While I agree with the parent and grandparent on the virtues of military research, it's a shame that these sort of projects need to be presented to congress as agents of human death to have funds allocated.
Intel had a chance to buy out MITS, the company in Arizona producing the Altair in the 1970s, but opted to instead continue selling them 8008 chips for a low price. I'm scant on details because I should probably be writing a script right now;) , but there's a great passage about the blunder in this book, which is a must-read. Intel dropped the ball, for sure.
How appropriate that a show like CSI, with it's magical crime solving interweb magic machines, 'if it turns blue when I squirt this shit on it than the butler did it' and 'apparently CSIs are frequently involved in shoot-outs and car chases' BS would build an episode around talk show physchobabble like 'GTA made them do it'. Maybe people will actually make the connection between a laughably unrealistic TV show and the laughably unfounded theory of video game inspired violence - or am I giving the average CSI viewer too much credit?
.. $0.99 per track for compressed audio sans jewel case, liner notes, and physical media isn't already a raw deal compared to a 16 track CD for $12.99.
Am I the only one that thinks $0.99 per song is a bit steep? The average 12 song LP would cost you $11.88 to download.. when at some stores you could buy the CD for the same price and still get the packaging, the case, and CD itself - not to mention without the reduction in sound quality. Aside from using this service to legally aquire single songs from albums full of filler, what's the point?
Look, even if they COULD make H from garbage, it wouldn't be nearly as nice as the H you can buy on the streets. I don't think I would ever shoot up from H that was produced from gar...huh? whats that you say? hy-dro-gen? oh.
You should also keep in mind that the longer you wait to upgrade, the less value you will bring in from selling your old systems. What you'll have left over could draw $2,000 in the used market - enough to buy 3 of the new systems that you are proposing.
i would be referring to the sanctions that got the US kicked off of the UN human rights committee. in iraq, an enormous amount of children die everyday (something like 4,000) from malnutrition and various curable diseases as a direct result of US-sponsored sanctions that prevent food and medecine from being imported into iraq.
i'd suggest you get your news from somewhere other than cnn..
Microsoft contributed thousands of dollars to GWB's presidential campaign, AND to Ashcroft's failed Senate bid, in which he lost to a dead man. And of course we all know which MSFT-sponsored zealot now runs the DOJ and is in perfect position to sabotage the case against Microsoft (with presidential support, no less, as Bush is essentially a paid spokesman for MSFT).
And of course they'd rather fight a war with terrorists than with a multi-billion dollar corporation.. guess who owns who? Besides, traditional Republican logic dictates that the best way to stir up a divided country into a blind stir of ugly nationalism is to start a war. Remember Daddy Bush sending young Americans off to die for oil in the desert, let alone the thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East killed by US air strikes and economic sanctions? All in the name of public opinion polls and returning favors to multinational oil corporations for campaign contributions.
1) Scientists and environmentalists make their money by predicting doomsday. No global warming == no grant money to fund study after study
if there were no reason to study environmental degredation, i'm sure these scientists would have plenty of other things to do research on. why manufacture a problem to be researched and solved when there are plenty of them around already?
not only that, but its not as if being a research scientist is a lucrative financial career. if you want to make tons of cash being a scientist, you work for a company like Du Pont, and companies like Du Pont are the ones that are creating these problems in the first place.
since the supply was a lot greater than the demand, more than a few stores in my area (and others, too) were requiring you to buy at least 3 games and an extra controller with an x box purchase. if you had your name on the list but didn't have the money for the extra controller and games, well there were about a dozen poeple right next to you that -did-
I'm an undergrad majoring in computer science, and after reading the untrue, generalized things that some of you had to say about college students, I had to reply.
First of all, I'm sick and tired of this animosity between those of us that went to school and those of us that taught ourselves everything and went into the industry basically direct from high school (which seems to be non-student making fun of students). Just because I'm a university student does not in anyway mean that everything I've learned about computer science has come from class; I, too, have learned most of it on my own, prior to college. Granted, I will admit that there are quite a few idiots who are in my CS classes, but these are the guys who have or will soon change their major when they realize that CS does mean clicking on things and playing Quake.
Second of all, you're outright wrong to assume that college students have no exposure to non-MS software. At my school, we do the vast majority of our work on Sun workstations, and we have a several student-built and maintained Linux servers. I myself used to run Debian, although Linux is not on any of my current machines (Unless you count my floppy distro cable gateway). In my school anyway, a majority those that came to school with no prior Linux experience have learned something from those of us that do.
Thirdly, I agree with the point that someone brought up about not worrying about those that heard about MSCE on the radio and now reset NT servers for a living.. these are the people who will make those of us who DO know our shit look even smarter.
Last, I strongly disagree with this "college students have no field experience" nonsense. I, personally, have been doing this stuff since back in the 386 days (not as long as some of you, I'm sure) I have a couple years of networking experience and a CCNA (not like that's a bragging right, however) and I also helped out a friend who started an IT company. Several of my friends from school have a ridiculous amount of experience and knowledge, probably more than some of you who poke fun at those that "drudge to class while I make money." However, there are a few idiots in my classes that are Windows Wizards, which do provide me with an endless source of amusement when I eavesdrop on their conversations pertaining to IT.
The bottom line is that there are idiots everywhere. Some of them go to college, some of them don't. Just because someone attends a university for CS, or something like DeVry for that matter, doesn't mean that they have no prior knowledge of computers, other non-MS operating systems, or field experience. That generalization makes about as much sense as saying that all English major couldn't read before college.
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While I agree with the parent and grandparent on the virtues of military research, it's a shame that these sort of projects need to be presented to congress as agents of human death to have funds allocated.
Intel had a chance to buy out MITS, the company in Arizona producing the Altair in the 1970s, but opted to instead continue selling them 8008 chips for a low price. I'm scant on details because I should probably be writing a script right now ;) , but there's a great passage about the blunder in this book, which is a must-read. Intel dropped the ball, for sure.
How appropriate that a show like CSI, with it's magical crime solving interweb magic machines, 'if it turns blue when I squirt this shit on it than the butler did it' and 'apparently CSIs are frequently involved in shoot-outs and car chases' BS would build an episode around talk show physchobabble like 'GTA made them do it'. Maybe people will actually make the connection between a laughably unrealistic TV show and the laughably unfounded theory of video game inspired violence - or am I giving the average CSI viewer too much credit?
The solution is "easy", even if it is a bit authoritarian. Mandatory sterilization.
This should've been modded 'insightful.'
(Optional) Set up a hot 19 year old college freshman with an apartment and a car, and bang her once a week until your heart gives out.
Optional?
Did I miss anything? ;)
Aside from the memo about readable code, no.
.. $0.99 per track for compressed audio sans jewel case, liner notes, and physical media isn't already a raw deal compared to a 16 track CD for $12.99.
Am I the only one that thinks $0.99 per song is a bit steep? The average 12 song LP would cost you $11.88 to download.. when at some stores you could buy the CD for the same price and still get the packaging, the case, and CD itself - not to mention without the reduction in sound quality. Aside from using this service to legally aquire single songs from albums full of filler, what's the point?
Look, even if they COULD make H from garbage, it wouldn't be nearly as nice as the H you can buy on the streets. I don't think I would ever shoot up from H that was produced from gar...huh? whats that you say? hy-dro-gen? oh.
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d) they are slashdotters
You should also keep in mind that the longer you wait to upgrade, the less value you will bring in from selling your old systems. What you'll have left over could draw $2,000 in the used market - enough to buy 3 of the new systems that you are proposing.
Keeping wait and that figure will go down.
i would be referring to the sanctions that got the US kicked off of the UN human rights committee. in iraq, an enormous amount of children die everyday (something like 4,000) from malnutrition and various curable diseases as a direct result of US-sponsored sanctions that prevent food and medecine from being imported into iraq.
i'd suggest you get your news from somewhere other than cnn..
The Independent Media Center
None of this is that surprising.
.. guess who owns who? Besides, traditional Republican logic dictates that the best way to stir up a divided country into a blind stir of ugly nationalism is to start a war. Remember Daddy Bush sending young Americans off to die for oil in the desert, let alone the thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East killed by US air strikes and economic sanctions? All in the name of public opinion polls and returning favors to multinational oil corporations for campaign contributions.
Microsoft contributed thousands of dollars to GWB's presidential campaign, AND to Ashcroft's failed Senate bid, in which he lost to a dead man. And of course we all know which MSFT-sponsored zealot now runs the DOJ and is in perfect position to sabotage the case against Microsoft (with presidential support, no less, as Bush is essentially a paid spokesman for MSFT).
And of course they'd rather fight a war with terrorists than with a multi-billion dollar corporation
Hail to the theif.
so close to fp! next time i guess.
1) Scientists and environmentalists make their money by predicting doomsday. No global warming == no grant money to fund study after study if there were no reason to study environmental degredation, i'm sure these scientists would have plenty of other things to do research on. why manufacture a problem to be researched and solved when there are plenty of them around already? not only that, but its not as if being a research scientist is a lucrative financial career. if you want to make tons of cash being a scientist, you work for a company like Du Pont, and companies like Du Pont are the ones that are creating these problems in the first place.
since the supply was a lot greater than the demand, more than a few stores in my area (and others, too) were requiring you to buy at least 3 games and an extra controller with an x box purchase. if you had your name on the list but didn't have the money for the extra controller and games, well there were about a dozen poeple right next to you that -did-
I'm an undergrad majoring in computer science, and after reading the untrue, generalized things that some of you had to say about college students, I had to reply. First of all, I'm sick and tired of this animosity between those of us that went to school and those of us that taught ourselves everything and went into the industry basically direct from high school (which seems to be non-student making fun of students). Just because I'm a university student does not in anyway mean that everything I've learned about computer science has come from class; I, too, have learned most of it on my own, prior to college. Granted, I will admit that there are quite a few idiots who are in my CS classes, but these are the guys who have or will soon change their major when they realize that CS does mean clicking on things and playing Quake. Second of all, you're outright wrong to assume that college students have no exposure to non-MS software. At my school, we do the vast majority of our work on Sun workstations, and we have a several student-built and maintained Linux servers. I myself used to run Debian, although Linux is not on any of my current machines (Unless you count my floppy distro cable gateway). In my school anyway, a majority those that came to school with no prior Linux experience have learned something from those of us that do. Thirdly, I agree with the point that someone brought up about not worrying about those that heard about MSCE on the radio and now reset NT servers for a living.. these are the people who will make those of us who DO know our shit look even smarter. Last, I strongly disagree with this "college students have no field experience" nonsense. I, personally, have been doing this stuff since back in the 386 days (not as long as some of you, I'm sure) I have a couple years of networking experience and a CCNA (not like that's a bragging right, however) and I also helped out a friend who started an IT company. Several of my friends from school have a ridiculous amount of experience and knowledge, probably more than some of you who poke fun at those that "drudge to class while I make money." However, there are a few idiots in my classes that are Windows Wizards, which do provide me with an endless source of amusement when I eavesdrop on their conversations pertaining to IT. The bottom line is that there are idiots everywhere. Some of them go to college, some of them don't. Just because someone attends a university for CS, or something like DeVry for that matter, doesn't mean that they have no prior knowledge of computers, other non-MS operating systems, or field experience. That generalization makes about as much sense as saying that all English major couldn't read before college.
that wasn't cave dewellers.. dunno which one you're talking about, but i just watched cave dwellers like a couple days ago. funny stuff, recommended.