That is in fact what they're saying. God used to be evil, but now he's good, see, he straightens his act up around halfway through. Before that it was slaughter these people, slaughter those people, but now he's nice. He likes you now that he got his son killed. And as long as you recognize that, he won't torture you for eternity. Isn't he so full of love and wonderfulness? Just like Hitler was.
Someone I know in the future: "Hey Steve why don't you install this software so we can all monitor each other and make sure we don't sin?!" Me: "Why don't you (^%^@($#)*#&*&#(&# my *#*#^&#$^$*&*$*$ you #*^@%#$*$(*#(&#."
You mean here in the year 2003 Linux is going to get a decent desktop, like Macintosh got in 1984 or Windows in 1995? I'll believe it when I see it. Any operating system which half the time can't cut and paste between apps is still adolescent.
That's already happened. More than one 'critical thinking' class has been shot down by parents who didn't want their kids being told faith is a terrible reason to believe anything. The irrational outnumber us.
No, you could decelerate on the earth side really really hard using air resistance, instead of pulling on the cable. Assuming you had a system to bleed off the heat, you could come down on the outside of the tube at speeds much higher than you could get with the limited acceleration on the way up.
considering that this elevator would weight 100 trillion tons, could you imagine what would happen if it snapped near the top, and the rest fell on NYC? Ghastly.
I do dearly love that artwork, and I will have lots of it when I graduate and have $$$. I even like the musical version. Remember those wonderful modernist pieces of music in EPCOT, and such?
But we weren't "lied to" or "promised" something that didn't happen. It was just a wonderful utopian vision, and like all those, it never quite happens. Tragedy of the Commons, yada yada yada.
About keeping important bits of paper. I have MathCAD Pro 2000, and an upgrade to MathCAD 2001, both of which set me back nicely, (though I usually need Mathematica) and when I switched computers in December it was all useless because I can't find the serial number to my MC Pro 2000 disk.
First you say the "best researchers select the most appropriate tool for the job", then you explain that this is not really true, because "the largest fraction of a scientists' time should be spent on data collection, not experimental implementation, and the amount of time (for nearly all fields except those with astronomical amounts of data) spent executing code is dwarfed by the time developing it." IMHO, the second part is correct. The absolute best tool for a certain job I do might be Scilab, but IDL, for instance, might be 99% as good and I already know it. So the best option is not always to simply pick the best tool for the job.
And all over the place. There's really no comprehensive, encyclopedic analysis of the various packages and libraries. I wish someone with the time would do such a thing. I use Matlab and Mathematica, and for animations Maple or MathCAD, I have a fair understanding of math and software, and I still consider myself uninformed on the question.
I mean, if they need to cut and paste from one app to another, or easily manage printers, or add and remove hardware frequently, or do things without having to spend large amounts of time learning arcane info, they should use Windows.
Confiscate their equipment, kick them all out of school, and prohibit them from entering a publicly funded school anywhere in the State. Whatever the punishment for rape is, give that +10% to them. Then let Cartman kick them in the nuts.
Since the public doesn't see the hidden cost of spam to the ISP and carriers, the ISPs could help shift public sentiment against spam by itemising the user's bill. Imagine if the 40 million AOL customers who pay $20/mo got a bill saying
4) No more windows. Overlapping windows are just confusing and require too much user intervention. A next gen GUI should be based on a full-screen application mechanism. For the relatively few times when more than one application needs to be visible at the same time, mechanisms need to be provided to facillitate this.
The mechanism's already provided. It's called overlapping windows.
Something that never ceases to amaze me, in my decade of using both Windows and various Unices/Window Environments, is that even in the year 2003, cut-and-paste between apps in Unix is still spotty.
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That is in fact what they're saying. God used to be evil, but now he's good, see, he straightens his act up around halfway through. Before that it was slaughter these people, slaughter those people, but now he's nice. He likes you now that he got his son killed. And as long as you recognize that, he won't torture you for eternity.
Isn't he so full of love and wonderfulness? Just like Hitler was.
Because it's YAOMS--yet another objective moral standard. The pertinent question is really, why even have discussions with religious people?
Someone I know in the future: "Hey Steve why don't you install this software so we can all monitor each other and make sure we don't sin?!"
Me: "Why don't you (^%^@($#)*#&*&#(&# my *#*#^&#$^$*&*$*$ you #*^@%#$*$(*#(&#."
Dr. Laura is Jewish. In her mind, the NT doesn't apply. Those OT verses do. So Dear Dr. Laura is valid.
Some religious doofuses want to show everyone they don't go to porn sites? GREAT! More porn bandwidth for me. Suckas.
You mean here in the year 2003 Linux is going to get a decent desktop, like Macintosh got in 1984 or Windows in 1995? I'll believe it when I see it. Any operating system which half the time can't cut and paste between apps is still adolescent.
That's already happened. More than one 'critical thinking' class has been shot down by parents who didn't want their kids being told faith is a terrible reason to believe anything. The irrational outnumber us.
I don't think anyone will "benifit" from your sharing. And no, many of us "evolutionints" understand logic.
I was reading along just fine until you mentioned the Tower of Fable. One can't help being reminded of it indeed--by you.
No, you could decelerate on the earth side really really hard using air resistance, instead of pulling on the cable. Assuming you had a system to bleed off the heat, you could come down on the outside of the tube at speeds much higher than you could get with the limited acceleration on the way up.
considering that this elevator would weight 100 trillion tons, could you imagine what would happen if it snapped near the top, and the rest fell on NYC? Ghastly.
But we weren't "lied to" or "promised" something that didn't happen. It was just a wonderful utopian vision, and like all those, it never quite happens. Tragedy of the Commons, yada yada yada.
About keeping important bits of paper. I have MathCAD Pro 2000, and an upgrade to MathCAD 2001, both of which set me back nicely, (though I usually need Mathematica) and when I switched computers in December it was all useless because I can't find the serial number to my MC Pro 2000 disk.
Yeah, Unix never crashes, and I never have to try to SSH into it when it does, and that always works. Right.
First you say the "best researchers select the most appropriate tool for the job", then you explain that this is not really true, because "the largest fraction of a scientists' time should be spent on data collection, not experimental implementation, and the amount of time (for nearly all fields except those with astronomical amounts of data) spent executing code is dwarfed by the time developing it." IMHO, the second part is correct. The absolute best tool for a certain job I do might be Scilab, but IDL, for instance, might be 99% as good and I already know it. So the best option is not always to simply pick the best tool for the job.
Speaking of GPL, does anyone know or use Maxima?
And all over the place. There's really no comprehensive, encyclopedic analysis of the various packages and libraries. I wish someone with the time would do such a thing. I use Matlab and Mathematica, and for animations Maple or MathCAD, I have a fair understanding of math and software, and I still consider myself uninformed on the question.
I mean, if they need to cut and paste from one app to another, or easily manage printers, or add and remove hardware frequently, or do things without having to spend large amounts of time learning arcane info, they should use Windows.
Read more closely next time. I didn't say Tufts should do any of that. I get out plenty, Anonymous Coward.
Confiscate their equipment, kick them all out of school, and prohibit them from entering a publicly funded school anywhere in the State. Whatever the punishment for rape is, give that +10% to them. Then let Cartman kick them in the nuts.
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"Geeze" Jeez.
The mechanism's already provided. It's called overlapping windows.
Something that never ceases to amaze me, in my decade of using both Windows and various Unices/Window Environments, is that even in the year 2003, cut-and-paste between apps in Unix is still spotty.
Yeah, I use W2K, and it rox pretty hard. I went a year without a crash. But the Outlook bug pissed me off so hard I switched to Mozilla at home.