Actually, I have a fairly high user ID because I didn't get an account right away. I probably read the posts for a couple of years before that. I didn't even know what Linux was until I saw that on ZDTV or something. They also had a show on/. K5 at the time. I used to read PC Magazine and Byte way before that. PC Mag began to really suck in my view at that time or should I say in hind sight that it did way before that.
I just tried Opera with a similar # of tabs open. Way different results. There may be a memory leak in the latest FireFox. I don't remember having this problem before, but I am using a few extensions now.
Man, I don't know why this is modded down. On windows it's true. Mine is 28 windows @ 211,788K. That's more than Outlook which is a big hog. I might just give Opera a try.
--What, like Cuba? They may be suffering, but last I check there were still there, doing business, living their lives free of US control. Sometimes freedom is more important than money..--
--Yeah, you can buy a bigger plasma TV or some high-end stereo or whatever, but if you end up in a job where an asshole demands your presence there 14 hours a day, and occasionally that you bring a sleeping bag and don't leave until he sees some program ready (yes, I've actually seen such an asshole)... you won't actually have the _time_ to actually _use_ those. You'll just have time to eat and flop into bed.--
Yes, time must also be figured in as well. It is more valuble than money because you only have a limited amount of time. Money can be replaced and time can't.
There is a pint of beer sitting on my desk waiting for the first person who can name a reasonably successful product or technology - past or present - which Microsoft pioneered.
"Microsoft Basic" for various platforms of the time before DOS. Oh wait, never mind.
--The modern M16 fires a 5.56x45mm NATO round, while the previous generation (original AR15 platform) used a.223 caliber Remington round.--
The 5.56x45mm IS the same dimensions as the.223 caliber Reminington round although the militaty round might be loaded a little hotter and have a heavier bullet now.
--I understand things like their search algorithim should be kept secret, but cripes why all the mystery?--
It's just marketing. Just like Coke has a secret formula, KFC has a secret recipe. It's there just to make you think they know something others don't and therefore that makes them better.
--Space is essentially the only frontier we have left, and I think humanity needs a frontier. The Earth is fully populated now, in the sense that only the very remotest regions remain unexplored and all regions are claimed.--
There is a large region on earth called the ocean that remains unexplored. There is life there as well.
--I find that if people look at simple statistics, they would see that not only is it possible, but we HAVE to be here (atleast if you subscribe to Hawkings POV), that is, if the universe is infinite, and time is infinite, then, no matter how small the statistical probability is (e.g. there is only a.00000000001% chance that evolution could work), that in an infinite system, it will STILL HAVE TO HAPPEN, no matter how small.--
Why would it still have to happen because the universe is infinite? Maybe it is infinate in some ways and finite in others. The rules governing it may in fact be finite.
Not trying to be an ID troll. I just have a question.
--PICARD: Considering the marvelous complexity of our universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, pattern, I believe our existence must mean more than a meaningless illusion. I prefer to believe that my and your existence goes beyond Euclidian and other "practical" measuring systems... and that, in ways we cannot yet fathom, our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.--
Very interesting. Many things cannot be proven or disproven without a way to perform an experiment or test of some sort. In the hearafter no one has came back to let us know if there is one that I have seen. ID can never be proven by experimentation by definition. Evolution has been proved on a certain scale until we find out more, but the one thing I'm sure of is that no one has all the answers.
--The solar system does not contain "the Sun and 9 planets" as so many of us incorrectly learned. Rather, it contains 6 families: a star, the rocky planets, the asteroid belt, the gas giant planets, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud. Each of these families shares common characteristics that are the basis for this classification. Pluto, and this new discovery, fit squarely in the Kuiper belt.--
What about the comets or does that fit in with the Oort cloud family or are they a 7th family?
On these clauses, do they mention specific companies or areas on which you couldn't compete? How is Google competition for Microsoft? Microsoft is a software company. Google makes most of it's income thru advertising.
Just curious about how this stuff works. Can one of the agreements say that if you quit you can't do any work for anyone? A contract for slavery shouldn't be valid anywhere.
--Ok Einstein, exactly how do you intend to get this non-stick coated paint to stick to the external tank?;)--
Although I didn't come up with this, there might be a good idea in there.
Why not eliminate the foam insulation and use Teflon on the exterior of the tank? Wouldn't this shed the ice before the Shuttle got up to a velocity where if it fell off it could cause damage?
--For Ex: part of the reason the first SpaceShipOne flight went swooping in corkscrews is because Rutan decided it didn't need a gimbaling engine. The one they installed was off alignment. Ooops.--
I guess that was a good decision on his part because the wing design would straighten the thing back out comming back in the atmosphere which they maybe didn't get out of very much. The X-15 had a service ceilng of about 67 miles and SpaceShipOne's is 69 miles.
--Lots of speed = lots of heat, and you need a way to shed it if you don't want to burn up. They've known that for years and it doesn't change just because you have a famous name and don't work for NASA.--
Agreed, however, some famous people have worked for NASA in the past as well. Wernher von Braun?
We'll I did say might on that one, but those SATA/ Raid drivers that Windows asks for is the only time I've use one in years. I don't think other Os's have this problem? I did make some recovery disks for my BIOS flashing once but never used them because all went well. If it didn't, would the same thing work from CD or for that matter a floppy or would you have to replace a BIOS chip?
--On the other hand, it is conceivable that people may die as a result of a virus in hospitals, for example.--
Please explain what you mean by this? Is this a comptuer virus or something like AIDS? Why would a computer system in the hospital that is this mission critical be connected to the internet in the first place?
--Clear and concise gets the job done, makes everyone more comfortable, and takes less time than thick marketing copy or 'vision statements.'--
Maybe as far as the customer is concerned this might be true, but with employees the mushroom treatment (keep you in the dark and feed you bullshit) seems to work best for management.
Divide and conquer is another one. No they don't want to explain in simple terms what is really going on because you wouldn't like that.
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Actually, I have a fairly high user ID because I didn't get an account right away. I probably read the posts for a couple of years before that. I didn't even know what Linux was until I saw that on ZDTV or something. They also had a show on /. K5 at the time. I used to read PC Magazine and Byte way before that. PC Mag began to really suck in my view at that time or should I say in hind sight that it did way before that.
I'm not complaining.
Most likely they would operate at a height above most of the storms.
I just tried Opera with a similar # of tabs open. Way different results. There may be a memory leak in the latest FireFox. I don't remember having this problem before, but I am using a few extensions now.
Man, I don't know why this is modded down. On windows it's true. Mine is 28 windows @ 211,788K. That's more than Outlook which is a big hog. I might just give Opera a try.
--What, like Cuba? They may be suffering, but last I check there were still there, doing business, living their lives free of US control. Sometimes freedom is more important than money..--
I wouldn't call living under Castro exactly free.
--Yeah, you can buy a bigger plasma TV or some high-end stereo or whatever, but if you end up in a job where an asshole demands your presence there 14 hours a day, and occasionally that you bring a sleeping bag and don't leave until he sees some program ready (yes, I've actually seen such an asshole)... you won't actually have the _time_ to actually _use_ those. You'll just have time to eat and flop into bed.--
Yes, time must also be figured in as well. It is more valuble than money because you only have a limited amount of time. Money can be replaced and time can't.
There is a pint of beer sitting on my desk waiting for the first person who can name a reasonably successful product or technology - past or present - which Microsoft pioneered.
"Microsoft Basic" for various platforms of the time before DOS. Oh wait, never mind.
--Worse, they could end up like Netscape. There was a lot of brainpower in that company too. It didn't save them.--
So smart were they, Netscape thought they could add 2+2 and get 5.
--The modern M16 fires a 5.56x45mm NATO round, while the previous generation (original AR15 platform) used a .223 caliber Remington round.--
.223 caliber Reminington round although the militaty round might be loaded a little hotter and have a heavier bullet now.
The 5.56x45mm IS the same dimensions as the
http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/223.html
--I understand things like their search algorithim should be kept secret, but cripes why all the mystery?--
It's just marketing. Just like Coke has a secret formula, KFC has a secret recipe. It's there just to make you think they know something others don't and therefore that makes them better.
I wonder if an animal could be made genetically altered to want to be eaten and would also say so? I nevere heard a vegetables opinion on this.
--Space is essentially the only frontier we have left, and I think humanity needs a frontier. The Earth is fully populated now, in the sense that only the very remotest regions remain unexplored and all regions are claimed.--
There is a large region on earth called the ocean that remains unexplored. There is life there as well.
--I predict a thousand comments on this story...easy.--
I predict 2000.
--I find that if people look at simple statistics, they would see that not only is it possible, but we HAVE to be here (atleast if you subscribe to Hawkings POV), that is, if the universe is infinite, and time is infinite, then, no matter how small the statistical probability is (e.g. there is only a .00000000001% chance that evolution could work), that in an infinite system, it will STILL HAVE TO HAPPEN, no matter how small.--
Why would it still have to happen because the universe is infinite? Maybe it is infinate in some ways and finite in others. The rules governing it may in fact be finite.
Not trying to be an ID troll. I just have a question.
--PICARD: Considering the marvelous complexity of our universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, pattern, I believe our existence must mean more than a meaningless illusion. I prefer to believe that my and your existence goes beyond Euclidian and other "practical" measuring systems... and that, in ways we cannot yet fathom, our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality.--
Very interesting. Many things cannot be proven or disproven without a way to perform an experiment or test of some sort. In the hearafter no one has came back to let us know if there is one that I have seen. ID can never be proven by experimentation by definition. Evolution has been proved on a certain scale until we find out more, but the one thing I'm sure of is that no one has all the answers.
I am good at teaching others self reliance. Does that make me a good teacher?
Same situation here. MetaMod working. Modding not working. Maybe someone will figure out why. Back to work now.
--The solar system does not contain "the Sun and
9 planets" as so many of us incorrectly learned. Rather, it contains 6 families: a star, the rocky planets, the asteroid belt, the gas giant planets, the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud. Each of these families shares common characteristics that are the basis for this classification. Pluto, and this new discovery,
fit squarely in the Kuiper belt.--
What about the comets or does that fit in with the Oort cloud family or are they a 7th family?
On these clauses, do they mention specific companies or areas on which you couldn't compete? How is Google competition for Microsoft? Microsoft is a software company. Google makes most of it's income thru advertising.
Just curious about how this stuff works. Can one of the agreements say that if you quit you can't do any work for anyone? A contract for slavery shouldn't be valid anywhere.
--Ok Einstein, exactly how do you intend to get this non-stick coated paint to stick to the external tank? ;)--
Although I didn't come up with this, there might be a good idea in there.
Why not eliminate the foam insulation and use Teflon on the exterior of the tank? Wouldn't this shed the ice before the Shuttle got up to a velocity where if it fell off it could cause damage?
Maybe this was tried before?
--For Ex: part of the reason the first SpaceShipOne flight went swooping in corkscrews is because Rutan decided it didn't need a gimbaling engine. The one they installed was off alignment. Ooops.--
I guess that was a good decision on his part because the wing design would straighten the thing back out comming back in the atmosphere which they maybe didn't get out of very much. The X-15 had a service ceilng of about 67 miles and SpaceShipOne's is 69 miles.
--Lots of speed = lots of heat, and you need a way to shed it if you don't want to burn up. They've known that for years and it doesn't change just because you have a famous name and don't work for NASA.--
Agreed, however, some famous people have worked for NASA in the past as well. Wernher von Braun?
Anyhow I like Rutan's wing design's.
We'll I did say might on that one, but those SATA/ Raid drivers that Windows asks for is the only time I've use one in years. I don't think other Os's have this problem? I did make some recovery disks for my BIOS flashing once but never used them because all went well. If it didn't, would the same thing work from CD or for that matter a floppy or would you have to replace a BIOS chip?
--If you ever need one of those floppy utils, most likely they will be found on the Ultimate boot CD.--
I've got only one reason to have a floppy. Onboard RAID drivers. When you do an XP pro install, XP will not accept anything but a floppy.
We'll maybe two. Flashing the mobo bios.
--On the other hand, it is conceivable that people may die as a result of a virus in hospitals, for example.--
Please explain what you mean by this? Is this a comptuer virus or something like AIDS? Why would a computer system in the hospital that is this mission critical be connected to the internet in the first place?
--Clear and concise gets the job done, makes everyone more comfortable, and takes less time than thick marketing copy or 'vision statements.'--
Maybe as far as the customer is concerned this might be true, but with employees the mushroom treatment (keep you in the dark and feed you bullshit) seems to work best for management.
Divide and conquer is another one. No they don't want to explain in simple terms what is really going on because you wouldn't like that.