Some people say we are in Iraq to create democracy in the Islamic middle east. This is, in my opinion, about as futile as trying to teach a pig to sing.
You are a bigot.
Sorry, but if that isn't a racist comment, I don't know what is.
I personally found this to be a very good review. Now I know a good way to create chess diagrams online! I've always wondered about that, and now it'll be a cinch. Thanks.
This is not a law-enforcement issue. We're in a war. We don't arrest wartime enemies and give them lawyers and court dates. We kill them. That is how it has always been in this and every other country in the world throughout all of history.
er...wrong. Microsoft became king because of anticompetitive contracts with PC manufacturers, not because of Piracy. There was no reason for most people or companies to pirate Windows or DOS because it came free with every PC whether you wanted it or not. Piracy existed, but it was by no means the reason Microsoft came out on top. Sorry.
Maybe if you'll study up on it a bit, you'll find that MS was expanding by leaps and bounds during that time, and they were doing it on sales of their software. They wouldn't have been able to survive on a strategy of letting people pirate their stuff all over the place, which is why they headed off the piracy problem in the first place by going to the manufacturers and forcing them to pay for a copy of Windows for each machine sold whether they actually installed it or not.
wow, this is hilarious. I see a slashdot lead-in extolling the longevity of the mars rover program and think, "I'm gonna go in there and post a comment blaming President Bush for something, just as a joke"... and, lo and behold, there it was, already waiting for me. Modded 5 Insightful to boot.
I'll give you credit, based on the timestamps it actually took all of 35 minutes for you to turn a discussion of astronomical exploration into a rant about Iraq and tax cuts.
Look, it's simple to get an ipod to mount automatically, it was VERY CLEARLY EXPLAINED in this post to the kernel mailing list last may. you just have to apply the patch like this and recompile:
undiff ide-2.6.git/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c \ /usr/src/root/local/home/innersanctum/kernel/versi on/2.6.44.a/kernel.bas | more
make -t -o -f -s- -ss -F -sss -z -9 kernel.exe
note that the procedure is different if you are running Ubuntu "Dumpy Doper" releas on an Apple PPC with an nVidia card, as CLEARLY EXPLAINED in this forum thread.
Interesting, so how efficient will the new engines be? Your statement as written seems to contemplate an 80% efficient hydro engine comparing favorably with a worst-case 20% efficient petrol engine...this sounds kind of unrealistic.
This is consistent with typical 802.11g performance. "Nameplate" bandwidth is 54mbps but the medium is half-duplex - only one side can transmit at a time - so this effectively halves your bandwidth to 27mbps. Then you have wireless overhead: frame headers, retries, and encryption, which can drop your effective bandwidth by 20% to 50%, the biggest factors there being your signal-to-noise ratio and the number of other users.
If you place a laptop within a foot of your AP and run some active testing, you will find that you are able to get 22mbps of throughput...if you are the only one using the network and if the RF interference in your area is not very bad.
I couldn't help thinking that Poe (others too, probably) already thought of this 150 years ago, specifically in Some Words With a Mummy, written in 1850.
"We then spoke of the great beauty and importance of Democracy, and were at much trouble in impressing the Count [the mummy] with a due sense of the advantages we enjoyed in living where there was suffrage ad libitum, and no king.
"He listened with marked interest, and in fact seemed not a little amused. When we had done, he said that, a great while ago, there had occurred something of a very similar sort. Thirteen Egyptian provinces determined all at once to be free, and to set a magnificent example to the rest of mankind. They assembled their wise men, and concocted the most ingenious constitution it is possible to conceive. For a while they managed remarkably well; only their habit of bragging was prodigious. The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states, with some fifteen or twenty others, in the most odious and insupportable despotism that was ever heard of upon the face of the Earth.
"I asked what was the name of the usurping tyrant.
"As well as the Count could recollect, it was Mob."
Do the wiki admins make a point of collectively watching all television shows to make sure no one is vandalising their site?
What if someone were to announce their wiki vandalism on, say, local radio -- that is, to an audience of only 80,000 as opposed to 8 million -- would they still be caught?
If Steve alters a part of a wiki entry regarding remarks he himself has made about Oregon, would he not then be making a remark about Oregon, thus making whatever new content he entered technically correct?
If Steve had not publicly announced his vandalism regarding whether or not he had compared Oregon to Portugal, would anyone besides Barry Lopez have cared?
You really do not understand string theory or its history then. String theory exists because it offers an explaination for conundrums that point-particle based approaches have been unable to solve. Namely, the conflict between quantum physics and general relativity that arises when the latter is applied on arbitrarily small scales. These equations break down under such conditions, meaning that a broader framework is needed. As a theory of quantum physics that actually includes/predicts gravity, string theory is able to resolve these conflicts quite handily. People didn't just "notice beautiful equations" of 12-dimensional string vibrations, in fact the 12 dimensions were a development that came later on in string theory.
String theory is here precisely because our understanding of "the world around us" was obviously flawed and needed fixing. It was comprised of two theories that have been experimentally verified almost to the last degree, and yet are in irreconcileable conflict with each other.
He's right though. Blog-readers (who are often unusually voracious readers anyway) tend to think that everyone else uses the internet the same way they do, but it ain't so. For most companies (yknow, except flickr and textdrive etc), setting up and maintaining a blog is going to have the smallest ROI of any of the approaches you mention, because it will reach only the voracious readers and news junkies of the Internet.
"As the USA concetrates on the development of these so called lasers, al-Qaida and its affiliates will enter the USA through the porous southern and norther borders and do greater harm."
Right, because there is only one person working in the Pentagon and he can only concentrate on one thing at a time.
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Yeah, how ironic: Mr. "Two Americas" campaigning in the second one.
curious: what was the name of this German company? also, was guardian edge among the 5 you looked at and if so what did you think of their product?
You are a bigot.
Sorry, but if that isn't a racist comment, I don't know what is.
I personally found this to be a very good review. Now I know a good way to create chess diagrams online! I've always wondered about that, and now it'll be a cinch. Thanks.
'K thanks, I believe you.
This is not a law-enforcement issue. We're in a war. We don't arrest wartime enemies and give them lawyers and court dates. We kill them. That is how it has always been in this and every other country in the world throughout all of history.
So, it's because of your age then?
No.
er...wrong. Microsoft became king because of anticompetitive contracts with PC manufacturers, not because of Piracy. There was no reason for most people or companies to pirate Windows or DOS because it came free with every PC whether you wanted it or not. Piracy existed, but it was by no means the reason Microsoft came out on top. Sorry.
Maybe if you'll study up on it a bit, you'll find that MS was expanding by leaps and bounds during that time, and they were doing it on sales of their software. They wouldn't have been able to survive on a strategy of letting people pirate their stuff all over the place, which is why they headed off the piracy problem in the first place by going to the manufacturers and forcing them to pay for a copy of Windows for each machine sold whether they actually installed it or not.
wow, this is hilarious. I see a slashdot lead-in extolling the longevity of the mars rover program and think, "I'm gonna go in there and post a comment blaming President Bush for something, just as a joke" ... and, lo and behold, there it was, already waiting for me. Modded 5 Insightful to boot.
I'll give you credit, based on the timestamps it actually took all of 35 minutes for you to turn a discussion of astronomical exploration into a rant about Iraq and tax cuts.
Look, it's simple to get an ipod to mount automatically, it was VERY CLEARLY EXPLAINED in this post to the kernel mailing list last may. you just have to apply the patch like this and recompile:
note that the procedure is different if you are running Ubuntu "Dumpy Doper" releas on an Apple PPC with an nVidia card, as CLEARLY EXPLAINED in this forum thread.
noob.
Interesting, so how efficient will the new engines be? Your statement as written seems to contemplate an 80% efficient hydro engine comparing favorably with a worst-case 20% efficient petrol engine...this sounds kind of unrealistic.
So, how does the not-invented-here syndrome explain why we are now using a language invented in Japan?
I didn't even know smalltalk was french until I read this.
This is what we refer to as the Deplorable Joke.
(the humor equivelant of the Deplorable Word)
Sounds like you need ZFS.
This is consistent with typical 802.11g performance. "Nameplate" bandwidth is 54mbps but the medium is half-duplex - only one side can transmit at a time - so this effectively halves your bandwidth to 27mbps. Then you have wireless overhead: frame headers, retries, and encryption, which can drop your effective bandwidth by 20% to 50%, the biggest factors there being your signal-to-noise ratio and the number of other users.
If you place a laptop within a foot of your AP and run some active testing, you will find that you are able to get 22mbps of throughput...if you are the only one using the network and if the RF interference in your area is not very bad.
does this mean grey matter exists as well?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and that new one.
I'm shocked!
I couldn't help thinking that Poe (others too, probably) already thought of this 150 years ago, specifically in Some Words With a Mummy , written in 1850.
This raises a number of questions in my mind.
Do the wiki admins make a point of collectively watching all television shows to make sure no one is vandalising their site?
What if someone were to announce their wiki vandalism on, say, local radio -- that is, to an audience of only 80,000 as opposed to 8 million -- would they still be caught?
If Steve alters a part of a wiki entry regarding remarks he himself has made about Oregon, would he not then be making a remark about Oregon, thus making whatever new content he entered technically correct?
If Steve had not publicly announced his vandalism regarding whether or not he had compared Oregon to Portugal, would anyone besides Barry Lopez have cared?
You're right. It doesn't sound like a big deal.
You really do not understand string theory or its history then. String theory exists because it offers an explaination for conundrums that point-particle based approaches have been unable to solve. Namely, the conflict between quantum physics and general relativity that arises when the latter is applied on arbitrarily small scales. These equations break down under such conditions, meaning that a broader framework is needed. As a theory of quantum physics that actually includes/predicts gravity, string theory is able to resolve these conflicts quite handily. People didn't just "notice beautiful equations" of 12-dimensional string vibrations, in fact the 12 dimensions were a development that came later on in string theory.
String theory is here precisely because our understanding of "the world around us" was obviously flawed and needed fixing. It was comprised of two theories that have been experimentally verified almost to the last degree, and yet are in irreconcileable conflict with each other.
He's right though. Blog-readers (who are often unusually voracious readers anyway) tend to think that everyone else uses the internet the same way they do, but it ain't so. For most companies (yknow, except flickr and textdrive etc), setting up and maintaining a blog is going to have the smallest ROI of any of the approaches you mention, because it will reach only the voracious readers and news junkies of the Internet.
Right, because there is only one person working in the Pentagon and he can only concentrate on one thing at a time.