Wow... customs agent questions traveler. I'm sorry, but, guess what, THAT'S THEIR JOB. I've had some interesting discussions with officials at airports.
Huh? No free speech? You sound confused. The USA is one of the few places on earth that has free speech. Try talking against the government in Russia, China, South America, Africa, and a number of European countries. Welcome to prison in those places. If you are lucky.
The PC market is not "going down the tubes". It's saturated. People will continue to buy replacement PC's / laptops, but the demand has stabilized, and people are now buying replacements, rather than new units. 5 years from now people will still be buying replacement PCs.
Is this really true? I seem to recall the markets applauding big companies that "slashed costs" by layoffs, even though the long-term results might be disastrous.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
Wish I had some mod points to rate you up... that was the first thing I wondered. I mean, landing on the moon is SO easy, anybody can stick a firecracker on a tin can and do it.
Sadly, the Palestinians had a chance to negotiate a peace that would have recovered territory when Labor was in power, but Arafat found it much more comfortable to be a leader in exile than to take a chance on peace. As Abba Eban said, "the Palestinians never miss a chance to miss a chance".
Or maybe, just maybe, it's a scientific accomplishment that a technologically advanced nation would like to achieve. They don't have to land on the moon to remind the other nations in the Middle East that this probably isn't the best time to start another pogrom.
One of the statuses has a link to a blog post describing a bit of what happened (bug in config generation program that generated a bad config that was then deployed) and what Google is planning to do about it. They listed a couple of changes they are planning on (fix this bug in configuration program, check configs more carefully, etc), but interestingly enough, nothing like "deploy config in a test environment before deploying to production".
That's called an amazing job. Show me any other nation on this planet that could do that. 10 YEARS working in an incredibly hostile environment w/o an chance of a repair. No one would claim that up front because no one would possibly believe it.
Geocities & MySpace were not quite as embedded in the general populace as Facebook is. People join social groups because that's where the people are. By default, you join Facebook. Sure, it's not going to last forever. Nothing, including Google, is going to last forever (hope you are backing up your Gmail). But it isn't disappearing in the next 3 years.
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You forgot about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Not to mention the blood of Christ being on the hands of the Jews. C'mon, get with the program!
Isn't that the "uninhibited persons list"?
Wow... customs agent questions traveler. I'm sorry, but, guess what, THAT'S THEIR JOB. I've had some interesting discussions with officials at airports.
Move along, nothing to see here.
huh? I guess if you are Josef Goebbels, the Ferengi look like Jews, but otherwise not so much.
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Huh? No free speech? You sound confused. The USA is one of the few places on earth that has free speech. Try talking against the government in Russia, China, South America, Africa, and a number of European countries. Welcome to prison in those places. If you are lucky.
You couldn't even read the first phrase of the summary?
"John Carmack left id Software last year,"
The PC market is not "going down the tubes". It's saturated. People will continue to buy replacement PC's / laptops, but the demand has stabilized, and people are now buying replacements, rather than new units. 5 years from now people will still be buying replacement PCs.
Is this really true? I seem to recall the markets applauding big companies that "slashed costs" by layoffs, even though the long-term results might be disastrous.
Well, Russia plus 20 million dollars. Good luck with that.
"sometimes-aggressive" as in Israel occasionally have to push back against the surrounding countries that want to finish what Hitler started.
Ok. So here's a question: it's 2014, not 1965. Which space program would you rather have: the USA's, China's, or Russia's? Which one is having the most success *right now*? Which one is roving Mars? Orbiting Saturn? Exploring interstellar space? Heading to Pluto? Would you really trade even up for Russia's Soyuz? Because it seems like that's about what they have going right now.
It's anti-Israel in that the story about a private group putting together a moon mission instantly morphs into "those Jews are using our money".
Wish I had some mod points to rate you up... that was the first thing I wondered. I mean, landing on the moon is SO easy, anybody can stick a firecracker on a tin can and do it.
Sadly, the Palestinians had a chance to negotiate a peace that would have recovered territory when Labor was in power, but Arafat found it much more comfortable to be a leader in exile than to take a chance on peace. As Abba Eban said, "the Palestinians never miss a chance to miss a chance".
Or maybe, just maybe, it's a scientific accomplishment that a technologically advanced nation would like to achieve. They don't have to land on the moon to remind the other nations in the Middle East that this probably isn't the best time to start another pogrom.
Your point is?
Congratulations. I was wondering where the first anti-Israel comment would come in. Nice job.
On recovering by using the "last known good" configuration. What wizardry!
I expect we'll be seeing the Google patent application on that shortly </sarcasm>
I find it interesting that they just deploy new configurations live without going to a test environment
One of the statuses has a link to a blog post describing a bit of what happened (bug in config generation program that generated a bad config that was then deployed) and what Google is planning to do about it. They listed a couple of changes they are planning on (fix this bug in configuration program, check configs more carefully, etc), but interestingly enough, nothing like "deploy config in a test environment before deploying to production".
yeah... sort of like how we got Bush instead of Gore. And that turned out so well.
Right, participating in democracy is a horrific crime.
That's called an amazing job. Show me any other nation on this planet that could do that. 10 YEARS working in an incredibly hostile environment w/o an chance of a repair. No one would claim that up front because no one would possibly believe it.
Geocities & MySpace were not quite as embedded in the general populace as Facebook is. People join social groups because that's where the people are. By default, you join Facebook. Sure, it's not going to last forever. Nothing, including Google, is going to last forever (hope you are backing up your Gmail). But it isn't disappearing in the next 3 years.
Nope. Just paying attention to the real world instead of slashthink.