind will rip it away as it forms.
The irony is that a Coal Plant is actually MORE radioactive than a Nuclear Plant!!
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
Hint: It in the ashes and it affect 1 mile around it. Don't eat stuff from your garden!
Wouldn't do much for you.
You'd hit a dead moose instead of a live one.
That's right. No viruses for my phone.