The best part of the GIMP is that it is free. For those of us on Windows, the idea of using Photoshop on Linux is cool, but I'd still have to pay for it. Until then, the GIMP is my tool of choice.
Most landlords factor in property tax payments into the rent cost for an apartment. If the property tax increases, so does the rent the next year.
Re:CHALLENGE, you dumb liberal.
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The constitution protects our freedom of speech.
The taxation system is slightly progressive.
Unlike many other countries, the press doesn't have to worry about burdensome libel laws here
We have the finest medical care available in the world.
We have strong federal support for R&D programs across the country, in colleges and universities. Our grant system has kept America strong.
Americans believe that the entire world should have the same inalienable rights that we cherish.
Americans believe that our country should be a place of equal opportunity, regardless of race, religion or wealth.
I can drive from one side of the country to the other without having to pay a toll, because our national highway system is paid for by my taxes.
America has a strong public school system, naysayers to the contrary.
In America, church and state are distinct, unlike many middle-eastern countries. This is a very good thing.
All Americans, left and right, are part of the liberal tradition. It's the foundation of our country's political history. I wince everytime someone criticizes "liberals" because they really should be criticizing people on the "left". America was founded on the "liberal" ideals of John Locke, who was a big proponent of private property.
Bush doesn't "have" $200 million. He is attempting to "get" $200 million. This is just for the primary season, where he faces no opponents. During the general election, he'll take federal matching funds, which limit his spending decisions.
Oddly, he doesn't check the $3 "do you want to give money to the election fund" box on his tax return, despite being one of the few people who would actually benefit from said check-off. All of us suckers who do check it off finance his election, indirectly.
one of the toughest challenges a piece of software ever faces, the upgrade installation mode
I can think of several stress filled things a program may have to do. I'm not sure the upgrade installation mode ranks as the "toughest". Maybe it's difficult to get perfect...
Um...you use the RIGHT sided ctrl and alt keys, not the left ones. These are about four inches apart...if your hands are too small to do that, I fear for you.
In this frame from film of a test, foam is seen after it hit a mock-up space shuttle wing at great speed and shatters, leaving V-shaped tracks.
Did they print the wrong picture? The article implies a great deal of damage but all I can see in the picture is the foam object getting destroyed. The wing itself looks completely fine.
he's been attempting to show people his "hard evidence" for 30 years, dumbass!
The story didn't imply that he was locked into a power struggle for 30 years in order to get his evidence shown. The story implied he had been working on said evidence (data analysis, maybe?) for 30 years in order to find the truth. In addition, the story implied that right now, 30 years after the fact, NEW evidence would surface to back up his claims. That's crazy. Why would the evidence appear from old data after 30 years? It doesn't make any sense.
Yes, I'm not qualified to evaluate his credentials. I'm sure that he's much smarter than the story implied. It's simply a bad story that contains little other than rumour. There are no hard facts. If Dr. Levins' research eschews as many facts as the story, then he's crazy. Since you and I both assume that he's really not crazy, then the only solution is that the story was written very poorly.
Plus, if I had been attempting to show people hard evidence (unclear as to why you put hard evidence in quotes...as if it was some sort of double entendre) for 30 years, I might think about giving some of it to reporters who cover said story. Why would he be reticent to share his proof? That's the paranoid part.
One of the people I most admire in the security field is Solar Designer. He is a guru in networking, security, and low level kernel/assembly/architecture details. He has also created many tools that security professionals use daily. Yet he never exhibits the arrogance, elitism, and egotism that sadly characterizes so many "stars" of the security community.
Who exactly are the "stars" of the security community? Clearly, I'm not geeky enough to know...but I'd be interested if someone actually does know the "top 10 cool security stars".
Dr Levin, one of three scientists on the life detection experiments, has never given up on the idea that Viking did find living micro-organisms in the surface soil of Mars.
Beagle is looking for life
He continued to experiment and study all new evidence from Mars and Earth, and, in 1997, reached the conclusion and published that the so-called LR (labelled release) work had detected life.
He says new evidence is emerging that could settle the debate, once and for all.
A crazy guy has been ranting for almost 30 years about his own personal theories and only now, shortly before we go back to mars, does the "new evidence" emerge? Please. Maybe the beeb should wait until they get hard evidence before printing paranoiac fantasies like this one.
After reading the article, I'm still confused as to why any defense agency would have "unsecured network access" available with wireless access. All the government places I've worked in have been extremely hesitant to allow users to even have Palms at work. None have ever been so IT-crazy that they've invested heavily in wireless networking technology, beyond simple bridging concepts. Considering that this article comes on the heels of another one a few posts back discussing how the CIA has been reluctant to invest in new tech ideas, it seems hypocritical to criticize the government for being too slow to adopt new technologies but being too quick to adopt those same ones.
If anyone knows of any agencies progressive enough to jump on the wireless bandwagon, pipe up. Otherwise I think it's just another victim of the hype monster.
But who's buying all these games? For your argument to work either most people are idiots who purchase really bad games, and you have the luck to not be one of them (in which case you're getting screwed by the majority of game purchasers) or you, in fact, are purchasing said games.
If the only games that are being sold are bad, people will stop buying them. People are smarter than we give them credit for: if they hate a FPS game they won't buy another. If the problem is that games being produced don't do it for YOU, then that's a different issue.
I myself have just as much fun firing up ATV Offroad Fury 2 and playing a game of tag with friends as I would with some detail oriented FPS game. So maybe the market is tailored to me?
Mallrats isn't a "teen sex comedy". In order to be a teen sex comedy it would've had to include a sexier star than Jason Lee and a sexier voice than Joey Lauren Adams. And, it couldn't have garnered an "R" rating. Teen sex comedies live in PG-13 land.
That last bit hits the nail on the head. Perhaps if things were a lush as they "used to be", people would be more excited to run out and purchase a cool new game that costs $50-$60. I know that in my current financial situation, spending that much money for a game seems like a financial no-no.
Of course, by not purchasing games, I'm rewarding the companies that stick with "the sure bet" over those that innovate. Clearly, what's needed is a better economy or companies with enough cash to be risky.
Re:CIA Humint - Sigint - Remote Sensing
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Actually, they did prevent some millenial madness from occurring. They got a tiny amount of good press about it, too.
I'm always wary about comments that seem to reflect the "why aren't things better?" mold of thought. Obviously, there are impediments to producing a novel game concept, but if someone came up with a really catchy idea, I think game execs would sign on.
What if Miramax had told filmmaker Kevin Smith that no one would watch "Clerks" and suggested he develop a marketable teen sex comedy instead?
This is a red herring. Clerks pushed boundaries in several directions. If game designers have not done so, perhaps it's simply because there aren't enough people out there pushing the envelope. Time and patience will result in more games. Complaining won't.
No, that's still called TIA. Only instead of Total Information Awareness it's now Terrorism Information Awareness. Apparently some people (Democrats) were concerned that Tom Delay might use the system to track down fugitive souls who still thought there was a separation between the states and the federal government. Silly Dems! Such a system could only be used for good...just like gator! In fact, both systems gather information about people and use it for nefarious purposes...
"Eighty percent of the magic is what he'll never see," Eagle said of Edelman and his findings in a phone interview. "He's only touching a part of the elephant."
Wow. Now that's clear, easily understandable logic. I guess it was just too much to refute the study's claims on actual facts, rather than dredging up tired cliches.
Hear Hear. Network Solutions routinely "loses" information. That said, it never "lost" an entire domain, but still, screwing thousands of little guys isn't the best service either. I can't speak for Verisign.
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What's up with the favicon that lavarnd is using? I don't get it...it seems totally random.
Here's a link to a screenshot of an old /. entry about said OS. It would've been cool if the "live" VNC shot was of this slashdot discussion, eh?
The best part of the GIMP is that it is free. For those of us on Windows, the idea of using Photoshop on Linux is cool, but I'd still have to pay for it. Until then, the GIMP is my tool of choice.
Most landlords factor in property tax payments into the rent cost for an apartment. If the property tax increases, so does the rent the next year.
All Americans, left and right, are part of the liberal tradition. It's the foundation of our country's political history. I wince everytime someone criticizes "liberals" because they really should be criticizing people on the "left". America was founded on the "liberal" ideals of John Locke, who was a big proponent of private property.
Bush doesn't "have" $200 million. He is attempting to "get" $200 million. This is just for the primary season, where he faces no opponents. During the general election, he'll take federal matching funds, which limit his spending decisions.
Oddly, he doesn't check the $3 "do you want to give money to the election fund" box on his tax return, despite being one of the few people who would actually benefit from said check-off. All of us suckers who do check it off finance his election, indirectly.
one of the toughest challenges a piece of software ever faces, the upgrade installation mode
I can think of several stress filled things a program may have to do. I'm not sure the upgrade installation mode ranks as the "toughest". Maybe it's difficult to get perfect...
Um...you use the RIGHT sided ctrl and alt keys, not the left ones. These are about four inches apart...if your hands are too small to do that, I fear for you.
My original question was: how does one loan the car to another if it's designed to only let you in?
My new and improved question is: how would you lock down your computer chair to prevent unauthorized butt-tampering with it?
Now if only they could sell a chip to everyone in China...they'd surpass that 2007 estimate handily!
Did they print the wrong picture? The article implies a great deal of damage but all I can see in the picture is the foam object getting destroyed. The wing itself looks completely fine.
The story didn't imply that he was locked into a power struggle for 30 years in order to get his evidence shown. The story implied he had been working on said evidence (data analysis, maybe?) for 30 years in order to find the truth. In addition, the story implied that right now, 30 years after the fact, NEW evidence would surface to back up his claims. That's crazy. Why would the evidence appear from old data after 30 years? It doesn't make any sense.
Yes, I'm not qualified to evaluate his credentials. I'm sure that he's much smarter than the story implied. It's simply a bad story that contains little other than rumour. There are no hard facts. If Dr. Levins' research eschews as many facts as the story, then he's crazy. Since you and I both assume that he's really not crazy, then the only solution is that the story was written very poorly.
Plus, if I had been attempting to show people hard evidence (unclear as to why you put hard evidence in quotes...as if it was some sort of double entendre) for 30 years, I might think about giving some of it to reporters who cover said story. Why would he be reticent to share his proof? That's the paranoid part.
I hope this clears things up.
Who exactly are the "stars" of the security community? Clearly, I'm not geeky enough to know...but I'd be interested if someone actually does know the "top 10 cool security stars".
So let me read this again:
Dr Levin, one of three scientists on the life detection experiments, has never given up on the idea that Viking did find living micro-organisms in the surface soil of Mars.
Beagle is looking for life He continued to experiment and study all new evidence from Mars and Earth, and, in 1997, reached the conclusion and published that the so-called LR (labelled release) work had detected life.
He says new evidence is emerging that could settle the debate, once and for all.
A crazy guy has been ranting for almost 30 years about his own personal theories and only now, shortly before we go back to mars, does the "new evidence" emerge? Please. Maybe the beeb should wait until they get hard evidence before printing paranoiac fantasies like this one.
If anyone knows of any agencies progressive enough to jump on the wireless bandwagon, pipe up. Otherwise I think it's just another victim of the hype monster.
But who's buying all these games? For your argument to work either most people are idiots who purchase really bad games, and you have the luck to not be one of them (in which case you're getting screwed by the majority of game purchasers) or you, in fact, are purchasing said games.
If the only games that are being sold are bad, people will stop buying them. People are smarter than we give them credit for: if they hate a FPS game they won't buy another. If the problem is that games being produced don't do it for YOU, then that's a different issue.
I myself have just as much fun firing up ATV Offroad Fury 2 and playing a game of tag with friends as I would with some detail oriented FPS game. So maybe the market is tailored to me?
Right. Probably the same people who enjoyed Chasing Amy...a horrible movie, imnsho.
Mallrats isn't a "teen sex comedy". In order to be a teen sex comedy it would've had to include a sexier star than Jason Lee and a sexier voice than Joey Lauren Adams. And, it couldn't have garnered an "R" rating. Teen sex comedies live in PG-13 land.
That last bit hits the nail on the head. Perhaps if things were a lush as they "used to be", people would be more excited to run out and purchase a cool new game that costs $50-$60. I know that in my current financial situation, spending that much money for a game seems like a financial no-no.
Of course, by not purchasing games, I'm rewarding the companies that stick with "the sure bet" over those that innovate. Clearly, what's needed is a better economy or companies with enough cash to be risky.
Actually, they did prevent some millenial madness from occurring. They got a tiny amount of good press about it, too.
I'm always wary about comments that seem to reflect the "why aren't things better?" mold of thought. Obviously, there are impediments to producing a novel game concept, but if someone came up with a really catchy idea, I think game execs would sign on.
What if Miramax had told filmmaker Kevin Smith that no one would watch "Clerks" and suggested he develop a marketable teen sex comedy instead?
This is a red herring. Clerks pushed boundaries in several directions. If game designers have not done so, perhaps it's simply because there aren't enough people out there pushing the envelope. Time and patience will result in more games. Complaining won't.
Does this mean MySQL will now only accept SQL commands in german? That might increase the querytimes significantly....
No, that's still called TIA. Only instead of Total Information Awareness it's now Terrorism Information Awareness. Apparently some people (Democrats) were concerned that Tom Delay might use the system to track down fugitive souls who still thought there was a separation between the states and the federal government. Silly Dems! Such a system could only be used for good...just like gator! In fact, both systems gather information about people and use it for nefarious purposes...
"Eighty percent of the magic is what he'll never see," Eagle said of Edelman and his findings in a phone interview. "He's only touching a part of the elephant."
Wow. Now that's clear, easily understandable logic. I guess it was just too much to refute the study's claims on actual facts, rather than dredging up tired cliches.
Hear Hear. Network Solutions routinely "loses" information. That said, it never "lost" an entire domain, but still, screwing thousands of little guys isn't the best service either. I can't speak for Verisign.