Thank you michael! It's always good to know we can count on you to do something completely ridiculous like allowing a 230KB JPEG to be linked from the front page. I'm sure the people that run the site will be more than happy to find they've suddenly used many magnitudes more bandwidth than they should have this month.
I'm glad to see the editors finally taking a stand against the stupidity that used to go on on this site.
These processors are going to be useless to photographers that develop their own film using computers. The film has to be processed in a dark environment, and a light-emitting processor could damage or even totally ruin delicate undeveloped photographs. However, with film photography going the way of the dinosaur due to the advances in digital photography, it probably won't matter too much.
Microsoft's original license wasn't much different than what SourceForge does since they regularly take source from program kept on their servers and use it in their own software, but since it's on the internet and never technically "distributed", they don't have to open their sources under the terms of the GPL. Maybe we should be looking at the problems and questionable practices in our own communities before questioning the practices of Microsoft, otherwise, we'll just look like hypcocrites.
How can you possibly believe in that evolutionary tripe? God created the Heavens and the Earth and mankind. The idea that we evolved from monkeys is offensive to even consider. This article in now way proves that evolution is possible because it was created with a specific goal of evolution in mind.
Besides, how can you can believe in evolution when it violates basic laws of the universe? There are so many arguments against evolution that it's ridiculous.
Even those that ignore the written record of humanity cannot ignore the scientific facts making it impossible.
Evolutionists claim that universe the earth is billions of years old, but how is that possible when the rotation of the earth slows by 30 seconds every century? If the earth were billions of years old the speed at which it would have been rotating four years ago would have been so fast that it could not have held together.
There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?
Another problem with evolution is that certain nucleic acids cannot form without the help of certain proteins, but those proteins cannot form without certain nucleic acids. That makes it impossible to occur naturally.
Face it, there are many, many more facts that I could go on about that disprove the possibility of evolution bringing about the human race. Humans are so complex biologically that we simply could not have come about through chance happenings in just 5000 years (rougly the age of the earth). Evolutionists simply spread lies.
Linux may have more attacks, but the most important thing is that both platforms are still very insecure. Luckily, it seems it's because of applications on the system rather than the OS itself.
I don't think either platform is for somebody who is really serious about security, though. Anyone who is serious is using some form of *BSD (FreeBSD being the most secure, of course, with OpenBSD right behind it).
Personally, if I were building a production-level machine, I would use one of those two rather than Linux or Windows if it at all possible. If everyone did the same, I'm sure the total number of attacks would decrease and we'd be overall more secure.
A large misconception about this game is that it's "free". When you consider the fact that it was paid for with our tax dollars, you can throw that idea out the window. This "game" only amounts to taxpayer funded propaganda by the US Army. This game is no more free than the money an elderly person receives for social security. The person's money was already taken away before it was given back.
And come to think about it, is it really such a good idea for the government to fund a game like this when it has yet to be decided by a court whether or not games have influenced school shootings and other killings by teenagers? If you ask me, this opens the government up to a huge number of potential lawsuits should anything ever happen.
Besides, who knows what kinds of hidden messages the Army could be putting in these games to influence the youth of America. I trust this "game" about as much as I trust a Micro$oft product: not at all!
People have been saying that we will run out of fossil fuels and giving the estimation of "50 years" for nearly 100 years now. However, due to increases in technology in the area of combustion engines that allow them to use less fuel for the same amount of propulsion and in the area of drilling that allow drillers to extract fuels in areas never thought possible, we've been able to continually extend this number.
It is highly unlikely that we will ever run out of fossil fuels on this planet when you consider a few facts:
1. Less fuel is being used due to engine technology. (As I mentioned.) 2. More fuel is being found because of drilling technologies. (As I also mentioned.) 3. Hybrid vehicles. We won't even need fossil fuels eventually, and it will happen long before there is a risk of running out of them.
So stop worrying! Just sit back, enjoy life, and stop thinking about running out of fossil fuels. It's not going to happen!
Yes, I still remember with horror the "good old" copy protections some amiga games compaines made. Non-dos disks that made the entire amiga shake as the disk drive desperately tried to read the crypted disk. The sound resembled snoring and could be heard miles away.
I had a friend who couldn't play some games late at night because the drive woke up his parents! Some games could not even be loaded on older drives because of the "shaking". In addition the disks also came with a nonstandard bootblock making all anti-virus software go mad and easy for viruses to destroy the game.
My drive finally gave up the ghost after a few years playing with them copyprotected games. The same fate happened to all my amiga friends at one point. Some were lucky to still have the commodore warranty still valid. Others had to fork out a fair amount.I was one of the lucky.
I myself, being a flightsim nut, used to play Falcon. Unfortunately it came with such a nifty copy protection that not even X-copy could make a backup. As a result I lost the game one day when the disk, despite good care, became corrupted. Unable to find a pirate copy I was (and still am) without a good game I paid honest money for. Sadly, I also bought F16 Combat pilot and the same thing happend to that one. Backup could not be made. The disk became corrupted....
Fortunately a friend of mine had a cracked version... I have yet to see a pirate suffer from a protection that is impossible to crack. The only suffering has been done by the owners of originals ( I am refering strictly to the owners of amiga non-dos copy protected games that were so common in those days).
These problems persist into today. Another friend of mine lost a hard drive and blames SafeDisc copy protection on a recent game for it.
So, can anyone here, with hand on heart, really say those copy protections did more good than harm?
Based on secondhand reports, it sounds to me as if IE7 is going to bring *major* advances in CSS support for Windows Internet Explorer. They're going to fix the box model, with bugwards compatibility handled via a DOCTYPE sniffing strategy similar to IE6/Mac's.
This is a hugely significant event for advocates of CSS. I'm eagerly looking forward to this, even though I don't plan on ever using Windows on a regular basis. Given Microsoft's ability to bulldoze Windows users into upgrading, we may soon have a world in which, for the first time ever, *the dominant Web browser* has good CSS support.
This could improve things for CSS in general even if we don't end up with the dreaded Microsoft-only world. Developers of *other* browsers will no longer be able to hide behind claims of industry-leader compatibility when releasing buggy CSS implementations.
Of course DOCTYPE sniffing is going to complicate the situation somewhat, since IE7 will still have a bugwards compatibility mode. I'm hoping that the existence of IE7 will cause enough people start intentionally invoking standards mode that other browser developers notice. While from a theoretical point of view DOCTYPE sniffing makes no sense--it's a pure hack--in practice it's a lot better than no standards mode at all, which is the only likely alternative.
Furthermore, my secondhand source also tells me that IE7 will finally bring full PNG support to IE. This is a major step ahead in InterNet graphics.
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speaking of the two towers, has anyone seen these sites?
Some guy wants to rename the movie because he says the movie is being named "The Two Towers" to mock the events of 9/11
Then he has support from this group who have a similar agenda.
Man, this is a screwed up world.
-EGP
Thank you michael! It's always good to know we can count on you to do something completely ridiculous like allowing a 230KB JPEG to be linked from the front page. I'm sure the people that run the site will be more than happy to find they've suddenly used many magnitudes more bandwidth than they should have this month.
I'm glad to see the editors finally taking a stand against the stupidity that used to go on on this site.
These processors are going to be useless to photographers that develop their own film using computers. The film has to be processed in a dark environment, and a light-emitting processor could damage or even totally ruin delicate undeveloped photographs. However, with film photography going the way of the dinosaur due to the advances in digital photography, it probably won't matter too much.
Microsoft's original license wasn't much different than what SourceForge does since they regularly take source from program kept on their servers and use it in their own software, but since it's on the internet and never technically "distributed", they don't have to open their sources under the terms of the GPL. Maybe we should be looking at the problems and questionable practices in our own communities before questioning the practices of Microsoft, otherwise, we'll just look like hypcocrites.
How can you possibly believe in that evolutionary tripe? God created the Heavens and the Earth and mankind. The idea that we evolved from monkeys is offensive to even consider. This article in now way proves that evolution is possible because it was created with a specific goal of evolution in mind.
Besides, how can you can believe in evolution when it violates basic laws of the universe? There are so many arguments against evolution that it's ridiculous.
Even those that ignore the written record of humanity cannot ignore the scientific facts making it impossible.
Evolutionists claim that universe the earth is billions of years old, but how is that possible when the rotation of the earth slows by 30 seconds every century? If the earth were billions of years old the speed at which it would have been rotating four years ago would have been so fast that it could not have held together.
There's also the second law of thermodynamics to look at. It states that the universe is constantly heading toward disorder. Evolution violates that law, so which one is right?
Another problem with evolution is that certain nucleic acids cannot form without the help of certain proteins, but those proteins cannot form without certain nucleic acids. That makes it impossible to occur naturally.
Face it, there are many, many more facts that I could go on about that disprove the possibility of evolution bringing about the human race. Humans are so complex biologically that we simply could not have come about through chance happenings in just 5000 years (rougly the age of the earth). Evolutionists simply spread lies.
Linux may have more attacks, but the most important thing is that both platforms are still very insecure. Luckily, it seems it's because of applications on the system rather than the OS itself.
I don't think either platform is for somebody who is really serious about security, though. Anyone who is serious is using some form of *BSD (FreeBSD being the most secure, of course, with OpenBSD right behind it).
Personally, if I were building a production-level machine, I would use one of those two rather than Linux or Windows if it at all possible. If everyone did the same, I'm sure the total number of attacks would decrease and we'd be overall more secure.
A large misconception about this game is that it's "free". When you consider the fact that it was paid for with our tax dollars, you can throw that idea out the window. This "game" only amounts to taxpayer funded propaganda by the US Army. This game is no more free than the money an elderly person receives for social security. The person's money was already taken away before it was given back.
And come to think about it, is it really such a good idea for the government to fund a game like this when it has yet to be decided by a court whether or not games have influenced school shootings and other killings by teenagers? If you ask me, this opens the government up to a huge number of potential lawsuits should anything ever happen.
Besides, who knows what kinds of hidden messages the Army could be putting in these games to influence the youth of America. I trust this "game" about as much as I trust a Micro$oft product: not at all!
Please, just avoid this propaganda at all costs.
People have been saying that we will run out of fossil fuels and giving the estimation of "50 years" for nearly 100 years now. However, due to increases in technology in the area of combustion engines that allow them to use less fuel for the same amount of propulsion and in the area of drilling that allow drillers to extract fuels in areas never thought possible, we've been able to continually extend this number.
It is highly unlikely that we will ever run out of fossil fuels on this planet when you consider a few facts:
1. Less fuel is being used due to engine technology. (As I mentioned.)
2. More fuel is being found because of drilling technologies. (As I also mentioned.)
3. Hybrid vehicles. We won't even need fossil fuels eventually, and it will happen long before there is a risk of running out of them.
So stop worrying! Just sit back, enjoy life, and stop thinking about running out of fossil fuels. It's not going to happen!
Yes, I still remember with horror the "good old" copy protections some amiga games compaines made. Non-dos disks that made the entire amiga shake as the disk drive desperately tried to read the crypted disk. The sound resembled snoring and could be heard miles away.
I had a friend who couldn't play some games late at night because the drive woke up his parents! Some games could not even be loaded on older drives because of the "shaking". In addition the disks also came with a nonstandard bootblock making all anti-virus software go mad and easy for viruses to destroy the game.
My drive finally gave up the ghost after a few years playing with them copyprotected games. The same fate happened to all my amiga friends at one point. Some were lucky to still have the commodore warranty still valid. Others had to fork out a fair amount.I was one of the lucky.
I myself, being a flightsim nut, used to play Falcon. Unfortunately it came with such a nifty copy protection that not even X-copy could make a backup. As a result I lost the game one day when the disk, despite good care, became corrupted. Unable to find a pirate copy I was (and still am) without a good game I paid honest money for. Sadly, I also bought F16 Combat pilot and the same thing happend to that one. Backup could not be made. The disk became corrupted....
Fortunately a friend of mine had a cracked version... I have yet to see a pirate suffer from a protection that is impossible to crack. The only suffering has been done by the owners of originals ( I am refering strictly to the owners of amiga non-dos copy protected games that were so common in those days).
These problems persist into today. Another friend of mine lost a hard drive and blames SafeDisc copy protection on a recent game for it.
So, can anyone here, with hand on heart, really say those copy protections did more good than harm?
Based on secondhand reports, it sounds to me as if IE7 is going to bring *major* advances in CSS support for Windows Internet Explorer. They're going to fix the box model, with bugwards compatibility handled via a DOCTYPE sniffing strategy similar to IE6/Mac's.
This is a hugely significant event for advocates of CSS. I'm eagerly looking forward to this, even though I don't plan on ever using Windows on a regular basis. Given Microsoft's ability to bulldoze Windows users into upgrading, we may soon have a world in which, for the first time ever, *the dominant Web browser* has good CSS support.
This could improve things for CSS in general even if we don't end up with the dreaded Microsoft-only world. Developers of *other* browsers will no longer be able to hide behind claims of industry-leader compatibility when releasing buggy CSS implementations.
Of course DOCTYPE sniffing is going to complicate the situation somewhat, since IE7 will still have a bugwards compatibility mode. I'm hoping that the existence of IE7 will cause enough people start intentionally invoking standards mode that other browser developers notice. While from a theoretical point of view DOCTYPE sniffing makes no sense--it's a pure hack--in practice it's a lot better than no standards mode at all, which is the only likely alternative.
Furthermore, my secondhand source also tells me that IE7 will finally bring full PNG support to IE. This is a major step ahead in InterNet graphics.