What I can't figure out is how people are having problems figuring out BIONC
Is there a way to install it to a Linux box without the GUI? I'm running the old client on a number of servers, none of which have X Window System, and at least the last time I checked, I couldn't figure out how to install BOINC on them.
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Mythbusters' test assumes firing at an angle, and that the bullet leaves the barrel, travels through air for some distance, then hits the water at that angle.
That's because common sense tells that that is the not only the worst case scenario, but also the most likely. Why would the swimmer dive down right below the shooter? That would make absolutely no sense at all.
As shown in the previous link, a perpendicular strike through water causes uniform bullet expansion, not fragmentation.
There's absolutely no proof of that. The guy was shooting plastic jugs, ferchrissakes!
That's where you are wrong. The standard of living in the U.S. (of everyone who counts) is much higher than anywhere else. Those studies you refer to are off because they mistakenly factor in the general population.
Please tell me you are whoring for a +1 Funny mod. Please. No one can be that stupid.
And the main reason people have nothing is because they have lost it or proven themselves incapable of acquiring it through actions of their own.
Like children of poor families who can't even afford to go to school? Poverty is a vicious circle.
Socialism doesn't necessary have to mean that people are given liquor money. It can also mean free or inexpensive health care, food, schooling and accommodation as basic rights to everyone. Ideally, a social society would only make sure that a) no one needs to die because of poverty and b) everyone has a realistic chance to work their way towards a better life. How do you go about finding a job if you can't even afford clean clothes? It's so much easier to shout "it's their own fault" than to take actual responsibility.
Your way is definitely elegant, but my way is quick and to the point - and my example, the questions don't change - and if it was a one time thing, they would never change.
And this just shows your lack of experience. Here are some of the lessons I've learned in the past few years working extensively with databases and web apps:
1. Things always change, even when everyone things they won't.
2. Things always change, even when everyone is 100 % certain they won't.
3. Things simply change. Companies get bought, you get bought, your web site grows, your web site changes, in Soviet Russia your website changes you.
4. Quick n' dirty hacks will haunt you until you fix them.
5. The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to fix them quick n' dirty hacks.
6. You're married to whatever software you write. No matter if you wrote it 5 or 10 years ago, working for some obscure company in another state. Once your quick n' dirty hack needs fixing, your phone WILL ring.
I understand what you are saying, but I still disagree.
You say that "they can and _do_ manipulate people", but I would like to reduce that to "they _try_ to manipulate people". But everyone does that! Companies advertise and women lie, but that doesn't make them psychopaths. A psychopath's influence is something a lot deeper. The one I encountered didn't even seem to care if his actions had repercussions, even if he always tried to arrange things so that he couldn't be prosecuted, for example. It is very hard to imagine a company could have the same kind of influence on people that psycopaths have to the ones close to them.
It is indeed possible that companies CAN act very irresponsibly, and in many cases even cause people to die. Corporations are run by people, and it is very much possible that an actual psycho gets in the helm of one. But to say that it is the goal of every company is simply not true.
Corporations are supposed to be basically psychopaths, in the medical sense of the world. And most of the successful ones aren't just supposed, but actually act that way. (Though it should also be said that it's not established if you can apply the term literally to such an entity. They do show all the symptoms, though, so for the sake of this discussion it will have to do.)
Having worked for a diagnosed psycopath for many years (luckily, I got rid of him on my own, some of my ex-coworkers are still popping pills and seeing a psychatrist on a regular basis), I think you are wrong. What you are describing is insensitivity, which is something very different.
A psychopath is extremely skilled at reading people. He forms a circle of people who he uses his mind control techniques on. He becomes almost a messianic figure, often having the skill to make other people do things they normally wouldn't do, being very good at finding out just what strings to pull. I.e., "we're the good guys, who cares if we bend the rules a bit", "i'll make you a star!" or maybe "if you play with me, you'll become a very rich man!" and so on.
In my case, among other things, my boss made me believe there is such a shortage of jobs for people like me, that if I left my job, I'd never find another one. My wake-up call was when I at some point noticed that I was suspecting that everyone around me were trying to take advantage of me, as if they all were liars. I even started to find it hard to trust the people who had been close to me all my life, including my own mother. In other words, this person had made me paranoid, something that is very uncharacteristic of me. I eventually found a new job first, then left my resignation during his summer holiday - that's how scared of him I was at that point.
I don't think it's possible for any company to have that kind of influence on people.
Microsoft has a documented history of deliberately, maliciously and completely unnecessarily breaking compatability with competitors' products.
The article you linked to claims that there was code in Windows 3.1 BETA, *not* the release version, which checked if it was being run under a DOS other than the MS-DOS. Which actually makes sense - why would MS want to beta test their software on someone else's platform, which has its own bugs, that they have no control over. I'm sorry, but I fail to see the great big evil here.
Even more fuel to the parent's fire regarding news bias.;-)
Maybe you should actually read some articles about the OS.
I'm not the OP, but I have read numerous articles on Windows Vista, and I just fail to be excited by "better security" (whatever that means, less bugs?) or better integration with TV cards (or "media center capabilities"). Faster startup would be nice, but not nice enough to pay the big $$$.
The truth of the matter is that for most people the OS is just what they use to launch apps and games. They could care less about the underlying technologies.
Oh, I don't, know, maybe the new OS they're planning on releasing next year called Windows Vista? Perhaps? The new Internet Explorer? The new Windows Media Player? The new Hotmail? The new MSN Search?
Oh come on... Each new Windows version is almost exactly like the previous one, which everyone knows already, and Vista offers absolutely nothing that would insterested the general public. IE? Tabbed browsins years after every other browser has had it. Media Player? More DRM. Hotmail? Yet another mail app. MSN Search? Yet another search app.
Actually it's three measures of gin, one of vodka and a drop of vermouth. You're thinking of something completely different.
In most bars if you order a vodka martini, you'll simply get a martini which has gin replaced with vodka. But I prefer a different version, which is 1/2 dry martini and 1/2 vodka. Dry martini is 2/3 dry gin and 1/3 vermouth, so for geeks I think that makes the drink 1/2 vodka, 1/3 gin and 1/6 vermouth. When you're drunk, you'll just do a martini and then add an equal amount of vodka in the shaker. Just as with almost any drink, there are about a gazillion recipes for it.
But they have a pretty good recipe for a Vodka Martini.
You need a recipe for it? It's simply 50 % of high quality vodka and 50 % Martini. Add a big green olive and you are done. It's one of my favorite drinks, and I've never been laughed at by a bartender when I've ordered one.
I'll swap you your rations of food and water for a Linux CD. Nice one. While you are dehydrating and starving sucking on your CD I'll be living it up on your food and water.
Since when are they mutually exclusive? First you load the truck full of water and food, then you put your laptop and a few extra batteries on top of the pile. Why not prepare in every possible way?
Your complaints about poor management, though, are spot-on. That is the telltale of a bad company. If you realize that the management is dumb, get the hell out.
I don't see the not letting the new kid fresh out of school handle the reinstallation of an important production server as a sign of stupidity, though.
You know you charge too much on royalties when even Micro$oft thinks it's high.
Are you suggesting Microsoft made its money by spending?
The $6 - $8 per user, per month in TFA doesn't sound much to me, given that the labels are the ones providing all the content, and MS would only publish it. Typical retail margins are 5 - 20 %, and that's when you are running a shop, not just a bunch of big hard drives. If MS wants more than that, then they are being greedy and exploiting other peoples' work. But then they have a long history at that.
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And, of course, Denmark is only slightly smaller than the USA...
Is there a way to install it to a Linux box without the GUI? I'm running the old client on a number of servers, none of which have X Window System, and at least the last time I checked, I couldn't figure out how to install BOINC on them.
That's because common sense tells that that is the not only the worst case scenario, but also the most likely. Why would the swimmer dive down right below the shooter? That would make absolutely no sense at all.
As shown in the previous link, a perpendicular strike through water causes uniform bullet expansion, not fragmentation.
There's absolutely no proof of that. The guy was shooting plastic jugs, ferchrissakes!
I think asking the maintainer of Archie to remove popular films from searches would be closer.
Mythbusters had ballistics gel at different distances in a swimming pool. You link to a page about a guy shooting plastic water jugs. WTF?
Please tell me you are whoring for a +1 Funny mod. Please. No one can be that stupid.
Or an odd few other things...
Like children of poor families who can't even afford to go to school? Poverty is a vicious circle.
Socialism doesn't necessary have to mean that people are given liquor money. It can also mean free or inexpensive health care, food, schooling and accommodation as basic rights to everyone. Ideally, a social society would only make sure that a) no one needs to die because of poverty and b) everyone has a realistic chance to work their way towards a better life. How do you go about finding a job if you can't even afford clean clothes? It's so much easier to shout "it's their own fault" than to take actual responsibility.
And this just shows your lack of experience. Here are some of the lessons I've learned in the past few years working extensively with databases and web apps:
1. Things always change, even when everyone things they won't.
2. Things always change, even when everyone is 100 % certain they won't.
3. Things simply change. Companies get bought, you get bought, your web site grows, your web site changes, in Soviet Russia your website changes you.
4. Quick n' dirty hacks will haunt you until you fix them.
5. The longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to fix them quick n' dirty hacks.
6. You're married to whatever software you write. No matter if you wrote it 5 or 10 years ago, working for some obscure company in another state. Once your quick n' dirty hack needs fixing, your phone WILL ring.
I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that this coincides with the release of Novell SUSE Linux 10.0.
in that particular case I feel Microsoft has done nothing wrong.
You say that "they can and _do_ manipulate people", but I would like to reduce that to "they _try_ to manipulate people". But everyone does that! Companies advertise and women lie, but that doesn't make them psychopaths. A psychopath's influence is something a lot deeper. The one I encountered didn't even seem to care if his actions had repercussions, even if he always tried to arrange things so that he couldn't be prosecuted, for example. It is very hard to imagine a company could have the same kind of influence on people that psycopaths have to the ones close to them.
It is indeed possible that companies CAN act very irresponsibly, and in many cases even cause people to die. Corporations are run by people, and it is very much possible that an actual psycho gets in the helm of one. But to say that it is the goal of every company is simply not true.
Having worked for a diagnosed psycopath for many years (luckily, I got rid of him on my own, some of my ex-coworkers are still popping pills and seeing a psychatrist on a regular basis), I think you are wrong. What you are describing is insensitivity, which is something very different.
A psychopath is extremely skilled at reading people. He forms a circle of people who he uses his mind control techniques on. He becomes almost a messianic figure, often having the skill to make other people do things they normally wouldn't do, being very good at finding out just what strings to pull. I.e., "we're the good guys, who cares if we bend the rules a bit", "i'll make you a star!" or maybe "if you play with me, you'll become a very rich man!" and so on.
In my case, among other things, my boss made me believe there is such a shortage of jobs for people like me, that if I left my job, I'd never find another one. My wake-up call was when I at some point noticed that I was suspecting that everyone around me were trying to take advantage of me, as if they all were liars. I even started to find it hard to trust the people who had been close to me all my life, including my own mother. In other words, this person had made me paranoid, something that is very uncharacteristic of me. I eventually found a new job first, then left my resignation during his summer holiday - that's how scared of him I was at that point.
I don't think it's possible for any company to have that kind of influence on people.
An old and tired troll.
The article you linked to claims that there was code in Windows 3.1 BETA, *not* the release version, which checked if it was being run under a DOS other than the MS-DOS. Which actually makes sense - why would MS want to beta test their software on someone else's platform, which has its own bugs, that they have no control over. I'm sorry, but I fail to see the great big evil here.
I did and it appears that most of the web pages found claim it's a false myth.
I'm not the OP, but I have read numerous articles on Windows Vista, and I just fail to be excited by "better security" (whatever that means, less bugs?) or better integration with TV cards (or "media center capabilities"). Faster startup would be nice, but not nice enough to pay the big $$$.
The truth of the matter is that for most people the OS is just what they use to launch apps and games. They could care less about the underlying technologies.
Oh come on... Each new Windows version is almost exactly like the previous one, which everyone knows already, and Vista offers absolutely nothing that would insterested the general public. IE? Tabbed browsins years after every other browser has had it. Media Player? More DRM. Hotmail? Yet another mail app. MSN Search? Yet another search app.
In other words, who cares.
That's because you didn't read the goals. They were behind a link, so I'm not sure if they qualify as TFA.
In most bars if you order a vodka martini, you'll simply get a martini which has gin replaced with vodka. But I prefer a different version, which is 1/2 dry martini and 1/2 vodka. Dry martini is 2/3 dry gin and 1/3 vermouth, so for geeks I think that makes the drink 1/2 vodka, 1/3 gin and 1/6 vermouth. When you're drunk, you'll just do a martini and then add an equal amount of vodka in the shaker. Just as with almost any drink, there are about a gazillion recipes for it.
You need a recipe for it? It's simply 50 % of high quality vodka and 50 % Martini. Add a big green olive and you are done. It's one of my favorite drinks, and I've never been laughed at by a bartender when I've ordered one.
Since when are they mutually exclusive? First you load the truck full of water and food, then you put your laptop and a few extra batteries on top of the pile. Why not prepare in every possible way?
I don't see the not letting the new kid fresh out of school handle the reinstallation of an important production server as a sign of stupidity, though.
Are you suggesting Microsoft made its money by spending?
The $6 - $8 per user, per month in TFA doesn't sound much to me, given that the labels are the ones providing all the content, and MS would only publish it. Typical retail margins are 5 - 20 %, and that's when you are running a shop, not just a bunch of big hard drives. If MS wants more than that, then they are being greedy and exploiting other peoples' work. But then they have a long history at that.