Let me be the first to set up an 'anti-bounty' that will pay $300000 to anyone who can name the Doom virus creator but promises not to tell SCO. I'll be setting up a pay pal account shortly to start receiving donations to this fund.
And just to decimate my karma even more, I would remind anyone who is inclined to think of America as an unusually heroic military force that they have never won a significant military victory without superior numbers or equipment. I don't believe any other nation in history has that distinction.
On the other side of the globe at the time, an out numbered and out gunned US Navy and Marine Corps defeated the other third of the Axis powers: Japan. The most critical battle of the war, Midway, the US Carrier fleet out numbered 3:4 by Japan's Carrier fleet, and about 5:1 with the respect to the rest of their fleet. Yet the US pulled out a victory. One of the US carriers, the Yorktown I do beleive, had barely limped into Pearl Harbor, had three months worth of repair work slapped on in 48 hours, and had been thrown into the fray. As horrible as the battles of Iwo Jima was, the US inflicted a 3:1 kill to loss ratio on the defenders.
Against Japan, the US forces held their own despite the fact that the Pacific theatre had taken a back seat to the European theatre until Germany had been defeated.
I ran through a similar system at dell.com (3.06 GHZ, 5112 MB of RAM, top of the line video card) and the whole thing came in at under $2000. There are a lot of things that Apple does better, but price / performance ratio is not of of them.
one of the primary causes of it was the massive sense of resentment and anger on the part of the German people towards the nations that had defeated them so soundly during the first World War.
The problem was that Germany wasn't soundly defeated in WWI. The only thing that kept the western front from collapsing in 1918 was the timely arrival of American Troops. Germany had already eliminated Russia from the picture, and they were preparing to finish off the French when peace came. What happened was that the blockade, designed to starve out Germany, did just that. It was because of a food shortage that Germany was forced to surrender. Because the troops on the front lines didn't feel like they were defeated, many Germans returned home in disgrace with no idea why they had lost. They needed someone to blame. It was this kind of thinking that provided Hitler et al. minds that would be willing to listen to his garbage.
I'll check again, but I think bubble sort runs in O(N^2) time. The pseudocode is like this:
list bubble-sort(list L) int n = size(L) for int i = 1 to n for int j = 1 to n-1 if(L[j] > L[j+1]) swap(L[j], L[j+1])
The theory being that you go through the list one item at a time, and if that item is greater than the item after it, you swap them and move on to the next item. That happens N-1 times, and since a single item will move at most N-1 times (from, say, the end of the list to the start of the list), we have a running time of O(n^2 + 2n + 1) time, which we simplify to O(n^2) time.
Now if we could only do that with religion, there'd be fewer needless deaths in the world.
Right, because we all know that the only thing religion is good for is to convince people to go out and kill each other. I don't know if you're living under a rock, but religions do a lot of things that are good for people, like distributing food to the needy, and running countless charities that feed, clothe, and shelter people most of us wouldn't have the time of day for. Even for non-needy people, they run a lot of support groups and such that really help people that sure as hell wouldn't get any secular funding.
When someone goes out and kills someone else in the name of their god, it's the person who is sick, not the religion. The Bible and Koran both can be interpreted as either messages of peace, or messages of war.
"First I emptied the checking account and then I hit the mall, and there in the window was this sexy little outfit, and oh my gosh, I just had to have it!
Fifteen hundred dollars for a leather bustier?
I didn't care, it lifts and separates. Heh.
Plus, it's not like I'm actually paying for it. Hehehe, ah."
That's actually one of the reasons that ISPs are sticking up. One of the main perks of having broadband to Joe User is that he can get media content (IE, MP3s) much much faster than with dial-up. If the RIAA makes it loud and obvious that you will probally get sued by sharing MP3s, then Joe User won't share MP3s and cancel his $40 / month broadband and go back to $15 / month dialup, since dialup is enough for mail and html surfing.
Do you really think that Verizon or any other ISP gives a damn about their user's privacy? They'd rather just give the RIAA everything and be free of the legal hastle, but with thousands if not millions of subscribers on the line, they'll be willing to fight it out to the last.
In the US, you cannot own property if you're a minor. Until you're 18, every dime you earn at a job belongs to you parents. Every thing you think you own belongs to your parents. Everyone I know in high school who got their own car with their own money had to have a parent co-sign on the registration. You essentially have zero rights in this country until you're of 18 years of age. The only rights you have are the right to medical care, the right not to be abused, the right for an education, and the right for food and shelter. Other than that you have nothing.
Good thing that I've never bought a copy of linux, nor will I ever. Hey Darl! How about I give you 20...no, wait 40 percent of all the money I've spent on linux, as a way of me saying thanks for the 'innovation' you've brought to that product.
Way back in the day when England was first made Protestent, they faced the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain Frequently, not to even mention the frequent troubles with scotland. So, in order to have a large force of trained Crossbowmen ready for action, they made it a law that you have to practice Archery / Crossbow for two hours after Church on Sundays. Lazy polititicans have never bothered to take this law off the books (although right now I have an image of what would have happenend had Germany invaded England during WWII...Ambushes involving Grenade-tipped Anti-tank Crossbow bolts)
Worst case: The UN decides to take over the internet.
First, they have to pass a resolution to decide to take over the internet. 2-3 years at best.
Next, they need to set up a committee that will decide upon the best way to do this. Countries will argue about who gets to be on this comittee and so forth. 3-4 years.
Next, the Comittee will decide upon how to control all the world's routers and connections going between countries. Every time they are about to release a plan, some piss-ant podunk country who isn't on the committee will object to this plan and vow not to allow the UN to touch their internet connection. (Even though this conncection is little more than a 28.8 dialup to the neighboring superpower). 7-8 years before they work out a proposal that won't piss anybody off
We then realize that the end proposal may seem strict but is so badly done that it's about as effective as the maginot line. IE, there are no porn sights offering material to countries that forbid it, but there are pleanty of p0rn sights.
Here's how you do it: First, select which company it is from the first chart. Then apply any of the modifier from the second chart. Roll a d20. If you can beat that DC, then we like that company. If you fail, you hate that company.
Comanies:
SCO: DC 30
IBM: DC 10
Microsoft: DC 20
Amazon: DC 15
MPAA / RIAA: DC 30
Apple (If you use Macs): DC 5
Apple (otherwise) : DC 15
RedHat: DC 5
Disney: DC 15
US Government: DC 20
Other Government: DC 10
Modifiers:
Is switching to linux: -20
Is switching from linux: +15
Is going after Microsoft: -10
_____ vs. SCO : -20
Files a BS patent: +10
Is being investigated by the US government for anti-trust or Fraud: -5
In this case, we have IBM, a DC 10 check. We add a +10 Filing BS patent modifier, and we realize that we'll have to roll a natural 20 to make this check. I rolled a 18, so while I come close to supporting them, I just can't and decide to waste a bunch of my time making these charts instead.
Is IBM evil now, or still good. I need someone to root for in the whole SCO thing, but now that they're pulling patent BS like amazon, I don't know what I should do.
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Let me be the first to set up an 'anti-bounty' that will pay $300000 to anyone who can name the Doom virus creator but promises not to tell SCO. I'll be setting up a pay pal account shortly to start receiving donations to this fund.
On the other side of the globe at the time, an out numbered and out gunned US Navy and Marine Corps defeated the other third of the Axis powers: Japan. The most critical battle of the war, Midway, the US Carrier fleet out numbered 3:4 by Japan's Carrier fleet, and about 5:1 with the respect to the rest of their fleet. Yet the US pulled out a victory. One of the US carriers, the Yorktown I do beleive, had barely limped into Pearl Harbor, had three months worth of repair work slapped on in 48 hours, and had been thrown into the fray. As horrible as the battles of Iwo Jima was, the US inflicted a 3:1 kill to loss ratio on the defenders.
Against Japan, the US forces held their own despite the fact that the Pacific theatre had taken a back seat to the European theatre until Germany had been defeated.
I ran through a similar system at dell.com (3.06 GHZ, 5112 MB of RAM, top of the line video card) and the whole thing came in at under $2000. There are a lot of things that Apple does better, but price / performance ratio is not of of them.
We see an aged Jar Jar, who is now the leader of the Gungans, on Naboo celebrating with the people of Naboo and the Gungans.
For god's sake, JarJar was the one thing I hated the most out of the new movies. Don't trash the origionals by bringing him here as well.
well, if the software engineers can prevent those core dumps from happening, we shouldn't need them.
The problem was that Germany wasn't soundly defeated in WWI. The only thing that kept the western front from collapsing in 1918 was the timely arrival of American Troops. Germany had already eliminated Russia from the picture, and they were preparing to finish off the French when peace came. What happened was that the blockade, designed to starve out Germany, did just that. It was because of a food shortage that Germany was forced to surrender. Because the troops on the front lines didn't feel like they were defeated, many Germans returned home in disgrace with no idea why they had lost. They needed someone to blame. It was this kind of thinking that provided Hitler et al. minds that would be willing to listen to his garbage.
I'll check again, but I think bubble sort runs in O(N^2) time. The pseudocode is like this:
The theory being that you go through the list one item at a time, and if that item is greater than the item after it, you swap them and move on to the next item. That happens N-1 times, and since a single item will move at most N-1 times (from, say, the end of the list to the start of the list), we have a running time of O(n^2 + 2n + 1) time, which we simplify to O(n^2) time.
Right, because we all know that the only thing religion is good for is to convince people to go out and kill each other. I don't know if you're living under a rock, but religions do a lot of things that are good for people, like distributing food to the needy, and running countless charities that feed, clothe, and shelter people most of us wouldn't have the time of day for. Even for non-needy people, they run a lot of support groups and such that really help people that sure as hell wouldn't get any secular funding.
When someone goes out and kills someone else in the name of their god, it's the person who is sick, not the religion. The Bible and Koran both can be interpreted as either messages of peace, or messages of war.
Damn you. I just spend 10 minutes trying to decrypt goatse.cx
They're probally just used to living in Soviet Russia, where bad project terminates you.
"First I emptied the checking account and then I hit the mall, and there in the window was this sexy little outfit, and oh my gosh, I just had to have it! Fifteen hundred dollars for a leather bustier? I didn't care, it lifts and separates. Heh. Plus, it's not like I'm actually paying for it. Hehehe, ah."
Do you really think that Verizon or any other ISP gives a damn about their user's privacy? They'd rather just give the RIAA everything and be free of the legal hastle, but with thousands if not millions of subscribers on the line, they'll be willing to fight it out to the last.
In the US, you cannot own property if you're a minor. Until you're 18, every dime you earn at a job belongs to you parents. Every thing you think you own belongs to your parents. Everyone I know in high school who got their own car with their own money had to have a parent co-sign on the registration. You essentially have zero rights in this country until you're of 18 years of age. The only rights you have are the right to medical care, the right not to be abused, the right for an education, and the right for food and shelter. Other than that you have nothing.
Did anyone else notice that he used the first 6 prime numbers for numbering his list? Damn, I feel like a geek now
It will, just wait for Timothy's dupe
Good thing that I've never bought a copy of linux, nor will I ever. Hey Darl! How about I give you 20...no, wait 40 percent of all the money I've spent on linux, as a way of me saying thanks for the 'innovation' you've brought to that product.
Way back in the day when England was first made Protestent, they faced the threat of invasion from Catholic France and Spain Frequently, not to even mention the frequent troubles with scotland. So, in order to have a large force of trained Crossbowmen ready for action, they made it a law that you have to practice Archery / Crossbow for two hours after Church on Sundays. Lazy polititicans have never bothered to take this law off the books (although right now I have an image of what would have happenend had Germany invaded England during WWII...Ambushes involving Grenade-tipped Anti-tank Crossbow bolts)
You shouldn't have punched out the "Gore" chad then
I think there's a point where we need to stop making rules and just let natural selection take over.
First, they have to pass a resolution to decide to take over the internet. 2-3 years at best.
Next, they need to set up a committee that will decide upon the best way to do this. Countries will argue about who gets to be on this comittee and so forth. 3-4 years.
Next, the Comittee will decide upon how to control all the world's routers and connections going between countries. Every time they are about to release a plan, some piss-ant podunk country who isn't on the committee will object to this plan and vow not to allow the UN to touch their internet connection. (Even though this conncection is little more than a 28.8 dialup to the neighboring superpower). 7-8 years before they work out a proposal that won't piss anybody off
We then realize that the end proposal may seem strict but is so badly done that it's about as effective as the maginot line. IE, there are no porn sights offering material to countries that forbid it, but there are pleanty of p0rn sights.
There already is a object oriented version of COBOL. It's called "Cobol equals Cobol plus one"
Comanies:
SCO: DC 30
IBM: DC 10
Microsoft: DC 20
Amazon: DC 15
MPAA / RIAA: DC 30
Apple (If you use Macs): DC 5
Apple (otherwise) : DC 15
RedHat: DC 5
Disney: DC 15
US Government: DC 20
Other Government: DC 10
Modifiers:
Is switching to linux: -20
Is switching from linux: +15
Is going after Microsoft: -10
_____ vs. SCO : -20
Files a BS patent: +10
Is being investigated by the US government for anti-trust or Fraud: -5
In this case, we have IBM, a DC 10 check. We add a +10 Filing BS patent modifier, and we realize that we'll have to roll a natural 20 to make this check. I rolled a 18, so while I come close to supporting them, I just can't and decide to waste a bunch of my time making these charts instead.
Is IBM evil now, or still good. I need someone to root for in the whole SCO thing, but now that they're pulling patent BS like amazon, I don't know what I should do.
We still need Microsoft Linux, so we'll be safe for a while.
"If you want assault rifles, join the army. We have lots of them" - General Clark (I think)