The big push for at least a decade was that we were being threatened by global warming. Seems to me we're the ones doing the threatening, the planet just runs programmed.
Understanding the programming is the hard part.
A while ago I was reading about the history of Japan, specifically the Jomon period. It turns out that between 4000BC and 2000BC temperatures tended to be several degrees Celsius higher then they are today and the seas are believed to have been 5m higher. The fascinating part was that the people living in Japan at the time thrived during this era, having developed rice-paddy farming and government control. When the climate cooled the population of these people declined dramatically. This trend is reflected around the world. Europe endured famines in the 1300s during periods of cooling and glacial expansion. Something tells me that NYC's manhattanites don't know how to farm rice, and don't want to learn how.
So now we have these eskimo pulling what is essentially a publicity stunt. Well, it's worse than that. Behind them are a pack of scumbag lawyers looking to line their pockets. This much we agree on.
I personally think this lawsuit is totally bogus. You can't sue a company for failure to provide features that you think SHOULD be in a particular revision.
Case in point, I'm wondering if the people that buy draft-N wireless gear now are going to cry fowl when the real N standard gets certified with extra features?
Exactly. IT people think about the present, what needs to be done now in the company. IT managers think about the future of the company, how the department relates to the whole of the company and its vision.
I myself have no problem with them playing god. the objections against getting stem cells from embryos is just plain, well, stupid. sorry, it is. do you save a sentient creature by killing a non-sentient creature? that's a no-brainer, of course you do. if we followed the bible-thumpers, none of us would eat meat, fruits, vegetables, well, anything non-sentient. hell, the Christians are eating sentient creatures, so who are they to throw their hands in the air about something like this? oh, it's about humans, sorry, big difference to god.
Aren't we doing this already? The rover thing. Did I just enter a time warp? Personally, i could care less about these rovers. It's a planet with red dirt. And, oh yeah, more red dirt. An ancient sea? big whoop. find a sea that's still there and maybe you'll have something. Find some aliens (which no doubt have to be hiding pretty darn well) because, well, again, all i've seen is dirt, and maybe you'll have something. Odds are though, it's a waste of money. Is there life out there, well, statistics suggest that with the number of stars and planets out there, one is bound to be in a proximity to a sun to support life. Wanna do something worthwile, how about perfectly super-fast space travel or super-telescopes. Mars is small potatoes and old news.
P.S. Hundreds of millions for 'coolness'? Please..how about we build a few kick ass schools and hospitals with that money.
He claimed that they had prior business with the phone number, not the person, and could keep calling back.
Then he should be trying to sell drugs to the phone company, they own the number.
But really, how much of these lakes are we really using? They're nice to look at, we fish in them, but i'm sure we can quarantine a portion off for that. Other than that, i'm thinking they just sit there are don't contribute a lot to the GDP.:-)
The news article says: "but also may have received the order" Since when does "may" mean it's confirmed? That's pretty vague. I can do that too. I "may" be a millionaire in 5 years. I "may" get hit by lightning today. News outlets love grabbing at straws, don't they.
Does this mean that since product keys are widely available on the internet for licensed products, like MS office, XP, etc.. that product key use-protection is ineffective, and therefore it's ok for me to use them as much as i want? How about buying a widely-availble automatic pick gun to break into someone's house? It's not trespassing then, right?
wouldn't this mean that Google disclosing their salaries to the SEC and the SEC in turn releasing them publically (or however the public finds out), violates Google's own NDA?
"It is clearly an absolute disgrace that people are anonymously able to make comments about teachers that are quite atrocious," she said.
what are they, new to the internet?? we make atrocious comments about people every hour on the hour. it's called freedom of speech.
Your analogy is a tiny little bit flawed, based on my perspective. I think the purpose of the drivers is more for people that already bought the webcam, not for future people that are going to buy a webcam. And unless you do your research, a consumer wouldn't know that the win2k driver was buggy until they bought it. He's not advocating the purchase of said cheap webcams (with buggy drivers) by developing these drivers.
I don't see how a criminal charge against him for a non-directed threatening essay doesn't violate his freedom of speech. If that was the case, everybody shouting at a protest would get charged for disorderly conduct no matter what.
And do they really think that 'charging' him rather than seeing if he needs help is the best way to go about this. Charging him with a crime won't do crap. If he needs help, this does nothing. It's like hitting your kid for being bad without understanding why he was bad or teaching him why he shouldn't do it.
the only way their previous formula would hold true is if everybody in the zip code created a huge wireless network off the first customer's broadband wireless router. obviously not plausible as then everybody's connection wouldn't be at or above the 200 kb/s required to call it broadband. i wonder if the percentage of usage that is deemed fraudulent (next door neighbor stealing your internet) will factor into any new formulas they come out with?
i actually thought that was the 5th hole at the sea of tranquility course. an up and down with tons of moon dust traps. but you know, with the lack of gravity, you hit the ball off the 5th tee and it comes down on the fairway of the 10th hole.
as to the topic, superpowers will be superpowers (boys will be boys), i have a bigger ICBM than you, check out my anti-free-speech policy, i bet it kicks the butt out of yours. ego never ends. think this would happen if the leaders of those countries were women? nuh uh.
I wonder how online video will affect cable providers. I'm sure online web sites like CNN, MSNBC, FOX News have gauged how much of viewership they lost on cable stations with the evolution of information via their web sites. I wonder how much online video will change this?
declared their intent to avoid another browser war.
ANOTHER browser war? I didn't know the first one was over!
Wars are good, they bring competition, which drives innovation. (*)
the year of the rootkit huh, is that a new sign in the chinese zodiac/calendar?
"People born in the year of the rootkit are normally reserved quiet people, until you put them in the presence of financial software. Then they because frustrated and start spouting conspiracy theoreys as flashbacks of illegally installed software fill their heads. They are compatible with people born in the year of the presskit. They should avoid people born in the year of the messkit"
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Something tells me that NYC's manhattanites don't know how to farm rice, and don't want to learn how. So now we have these eskimo pulling what is essentially a publicity stunt. Well, it's worse than that. Behind them are a pack of scumbag lawyers looking to line their pockets. This much we agree on.
if you ask the U.S. military, yes.
ok, so talking on your cell phone while driving is not safe, but making hydrogen while driving is ok??
I personally think this lawsuit is totally bogus. You can't sue a company for failure to provide features that you think SHOULD be in a particular revision.
Case in point, I'm wondering if the people that buy draft-N wireless gear now are going to cry fowl when the real N standard gets certified with extra features?
Exactly. IT people think about the present, what needs to be done now in the company. IT managers think about the future of the company, how the department relates to the whole of the company and its vision.
-Tony
would ratting out your company violate the NDA you signed with the company??
I myself have no problem with them playing god. the objections against getting stem cells from embryos is just plain, well, stupid. sorry, it is.
do you save a sentient creature by killing a non-sentient creature? that's a no-brainer, of course you do. if we followed the bible-thumpers, none of us would eat meat, fruits, vegetables, well, anything non-sentient. hell, the Christians are eating sentient creatures, so who are they to throw their hands in the air about something like this? oh, it's about humans, sorry, big difference to god.
-Tony
Aren't we doing this already? The rover thing. Did I just enter a time warp?
Personally, i could care less about these rovers. It's a planet with red dirt. And, oh yeah, more red dirt. An ancient sea? big whoop. find a sea that's still there and maybe you'll have something. Find some aliens (which no doubt have to be hiding pretty darn well) because, well, again, all i've seen is dirt, and maybe you'll have something.
Odds are though, it's a waste of money.
Is there life out there, well, statistics suggest that with the number of stars and planets out there, one is bound to be in a proximity to a sun to support life. Wanna do something worthwile, how about perfectly super-fast space travel or super-telescopes. Mars is small potatoes and old news.
P.S. Hundreds of millions for 'coolness'? Please..how about we build a few kick ass schools and hospitals with that money.
-Tony
Then he should be trying to sell drugs to the phone company, they own the number.
-Tony
We'll just rename them the Green Lakes.
:-)
But really, how much of these lakes are we really using? They're nice to look at, we fish in them, but i'm sure we can quarantine a portion off for that. Other than that, i'm thinking they just sit there are don't contribute a lot to the GDP.
-Tony
The news article says: "but also may have received the order"
Since when does "may" mean it's confirmed? That's pretty vague.
I can do that too. I "may" be a millionaire in 5 years. I "may" get hit by lightning today.
News outlets love grabbing at straws, don't they.
-Tony
Does this mean that since product keys are widely available on the internet for licensed products, like MS office, XP, etc.. that product key use-protection is ineffective, and therefore it's ok for me to use them as much as i want?
How about buying a widely-availble automatic pick gun to break into someone's house? It's not trespassing then, right?
How stupid.
-Tony
scientists really don't have any kind of life, do they?
-Tony
hmm, they don't make plenum-coated mattresses?
-Tony
wouldn't this mean that Google disclosing their salaries to the SEC and the SEC in turn releasing them publically (or however the public finds out), violates Google's own NDA?
-Tony
what are they, new to the internet?? we make atrocious comments about people every hour on the hour. it's called freedom of speech.
-Tony
Your analogy is a tiny little bit flawed, based on my perspective. I think the purpose of the drivers is more for people that already bought the webcam, not for future people that are going to buy a webcam. And unless you do your research, a consumer wouldn't know that the win2k driver was buggy until they bought it.
He's not advocating the purchase of said cheap webcams (with buggy drivers) by developing these drivers.
-Tony
yeah, 'cause bluetooth works SOOO well
-Tony
I don't see how a criminal charge against him for a non-directed threatening essay doesn't violate his freedom of speech. If that was the case, everybody shouting at a protest would get charged for disorderly conduct no matter what.
And do they really think that 'charging' him rather than seeing if he needs help is the best way to go about this. Charging him with a crime won't do crap. If he needs help, this does nothing. It's like hitting your kid for being bad without understanding why he was bad or teaching him why he shouldn't do it.
-Tony
the only way their previous formula would hold true is if everybody in the zip code created a huge wireless network off the first customer's broadband wireless router. obviously not plausible as then everybody's connection wouldn't be at or above the 200 kb/s required to call it broadband.
i wonder if the percentage of usage that is deemed fraudulent (next door neighbor stealing your internet) will factor into any new formulas they come out with?
-Tony
i actually thought that was the 5th hole at the sea of tranquility course. an up and down with tons of moon dust traps. but you know, with the lack of gravity, you hit the ball off the 5th tee and it comes down on the fairway of the 10th hole.
as to the topic, superpowers will be superpowers (boys will be boys), i have a bigger ICBM than you, check out my anti-free-speech policy, i bet it kicks the butt out of yours. ego never ends.
think this would happen if the leaders of those countries were women? nuh uh.
-Tony
I wonder how online video will affect cable providers.
I'm sure online web sites like CNN, MSNBC, FOX News have gauged how much of viewership they lost on cable stations with the evolution of information via their web sites.
I wonder how much online video will change this?
-Tony
ANOTHER browser war? I didn't know the first one was over!
Wars are good, they bring competition, which drives innovation. (*)
(*) Exception: political parties
-Tony
How about the RIAA and the MPAA trying to get illegal audio and video off the net. Now that's a crime!
-Tony
the year of the rootkit huh, is that a new sign in the chinese zodiac/calendar?
"People born in the year of the rootkit are normally reserved quiet people, until you put them in the presence of financial software. Then they because frustrated and start spouting conspiracy theoreys as flashbacks of illegally installed software fill their heads. They are compatible with people born in the year of the presskit. They should avoid people born in the year of the messkit"
-Tony