Very insightful. As someone in his early 40's I can honestly say most of the 'kids' I encouter know very little of the low level details of how things work behind the scenes. Their depth of knowledge is often severely lacking. There are exceptions of course but by and large that's what I've encountered.
Good point. With regards to the IRC though that depends on the server/network. There are some gaming centric IRC servers that are filled with idiot children.
Wrong. It's a perfect analogy. Ok let's take your store front. The operative word is front. If you fake your way in through the loading dock by pretending to be a delivery man and/or using forged or stolen credentials then you're going in the back door. Even if you go in the back door because it was left unlocked and unguarded it's still considered a crime in most jurisdictions. The key is the intent, and the fact that the perpetrator evaded the front door.
Saying something isn't likely isn't the same as saying it is impossible. I never discounted the possibility of Earth born life surviving there. I simply said it was not a likelyhood, and it isn't. Perhaps your laungage parser needs some patches;) I said exactly what I meant and with regards to probability there was nothing wrong with it. You simply jumped on your misunderstanding of my point.
I think you misunderstand. The mechanisms that would cause life to consume the substances that are 'missing' are totally alien to life as we know it, but fit the model for methane based life very well. It could well be that there are non-biological chemical processes doing it, but the odds of it being from any contamination from Huygens is astronomically remote. Hugyens was also very, very carefully sterilized. Granted, a microbe or two might have made it to Titan, where it would most likely die rather than reproduce.
I do see your point and we need to continue to be careful, but I see nothing in these findings that makes the Hugyens discussion at all relevant to this story.
You're whining because you didn't have enough RAM? On a 386 with plenty of RAM Win 3.0 did a pretty good job for it's time. I preferred OS/2 in those days but I used Windows (often WinOS2, sometimes via dual boot) plenty as well and it was good for what it was. Then again I had 4 Meg of RAM, not the 640k you're whining about.
As for the overhead in DOS, it was very easy to boot all sorts of DOS configurations with memory managers to free up a LOT of space. Towards the end of the DOS era many games almost required you to do so in order to run as they hit the brick wall.
It wasn't an Operating System as the article intro states though. It was a shell that sat on top of DOS and allowed cooperative multitasking and (on 386+CPU's) the use of Virtual 8086 mode to even multitask many DOS programs.
The real problem is the sentencing guidelines. A true child rapist should go away for life in prison. Then this wouldn't be an issue. I am not talking about statutory rapists, I mean the ones who really prey on children.
Actually you're wrong. His assumption of size was based on a question, paraphrased as follows: "Could there be a black hole with an event horizon as large as a galaxy." He chose a number based on the size of an average galaxy as we know it. Theoretically it's possible and he did the math to figure out what the mass would need to be.
Organic matter != Life though. I'm not sure if Panspermia brought life to Earth or not, but the organic matter in comets isn't alive. It's just the building blocks that could potentally have been involved in life coming into being.
It's nice they've developed a way to data on plastic discs, but it does the average user no good as long as we're using magnetic drums and punch cards. I guess these so called 'floppy' disks are aimed at the high end workstation market, then?
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been reading too many Juniper cli docs...
Everyone knows cats prefer cheezeburger over steak.
Someone left both their imagination and their sense of humor at home today. Tsk tsk. +1 Pedantic!
Very insightful. As someone in his early 40's I can honestly say most of the 'kids' I encouter know very little of the low level details of how things work behind the scenes. Their depth of knowledge is often severely lacking. There are exceptions of course but by and large that's what I've encountered.
Yet you still read it and commented. Hmmm.
Good point. With regards to the IRC though that depends on the server/network. There are some gaming centric IRC servers that are filled with idiot children.
In other words, over 7 out of 10 IRC users and 4 out of 10 Facebook users are utter idiots.
It's tetrions, not tachyons! Man you could have gotten us KILLED!
What a failed troll...since both of those were fixed with Amendments. That's how it's done, you know...
Wrong. It's a perfect analogy. Ok let's take your store front. The operative word is front. If you fake your way in through the loading dock by pretending to be a delivery man and/or using forged or stolen credentials then you're going in the back door. Even if you go in the back door because it was left unlocked and unguarded it's still considered a crime in most jurisdictions. The key is the intent, and the fact that the perpetrator evaded the front door.
Even if it does work with IE6 (I don't know) it's no longer IE 6 doing the rendering. Essentially IE 6 has become a shell running Chrome.
I had to check my calendar when I saw this submission. I *knew* it wasn't April 1st but still...I mean REALLY? Is this supposed to be taken seriously?
I wonder how Microsoft likes being played at its own 'Embrace and Extend' game ;)
Saying something isn't likely isn't the same as saying it is impossible. I never discounted the possibility of Earth born life surviving there. I simply said it was not a likelyhood, and it isn't. Perhaps your laungage parser needs some patches ;) I said exactly what I meant and with regards to probability there was nothing wrong with it. You simply jumped on your misunderstanding of my point.
I think you misunderstand. The mechanisms that would cause life to consume the substances that are 'missing' are totally alien to life as we know it, but fit the model for methane based life very well. It could well be that there are non-biological chemical processes doing it, but the odds of it being from any contamination from Huygens is astronomically remote. Hugyens was also very, very carefully sterilized. Granted, a microbe or two might have made it to Titan, where it would most likely die rather than reproduce.
I do see your point and we need to continue to be careful, but I see nothing in these findings that makes the Hugyens discussion at all relevant to this story.
You're whining because you didn't have enough RAM? On a 386 with plenty of RAM Win 3.0 did a pretty good job for it's time. I preferred OS/2 in those days but I used Windows (often WinOS2, sometimes via dual boot) plenty as well and it was good for what it was. Then again I had 4 Meg of RAM, not the 640k you're whining about.
As for the overhead in DOS, it was very easy to boot all sorts of DOS configurations with memory managers to free up a LOT of space. Towards the end of the DOS era many games almost required you to do so in order to run as they hit the brick wall.
It wasn't an Operating System as the article intro states though. It was a shell that sat on top of DOS and allowed cooperative multitasking and (on 386+CPU's) the use of Virtual 8086 mode to even multitask many DOS programs.
In other words, the end users should be the guinea pigs in a social experiment? I don't think so...
Well played. I always love when someone tries being pedantic and fails, then gets burned for it. Well done, sir. Well done.
I agree. I should have said 'violent rapists'.
You're actually right. Any rapist should go away for life.
The real problem is the sentencing guidelines. A true child rapist should go away for life in prison. Then this wouldn't be an issue. I am not talking about statutory rapists, I mean the ones who really prey on children.
Actually you're wrong. His assumption of size was based on a question, paraphrased as follows: "Could there be a black hole with an event horizon as large as a galaxy." He chose a number based on the size of an average galaxy as we know it. Theoretically it's possible and he did the math to figure out what the mass would need to be.
Think before you type ;)
Organic matter != Life though. I'm not sure if Panspermia brought life to Earth or not, but the organic matter in comets isn't alive. It's just the building blocks that could potentally have been involved in life coming into being.
It's nice they've developed a way to data on plastic discs, but it does the average user no good as long as we're using magnetic drums and punch cards. I guess these so called 'floppy' disks are aimed at the high end workstation market, then?
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