of Wikipedia? We have the map of the Internet which shows major nodes and how they are connected. We need someone to create a map of Wikipedia articles and their links to show where the "hotspots" are. I think that would be interesting. Basically it turns what this person has already done into a graphical representation. Changing the thickness of the links would denote the "distance". Maybe this already exists. I didn't search beforehand.
They were reading material from a US government website. These are the same idiot agencies who attacked Iraq to "get rid of Weapons of Mass Destruction". Clearly if anyone is less able to produce proper intelligence and material - it's these gaffs.
It's like reading an article on how to improve your country's economy written by George Bush.
Yeah, if the US government had actually written this training manual. But they didn't. So get back to us when you get your facts straight. I got these same PDFs 18 months ago on a newsgroup. They aren't unique to the DOJ site.
Ah, you can't explain it, so it must be god. You've convinced me. When does jebus bless me with his holy seed?
My point was not to convince you God did it but to not assume that biogenesis and evolution did it. As far as being blessed, that will only happen when you stop being a sarcastic asshole.
I saw God's finger poke into the mix at 0:34.74sec of the video. I told you!... hmmm, or maybe it was a noodly appendage.
Although you aren't original for making an ID joke on slashdot you bring up a good point whether you like it or not. The point being that those particles are not alive and yet they are forming something that is. This totally beats anything biogenesis/evolution could do due to the speed at which it occurs. That same something started somewhere in the world many decades ago for some reason out of the blue, possibly even outside of a living organsim which then somehow got inside of an animal or human. Now millions of people are infected and thousands die from it every year. Why? How? Something just doesn't do that out of the blue. What is directing those particles to do what they do and how do they make HIV come alive as an organism? Bringing this same "magic" to the macro level with another example: How do some birds find an island (Hawaii) in the middle of an ocean when they have never been there before? Saying it is just instinct doesn't explain it. It makes me wonder. It should make you as well.
To waste even more resources on producing food? Waste more land area, water, energy, artificial fertilizers, greenhouse gases, kill more oceans?
I don't know what the butterfly effect is.
You listed all the effects that increasing cell metabolism would do with one of them being killing more oceans. It isn't quite the butterfly effect which says that a single butterfly flapping wings in one part of the world can cause a hurrican in another part. With your theory multiple cells (in one body with multiple bodies having this done) having their metabolism increased would eventually kill oceans. I find it far fetched just as I do the butterfly effect.
So? It will raise peoples metabolism? For what purpose? To waste even more resources on producing food? Waste more land area, water, energy, artificial fertilizers, greenhouse gases, kill more oceans? Yeah, great! And in the end that will probably mean less food for the poor and higher food prices aswell.
I take it you believe in the butterfly effect? THe way I see it this may even itself out. Turn up the metabolish and the cells die faster which means you die faster. You may use up the same amount of resources but just faster. The only issue is how to replenish resources faster than we do now and fast enough on a mass scale if this is applied to humans.
I wonder if they'll update the machines beforehand. Anyone remember how long it takes for a Pre-SP2 copy of Windows without a good AV and firewall takes to get a worm? Minutes?
The key isn't having AV and FW software but just to be patched. Yes defense in depth helps but if you fix the exploits (with service packs) and don't do stupid things like download p2p software, software found on usenet, or run insecure programs like IE and Outlook then you won't have any problems. Given I have a router and it blocks incoming connections so essentially I have a firewall, I don't run any security software on my PC, I don't use IE except for banking, I don't use Outlook and I don't have any malware of any kind on my system. I even download stuff off usenet w/o problems (probably just get lucky there). The point is that having patched systems and common sense is really all that is needed to keep a system secure. AV and FW software just chew up mounds of CPU cycles and RAM. I consider them more harm than good. YMMV
Cue the onslaught of economists and generally math-illiterate people saying that computer models just can't be trusted. They can, ya morons, just not when they're implemented by penny-a-day visual basic dolts.
Anyone can still make a typo in code without it being caught. Or it can be malicious such as the if (uid = 0) statement in the Linux kernel a while back that someone just happen to catch. This just shows that no model is infallible because no human is infallible and that checks should be in place to validate the model.
Because different wavelengths require different technologies to detect. Like to detect visible wavelengths you use big mirrors and/or lenses, while to detect radio waves you use antennas, and so forth. It's not as simple as "scanning" the entire spectrum.
How is energy detected that crosses the spectrum boundaries between 2 detection methods? Seems to me there is plenty of research which can be done just by building detectors that can detect energy in the EM spectrum where there currently exists no detection mechanism. We can't say we've scanned the entire sky until that occurs.
I let my Leopard Macbook sit running for months on end, in and out of hibernate mode. I don't have out of memory issues and the cursor doesn't get jumpy. Firefox is the only app that ever chews up a ton of memory (1.5 gigabytes is the most I've seen it use). I have the lowest-end Macbook by the way. Yes it does get updates a lot from Apple but nothing says I have to install them. I do install the ones that don't need reboots but I wait to install the others until I'm ready. I've never had to restart after coming out of sleep or hibernate. I don't use any external monitors though. I've had it since last October by the way and the only 3rd party software installed is Firefox and Thunderbird. Sounds like you may have other issues unrelated to OS X.
Does Greenpeace utilize alternative fuels for its vehicles (both on land and sea)? If not then I think they just need to shutup. For that matter, they need to shutup anyway. I'm tired of people blaming others for not being green enough whether it is hypocritical or not but being hypocritical about it does make it worse. Nintendo can just fake it by buying carbon credits. Like the credits really do something meaningful anyway. Oh, I'm not bitter by the way.
Eventually, evolution will program birds so they will know "wind turbine ahead = death".
No, evolution won't. Birds already have eyes and a brain. They are already capable of flying to the ends of the Earth during migration periods w/o any GPS device, even birds who have never been to where they are going. They can fly around skyscrapers and avoid cars. There are a ton of obstacles already in existence. Diving into the ocean and never coming up again = death too but they somehow already know (by instinct I guess) to not do that. Why would a wind turbine be so special? Besides, wind turbines move plenty slow enough a bird can pass after 1 blade moves out of the way and get through before the next does if the timing is right. They don't move like a propeller.
Yes there are some exceptions, very rare exceptions, and it has nothing to do with survival of the fittest because not all of the exceptions end up dying. They are just flukes, just like when you are walking and your ankle just gives way for no reason. It just happens. It doesn't mean you are stupid and should die off. During your delusions of grandeur you may like the idea of evolution finally coming alive and showing it's ugly head for those who doubt it but they are just that, delusions.
Will land owners have to spend the $20,000 per year of income on repairs?
No. As maxume already pointed out, the land owners aren't the maintainers of the equipment. You don't hear people who have cell towers on their land complaining about maintenance costs do you? Same situation with wind turbines and solar collectors.
It may be, but here in the US there aren't sidewalks everywhere to ride your bike and to actually ride your bike you have to take tons of side streets unless you want to risk being run over on the interstate which takes you quite long and if you have to be at your job by say 8 you had better wake up at 6.
Not to mention that non-motorized vehicles are not allowed on U.S. interstates. As someone already stated, the U.S. just can't using oil. It is too much of an integrated resource. The supply chain is huge and the products dependent on it are too numerous to list here. There are not enough good alternatives yet for consumers to make the switch because the first question to ask is, switch to what? Assuming any given U.S. family has the extra funds to go buy a new vehicle (and many don't which is why they are still using their 15 year old car with 150k miles) the only alternative fuel that has a chance right now is electric and only in the form of a hybrid which obviously still requires oil *and* gasoline. Plain electric cars just don't get the range and they are expensive not to mention refueling takes multiple hours. Fuel cells (using hydrogen) and natural gas-based cars have refueling issues, as in, there are only a few hundred "pumps" in the entire U.S. which provide refueling equipment for hydrogen and natural gas. And that leaves motorcycles and bicycles I believe. Motorcycle still need oil and gas so you still aren't off oil totally with them. And bicycling to work can only be enjoyed by the select few in the U.S. because of the roads and working/living locations as someone already mentioned. As it stands, it will be decades before our transportation infrastructure is off oil.
The presence of highly ionized oxygen (and other elements) between the galaxies is believed to trace large quantities of invisible, hot, ionized hydrogen in the universe. These vast reservoirs of hydrogen have largely escaped detection because they are too hot to be seen in visible light, yet too cool to be seen in X-rays.
Um, why wasn't the entire EM spectrum scanned across the heavens instead of "discrete" well-known segments like radio, x-ray, visible, IR, UV, etc.? Is it a money and time issue? Otherwise it seems that this should have been found decades ago.
Not quite. My point was that humans have always done that. It's easy to say "we've evolved to do that!". There is no proof our metabolism/eating habits way back when was any different than it is today. Since food is readily available to first-world countries we should begin seeing evolutionary changes, if evolution deserves the credit, in humans to support that change in environment.
It isn't even home cooking although that definitely helps. It's the fact that what can be purchased at the store as convenience food has a ton of carbs in it and people are living more sedentary lives which doesn't burn the carbs off. Fast food also does it. Restaurants though aren't necessarily bad though especially if you are one to buy salad, steak, or chicken. Convenience food is fine for kids to an extent and for adults for that matter. But for kids and adults who have slow metabolism the convenience food carbs (CFCs if you will) catch up with them and if they don't exercise or do something to burn it off they are going to get fat and then they will get obese. We (the U.S.) is a culture addicted to food, fatty food, and it hurts us because of our lifestyle.
Stop blaming everybody for discriminating against you and take control of your own life.
Man, if I had mod points you would get them all if I could give them to you. You are hitting the nail on the head. Personal responsibility is out the door in the U.S. My metabolism is slowing (I'm almost 30) but I still enjoy eating at Burger King or McDonald's but I also go to the gym. I'm capable of eating bad food in moderation. Not everyone can do that and people blame the restaurants for it when it isn't completely their fault to say the least. They do keep giving bigger drink portions that are big enough they could keep someone alive in a desert and those soft drinks are full of sugar (CARBS again!). I always get a small drink when I eat at a fast food restaurant to cut down on the sugar. People need to learn to eat in moderation or change their eating content altogether. I'll stop rambling now.
That's an interesting take on it, since we've basically evolved to eat when we can (when food is available) so that we can survive during leaner times.
Really? There is proof that the first humans' metabolism operated differently than humans of 'today'? Of course, even from early in life to later in life our metabolisms change but what proof is there of human metabolism operating differently in humans from thousands of generations in the past? The fact of the matter is that the human body, since inception, operates such that when no food is available it will gradually use itself for energy, taking fat first and then muscle as sources of energy. Obviously fat should be used up first because it is extraneous and we need muscles in dire situations to continue moving such as if you are stranded in the wild and have to make your way back to civilization. Only as a last resort does muscle get broken down for food. Animals work the same way (e.g. bears eat a lot to store fat for the winter for an energy source so their muscles won't atrophy). That doesn't imply we used to be some type of animal. That would be the wrong logic.
while the actual culprit is Adobe Flash.
Jerks will be jerks, tho... Adobe and the complainers that is.
Did you ever stop to think that those who are complaining don't necessarily know the source of the problem? All they know is they have trouble with FF. They may not have the troubleshooting skills or the time to determine what triggers the problems. Who is the jerk now?
Perhaps I've been in the computer industry for far too long, but how could it possibly cost 1.4bn to essentially add access control and a bigger amplifier to existing tech ? Will it realistically provide 1.4bn back in value, either by gaining efficiency in war planning, or enabling new civilian tech to make our lives easier ?
Because the 1.4bn is used for more than what you trivialize it to be for. The 1.4bn is for the entire contract but the initial goal is to only have 2 satellites launched with the option for 10 more. They will be integrating with the existing EU Galileo system and provides who knows what else in additional features. As one guy in the article said "'You are guaranteed a lot of business for the next 20 years. It may be enough to drive the losing competitor out of this market.'" In addition to the materials, you also have labor which, in many cases, can exceed the cost of the materials especially with contracts lasting as long as this one can. The article doesn't go into details but the contract sounds like it also includes operations and maintenance once the satellites have been launched which is icing on the cake for Lockheed.
Most? Why not all or none? So who is the designer doing the designing and why would he/she only design some things and not others? Evolution occurs by accident. There is no one involved performing any forethought.
"With the releases of Fedora 9, Hardy Heron and OpenSuSE 11 so close together, it's looking more than ever like an evolution to a common interface for major Linux distributions.
I always wonder why 'evolution' is used so much in software development when the implication is that there is no design involved. I know there is some design so 'progression' seems to be the better word. If anything the connotation associated with 'evolution' should make people realize that it is the wrong word and doesn't mean what people want it to, unless of course those at Red Hat and Novell really are letting time take its course and the software has AI to build itself without being designed by developers. I hardly think that is the case though.
There is no such thing as a soul, get over it. There are no scientific or legal basis for anything that survives after death, or enters a fetus as part of being born. There are electrical and chemical processes in the brain that enables thought, which humans and many animals have become complicated enough to be 'self aware'. That is your soul, nothing beyond a mass of brain tissue.
You are an ass. Get over it. Whether you like it or not you have a soul. You may not care or believe in it but you do. Ignoring or defying the fact you do doesn't make it so. What gives animals their instinct? I'm not equating instinct to a soul but there is still something else there beyond just normal chemical processes.
It is very legal for me to take a dog or cat into a vet FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER AND HAVE IT PUT TO SLEEP. So the argument comparing the treatment of dogs and cats v/s fetus would appear to not only sanction abortion but also sanction being able to have any person put to sleep because it's inconvenient. Or you only pick pieces of arguments that fit your needs and ignore the inconvenient parts.
Yes it is very legal for you to do that. It is not very legal to do it cruelly and with torture. If anyone is ignoring inconvenience it is you. You prefer to get rid of anything that would inconvenience your life even at the expense of the disposal of another life.
Yes, I do prefer the convenience of an adult life over bring a child into this world when the parents are not capable of supporting it. So what, you think I really give a damn about your opinion of me?? I'm just sick and tired of people like you who think they have some right to force people like me to do something that has no impact on your life at all.
For being someone who is pro-choice you seem to have forgotten about the choice of the baby you are killing. You are selfish and only care about yourself. I guess you prefer to be selfish and only care about your own life and responsibilities. I guess you also like the fact the baby can't speak up for itself otherwise you might actually feel, dare I say, remorse.
So you sanction a continued foster-care life for these unfortunate children by bringing in even more unwanted babies. Shame on you.
Shame on you for supporting mass murder. As soon as you arbitrate what is human and what isn't and what is convenient and what isn't you insert grey where there only exists black and white. You are also arrogant for even thinking you have the power to arbitrate what is convenient/inconvenient or human/inhuman to determine whether someone should live or die. No individual has the right to determine whether someone has the right to live or die, especially if that someone does not have ability to defend their life which is at stake (i.e. a baby). Do you like killing those who cannot defend themselves? May God have mercy on your soul, if you have one.
I'm a sysadmin and use KDE all day long, with Konsole as my terminal. I tried the preview release of Fedora 9 and found
that the new Konsole - has less features!
The buttons for quickly closing/opening a tab are gone. Right-clicking on tabs is gone. The ability to send input to all tabs
is completely gone, not even accessible through menus.
These are features I use every day while working on servers. KDE4 adds a lot of eyecandy (and a Vista-style 'start menu' - ick),
but why remove useful functionality?
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of Wikipedia? We have the map of the Internet which shows major nodes and how they are connected. We need someone to create a map of Wikipedia articles and their links to show where the "hotspots" are. I think that would be interesting. Basically it turns what this person has already done into a graphical representation. Changing the thickness of the links would denote the "distance". Maybe this already exists. I didn't search beforehand.
Yeah, if the US government had actually written this training manual. But they didn't. So get back to us when you get your facts straight. I got these same PDFs 18 months ago on a newsgroup. They aren't unique to the DOJ site.
My point was not to convince you God did it but to not assume that biogenesis and evolution did it. As far as being blessed, that will only happen when you stop being a sarcastic asshole.
Although you aren't original for making an ID joke on slashdot you bring up a good point whether you like it or not. The point being that those particles are not alive and yet they are forming something that is. This totally beats anything biogenesis/evolution could do due to the speed at which it occurs. That same something started somewhere in the world many decades ago for some reason out of the blue, possibly even outside of a living organsim which then somehow got inside of an animal or human. Now millions of people are infected and thousands die from it every year. Why? How? Something just doesn't do that out of the blue. What is directing those particles to do what they do and how do they make HIV come alive as an organism? Bringing this same "magic" to the macro level with another example: How do some birds find an island (Hawaii) in the middle of an ocean when they have never been there before? Saying it is just instinct doesn't explain it. It makes me wonder. It should make you as well.
You listed all the effects that increasing cell metabolism would do with one of them being killing more oceans. It isn't quite the butterfly effect which says that a single butterfly flapping wings in one part of the world can cause a hurrican in another part. With your theory multiple cells (in one body with multiple bodies having this done) having their metabolism increased would eventually kill oceans. I find it far fetched just as I do the butterfly effect.
I take it you believe in the butterfly effect? THe way I see it this may even itself out. Turn up the metabolish and the cells die faster which means you die faster. You may use up the same amount of resources but just faster. The only issue is how to replenish resources faster than we do now and fast enough on a mass scale if this is applied to humans.
The end times includes a prophesy that it will be much worse than a felony to not carry identification, whatever form that takes is yet to be seen.
The "tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs" were right.It will be more than the tinfoil hat-wearing people who will be right when the end times arrive.
The key isn't having AV and FW software but just to be patched. Yes defense in depth helps but if you fix the exploits (with service packs) and don't do stupid things like download p2p software, software found on usenet, or run insecure programs like IE and Outlook then you won't have any problems. Given I have a router and it blocks incoming connections so essentially I have a firewall, I don't run any security software on my PC, I don't use IE except for banking, I don't use Outlook and I don't have any malware of any kind on my system. I even download stuff off usenet w/o problems (probably just get lucky there). The point is that having patched systems and common sense is really all that is needed to keep a system secure. AV and FW software just chew up mounds of CPU cycles and RAM. I consider them more harm than good. YMMV
Anyone can still make a typo in code without it being caught. Or it can be malicious such as the if (uid = 0) statement in the Linux kernel a while back that someone just happen to catch. This just shows that no model is infallible because no human is infallible and that checks should be in place to validate the model.
How is energy detected that crosses the spectrum boundaries between 2 detection methods? Seems to me there is plenty of research which can be done just by building detectors that can detect energy in the EM spectrum where there currently exists no detection mechanism. We can't say we've scanned the entire sky until that occurs.
I let my Leopard Macbook sit running for months on end, in and out of hibernate mode. I don't have out of memory issues and the cursor doesn't get jumpy. Firefox is the only app that ever chews up a ton of memory (1.5 gigabytes is the most I've seen it use). I have the lowest-end Macbook by the way. Yes it does get updates a lot from Apple but nothing says I have to install them. I do install the ones that don't need reboots but I wait to install the others until I'm ready. I've never had to restart after coming out of sleep or hibernate. I don't use any external monitors though. I've had it since last October by the way and the only 3rd party software installed is Firefox and Thunderbird. Sounds like you may have other issues unrelated to OS X.
Does Greenpeace utilize alternative fuels for its vehicles (both on land and sea)? If not then I think they just need to shutup. For that matter, they need to shutup anyway. I'm tired of people blaming others for not being green enough whether it is hypocritical or not but being hypocritical about it does make it worse. Nintendo can just fake it by buying carbon credits. Like the credits really do something meaningful anyway. Oh, I'm not bitter by the way.
No, evolution won't. Birds already have eyes and a brain. They are already capable of flying to the ends of the Earth during migration periods w/o any GPS device, even birds who have never been to where they are going. They can fly around skyscrapers and avoid cars. There are a ton of obstacles already in existence. Diving into the ocean and never coming up again = death too but they somehow already know (by instinct I guess) to not do that. Why would a wind turbine be so special? Besides, wind turbines move plenty slow enough a bird can pass after 1 blade moves out of the way and get through before the next does if the timing is right. They don't move like a propeller.
Yes there are some exceptions, very rare exceptions, and it has nothing to do with survival of the fittest because not all of the exceptions end up dying. They are just flukes, just like when you are walking and your ankle just gives way for no reason. It just happens. It doesn't mean you are stupid and should die off. During your delusions of grandeur you may like the idea of evolution finally coming alive and showing it's ugly head for those who doubt it but they are just that, delusions.
No. As maxume already pointed out, the land owners aren't the maintainers of the equipment. You don't hear people who have cell towers on their land complaining about maintenance costs do you? Same situation with wind turbines and solar collectors.
Not to mention that non-motorized vehicles are not allowed on U.S. interstates. As someone already stated, the U.S. just can't using oil. It is too much of an integrated resource. The supply chain is huge and the products dependent on it are too numerous to list here. There are not enough good alternatives yet for consumers to make the switch because the first question to ask is, switch to what? Assuming any given U.S. family has the extra funds to go buy a new vehicle (and many don't which is why they are still using their 15 year old car with 150k miles) the only alternative fuel that has a chance right now is electric and only in the form of a hybrid which obviously still requires oil *and* gasoline. Plain electric cars just don't get the range and they are expensive not to mention refueling takes multiple hours. Fuel cells (using hydrogen) and natural gas-based cars have refueling issues, as in, there are only a few hundred "pumps" in the entire U.S. which provide refueling equipment for hydrogen and natural gas. And that leaves motorcycles and bicycles I believe. Motorcycle still need oil and gas so you still aren't off oil totally with them. And bicycling to work can only be enjoyed by the select few in the U.S. because of the roads and working/living locations as someone already mentioned. As it stands, it will be decades before our transportation infrastructure is off oil.
it would have bit us.
The presence of highly ionized oxygen (and other elements) between the galaxies is believed to trace large quantities of invisible, hot, ionized hydrogen in the universe. These vast reservoirs of hydrogen have largely escaped detection because they are too hot to be seen in visible light, yet too cool to be seen in X-rays.Um, why wasn't the entire EM spectrum scanned across the heavens instead of "discrete" well-known segments like radio, x-ray, visible, IR, UV, etc.? Is it a money and time issue? Otherwise it seems that this should have been found decades ago.
Not quite. My point was that humans have always done that. It's easy to say "we've evolved to do that!". There is no proof our metabolism/eating habits way back when was any different than it is today. Since food is readily available to first-world countries we should begin seeing evolutionary changes, if evolution deserves the credit, in humans to support that change in environment.
It isn't even home cooking although that definitely helps. It's the fact that what can be purchased at the store as convenience food has a ton of carbs in it and people are living more sedentary lives which doesn't burn the carbs off. Fast food also does it. Restaurants though aren't necessarily bad though especially if you are one to buy salad, steak, or chicken. Convenience food is fine for kids to an extent and for adults for that matter. But for kids and adults who have slow metabolism the convenience food carbs (CFCs if you will) catch up with them and if they don't exercise or do something to burn it off they are going to get fat and then they will get obese. We (the U.S.) is a culture addicted to food, fatty food, and it hurts us because of our lifestyle.
Stop blaming everybody for discriminating against you and take control of your own life.Man, if I had mod points you would get them all if I could give them to you. You are hitting the nail on the head. Personal responsibility is out the door in the U.S. My metabolism is slowing (I'm almost 30) but I still enjoy eating at Burger King or McDonald's but I also go to the gym. I'm capable of eating bad food in moderation. Not everyone can do that and people blame the restaurants for it when it isn't completely their fault to say the least. They do keep giving bigger drink portions that are big enough they could keep someone alive in a desert and those soft drinks are full of sugar (CARBS again!). I always get a small drink when I eat at a fast food restaurant to cut down on the sugar. People need to learn to eat in moderation or change their eating content altogether. I'll stop rambling now.
Really? There is proof that the first humans' metabolism operated differently than humans of 'today'? Of course, even from early in life to later in life our metabolisms change but what proof is there of human metabolism operating differently in humans from thousands of generations in the past? The fact of the matter is that the human body, since inception, operates such that when no food is available it will gradually use itself for energy, taking fat first and then muscle as sources of energy. Obviously fat should be used up first because it is extraneous and we need muscles in dire situations to continue moving such as if you are stranded in the wild and have to make your way back to civilization. Only as a last resort does muscle get broken down for food. Animals work the same way (e.g. bears eat a lot to store fat for the winter for an energy source so their muscles won't atrophy). That doesn't imply we used to be some type of animal. That would be the wrong logic.
Did you ever stop to think that those who are complaining don't necessarily know the source of the problem? All they know is they have trouble with FF. They may not have the troubleshooting skills or the time to determine what triggers the problems. Who is the jerk now?
Because the 1.4bn is used for more than what you trivialize it to be for. The 1.4bn is for the entire contract but the initial goal is to only have 2 satellites launched with the option for 10 more. They will be integrating with the existing EU Galileo system and provides who knows what else in additional features. As one guy in the article said "'You are guaranteed a lot of business for the next 20 years. It may be enough to drive the losing competitor out of this market.'" In addition to the materials, you also have labor which, in many cases, can exceed the cost of the materials especially with contracts lasting as long as this one can. The article doesn't go into details but the contract sounds like it also includes operations and maintenance once the satellites have been launched which is icing on the cake for Lockheed.
Most? Why not all or none? So who is the designer doing the designing and why would he/she only design some things and not others? Evolution occurs by accident. There is no one involved performing any forethought.
I always wonder why 'evolution' is used so much in software development when the implication is that there is no design involved. I know there is some design so 'progression' seems to be the better word. If anything the connotation associated with 'evolution' should make people realize that it is the wrong word and doesn't mean what people want it to, unless of course those at Red Hat and Novell really are letting time take its course and the software has AI to build itself without being designed by developers. I hardly think that is the case though.
You are an ass. Get over it. Whether you like it or not you have a soul. You may not care or believe in it but you do. Ignoring or defying the fact you do doesn't make it so. What gives animals their instinct? I'm not equating instinct to a soul but there is still something else there beyond just normal chemical processes.
It is very legal for me to take a dog or cat into a vet FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER AND HAVE IT PUT TO SLEEP. So the argument comparing the treatment of dogs and cats v/s fetus would appear to not only sanction abortion but also sanction being able to have any person put to sleep because it's inconvenient. Or you only pick pieces of arguments that fit your needs and ignore the inconvenient parts.Yes it is very legal for you to do that. It is not very legal to do it cruelly and with torture. If anyone is ignoring inconvenience it is you. You prefer to get rid of anything that would inconvenience your life even at the expense of the disposal of another life.
Yes, I do prefer the convenience of an adult life over bring a child into this world when the parents are not capable of supporting it. So what, you think I really give a damn about your opinion of me?? I'm just sick and tired of people like you who think they have some right to force people like me to do something that has no impact on your life at all.For being someone who is pro-choice you seem to have forgotten about the choice of the baby you are killing. You are selfish and only care about yourself. I guess you prefer to be selfish and only care about your own life and responsibilities. I guess you also like the fact the baby can't speak up for itself otherwise you might actually feel, dare I say, remorse.
So you sanction a continued foster-care life for these unfortunate children by bringing in even more unwanted babies. Shame on you.Shame on you for supporting mass murder. As soon as you arbitrate what is human and what isn't and what is convenient and what isn't you insert grey where there only exists black and white. You are also arrogant for even thinking you have the power to arbitrate what is convenient/inconvenient or human/inhuman to determine whether someone should live or die. No individual has the right to determine whether someone has the right to live or die, especially if that someone does not have ability to defend their life which is at stake (i.e. a baby). Do you like killing those who cannot defend themselves? May God have mercy on your soul, if you have one.
I'm a sysadmin and use KDE all day long, with Konsole as my terminal. I tried the preview release of Fedora 9 and found that the new Konsole - has less features!
The buttons for quickly closing/opening a tab are gone. Right-clicking on tabs is gone. The ability to send input to all tabs is completely gone, not even accessible through menus.
These are features I use every day while working on servers. KDE4 adds a lot of eyecandy (and a Vista-style 'start menu' - ick), but why remove useful functionality?
They must have hired some pidgin developers.