could very well do the same thing the Taliban did in Afghanistan
The Taleban destroyed those artifacts to make a political point. It has nothing to do with Islam (which allows and protects the practice of other religions). They destroyed those statues because the people of afghanistan were starving and suffering, yet other countries were offering them aid to preserve these buddah's rather than save their people.
I don't support what the taleban did, but you should know why they did it before jugding their actions.
Now that Egypt is a more open and democratic society, archeologusts can, and have, move in and begin to resurrect the past and share it with the world.
Egypt is open and democratic? Have you ever been to egypt? The egyptian government and police are very corrupt. The notion that arab countries other than Iraq are wonderful democratic places is a total sham. No attention is paid to their suppression of their own people's because it's not as interesting as Saddam Hussein massacring his own people (with chemical and biological weapons from the US/UK/Germany/France etc...).
Can you say the same thing about homeland security? If we allow some violations of privacy and freedom in return for security, is this not a slipperly slope? Sure expatriation of people based solely on suspicion is unacceptable to any sane person... but does that mean it isn't being thought about?
"I guess they're barking up the wrong bush!" - 'there it is homer, the smartest thing you'll ever say and there's no one around to hear it.'
Seriously, that was my favourite episode. How they could not name it is beyond me. The gags were hilarious, and if you watch closely enough when his memoirs get trashed you see a mention of Dan Quayle. Brilliant!
Will there be hardware produced that is locked to specific operating systems? Will it not be able to bot multiple operating systems? I know those companies mentioned have supported GNU/Linux so I doubt they will start making strictly windows only hardware. But what are the immediate effects we can expect to see when this becomes a little more prevalent? And what will be the long term effects? Will I be able to boot the Hurd when it's released?
well I think you're a coward. You may have it pretty bad, but to think things will only be better if you're dead, is stupid. Things can get better. If you think you have it bad, think about civilians in Iraq being bombed and sanctioned for 10 years. Think about people in N.Korea that have been starving to death for a few years now. Think about the people of Afghanistan (particularly the women) who have had little to no improvement in their living conditions since the US bombed the hell out of The Taleban. They have it far worse than you, and they chose life. If they can wait and strive for better days, why can't you?
there are specific areas of the brain dealing with memory. As far as I know, they are not fully developed when we are first born. So as far as I know, anyone who talks about 'in-utero memories' or memories right after they were born is full of crap.
Our brains are not developed enough at that stage to remember things like that.
Development of language skills may be linked to this just because we generally need to have some memory to start using language.
Maybe a google search might turn up some good links.
One of the comments from the linuxworld site is pretty funny.
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One time I saw two guys kissing in the park, and that was the gayest thing I had even seen until I read these. I wouldn't like to meet the person that would be entertained by this lame attempt at humor.
its time to quit bitching and understand that the world does not need to "be freed from microsoft."
by the way, before you get a chance to reply with all sorts of snide remarks, i built my two machines and i run linux (gentoo) and windows xp. peace.
but bitching and arrogance are what define us as geeks. If we can't make fun of people that use win-doh's, then what are we? A bunch of pale-faced dweebs for whom calling a girl sveldt on/. is the closest we'll ever come to one. And besides, gentoo sucks and Debian r00l3z. [/sarcasm]
However, can you imagine the kind of bad assumptions some people might make if they knew someone regularly watched "The Quaran Today" and other Muslim religious programming?
You mean it might assume that:GASP: I'm a Muslim!?!
Well I am a Muslim, so there.
Lately, concerns have emerged that policy makers, through government procurement policies, research funding or standards policies, may seek to favor one software development model over another.
So they don't want gov'ts to favour any type of software model over another. And seeing as how there have been several announcements about gov't offices deciding to use exclusively open source software, they may campaign against the idea. This isn't necessarily bad. If they advocate using 'the best solution' rather than 'the cheapest' or 'the most open', this could be credible. However, that's assuming the MS isn't overpowering all the other members and driving the decision making. That's a fairly big if...
He gave as an extreme example the possibility that a mouse making human sperm might accidentally be allowed to mate with a mouse that had made its eggs from human cells.
Hey baby, I'd like you to my parents, Squeeky and Whiskers.
I hate spam as much as the next person. And I dont like what the dude does. But seriously, as long as there are people willing to pay his salary, he'll be very successful. So rather than blame this guy for finding a nasty niche market. Why not go after the companies that are paying him. If you ever get spam from him/them/whoever, just make a note to not buy things from a company that uses such an annoying form of advertising. Tell others not to buy from the company either. Don't whine, organize!
The only drawback is that I'm relying more and more on this CD instead of memory, which may be reducing it. That's a very valid fear. Research seems to show that with memory, if you dont use it, you lose it.
I dont know what high school you went to. But I was programming in Pascal in my high school courses. Ok, one year we used Basic, and another was Turing, but the rest was Pascal.
hella cool and all. But they're of course giving preference to people with some related knowledge or experience... Oh, and they have to be physically fit too. That cuts out most of the/. crew (lazy bastards that we are...) Oh, and it may cost the successful applicant a few thousand dollars. Here's a story about it on CBC.
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could very well do the same thing the Taliban did in Afghanistan
The Taleban destroyed those artifacts to make a political point. It has nothing to do with Islam (which allows and protects the practice of other religions). They destroyed those statues because the people of afghanistan were starving and suffering, yet other countries were offering them aid to preserve these buddah's rather than save their people. I don't support what the taleban did, but you should know why they did it before jugding their actions.
Now that Egypt is a more open and democratic society, archeologusts can, and have, move in and begin to resurrect the past and share it with the world.
Egypt is open and democratic? Have you ever been to egypt? The egyptian government and police are very corrupt. The notion that arab countries other than Iraq are wonderful democratic places is a total sham. No attention is paid to their suppression of their own people's because it's not as interesting as Saddam Hussein massacring his own people (with chemical and biological weapons from the US/UK/Germany/France etc...).
Can you say the same thing about homeland security?
If we allow some violations of privacy and freedom in return for security, is this not a slipperly slope?
Sure expatriation of people based solely on suspicion is unacceptable to any sane person... but does that mean it isn't being thought about?
First line:
#!/bin/bash
Line two:
#By compiling this program you agree to the following terms:
a country is different from its government
It most certainly is. But a gov't is elected (in democratic systems anyway). And where, pray tell, does the gov't get it's money?
"I guess they're barking up the wrong bush!"
- 'there it is homer, the smartest thing you'll ever say and there's no one around to hear it.'
Seriously, that was my favourite episode. How they could not name it is beyond me. The gags were hilarious, and if you watch closely enough when his memoirs get trashed you see a mention of Dan Quayle.
Brilliant!
Seems like another contender in the competition to capitalize on the crappy merchandise market.
From the article:
- Corn-based roof canvas
- Bio-materials, including soy-based foam and tailgate, sunflower seed-based oil, corn tire filler
if you run out of other uses for it, you can eat it too!
can we say irony?
'the ironing is delicious.'
- bart simpson
No screenshots??!?
Will there be hardware produced that is locked to specific operating systems?
Will it not be able to bot multiple operating systems?
I know those companies mentioned have supported GNU/Linux so I doubt they will start making strictly windows only hardware. But what are the immediate effects we can expect to see when this becomes a little more prevalent?
And what will be the long term effects? Will I be able to boot the Hurd when it's released?
well I think you're a coward.
You may have it pretty bad, but to think things will only be better if you're dead, is stupid. Things can get better.
If you think you have it bad, think about civilians in Iraq being bombed and sanctioned for 10 years. Think about people in N.Korea that have been starving to death for a few years now. Think about the people of Afghanistan (particularly the women) who have had little to no improvement in their living conditions since the US bombed the hell out of The Taleban.
They have it far worse than you, and they chose life. If they can wait and strive for better days, why can't you?
It will be 800 feet across, and 300 feet high and will cost $800 mil.
And after being used to move the Chernobyl remains, Cowboy Neal will be using it as a car.
there are specific areas of the brain dealing with memory. As far as I know, they are not fully developed when we are first born. So as far as I know, anyone who talks about 'in-utero memories' or memories right after they were born is full of crap.
Our brains are not developed enough at that stage to remember things like that.
Development of language skills may be linked to this just because we generally need to have some memory to start using language.
Maybe a google search might turn up some good links.
"There is no story."
One of the comments from the linuxworld site is pretty funny. ------------ Anonymous Unregistered Not Funny 12/19/02 12:06 PM Edit post Edit Reply to this post Reply One time I saw two guys kissing in the park, and that was the gayest thing I had even seen until I read these. I wouldn't like to meet the person that would be entertained by this lame attempt at humor.
its time to quit bitching and understand that the world does not need to "be freed from microsoft."
/. is the closest we'll ever come to one.
by the way, before you get a chance to reply with all sorts of snide remarks, i built my two machines and i run linux (gentoo) and windows xp. peace.
but bitching and arrogance are what define us as geeks. If we can't make fun of people that use win-doh's, then what are we? A bunch of pale-faced dweebs for whom calling a girl sveldt on
And besides, gentoo sucks and Debian r00l3z.
[/sarcasm]
However, can you imagine the kind of bad assumptions some people might make if they knew someone regularly watched "The Quaran Today" and other Muslim religious programming?
:GASP: I'm a Muslim!?!
Well I am a Muslim, so there.
You mean it might assume that
well it's nice to see that you hope to improve *grammar* on /.
Perhaps you could also improve spelling?
From the site:
Lately, concerns have emerged that policy makers, through government procurement policies, research funding or standards policies, may seek to favor one software development model over another.
So they don't want gov'ts to favour any type of software model over another. And seeing as how there have been several announcements about gov't offices deciding to use exclusively open source software, they may campaign against the idea.
This isn't necessarily bad. If they advocate using 'the best solution' rather than 'the cheapest' or 'the most open', this could be credible. However, that's assuming the MS isn't overpowering all the other members and driving the decision making. That's a fairly big if...
One telling comment though:
He gave as an extreme example the possibility that a mouse making human sperm might accidentally be allowed to mate with a mouse that had made its eggs from human cells.
Hey baby, I'd like you to my parents, Squeeky and Whiskers.
I hate spam as much as the next person. And I dont like what the dude does. But seriously, as long as there are people willing to pay his salary, he'll be very successful.
So rather than blame this guy for finding a nasty niche market. Why not go after the companies that are paying him. If you ever get spam from him/them/whoever, just make a note to not buy things from a company that uses such an annoying form of advertising. Tell others not to buy from the company either. Don't whine, organize!
The only drawback is that I'm relying more and more on this CD instead of memory, which may be reducing it.
That's a very valid fear. Research seems to show that with memory, if you dont use it, you lose it.
I dont know what high school you went to. But I was programming in Pascal in my high school courses. Ok, one year we used Basic, and another was Turing, but the rest was Pascal.
hella cool and all. But they're of course giving preference to people with some related knowledge or experience... /. crew (lazy bastards that we are...)
Oh, and they have to be physically fit too. That cuts out most of the
Oh, and it may cost the successful applicant a few thousand dollars.
Here's a story about it on CBC.
those darn IP piraters! Darn that Pee2Pee software!
Thank God for the MPAA!
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