Good try, but since you list two options, you didn't prove anything.
The point isn't about proving something to an objective, rational person (otherwise I would agree with you). The poster in the parent message indicated that Iraq was required to prove that they didn't have WMDs. The inspectors that spent time in Iraq seemed pretty convinced, but not the Bush administration. So the real test is proving a negative to someone who is unwilling to accept anything as proof. Let's face it, even proving a positive is pretty hard if the person judging the situation has an ajenda.
Reguardless of political leanings, I would find it hard to believe that anyone who is informed about the topic can still think that Iraq could have done anything to satisfy the Bush administration short of turning over control of the country as a whole.
Everyone conveniently forgets that when we let Saddam off the hook in '91, one of the conditions was that he would have to prove that he had no weapons.
Why don't you prove that YOU don't have weapons. Let us know how that goes. Good luck!
BTW, if you can prove a negative, please let the world know. It will be a great advance.
Generally, traffic jams are caused my everyone trying to get to and from work at the same time. If more companies allowed employees to work from home then the traffic situation would improve. For those of us who can't work effectively at home because our family won't leave us alone, a whole new industry could be created. A company could rent out small offices/cubicles in dispursed locations. Just provide good internet access, a phone, a desk, electricity, and a bathroom and you have a business. That way, nobody has to go more than a couple of miles and traffic stays scattered.
Now I will have to go to the corner store for hard copy. That does it! If I have to give up my right to a trial and my freedom of speech it is a small price to keep my porn safe!
Citizen, The Computer is your friend! Now turn yourself in for termination.
A girlfriend that you can TURN OFF when you're ready to go out for brews and pool.
Oh, come now! I'm sure you've turned off plenty of women.
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From TFA: ... a Japanese company that recently created a Boyfriend Arm Pillow - for women who miss being hugged by a man at night. Thanks to that sentence and the topic of virtual girlfriends in general, I almost want to sit down and cry.
If the women with the Boyfriend Pillow and the guys with the virtual girlfriend ever get together this company will go out of business.
What is it isn't so much a full fledged tablet, but a detachable screen for the iMac? The processor, drives, and network connections remain in the base, but you can pop the display off and use a pen on it as a tablet. It would require a wireless video/display protocol, but I think that has been in development for a while now.
After some experimentation I had determined that the 503 errors have something to do with loading your personal profile. When I can't load the page through slashdot.org, I can still load it with 66.35.250.150. This will not present your custom page, however.
Why doesn't the NFL offer a service where you can purchase any past game that you wish on DVD (as long as video exists)? I can't imaging that it would cost them much to do it, and many fans would probably buy a couple of the "really good" games.
I, for example, am a Packers fan and I would not mind paying some reasonable amount of money to get DVDs of the Packers Superbowl win, last season's game after Favre's dad died and Brett kicked ass, and a Packers/Vikings game where a Packer receiver fell down and caught a pass on his back, then ran it in for a TD.
Yeah, but when we buy things in sealed hard plastic packs we can actually open them. Sure, it usually involves bloodshed, but that is the price we pay for ensuring that our batteries have not been tampered with.
You would have a valid point if it wasn't for two things.
One, the courses offered are the same courses offered as part of a degree. So claiming to have taken these courses would only indicate that you have had some of the triaining of the canidate with the degree.
Second, these courses do not offer any kind of certification. So, you have no proof that you ever even attempted the course, much less how your grades were.
It is very nice service for a guy like myself, who has a degree but wants to continue gaining knowlege. But, I don't see it as any threat to an accredited program.
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What MIT does not understand is, if their courses teach alittle too well or the community grows alittle too large there might not be a need to actually pay MIT to take classes there besides the name recognition.
I am pretty sure that someone with a degree from MIT will do better at a job interview than someone claiming to have read though the course. Sometimes, the paper counts!
I believe that Apple came out with it's own pro-level video software because the Adobe stuff was just never going to compete against the Avid boxes. Apple wants to lead the digital media creation market. It waited for Adobe to come up with something interesting for video. When that failed, Apple came out with it's own solution.
I think that Photoshop will be in the clear for quite some time as it still kicks butt. If Adobe starts to fall behind on Photoshop, however, I would not be shocked if Apple swooped in to fill the gap.
It is in Apple's interest to make sure that the best of class software for all the digital creation fields are available on the Mac. If third party companies can provide that software, great. Otherwise Apple will have to handle it themselves.
Yeah, but if you let it run too long you will need to dig out your Beagle Brothers software and remember how to get a directory from prompt. What key maps to the open apple and which is the closed apple?
I don't want to start a war here....but, does anybody like XP? Seriously. I have used it for a total of 15 minutes and that is all I ever will.
I use Win2k all day every day at work, so when my girlfriend bought an XP machine, I thought I would know all about it. I was eventually able to get to everything I needed, but I HATE that interface. It is ugly and intrusive. If it was my own machine I would have set it to the Win2K theme long ago. I realise that some of the problem is just getting used to another system, but when I went from OS9 to OSX, I had almost no problem at all. Where the XP interface hides all the controls and buffers your access behind "wizards" (by default, I know you can eventually get to the control panels), OSX allows quick access to control panels that make sense and are actually quick and efficient to use.
I am not sure if you could find this or not. It was very 80s. A guy spills his drink on his computer and it develops intelligence. A wacky romantic comedy ensues. Music by ELO and Culture Club!
My officemates and I recite lines from OfficeSpace and make jokes about not getting paid on time and what we will do when it is our turn to go. At first, it makes things worse, but after a while you "feel the burn" and stop feeling sorry for yourself.
I can't wait to hear the "Oh, and one more thing". What could it be? iVote? Cuba has been "aquired"? The justice department is suddenly a lot more interested in putting the screws to Microsoft? That last one is my guess.
The update removed Sherlock! I would search for it, but I can't because I HAVE NO SHERLOCK. I am not sure how that is an improvement in searching volumes.:)
Anyone else have this problem?
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The point isn't about proving something to an objective, rational person (otherwise I would agree with you). The poster in the parent message indicated that Iraq was required to prove that they didn't have WMDs. The inspectors that spent time in Iraq seemed pretty convinced, but not the Bush administration. So the real test is proving a negative to someone who is unwilling to accept anything as proof. Let's face it, even proving a positive is pretty hard if the person judging the situation has an ajenda.
Reguardless of political leanings, I would find it hard to believe that anyone who is informed about the topic can still think that Iraq could have done anything to satisfy the Bush administration short of turning over control of the country as a whole.
Why don't you prove that YOU don't have weapons. Let us know how that goes. Good luck!
BTW, if you can prove a negative, please let the world know. It will be a great advance.
Generally, traffic jams are caused my everyone trying to get to and from work at the same time. If more companies allowed employees to work from home then the traffic situation would improve. For those of us who can't work effectively at home because our family won't leave us alone, a whole new industry could be created. A company could rent out small offices/cubicles in dispursed locations. Just provide good internet access, a phone, a desk, electricity, and a bathroom and you have a business. That way, nobody has to go more than a couple of miles and traffic stays scattered.
Citizen, The Computer is your friend! Now turn yourself in for termination.
Oh, come now! I'm sure you've turned off plenty of women.
If the women with the Boyfriend Pillow and the guys with the virtual girlfriend ever get together this company will go out of business.
What is it isn't so much a full fledged tablet, but a detachable screen for the iMac? The processor, drives, and network connections remain in the base, but you can pop the display off and use a pen on it as a tablet. It would require a wireless video/display protocol, but I think that has been in development for a while now.
After some experimentation I had determined that the 503 errors have something to do with loading your personal profile. When I can't load the page through slashdot.org, I can still load it with 66.35.250.150. This will not present your custom page, however.
Why doesn't the NFL offer a service where you can purchase any past game that you wish on DVD (as long as video exists)? I can't imaging that it would cost them much to do it, and many fans would probably buy a couple of the "really good" games.
I, for example, am a Packers fan and I would not mind paying some reasonable amount of money to get DVDs of the Packers Superbowl win, last season's game after Favre's dad died and Brett kicked ass, and a Packers/Vikings game where a Packer receiver fell down and caught a pass on his back, then ran it in for a TD.
What do the rest of you think about this idea?
10 HOME
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Yeah, but when we buy things in sealed hard plastic packs we can actually open them. Sure, it usually involves bloodshed, but that is the price we pay for ensuring that our batteries have not been tampered with.
I know that this isn't so much a misconception as a device limitation. But isn't it about time that even cheap computers handle order of operations?
Remember the "Internet appliances are the future" hype? No local applications or storage, just a bunch of dumb terminals connected to a paid service.
One, the courses offered are the same courses offered as part of a degree. So claiming to have taken these courses would only indicate that you have had some of the triaining of the canidate with the degree.
Second, these courses do not offer any kind of certification. So, you have no proof that you ever even attempted the course, much less how your grades were.
It is very nice service for a guy like myself, who has a degree but wants to continue gaining knowlege. But, I don't see it as any threat to an accredited program.
I am pretty sure that someone with a degree from MIT will do better at a job interview than someone claiming to have read though the course. Sometimes, the paper counts!
I believe that Apple came out with it's own pro-level video software because the Adobe stuff was just never going to compete against the Avid boxes. Apple wants to lead the digital media creation market. It waited for Adobe to come up with something interesting for video. When that failed, Apple came out with it's own solution.
I think that Photoshop will be in the clear for quite some time as it still kicks butt. If Adobe starts to fall behind on Photoshop, however, I would not be shocked if Apple swooped in to fill the gap.
It is in Apple's interest to make sure that the best of class software for all the digital creation fields are available on the Mac. If third party companies can provide that software, great. Otherwise Apple will have to handle it themselves.
"Optimizing System Performance" will now only take 5X the download time of an installer.
What key maps to the open apple and which is the closed apple?
Ahhhh! I will have to hear Culture Club again!
Tony
I am not sure if you could find this or not. It was very 80s. A guy spills his drink on his computer and it develops intelligence. A wacky romantic comedy ensues. Music by ELO and Culture Club!
My officemates and I recite lines from OfficeSpace and make jokes about not getting paid on time and what we will do when it is our turn to go. At first, it makes things worse, but after a while you "feel the burn" and stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Wow! You found a way to be vulgar and yet meaningless. So now we are left to wonder if you meant that they spent a lot of money, or very little money.
I can't wait to hear the "Oh, and one more thing". What could it be? iVote? Cuba has been "aquired"? The justice department is suddenly a lot more interested in putting the screws to Microsoft? That last one is my guess.
The update removed Sherlock! I would search for it, but I can't because I HAVE NO SHERLOCK. I am not sure how that is an improvement in searching volumes. :)
Anyone else have this problem?
Sounds like most Slashdot readers are in danger, Hey! It says "little or no sex drive" not "little or no sex opportunity"