Not having seen the data - and not being an astrophysicist, so the data would be meaningless to me anyway - I'm not prepared to argue any such estimates.
However, I always remember reading a few years ago about how some scientist DOUBLED the age of the universe just by thinking up a new theory to explain some anomaly about the current theory.
So I have to remember that next year, this estimate COULD be DOUBLED...
I suspect it will require Transhuman intelligence and a lot of research over the next few hundred or thousand years before something reasonably precise AND correct is reached in these areas.
Jesus being divine, OTOH, is total bullshit...Doesn't require anything more than a minimal comprehension of human nature to come to THAT conclusion with "five nines" confidence levels...
I forget why, but it got dumped off my machine pretty damn quick.
So I went back to Irfanview.
So Picasa is better than Irfanview exactly how?
Answer that question or forget about it.
For those who don't know what Irfanview can do, here is a partial list of features from their site:
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Many supported file formats Multi language support Thumbnail/preview option Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD) Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc. Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters Drag & drop support Fast directory view (moving through directory) Batch conversion (with image processing) Multipage TIF editing Email option Multimedia player Print option Change color depth Scan (batch scan) support Cut/crop IPTC editing Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.) Capturing Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs Lossless JPG rotation Many hotkeys Many command line options Many PlugIns Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired" No registry changes without user action/permission! and many more
By reading the tons of available texts on that subject (in the library if you can't afford to buy them) and by experimenting - which is the way most small businesess get started. Almost nobody starting a small business has business administration training.
In the case of PC tech support, you print up some business cards, some flyers, maybe a small brochure, and start handing them out. I put out maybe thirty flyers one Sunday over two hours (it was hot that day, so I called it a day early) - and got about 15 calls, out of which I got a half dozen clients - one or two of which have been repeat clients. EVERYBODY needs PC tech support - because, as Woody Allen put it years ago, "Nothing works and nobody cares." I may never get rich at this job, but I expect once I start pushing my marketing more, I'll at least pay my rent and expenses.
I'm still waiting for somebody to ask Melinda what she thinks about the direct quote from him in one of the bios about how MS can hire women for half the salary as men to do the grunt jobs "because they're only women."
OTOH, she was one of those women, and she married him, so obviously hypocrisy is one of her issues.
Fuck the corporations. Make them pay you to get something done, rather than working for them for peanuts and getting no respect in the process.
As long as we have "peons", we'll have corporations. Do away with being a peon, and the corporations will be forced to change.
Despite all the so-called "tech support" outsourcing, and despite all the hype about "remote access", most computer problems (and new development) require somebody on the ground at the site - or at least be able to speak English to the people involved for alonger period of time than three minutes. Outsourcing is just the usual corporate attempt to deliver no value at less cost to their bottom line. Typical management.
Fine - let them fuck up. The rest of us will take up the slack - for a nice piece of change.
"How do you think your traffic gets from point A to point B on the net, though? Routers."
Don't be obtuse - in that sense, EVERY crack (that wasn't entirely local) has been through a router - which would mean Cisco (and Nortel and Foundry, et al) should be banned from the Net...
Most home PCs do NOT use local routers (unless you count a DSL modem as a router - which technically I suppose it is, but that's irrelevant here, too.)
Most home users who DO use a cheapo router these days get not only NAT, but usually a stateful inspection firewall, and automatic detection and prevention of numerous DoS attacks. I was amazed when I read the list of features on a $25 Belkin 4-port switch/cable/DSL router I installed for a client a couple months back.
Makes me wonder why Cisco charges thousands for a box which is the equivalent of a 486 PC using a command line interface when you can buy a $25 box with a browser interface that has everything but custom ASICs in it...
As soon as someone produces a FireFox plugin that does that, someone who DOES know about malware will hoist an alarm - there or somewhere else.
"Granny" may never be aware of that, but I am. The point is that there is NO element of "trust" in either signatures or anything else related to the actual software. What counts is where you get the stuff from and who you listen to about it.
The poster to whom I responded said that signed controls provide verifiability - to whom? Granny? Maybe to me IF I bothered to check that stuff - maybe to an IT manager IF he bothers to check that stuff. Both are as unlikely as Granny checking it.
That makes the whole thing a waste of time.
Microsoft once issued a signed software object that was later subverted (IIRC) and then had to issue a statement telling everyone not to trust what they themselves had signed. So why should I believe ANY such procedure has any value?
"Sure. But you know the signer. And you agree to install it."
Right - and I agree to overeat and get fat, too..."Grandma" will install anything that prompts her to do so because she can't tell an OS prompt from a spyware prompt. So how the hell can she know the signer? Let alone trust him.
"Same is true for a firefox extension. By installing the extension, you're saying that you know and trust the originator of the extension."
Oh, hell no! I trust the fact that it came from a site that listed it that presumably checks to see if it will format my hard drive. Or that someone who has installed it will let everyone know there that it does that. Which is why I frequent Usenet groups like alt.comp.freeware - to get warnings about crap.
I clearly do NOT know the owner from Adam and I certainly don't "trust" him.
I run Linux AND Windows. What part of that don't you comprehend?
I'm NOT trying to RUN anything. I'm visiting a fucking Web site, okay? I don't like it when I use Opera and some fucktard tells me his site won't even be SHOWN to me because I don't use IE, and I equally don't like it when some Linux fucktard tells me I can't even VIEW his site because I "don't run Linux" when IN FACT I DO run Linux.
Get the picture now?
I download TONS of software from Linux sites for Linux using Opera running on Windows 2000. I even store it on a FAT32 partition under Windows 2000 until I can get around to booting Red Hat and moving it over to the Linux ext3 side of the machine.
This asshole is somehow different that I have to be using Linux to even view his site?
Bullshit. His site should be viewable in any half-way modern browser, period.
He's a moron - and if you can't grasp that, you're a moron, too.
If you were visiting this site with Linux, you could install thousands of applications simply with a klik. You can download a free copy of Linux here. Please come back with a standards compliant operating system and browser.
This site is optimized for Konqueror and Firefox."
I don't like this shit when it happens with IE and I don't like it when it happens with Linux.
Fortunately I use Red Hat, so it doesn't matter...
"a global temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable"
We Transhumans are going to render much of the world's inhabitants into a - shall we say - altered state long before that happens...
Seriously, people who predict events 100 years in the future WITHOUT taking into account the impact of technological development over that period are just looking like idiots.
"The humans are still on the run, but each time they come out of hyperspace, the Cylon armada catches up 33 minutes later... every 33 minutes. When we join the crew this has been going on for five days."
Humans obviously aren't as smart as Cylons...
If you haven't made a smart move in five days worth of 33 minute segments, you are gonna lose...
You Christians, Muslims, Jews, and assorted other religious assholes are all going to die.
We Transhumans aren't.
In fact, in all probability, we're going to have to kill you all - not just let you drop dead - courtesy of your inane opposition to our "ascension." The only way you're going to avoid this is if we ascend so far and so fast that we don't NEED to waste all you assholes.
Don't count on that happening.
And your moronic attempts to set back the development of technology are going to have absolutely no effect on this fact.
If you think Clinton started ANYTHING, you must have been born in 1990...
This shit has been going on since about five minutes after Washington became President...
During Shay's Rebellion, one of the Adams family who was Governor of Massachusetts suspended habeous corpus IIRC...
The basic nature of the state is to be imperialist and to constantly encroach on and destroy ANY freedom it can see. This has been true since the state was invented.
Ah, well, irrelevant to us Transhumans...as the Billy Joel song goes, "We didn't start the fire..."...but we're damn sure going to put it out.
I suppose it would be okay for the cops to sneak up on you and put a GPS up your ass because you have "no expectation of privacy on the street".
RTFA! The cops put a GPS tracking device on a PRIVATE vehicle WITHOUT A WARRANT!
What part of this don't you fascist cretins comprehend?
If they could just as easily have kept the lawyer (and this WAS a LAWYER they were following because they were after his CLIENTS!) under personal surveillance, then why didn't they do that? To save a few bucks? Or because they COULDN'T - so they used this trick to do it?
The same crap legal judgements have been made about cops using heat analyzers to surveil the inside of your house because "the heat goes outdoors".
You/. nerd-boys really are clueless about the state, aren't you? Bunch of fucking fascists.
Do me a favor, kiss George Bush's ass for me next time you're down around his anus...
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Not having seen the data - and not being an astrophysicist, so the data would be meaningless to me anyway - I'm not prepared to argue any such estimates.
However, I always remember reading a few years ago about how some scientist DOUBLED the age of the universe just by thinking up a new theory to explain some anomaly about the current theory.
So I have to remember that next year, this estimate COULD be DOUBLED...
I suspect it will require Transhuman intelligence and a lot of research over the next few hundred or thousand years before something reasonably precise AND correct is reached in these areas.
Jesus being divine, OTOH, is total bullshit...Doesn't require anything more than a minimal comprehension of human nature to come to THAT conclusion with "five nines" confidence levels...
If "God" speaks directly to me, he'd better be wearing a bulletproof vest...one that covers his head and his ass, too...
In fact, if ANY "Christian" (or for that matter, Jew or Muslim - but especially Christian) talks to me, he'd better be so equipped...
"consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro"
"Be Chinese", HP says...
I forget why, but it got dumped off my machine pretty damn quick.
So I went back to Irfanview.
So Picasa is better than Irfanview exactly how?
Answer that question or forget about it.
For those who don't know what Irfanview can do, here is a partial list of features from their site:
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Many supported file formats
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Drag & drop support
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and many more
By reading the tons of available texts on that subject (in the library if you can't afford to buy them) and by experimenting - which is the way most small businesess get started. Almost nobody starting a small business has business administration training.
In the case of PC tech support, you print up some business cards, some flyers, maybe a small brochure, and start handing them out. I put out maybe thirty flyers one Sunday over two hours (it was hot that day, so I called it a day early) - and got about 15 calls, out of which I got a half dozen clients - one or two of which have been repeat clients. EVERYBODY needs PC tech support - because, as Woody Allen put it years ago, "Nothing works and nobody cares." I may never get rich at this job, but I expect once I start pushing my marketing more, I'll at least pay my rent and expenses.
What else are you going to do? Move to India?
he could get laid in 1983...
I'm still waiting for somebody to ask Melinda what she thinks about the direct quote from him in one of the bios about how MS can hire women for half the salary as men to do the grunt jobs "because they're only women."
OTOH, she was one of those women, and she married him, so obviously hypocrisy is one of her issues.
Self-employment. That's my solution.
Fuck the corporations. Make them pay you to get something done, rather than working for them for peanuts and getting no respect in the process.
As long as we have "peons", we'll have corporations. Do away with being a peon, and the corporations will be forced to change.
Despite all the so-called "tech support" outsourcing, and despite all the hype about "remote access", most computer problems (and new development) require somebody on the ground at the site - or at least be able to speak English to the people involved for alonger period of time than three minutes. Outsourcing is just the usual corporate attempt to deliver no value at less cost to their bottom line. Typical management.
Fine - let them fuck up. The rest of us will take up the slack - for a nice piece of change.
Fuck "jobs". Work for yourself.
"How do you think your traffic gets from point A to point B on the net, though? Routers."
Don't be obtuse - in that sense, EVERY crack (that wasn't entirely local) has been through a router - which would mean Cisco (and Nortel and Foundry, et al) should be banned from the Net...
Most home PCs do NOT use local routers (unless you count a DSL modem as a router - which technically I suppose it is, but that's irrelevant here, too.)
Most home users who DO use a cheapo router these days get not only NAT, but usually a stateful inspection firewall, and automatic detection and prevention of numerous DoS attacks. I was amazed when I read the list of features on a $25 Belkin 4-port switch/cable/DSL router I installed for a client a couple months back.
Makes me wonder why Cisco charges thousands for a box which is the equivalent of a 486 PC using a command line interface when you can buy a $25 box with a browser interface that has everything but custom ASICs in it...
How about "pawned"?
Since none of the
(I can't wait for the "What's YOUR excuse?" responses...)
You completely missed my point.
As soon as someone produces a FireFox plugin that does that, someone who DOES know about malware will hoist an alarm - there or somewhere else.
"Granny" may never be aware of that, but I am. The point is that there is NO element of "trust" in either signatures or anything else related to the actual software. What counts is where you get the stuff from and who you listen to about it.
The poster to whom I responded said that signed controls provide verifiability - to whom? Granny? Maybe to me IF I bothered to check that stuff - maybe to an IT manager IF he bothers to check that stuff. Both are as unlikely as Granny checking it.
That makes the whole thing a waste of time.
Microsoft once issued a signed software object that was later subverted (IIRC) and then had to issue a statement telling everyone not to trust what they themselves had signed. So why should I believe ANY such procedure has any value?
"Sure. But you know the signer. And you agree to install it."
Right - and I agree to overeat and get fat, too..."Grandma" will install anything that prompts her to do so because she can't tell an OS prompt from a spyware prompt. So how the hell can she know the signer? Let alone trust him.
"Same is true for a firefox extension. By installing the extension, you're saying that you know and trust the originator of the extension."
Oh, hell no! I trust the fact that it came from a site that listed it that presumably checks to see if it will format my hard drive. Or that someone who has installed it will let everyone know there that it does that. Which is why I frequent Usenet groups like alt.comp.freeware - to get warnings about crap.
I clearly do NOT know the owner from Adam and I certainly don't "trust" him.
We already have these.
They're called "Marines"...
Well, okay, not so tiny...that was a reference to brain capacity, I assume...
Yeah, you just gotta love these /. highly educated technical nerd-boys...
Can't even respond to the right post...:-)
Look, moron...
I run Linux AND Windows. What part of that don't you comprehend?
I'm NOT trying to RUN anything. I'm visiting a fucking Web site, okay? I don't like it when I use Opera and some fucktard tells me his site won't even be SHOWN to me because I don't use IE, and I equally don't like it when some Linux fucktard tells me I can't even VIEW his site because I "don't run Linux" when IN FACT I DO run Linux.
Get the picture now?
I download TONS of software from Linux sites for Linux using Opera running on Windows 2000. I even store it on a FAT32 partition under Windows 2000 until I can get around to booting Red Hat and moving it over to the Linux ext3 side of the machine.
This asshole is somehow different that I have to be using Linux to even view his site?
Bullshit. His site should be viewable in any half-way modern browser, period.
He's a moron - and if you can't grasp that, you're a moron, too.
I didn't run anything. I went to the site to see what it was about.
Duh...
Heh,heh, you must be new here - there ARE NO funny remarks on
Er, read it while I happen to be using Windows?
Duh...
That's true, but the same thing happens if you run Opera and spoof your agent id, which is the problem here.
Of course, you never want to tell a site you're using Opera - then they pop up some crap telling you to use IE!
It's bullshit either way.
"Unsupported Operating System
If you were visiting this site with Linux, you could install thousands of applications simply with a klik. You can download a free copy of Linux here. Please come back with a standards compliant operating system and browser.
This site is optimized for Konqueror and Firefox."
I don't like this shit when it happens with IE and I don't like it when it happens with Linux.
Fortunately I use Red Hat, so it doesn't matter...
"a global temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable"
We Transhumans are going to render much of the world's inhabitants into a - shall we say - altered state long before that happens...
Seriously, people who predict events 100 years in the future WITHOUT taking into account the impact of technological development over that period are just looking like idiots.
in the series.
... every 33 minutes. When we join the crew this has been going on for five days."
"The humans are still on the run, but each time they come out of hyperspace, the Cylon armada catches up 33 minutes later
Humans obviously aren't as smart as Cylons...
If you haven't made a smart move in five days worth of 33 minute segments, you are gonna lose...
(In the immortal words of Don Rickles...)
You Christians, Muslims, Jews, and assorted other religious assholes are all going to die.
We Transhumans aren't.
In fact, in all probability, we're going to have to kill you all - not just let you drop dead - courtesy of your inane opposition to our "ascension." The only way you're going to avoid this is if we ascend so far and so fast that we don't NEED to waste all you assholes.
Don't count on that happening.
And your moronic attempts to set back the development of technology are going to have absolutely no effect on this fact.
Have a nice day.
If you think Clinton started ANYTHING, you must have been born in 1990...
This shit has been going on since about five minutes after Washington became President...
During Shay's Rebellion, one of the Adams family who was Governor of Massachusetts suspended habeous corpus IIRC...
The basic nature of the state is to be imperialist and to constantly encroach on and destroy ANY freedom it can see. This has been true since the state was invented.
Ah, well, irrelevant to us Transhumans...as the Billy Joel song goes, "We didn't start the fire..."...but we're damn sure going to put it out.
I suppose it would be okay for the cops to sneak up on you and put a GPS up your ass because you have "no expectation of privacy on the street".
RTFA! The cops put a GPS tracking device on a PRIVATE vehicle WITHOUT A WARRANT!
What part of this don't you fascist cretins comprehend?
If they could just as easily have kept the lawyer (and this WAS a LAWYER they were following because they were after his CLIENTS!) under personal surveillance, then why didn't they do that? To save a few bucks? Or because they COULDN'T - so they used this trick to do it?
The same crap legal judgements have been made about cops using heat analyzers to surveil the inside of your house because "the heat goes outdoors".
You
Do me a favor, kiss George Bush's ass for me next time you're down around his anus...