Cleveland Browns fans who attend every game are also claiming their rights as an addicted minority. "Its horrible" said one fan "year after year we suck and I keep going just waiting for that one big 'hit'"
Celeb Rags also applied for registration under the disability act on the basis that they have "an unreasonable compulsion to print any old crappy photo of anyone who has even been seen with someone who has been on TV", this compulsion is so bad that they are forced to produce glossy magazines every single week.
But if the Internet is an addiction ala heroin, does that make AOL methadone?
This would of course be why Java, probably the most widely used commercial language on the planet, has had so many massive security issues......
Oh wait, it hasn't has it. It is also why Apache had so many more security issues than IIS4 because Apache was used... oh hang on that one doesn't work either.
Maybe if you used you mouth rather than your butt for speaking you might make more sense.
Law makers in Texas are debating a bill to enable people to own nuclear weapons and heavy artillery and to remove safety catches from guns.
"All you should need is a great big red button that says 'Fire'" said Congressman Bobby Ewing "Its ridiculous that people are prevented from using these things and having to put up with safety devices it just encourages sloppying thinking"
"By letting people launch nuclear weapons with a big red button we are making sure that everyone is aware of how to properly care for their nuclear weapon and that it is their god given right and responsibility to fire it carefully" said some bloke in a hat "I'm fed up with all the ridiculous procedures I have to go through to fire a gun, let alone blow up France just because a few bleeding heart liberals feel they need to protect stupid people in New Hampshire"
In related new Iowa has banned the use of indicators, roll cages, air bags, crumple zones and seatbelts as it gives people too much sense of security. California has banned the use of door and window locks and the use of burglar alarms as they make houses "secure by design".
Secure by design is the only type of security that really counts.
Its over here on the other side of the Atlantic. Our politicians get investigated when they take cash to give a shitty honour and go to prison when they take on the media and lose.
Remind me why you chaps had the revolution again? There was something in there about Freedom, but its all been lost in the noise.
There are two main problems I see with climate change science, one is that there is a belief that scientific consensus is the same as scientific proof (if this were true the world would have been flat in the 1400's) and the other problem is that the conclusions are not supported by the evidence.
No the christian concensus was that the world was flat and that the Sun went around the earth. The scientific concensus was the one started by the greeks and agreed by the Arab, Indian and Chinese world, namely that the world was round. Later on as we observed space with telescopes we found that the earth went around the Sun, again the christian establishment tried to suppresss this thinking.
Its amazing that people are happy to sentence people to death on a majority verdict but don't like 99% of scientists being able to have a casting vote. The scientific consensus is also that gravity exists, we don't have 100% proof of that either.
The fact is that even the evidence that shows we are undergoing a warming trend fails to demonstrate that this is a long term warming trend, that the warming trend is man-made, or that green-house gasses have had an impact on the temperature change.
Ahh I see so when you say something then its a fact but when 99% of scientists see it then its just made up stuff... I'm stunned you haven't won a Nobel prize yet.
What really bothers me is that whenever anyone attacks a study that makes questionable claims people automatically question their motives; all good science can withstand attacks from anyone regardless of their motives. The fact that these studies are treated like they're glass really makes me doubt how valid they are.
As in the 14th century what science finds hard to handle is arguments based on bigotry and ignorance. Most people arguing against climate change can be put into the same group as the Catholic church arguing for a geocentric universe, they aren't interested in facts just their "opinion". Fortunately at least now people aren't being put to death for being scientists.
So what you are saying is that 6,000 years ago the Egyptians had a legend that before their recorded history there was a legendary flood. Still doesn't mean they recorded one happening, which for new earth creationists is a problem as the Egyptians pre-date their creation date.
The difference is between legend (Bible and the enscription you quote) and recorded history. There are no elements in recorded history of a world wide flood, and we have recorded history dating back over 6,000 years.
Hell if we are going there then there are lots of things that could be interpreted in the bible to be dinosaurs, after all it doesn't say the scale of any elements, so take genesis itself.
The snake (a reptile) has legs at the start of genesis, we know this as the punishment from god is to have no legs and slither on its belly, a snake with legs is a lizard and the bit with the apple and the tree was pretty terrible, so the snake was in fact a terrible lizard. A quick translation of that is "terrible lizard" so in fact the dinosaurs didn't become extinct it was just that god turned them into snakes.
See its easy if you are trying to prove something.
The biggest problem with all of this is the damn Egyptians, they've got around 6,000 years of continuous history and at no time have we found any hieroglyphics that say
"Damn it was wet this year, I don't mean a little bit it absolutely pissed down and everybody died"
First few days is really too early to judge a product sales figures
As with Hollywood films the first few days are a great way to get an idea as to how a product will do, especially if its a) In an existing market b) Heavily advertised before launch c) Aiming at the "cool" or early adopter parts of the market
Check out the launch stats for the iPod Mini and Nano for a good example of opening day sales in this market.
This is very bad, especially for a product that had one clear difference from the iPod, but that is a difference that requires massive marketshare to be practical.
The big problem with the current US approach to global warming (beyond its pure bone-headed stupidity) is that once the US is forced into taking it seriously it will be significantly behind the competition from companies elsewhere in the globe, and paticularly in Europe. British Airways are already offering carbon offsets and these Italians are looking to make cash in another way. Given that this is going to be a huge market in the future there is a real risk to US companies (witness Toyota v Ford/GM) that innovation happens elsewhere.
1) Visual Studio is a very poor IDE, the testing framework just doesn't work, the positioning for the layout is woeful. It has no stats and metrics and the available plug-ins are either expensive or rubbish.
2) XAML/WPF/Avalon are proprietary versions of other much better standards based technologies. Go and take a look at IBM's WebSphere Integration developer and the likes of SCA and SDO and truly claim that MS are even close to matching Big blue on ease of use.
Developer friendly Microsoft is a myth... except for people who think that a VB app is the top of the shop.
At home I can set up so the kids can't get round it, I own the socket, I own the router, I own the box that gives out permission and I can log everything.
What worries me is the new mobile phones, 3G and the like. While I'll own the contracts and be paying for it, I don't see how I'm going to monitor everything they do on a phone. Hell with a bluetooth keyboard even today's phones are pretty good IM devices, so how I'm going to cope in 5 years time I have no idea.
What I'd like to see is the ability to have a "family VPN" so all devices that I pay for are on the same network subnet and again I own the gate to the internet.
Hell it'll be an education for the kids trying to get round that, hopefully that will mean they don't have time for anything else!
And before anyone says "think of the kids privacy"... I'm a parent, I treat my kids as _my_ responsibility.
Microsoft will delay shipping Vista to the EU until after SP1 this means European organisations will 1) Not have the "benefits" of learning about the early security holes 2) Not have the "advantage" of paying the launch list price, they'll have to wait until Microsoft slash prices as Vista doesn't fly 3) Have a mature support market to fall back on 4) More time to work out if its actually worth it
Brilliant, its like testing something dangerous on lab rats but we get to use Americans instead.
I was asked this the other day. Use an IDE, it is easier than using vim, why cause yourself pain?
Learn vi if you want to do large scale file manipulation, searching etc. But really don't bother if all you want to do is Java and Latex.
Now if you used troff... then you should do it in vi, troff demands that you have nothing to help you and create completely incomprehensible documents to all concerned. Also if you are doing Unix admin then learn vi.
Vi and Emacs are superb, in the same way as the Mustang from bullet is superb, that doesn't meane everyone should use them.
Spent their Karma? AOL has NEVER been cool, AOLer was not a term of endearment went they first hit the internet, I was stunned in the mid 90s that people would pay AOL money to get on the internet. AOL is a marketing company their engineering has never been strong. Giving the keys to the asylum to a bunch of engineers is not going to help a company that is aimed at the mass market.
If AOL wants to survive they need to concentrate on brand, and what they say they offer, rather than trying to compete with what others offer. Its a sad fact but when aiming at the mass market having the best product is almost a sure way to fail.
Fodder for a buy out? You mean sell off I assume as they are currently merged with Time Warner.
As the old challenge goes, name 10 famous Belgians. Nice country and all but not exactly news central. In effect this is like Des Moines doing the same, and not even people in Des Moines would mind if they just had OTHER peoples news.
Maybe its the start of something, all really dull places will sue to have their very dull news removed. After all, if something interesting happens there then one of the majors will cover it.
Only if you want people to listen to the music. Universal have taken a different approach, they feel that if no-one hears the music then no-one will pirate it.
One of the reasons given for region encoding is the different standards between regions, paticularly the PAL standard used in most of the world and the completely rubbish NTSC standard used in the US. If everything was on PAL discs you'd have loads of US consumers complaining that they don't look right on their TV sets (and in the PAL world complaining about the massive drop in quality).
If you want to get rid of region encoding we need on TV standard.
Its probably a Rumsfeld problem, you can imagine the situation
Today's Agenda 1) Break Geneva convention 2) Set up illegal prisons overseas 3) Hide report into WMD 4) Cover-up issues around troop deployments 5) Should we approve Open software use? 6) Prepare for Senate investigation commitee meeting
I mean by the time he got to item 5 he was unlikely to go for openness.
You did read your original post didn't you? You talked of someone going from the US to the UK and Child Porn is illegal in both countries. This case is where someone did something 100% legal in the UK, with a UK company and has been arrested in the US.
Spot the difference?
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Cleveland Browns fans who attend every game are also claiming their rights as an addicted minority. "Its horrible" said one fan "year after year we suck and I keep going just waiting for that one big 'hit'"
Celeb Rags also applied for registration under the disability act on the basis that they have "an unreasonable compulsion to print any old crappy photo of anyone who has even been seen with someone who has been on TV", this compulsion is so bad that they are forced to produce glossy magazines every single week.
But if the Internet is an addiction ala heroin, does that make AOL methadone?
This would of course be why Java, probably the most widely used commercial language on the planet, has had so many massive security issues......
Oh wait, it hasn't has it. It is also why Apache had so many more security issues than IIS4 because Apache was used... oh hang on that one doesn't work either.
Maybe if you used you mouth rather than your butt for speaking you might make more sense.
Law makers in Texas are debating a bill to enable people to own nuclear weapons and heavy artillery and to remove safety catches from guns.
"All you should need is a great big red button that says 'Fire'" said Congressman Bobby Ewing "Its ridiculous that people are prevented from using these things and having to put up with safety devices it just encourages sloppying thinking"
"By letting people launch nuclear weapons with a big red button we are making sure that everyone is aware of how to properly care for their nuclear weapon and that it is their god given right and responsibility to fire it carefully" said some bloke in a hat "I'm fed up with all the ridiculous procedures I have to go through to fire a gun, let alone blow up France just because a few bleeding heart liberals feel they need to protect stupid people in New Hampshire"
In related new Iowa has banned the use of indicators, roll cages, air bags, crumple zones and seatbelts as it gives people too much sense of security. California has banned the use of door and window locks and the use of burglar alarms as they make houses "secure by design".
Secure by design is the only type of security that really counts.
Its over here on the other side of the Atlantic. Our politicians get investigated when they take cash to give a shitty honour and go to prison when they take on the media and lose.
Remind me why you chaps had the revolution again? There was something in there about Freedom, but its all been lost in the noise.
There are two main problems I see with climate change science, one is that there is a belief that scientific consensus is the same as scientific proof (if this were true the world would have been flat in the 1400's) and the other problem is that the conclusions are not supported by the evidence.
No the christian concensus was that the world was flat and that the Sun went around the earth. The scientific concensus was the one started by the greeks and agreed by the Arab, Indian and Chinese world, namely that the world was round. Later on as we observed space with telescopes we found that the earth went around the Sun, again the christian establishment tried to suppresss this thinking.
Its amazing that people are happy to sentence people to death on a majority verdict but don't like 99% of scientists being able to have a casting vote. The scientific consensus is also that gravity exists, we don't have 100% proof of that either.
The fact is that even the evidence that shows we are undergoing a warming trend fails to demonstrate that this is a long term warming trend, that the warming trend is man-made, or that green-house gasses have had an impact on the temperature change.
Ahh I see so when you say something then its a fact but when 99% of scientists see it then its just made up stuff... I'm stunned you haven't won a Nobel prize yet.
What really bothers me is that whenever anyone attacks a study that makes questionable claims people automatically question their motives; all good science can withstand attacks from anyone regardless of their motives. The fact that these studies are treated like they're glass really makes me doubt how valid they are.
As in the 14th century what science finds hard to handle is arguments based on bigotry and ignorance. Most people arguing against climate change can be put into the same group as the Catholic church arguing for a geocentric universe, they aren't interested in facts just their "opinion". Fortunately at least now people aren't being put to death for being scientists.
So what you are saying is that 6,000 years ago the Egyptians had a legend that before their recorded history there was a legendary flood. Still doesn't mean they recorded one happening, which for new earth creationists is a problem as the Egyptians pre-date their creation date.
The difference is between legend (Bible and the enscription you quote) and recorded history. There are no elements in recorded history of a world wide flood, and we have recorded history dating back over 6,000 years.
Hell if we are going there then there are lots of things that could be interpreted in the bible to be dinosaurs, after all it doesn't say the scale of any elements, so take genesis itself.
The snake (a reptile) has legs at the start of genesis, we know this as the punishment from god is to have no legs and slither on its belly, a snake with legs is a lizard and the bit with the apple and the tree was pretty terrible, so the snake was in fact a terrible lizard. A quick translation of that is "terrible lizard" so in fact the dinosaurs didn't become extinct it was just that god turned them into snakes.
See its easy if you are trying to prove something.
The biggest problem with all of this is the damn Egyptians, they've got around 6,000 years of continuous history and at no time have we found any hieroglyphics that say
"Damn it was wet this year, I don't mean a little bit it absolutely pissed down and everybody died"
First few days is really too early to judge a product sales figures
As with Hollywood films the first few days are a great way to get an idea as to how a product will do, especially if its
a) In an existing market
b) Heavily advertised before launch
c) Aiming at the "cool" or early adopter parts of the market
Check out the launch stats for the iPod Mini and Nano for a good example of opening day sales in this market.
This is very bad, especially for a product that had one clear difference from the iPod, but that is a difference that requires massive marketshare to be practical.
The big problem with the current US approach to global warming (beyond its pure bone-headed stupidity) is that once the US is forced into taking it seriously it will be significantly behind the competition from companies elsewhere in the globe, and paticularly in Europe. British Airways are already offering carbon offsets and these Italians are looking to make cash in another way. Given that this is going to be a huge market in the future there is a real risk to US companies (witness Toyota v Ford/GM) that innovation happens elsewhere.
Nope and Nope.
1) Visual Studio is a very poor IDE, the testing framework just doesn't work, the positioning for the layout is woeful. It has no stats and metrics and the available plug-ins are either expensive or rubbish.
2) XAML/WPF/Avalon are proprietary versions of other much better standards based technologies. Go and take a look at IBM's WebSphere Integration developer and the likes of SCA and SDO and truly claim that MS are even close to matching Big blue on ease of use.
Developer friendly Microsoft is a myth... except for people who think that a VB app is the top of the shop.
Let me guess.. Liberal Arts Major?
Oddly you forget the war of 1812 when the US tried to take advantage of the UK having to battle a dictator in Europe.
Can't understand how you can forget the whitehouse being burnt down.
At home I can set up so the kids can't get round it, I own the socket, I own the router, I own the box that gives out permission and I can log everything.
What worries me is the new mobile phones, 3G and the like. While I'll own the contracts and be paying for it, I don't see how I'm going to monitor everything they do on a phone. Hell with a bluetooth keyboard even today's phones are pretty good IM devices, so how I'm going to cope in 5 years time I have no idea.
What I'd like to see is the ability to have a "family VPN" so all devices that I pay for are on the same network subnet and again I own the gate to the internet.
Hell it'll be an education for the kids trying to get round that, hopefully that will mean they don't have time for anything else!
And before anyone says "think of the kids privacy"... I'm a parent, I treat my kids as _my_ responsibility.
To put it into context, its owned by Murdoch (like the Times), so think of the Sun as a slightly more intellectual version of Fox News.
Microsoft will delay shipping Vista to the EU until after SP1 this means European organisations will
1) Not have the "benefits" of learning about the early security holes
2) Not have the "advantage" of paying the launch list price, they'll have to wait until Microsoft slash prices as Vista doesn't fly
3) Have a mature support market to fall back on
4) More time to work out if its actually worth it
Brilliant, its like testing something dangerous on lab rats but we get to use Americans instead.
1) There is a downturn in Auto advertising and FS advertising
2) Yahoo are getting a smaller slice of the advertising pie
If you were the CEO, which option would you talk about?
I was asked this the other day. Use an IDE, it is easier than using vim, why cause yourself pain?
Learn vi if you want to do large scale file manipulation, searching etc. But really don't bother if all you want to do is Java and Latex.
Now if you used troff... then you should do it in vi, troff demands that you have nothing to help you and create completely incomprehensible documents to all concerned. Also if you are doing Unix admin then learn vi.
Vi and Emacs are superb, in the same way as the Mustang from bullet is superb, that doesn't meane everyone should use them.
Spent their Karma? AOL has NEVER been cool, AOLer was not a term of endearment went they first hit the internet, I was stunned in the mid 90s that people would pay AOL money to get on the internet. AOL is a marketing company their engineering has never been strong. Giving the keys to the asylum to a bunch of engineers is not going to help a company that is aimed at the mass market.
If AOL wants to survive they need to concentrate on brand, and what they say they offer, rather than trying to compete with what others offer. Its a sad fact but when aiming at the mass market having the best product is almost a sure way to fail.
Fodder for a buy out? You mean sell off I assume as they are currently merged with Time Warner.
Erasmus was Dutch
Descartes was French
Mercator do you mean the German cartographer or the German mathematician.
Anonymous Coward's do history, its like Dan Quayle spelling.
At $2.9 a gallon that gives 103.45 gallons a month, with a "decent" MPG car you get over 3000 miles (100 miles a day) from that amount of Gas.
Hint of the day: If it worries you, get a more fuel efficent car, or live closer to work.
As the old challenge goes, name 10 famous Belgians. Nice country and all but not exactly news central. In effect this is like Des Moines doing the same, and not even people in Des Moines would mind if they just had OTHER peoples news.
Maybe its the start of something, all really dull places will sue to have their very dull news removed. After all, if something interesting happens there then one of the majors will cover it.
$1m a day... nice sense of perspective.
Only if you want people to listen to the music. Universal have taken a different approach, they feel that if no-one hears the music then no-one will pirate it.
One of the reasons given for region encoding is the different standards between regions, paticularly the PAL standard used in most of the world and the completely rubbish NTSC standard used in the US. If everything was on PAL discs you'd have loads of US consumers complaining that they don't look right on their TV sets (and in the PAL world complaining about the massive drop in quality).
If you want to get rid of region encoding we need on TV standard.
Its probably a Rumsfeld problem, you can imagine the situation
Today's Agenda
1) Break Geneva convention
2) Set up illegal prisons overseas
3) Hide report into WMD
4) Cover-up issues around troop deployments
5) Should we approve Open software use?
6) Prepare for Senate investigation commitee meeting
I mean by the time he got to item 5 he was unlikely to go for openness.
You did read your original post didn't you? You talked of someone going from the US to the UK and Child Porn is illegal in both countries. This case is where someone did something 100% legal in the UK, with a UK company and has been arrested in the US. Spot the difference?