So, for fertility they talk about being able to know when it's "time to try". What happened to the patented "early and often" method? This is not an improvement.
I don't know, I might prefer a nuclear blast over the EMP scenario. This novel has the strange overtones, such as the forward, but it's an interesting and scary prospect.
It probably won't be noticed by most home-users but if I were still an admin, I would want to deploy W7 for the simple reason that it has a useful shell integrated. W7 includes PowerShell 2.0 and it is indeed pretty cool. I use Mac and Linux on my own but those are generally not an option in the workplace, in regard to the desktop. Microsoft has been trying to replicate the stability of Unix for years but just fairly recently, they've finally been getting around to trying to replicate the usefulness of the CLI.
Everybody thought the movie "The Blob" was fiction. Well, it wasn't. Now, with global warming, the blob has thawed. My suggestion is... stock up on fire extinguishers.
You are saying that we have not evolved since the pyramids were built? That we couldn't build precision buildings of that scale today? We could build better pyramids today (including hot and cold running water, electricity, etc) and all without working tens of thousands of slaves to death in the process. In fact, I believe there is one in Las Vegas, but that's just a single example.
Evolution is hardly an unproven and untrue theory. Also, children are not taught to just "believe it and that's final", they are shown how it works and, in a proper setting, are encouraged to question the it. If they get ridiculed, it's because those ridiculing them cannot think for themselves or just choose not to. That is more a function of culture, not of education.
The term "mystical science" that you use, attempts to lead people into thinking that what you're describing is nonsense. However, there is far more scientific (that's the testable kind) evidence to support evolution and the age of the universe than there is to prove what most religions teach (morals aside).
Our knowledge is an evolving thing. True, we don't know everything right now but scientific methods are what will allow us to discover and learn more. Religion is a short-circuit of thought. Religion encourages us not to think, indeed to "know", without thinking. Should this be taught in schools? Absolutely not. What should be taught in schools is how to think, not what some think the answer is. If we do that, math books would only have odd-numbered questions and no explanation of how to get to the answers in the back of the book. Anyone asking how to come up with the answers would just be told that mathematics works in mysterious ways, have faith in the answer.
This is not a new idea, just a twist to attempt to make a profit. I recall the idea being implemented in an old school DOS virus back in the late 80's / early 90's (can't remember the name).
The old virus wrote the FAT table to memory and then deleted any copies from the disk. It then gave the user three choices, like a shell game. If the correct choice was made (there was only one), the virus would write the FAT back to disk and then remove itself. If the wrong choice was made, the virus rebooted the PC, thus making it extremely difficult to get your files back in one piece.
Dude, are you kidding me? You know that stuff would be covered in grease in no time, probably voiding the warranty on the plasma display. Not to mention making the chrome look like complete shit. It would be way more trouble than it's worth.
They hardly give everything away. Advertising pays for most of what they "give away".
The day may come when they charge a nominal fee for gmail with 10GB of space for instance. I doubt that would kill them but it would probably make them evil in the eyes of some. In fact, many already think gmail is evil just because it shows advertisements based on keywords in ones e-mail messages.
It's been said before, but publicly traded companies have an obligation to make a profit. Many people, especially in the open-source community tend to look down on that. It's the "we used to get that for free, you're evil for charging us" attitude.
Google will probably get there, they can't give everything away. However, they seem to be trying to do things the right way and that's all we can ask for.
Sure, people will lose their jobs and be held accountable. However, just like in the rest of the government and much of the business world, the people being held responsible are not the ones truly at fault; just scapegoats.
Well, no one in the Bush Whitehouse listened to him about the threat from Al Quaeda before the 9/11 attacks, so why would Microsoft bother to listen to him.
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So, for fertility they talk about being able to know when it's "time to try". What happened to the patented "early and often" method? This is not an improvement.
I don't know, I might prefer a nuclear blast over the EMP scenario. This novel has the strange overtones, such as the forward, but it's an interesting and scary prospect.
Well, in this case, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I run Linux in a VM on the mini and keep my home Splunk instance running on that.
Dude, I just picked one of these up at Wal Mart.
Holy Shit! This sounds like the plot (fore-story) to an AquaMan movie.
It probably won't be noticed by most home-users but if I were still an admin, I would want to deploy W7 for the simple reason that it has a useful shell integrated. W7 includes PowerShell 2.0 and it is indeed pretty cool. I use Mac and Linux on my own but those are generally not an option in the workplace, in regard to the desktop. Microsoft has been trying to replicate the stability of Unix for years but just fairly recently, they've finally been getting around to trying to replicate the usefulness of the CLI.
Everybody thought the movie "The Blob" was fiction. Well, it wasn't. Now, with global warming, the blob has thawed. My suggestion is ... stock up on fire extinguishers.
Typical Microsoft, they embraced when they should have extended.
I remember those days man. That was pure-d qualita entertainment.
You are saying that we have not evolved since the pyramids were built? That we couldn't build precision buildings of that scale today? We could build better pyramids today (including hot and cold running water, electricity, etc) and all without working tens of thousands of slaves to death in the process. In fact, I believe there is one in Las Vegas, but that's just a single example. Evolution is hardly an unproven and untrue theory. Also, children are not taught to just "believe it and that's final", they are shown how it works and, in a proper setting, are encouraged to question the it. If they get ridiculed, it's because those ridiculing them cannot think for themselves or just choose not to. That is more a function of culture, not of education. The term "mystical science" that you use, attempts to lead people into thinking that what you're describing is nonsense. However, there is far more scientific (that's the testable kind) evidence to support evolution and the age of the universe than there is to prove what most religions teach (morals aside).
Our knowledge is an evolving thing. True, we don't know everything right now but scientific methods are what will allow us to discover and learn more. Religion is a short-circuit of thought. Religion encourages us not to think, indeed to "know", without thinking. Should this be taught in schools? Absolutely not. What should be taught in schools is how to think, not what some think the answer is. If we do that, math books would only have odd-numbered questions and no explanation of how to get to the answers in the back of the book. Anyone asking how to come up with the answers would just be told that mathematics works in mysterious ways, have faith in the answer.
At first I thought "a ray of hope?" but then I realized that they will just obtain the information illegally anyway.
This is not a new idea, just a twist to attempt to make a profit. I recall the idea being implemented in an old school DOS virus back in the late 80's / early 90's (can't remember the name).
The old virus wrote the FAT table to memory and then deleted any copies from the disk. It then gave the user three choices, like a shell game. If the correct choice was made (there was only one), the virus would write the FAT back to disk and then remove itself. If the wrong choice was made, the virus rebooted the PC, thus making it extremely difficult to get your files back in one piece.
I always liked that one.
Hell, look at Poker. It hasn't changed in a very long time and people are playing it now more than ever.
Here, all this time I thought that those G-Men were just clean cut, straw hat wearing good guys. My world is shattered.
Oh well, back to Vice City.
Dude, are you kidding me? You know that stuff would be covered in grease in no time, probably voiding the warranty on the plasma display. Not to mention making the chrome look like complete shit. It would be way more trouble than it's worth.
Don't sweat it. Your just not a graphics geek, that's all.
They hardly give everything away. Advertising pays for most of what they "give away".
The day may come when they charge a nominal fee for gmail with 10GB of space for instance. I doubt that would kill them but it would probably make them evil in the eyes of some. In fact, many already think gmail is evil just because it shows advertisements based on keywords in ones e-mail messages.
It's been said before, but publicly traded companies have an obligation to make a profit. Many people, especially in the open-source community tend to look down on that. It's the "we used to get that for free, you're evil for charging us" attitude.
Google will probably get there, they can't give everything away. However, they seem to be trying to do things the right way and that's all we can ask for.
Broadband over Power Lines (usually BPL, my bad)
http://www.nwfusion.com/details/6121.html
How about if you just pony up like the rest of us. You won't get "always on" for $5/month in the foreseeable future.
When BOPL starts getting rolling, maybe overall prices will go down because of competition but I doubt they'll go as low as you'd like.
Nasty and dirty? Ooooh!
Sure, people will lose their jobs and be held accountable. However, just like in the rest of the government and much of the business world, the people being held responsible are not the ones truly at fault; just scapegoats.
Well, no one in the Bush Whitehouse listened to him about the threat from Al Quaeda before the 9/11 attacks, so why would Microsoft bother to listen to him.
Ahh! Chicks don't play that game. Hence, you just get a bunch of male geeks that want to see chicks riding BMX bikes around topless.