Y2K should have been fixed, since we had enough memory, and foresight to see the problem. How many machines and software is in our landfills now because of it?
What about the doomsday for UNIX. Isn't that in about 2036 [or there abouts], when the time just runs out, in UNIX's own Y2K bug?
If we haven't upgraded our systems by then to the next OS, I'll eat my hat. [I suppose a lot of developers ate their hats too two years ago.]
What happens when a person listening has their cell phone go off, but it is set to vibrate? Is that their cue to say, "chirp-chirp"?
I wish they'd make cell phones with little bells in them, so they could sound like phones did 25 years ago. Those bells are much more pleasent than today's "chirp-chirp"!
Do a search on google.com for "hard drive recovery". If the government wants your data bad enough, a screwdriver and a magnet is about all that can save you. Your point that they will not likely try if you make things difficult is correct for the average file pirate.
Remember the crumby Halloween ep about the 3D Homer? That was the lamest they made. They spent too much time worrying about technically producing it, and not on a funny story.
If they base this movie on one or few story lines, they better be based on satire of something. The Simpsons are at their best when they are making fun of Hippies, Tobacco, Lawyers, Hucksters, Evil super villans, and violence on TV. I think they could even introduce a new villan, something like Hank Scorpio.
Acording to some of the modding here, Simpsons would be modded redundant, instead of funny. What is up with Trolls who mod redundant material down? Why not just mod the good stuff up.
Everytime I see the 'Shin'ing now, the REAL one, I can't help but laugh about it because of the Simpsons. That is how you know you are seeing some serious humour, when it has the power to overcome something scary, or dry as is the case with Shakespearean spoofs.
There is a career fair in 2 days, and I need to update my resume. Seems kind of early to be applying for jobs in the Summer, in the Fall, but whatever those companies want to do, I guess...
I once got the Sircam virus mailed to me, with a report card of a little boy in WA. I thought of contacting the parents of the child to let them know the irresponsibility of the teacher, but then I let it slide. [By the way, I infected my test machine on purpose to read the document.]
Another time I know someone who was accused of sending a virus. Another case of mistaken identity, which was fixed by ignoring the accuser. Of course that may not work with this CEO which should be informed they are wrong.
I keep hearing about "voluntary interaction", yet it is proven that smokers do not due so voluntarily. I know many who try to quit, and yet they have an involuntary impulse to go buy more. That doesn't sound like the free economy you speak of, and which I am actually in favour of.
Space exploration is fair game, not coercion. If the space lobby is stronger than the stupid tobacco lobby, then it wins society's support, and we will be better off because of it. I'd rather choke on rocket smoke of an explorer than 2nd hand smoke from an addict.
...Didn't work with the default installation, like they did in Windows. Does anyone have some advice on how I can get drivers from the Internet, and make them available to my Linux system so I can try to load them. And how do I even load the drivers?
Will 9.0 have better support for my NIC and soundcard which are cheap knockoffs I guess?
The example you provided my point is just what I needed to make people see how silly it is that we are not going to the moon. You would rather have toxic substances for all than to learn what is to be found by going to the moon.
Well you can sit in your home with your cigarettes to keep you company, while you waste society's resources on selfish pursuits.
I will be exploring other worlds, and while I will still be using resources, mine will prove new points. Yours will just make you another smoking statistic.
NASA does not have many people left with actual experience for manned missions to an extra terrestrial body, including a landing and takeoff. Why would we invest in what is a long shot, when we have a moon shot staring at us every night. The factors in Mars' favour you listed are certainly worth considering, but it is not practical yet. We can do lots on the moon to get much needed experience for this generation, and hopefully carry that over to Mars. We can set up telescopes on the Moon, and explore for water. We don't have to have a colony to start out with. Cripes, humans haven't set foot on a solid object we didn't create, in more than 24 years. Why start with distant Mars, to re-learn the ropes?
Any good scientific discovery, has to be able to be recreated by others. When the Europeans or others find that the moon is not made of cheese too, then we will confirm the American's experiments. It makes you wonder though, whe I read that cheese prices nearly doubled in 1970.;-)
I agree, the point is to unify humans, and if possible to learn something ultra cool in the process, besides the fact that peace is cool.
Also there are practical uses for moon based technology, such as telescopes, and a new camp X-ray for Taliban prisoners. This time the name will have meaning.
Well I am in favour of humans returning to the moon. Society has put so many resources into making space travel more reliable and cheaper than it was over 30 years ago, so the true cost to society isn't nearly as much as the ney-sayers claim it is. If they are looking to feed the hungry, then they can take the money from the industries that truely don't benefit mankind, like the tobacco industry, and leave our space programs to improve our knowledge of the universe.
The possibilites of a new moon shot are endless. Everything from corporate sponsorship [put your ad on the Moon first...], to scientific, to personal interest. We can have telescopes that are unhindered by earth's atmosphere, and studies done on how we can construct a successful colony on another world. We would be foolish to try first on Mars, where the chance of rescue, or delivering supplies is a pain in the butt.
Best of all, another Moon race might make people excited about space exploration again. Enterprise is great, but it is hard to imagine us ever developing warp, much less walking on the moon again when governments are setting a Mars exploration mission before a Moon one.
I hope this bounty doesn't apply to Grandma sending email jokes to the family, a dozen times, because she wouldn't stop double clicking the send button? If it does, then Grandma is going to make me rich.
Like I said, you only want the higher resolutions if you want to see all the details of the crud on an object at 30 meters. Otherwise 1600X1200 is just fine, and fills up the removable storage fast enough. Personally, I don't want to spend $100US on every additional 256meg card that I would need to use instead of the ONE I have, and can use nicely on a weekend vacation to New York.
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Y2K should have been fixed, since we had enough memory, and foresight to see the problem. How many machines and software is in our landfills now because of it?
I too don't see the point of a car that can break the speed limit by so much. I mean, what good is that anyway?
What about the doomsday for UNIX. Isn't that in about 2036 [or there abouts], when the time just runs out, in UNIX's own Y2K bug?
If we haven't upgraded our systems by then to the next OS, I'll eat my hat. [I suppose a lot of developers ate their hats too two years ago.]
This may be redundant text, but it is formatted better than the previous copy/paste on this discussion. Mod it up.
What happens when a person listening has their cell phone go off, but it is set to vibrate? Is that their cue to say, "chirp-chirp"?
I wish they'd make cell phones with little bells in them, so they could sound like phones did 25 years ago. Those bells are much more pleasent than today's "chirp-chirp"!
Do a search on google.com for "hard drive recovery".
If the government wants your data bad enough, a screwdriver and a magnet is about all that can save you.
Your point that they will not likely try if you make things difficult is correct for the average file pirate.
Remember the crumby Halloween ep about the 3D Homer? That was the lamest they made. They spent too much time worrying about technically producing it, and not on a funny story.
If they base this movie on one or few story lines, they better be based on satire of something. The Simpsons are at their best when they are making fun of Hippies, Tobacco, Lawyers, Hucksters, Evil super villans, and violence on TV. I think they could even introduce a new villan, something like Hank Scorpio.
Hey Man! Simpsons is thataway -->
As for P2P, I hope we can continue to share music illegally for as long as I'm alive.
OP, did you modify my signature? If you did, that is cool.
Think of the cameos!
Won't someone please think of the CAMEOS!
Acording to some of the modding here, Simpsons would be modded redundant, instead of funny. What is up with Trolls who mod redundant material down? Why not just mod the good stuff up.
Everytime I see the 'Shin'ing now, the REAL one, I can't help but laugh about it because of the Simpsons. That is how you know you are seeing some serious humour, when it has the power to overcome something scary, or dry as is the case with Shakespearean spoofs.
There is a career fair in 2 days, and I need to update my resume. Seems kind of early to be applying for jobs in the Summer, in the Fall, but whatever those companies want to do, I guess...
I once got the Sircam virus mailed to me, with a report card of a little boy in WA. I thought of contacting the parents of the child to let them know the irresponsibility of the teacher, but then I let it slide. [By the way, I infected my test machine on purpose to read the document.]
Another time I know someone who was accused of sending a virus. Another case of mistaken identity, which was fixed by ignoring the accuser. Of course that may not work with this CEO which should be informed they are wrong.
I keep hearing about "voluntary interaction", yet it is proven that smokers do not due so voluntarily. I know many who try to quit, and yet they have an involuntary impulse to go buy more. That doesn't sound like the free economy you speak of, and which I am actually in favour of.
Space exploration is fair game, not coercion. If the space lobby is stronger than the stupid tobacco lobby, then it wins society's support, and we will be better off because of it. I'd rather choke on rocket smoke of an explorer than 2nd hand smoke from an addict.
...Didn't work with the default installation, like they did in Windows. Does anyone have some advice on how I can get drivers from the Internet, and make them available to my Linux system so I can try to load them. And how do I even load the drivers?
Will 9.0 have better support for my NIC and soundcard which are cheap knockoffs I guess?
The example you provided my point is just what I needed to make people see how silly it is that we are not going to the moon.
You would rather have toxic substances for all than to learn what is to be found by going to the moon.
Well you can sit in your home with your cigarettes to keep you company, while you waste society's resources on selfish pursuits.
I will be exploring other worlds, and while I will still be using resources, mine will prove new points. Yours will just make you another smoking statistic.
Thanks for answering my question about Bob. Now I can sleep, knowing he is alive and making people feel embarassed still.
NASA does not have many people left with actual experience for manned missions to an extra terrestrial body, including a landing and takeoff. Why would we invest in what is a long shot, when we have a moon shot staring at us every night. The factors in Mars' favour you listed are certainly worth considering, but it is not practical yet. We can do lots on the moon to get much needed experience for this generation, and hopefully carry that over to Mars. We can set up telescopes on the Moon, and explore for water. We don't have to have a colony to start out with. Cripes, humans haven't set foot on a solid object we didn't create, in more than 24 years. Why start with distant Mars, to re-learn the ropes?
You mean like Camp X-Ray-Gamma-Ray for Taliban, and really, really bad corporate frauds?
Any good scientific discovery, has to be able to be recreated by others. When the Europeans or others find that the moon is not made of cheese too, then we will confirm the American's experiments. It makes you wonder though, whe I read that cheese prices nearly doubled in 1970. ;-)
I agree, the point is to unify humans, and if possible to learn something ultra cool in the process, besides the fact that peace is cool.
Also there are practical uses for moon based technology, such as telescopes, and a new camp X-ray for Taliban prisoners. This time the name will have meaning.
Well I am in favour of humans returning to the moon. Society has put so many resources into making space travel more reliable and cheaper than it was over 30 years ago, so the true cost to society isn't nearly as much as the ney-sayers claim it is. If they are looking to feed the hungry, then they can take the money from the industries that truely don't benefit mankind, like the tobacco industry, and leave our space programs to improve our knowledge of the universe.
The possibilites of a new moon shot are endless. Everything from corporate sponsorship [put your ad on the Moon first...], to scientific, to personal interest. We can have telescopes that are unhindered by earth's atmosphere, and studies done on how we can construct a successful colony on another world. We would be foolish to try first on Mars, where the chance of rescue, or delivering supplies is a pain in the butt.
Best of all, another Moon race might make people excited about space exploration again. Enterprise is great, but it is hard to imagine us ever developing warp, much less walking on the moon again when governments are setting a Mars exploration mission before a Moon one.
I hope this bounty doesn't apply to Grandma sending email jokes to the family, a dozen times, because she wouldn't stop double clicking the send button?
If it does, then Grandma is going to make me rich.
Don't you hate it when moderators abuse their power, and criticize the criticizers of the criticizers? I'm with you man!
"640K is enough for anyone," afterall a famous person once agreed with you.
Like I said, you only want the higher resolutions if you want to see all the details of the crud on an object at 30 meters. Otherwise 1600X1200 is just fine, and fills up the removable storage fast enough. Personally, I don't want to spend $100US on every additional 256meg card that I would need to use instead of the ONE I have, and can use nicely on a weekend vacation to New York.