My first time flying, we flew through a cloud layer heading back to the airport. I flew the approach perfectly, only having to ask where certain knobs were on the kind of plane we were flying.
I definitely wouldn't have been able to do that without the hours and hours I spent on MS Flight Simulator (many of which, admittedly, were spent ramming into the Sears Tower in my Cessna:-p).
Once Asimov's Laws were in print, SF authors could never get away with selling books about robots going amok and turning on their human masters.
It's fairly easy to conceive of something going wrong with the Three Laws. Look at software written today, and tell me that the code for an AI is gonna be bug free. I bet you can't do it with a straight face.
Add in things like nasty dictatorships adding code into, say, housekeeping robots, that makes them flip out on peacekeepers randomly. Or, perhaps, a computer virus spreading amongst the robots via their wireless network.
You've got to teach your filter what new spam looks like.
Duh?
Thunderbird does just that, although it's client-side instead of server-side (which can be handy). You just click the "Junk" button and it gets added to the database, then deleted.
The union doesn't benefit from the destruction of the employer.
I disagree. Other companies will pick up the slack caused by the downsizing / folding of this company, resulting in new jobs - which the fired employees will probably snap up. Those other companies will make damn sure they are a little nicer to the union than the dead company was.
Sure, it's temporary hardship for this group of employees, but the whole workforce benefits in the long run.
Yes that is the description of your posting. To the rest of us the/. story says really clearly 'proprietary codec in international standard'.
Yeah, well, apparently "the rest of you" can't read, or just prefer to bash Microsoft without justification.
As a condition to Microsoft before it could establish VC-9 as a standard, it had to strip VC-9 of proprietary status, Majidimehr said. The company satisfied that condition when it submitted the underlying video compression technology to SMPTE last year and opened up its software to developers for the first time. Now developers can download the technical spec, build on it and not be beholden to Microsoft.
Federal tax reductions? Having your union retain those rights should you move to another state that doesn't have Michigan's arrangement?
What business does the government have calling marriage a sacrament? Sorry, but that's establishment of religion. Okay, then what about rearing children? Last I checked, 80 year old women, infertile couples, etc. were still allowed to get married.
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My first time flying, we flew through a cloud layer heading back to the airport. I flew the approach perfectly, only having to ask where certain knobs were on the kind of plane we were flying.
:-p).
I definitely wouldn't have been able to do that without the hours and hours I spent on MS Flight Simulator (many of which, admittedly, were spent ramming into the Sears Tower in my Cessna
Once Asimov's Laws were in print, SF authors could never get away with selling books about robots going amok and turning on their human masters.
It's fairly easy to conceive of something going wrong with the Three Laws. Look at software written today, and tell me that the code for an AI is gonna be bug free. I bet you can't do it with a straight face.
Add in things like nasty dictatorships adding code into, say, housekeeping robots, that makes them flip out on peacekeepers randomly. Or, perhaps, a computer virus spreading amongst the robots via their wireless network.
Probably not - do you remember the Lord of the Rings trailers? Many of them used music from other movies by composers not involved in the films.
Sounds like you've never seen an Ask Slashdot before... heh.
Why do you foe people for your being stupid enough to not install Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, or the Google toolbar? /just sayin'
Um, where in his post did he say anything remotely resembling "the newspaper is unbiased"?
He merely said that the newspaper's more likely to be less biased than a site openly supporting the guy.
Sheesh.
Oooooooooooh!
I liked Dean. Kerry just seems like business-as-usual - nothing about him particularly enthuses me.
You've got to teach your filter what new spam looks like.
:p
Duh?
Thunderbird does just that, although it's client-side instead of server-side (which can be handy). You just click the "Junk" button and it gets added to the database, then deleted.
In short - I'm not that much of an idiot.
In the couple weeks I've had this sig, I have yet to receive a single troll mod.
So, no, not going to change my sig, as it quite nicely explains my feelings for both Bush and Kerry.
The spammers seem to be able to circumvent the Bayesian filters nowadays - about half the spam now gets through Mozilla Thunderbird's. :-/
I suspect it's the practice of putting random words at the end of the e-mails that does it.
Well, then, consider it economic Darwinism. Other companies'll be happy to pick up the slack, and will treat their workers all the better for it.
I'm not a big fan of the idea of treating a company with kid gloves when it won't pay its workers fairly.
To quote you, there's something about that argument that doesn't pass the smell test.
Why should the employees quit so the company can hire others at higher wages? Why can't they strike so they can benefit?
Let the company fire them if they feel like they can employ others at the same wages.
Mail takes a few days to arrive, which isn't very helpful if you don't want them to show up for the next shift...
The union doesn't benefit from the destruction of the employer.
I disagree. Other companies will pick up the slack caused by the downsizing / folding of this company, resulting in new jobs - which the fired employees will probably snap up. Those other companies will make damn sure they are a little nicer to the union than the dead company was.
Sure, it's temporary hardship for this group of employees, but the whole workforce benefits in the long run.
Yes that is the description of your posting. To the rest of us the /. story says really clearly 'proprietary codec in international standard'.
Yeah, well, apparently "the rest of you" can't read, or just prefer to bash Microsoft without justification.
As a condition to Microsoft before it could establish VC-9 as a standard, it had to strip VC-9 of proprietary status, Majidimehr said. The company satisfied that condition when it submitted the underlying video compression technology to SMPTE last year and opened up its software to developers for the first time. Now developers can download the technical spec, build on it and not be beholden to Microsoft.
Fair use must be non-commercial use, last I checked.
Federal tax reductions?
Having your union retain those rights should you move to another state that doesn't have Michigan's arrangement?
What business does the government have calling marriage a sacrament? Sorry, but that's establishment of religion. Okay, then what about rearing children? Last I checked, 80 year old women, infertile couples, etc. were still allowed to get married.
And how many people knew that...?
Everyone knows michael's a closet AOLer...
And the Internet, of course, doesn't require any computer skills...?
Or just stop sending Israel $1bn every year...
Allowing the surrounding Arab nations to wipe out every Jew in Israel?
Sorry, but I think my approach is more fair.
By your logic, there would be peace in the middle east by now.
Yes, indeed there would be. Nuking the place into glass certainly would cause peace in the region.
In fact, it might even be a good idea.
Sure, Linux provides free software. How much money to educate people in the developing world to use it?
I love how Slashdot manages to turn a $1 billion donation into an evil thing.
How much money have you donated to help promote Linux education in the developing world?