your opinion of Folding@Home appears to be directly contradicted by their faq. They claim to be completely non-profit and make all their results publicly availible. I can't vouch on their actually making good on these promises though. Do you have sources to back up your claims about their nefarious intentions?
That's no excuse though, when quoting grammatically incorrect text, you're supposed to insert a [sic] marker to indicate that the error was in the orignal.
While I agree SCO needs to be "smacked down", I don't think that will solve the problem of frivolous lawsuits. SCO's lawyers need to be disbarred. They're the real criminals here. They've known for some time that they had no evidence, yet they continue to drag things out. I don't know what the requirements on getting someone disbarred are, but this should be one of them. Making an example of these lawyers is the real way to prevent it from happening again. Failing companies will always want to roll the dice with lawsuits like this, it's their lawyers' responsibility to tell them they have no case.
Christians (myself included) believe that offer has been made and that "email" has been sent in the form of the Bible. So I'll pose a question to you: If God spoke directly to you, what would it take for you to accept it? If God touched your life, would you dismiss it as a random chance or a "spoof"? There are certainly logical ways do dismiss any such sign from God if your heart is set against it. I've recently come to believe that this is the reason that faith is the standard that God sets for us, because logic and understanding will always ultimately be nothing more than rationalizations of what we feel to be true in our hearts one way or the other.
While what you say is possibly true of current day Africans, I don't think it holds for people of African descent in the US. African-Americans have been through hundreds of years of breeding and selection for back-breaking physical labor. African slaves in America died if they didn't work well enough. As sad as this is, I think it probably makes it impossible to tell the significance of their African ancestors to the current makeup of African-Americans.
Umm, there's an entire genre of programming languages where the program is considered a single big expression. It's called functional programming. For example, see http://www.haskell.org/aboutHaskell.html in the "What is functional programming?" section. The fact that an expression might be boolean wouldn't make such a programming language any less expressive since all integer and character operations are ultimately just optimized combinations of bitwise operations. This is particularly true since the purpose of the language in question is to express boolean predicates concerning whether or not a particular system infringes on the patented system's design.
Just because the information is in my body somewhere doesn't mean I can access it during an exam. Otherwise I'd have gotten perfect scores on every exam. My point is that you just need to prohibit DNA reader devices, then all the DNA cheat sheets in the world won't help you any more than all the Spanish I've learned helped me during the exams...
I can think of a reason why: what if someone wrote a thunderbird extension that instead of blocking the loading of images, loaded the images 100 times. for successive spams that link to images on the same domain or ip load the images 1000 times, 10000 times, etc. If enough people had this extension it could really work. (And get us all thrown in jail, but that's beside the point).
OK so that's probably not the reason that the grandparent was loading the images, I don't know what he was thinking.
I definitely look fondly on the days of zoning out of math class and programming my TI-83 not too long ago. It was definitly a cool way expose some "non-programmer" friends to the idea of programming. Possibly a way to widen the appeal for today's students is to expose them to some programming toolkits for cell phone platforms. With that, you definitely broaden your appeal from "math students" to "all students".
It seems like most medical findings are "open-source", that you can read about them in journals, but the actual cost to produce a medicine is usually very prohibitive.
Are you serious, just because you can read about them in journals doesn't mean the medicine isn't patented. That's what patents are for: encouraging people to publish what they would have kept a trade-secret by guaranteeing them a monopoly for a limited time. The prohibitive cost comes from the patent, not the actual production of the medicine.
Unfortunately, the position is appointed and not elected, so it's not like we're going to get rid of him as easily as voting someone else into office instead.
Are you serious? The fact that it's an appointed position is the only reason the whole bank of judges wasn't as incompetent has him. At least judges have time to at least read what they're working on. The people who pass these laws are so busy keeping their eyes on the polls that they make this guy look enlightened.
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your opinion of Folding@Home appears to be directly contradicted by their faq. They claim to be completely non-profit and make all their results publicly availible. I can't vouch on their actually making good on these promises though. Do you have sources to back up your claims about their nefarious intentions?
dude, get off your ass and finish up your campaign website!!
Please do not post links to porn sites, we're trying to have a civilized discussion here...
That's a part of the article quoting someone else
That's no excuse though, when quoting grammatically incorrect text, you're supposed to insert a [sic] marker to indicate that the error was in the orignal.
While I agree SCO needs to be "smacked down", I don't think that will solve the problem of frivolous lawsuits. SCO's lawyers need to be disbarred. They're the real criminals here. They've known for some time that they had no evidence, yet they continue to drag things out. I don't know what the requirements on getting someone disbarred are, but this should be one of them. Making an example of these lawyers is the real way to prevent it from happening again. Failing companies will always want to roll the dice with lawsuits like this, it's their lawyers' responsibility to tell them they have no case.
and 276K when minimized.
not sure about OSX or X versions, but gvim 6.2 on windows 2000 takes up 5,136K.
like this one?
Christians (myself included) believe that offer has been made and that "email" has been sent in the form of the Bible. So I'll pose a question to you: If God spoke directly to you, what would it take for you to accept it? If God touched your life, would you dismiss it as a random chance or a "spoof"? There are certainly logical ways do dismiss any such sign from God if your heart is set against it. I've recently come to believe that this is the reason that faith is the standard that God sets for us, because logic and understanding will always ultimately be nothing more than rationalizations of what we feel to be true in our hearts one way or the other.
While what you say is possibly true of current day Africans, I don't think it holds for people of African descent in the US. African-Americans have been through hundreds of years of breeding and selection for back-breaking physical labor. African slaves in America died if they didn't work well enough. As sad as this is, I think it probably makes it impossible to tell the significance of their African ancestors to the current makeup of African-Americans.
Umm, there's an entire genre of programming languages where the program is considered a single big expression. It's called functional programming. For example, see http://www.haskell.org/aboutHaskell.html in the "What is functional programming?" section. The fact that an expression might be boolean wouldn't make such a programming language any less expressive since all integer and character operations are ultimately just optimized combinations of bitwise operations. This is particularly true since the purpose of the language in question is to express boolean predicates concerning whether or not a particular system infringes on the patented system's design.
is too!!
Just because the information is in my body somewhere doesn't mean I can access it during an exam. Otherwise I'd have gotten perfect scores on every exam. My point is that you just need to prohibit DNA reader devices, then all the DNA cheat sheets in the world won't help you any more than all the Spanish I've learned helped me during the exams...
Oh, they will... You can expect a letter from my lawyer.
or you could read that here:
a w.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20fl
I can think of a reason why: what if someone wrote a thunderbird extension that instead of blocking the loading of images, loaded the images 100 times. for successive spams that link to images on the same domain or ip load the images 1000 times, 10000 times, etc. If enough people had this extension it could really work. (And get us all thrown in jail, but that's beside the point).
OK so that's probably not the reason that the grandparent was loading the images, I don't know what he was thinking.
also, they don't want something like this happening again...
I definitely look fondly on the days of zoning out of math class and programming my TI-83 not too long ago. It was definitly a cool way expose some "non-programmer" friends to the idea of programming. Possibly a way to widen the appeal for today's students is to expose them to some programming toolkits for cell phone platforms. With that, you definitely broaden your appeal from "math students" to "all students".
have I told you how much I love google images?
It seems like most medical findings are "open-source", that you can read about them in journals, but the actual cost to produce a medicine is usually very prohibitive.
Are you serious, just because you can read about them in journals doesn't mean the medicine isn't patented. That's what patents are for: encouraging people to publish what they would have kept a trade-secret by guaranteeing them a monopoly for a limited time. The prohibitive cost comes from the patent, not the actual production of the medicine.
that's cute, you're trying to slashdot verizon. next time try to slashdot someone who doesn't have more bandwidth than God.
oh, the language pattern was borrowed long ago, it's more like a poor attempt to regularize irregular english constructions like oxen.
Some day, a story will be posted twice in the same day by the same editor. And not because he clicked O.K. twice, either!
TCP/IP Header Bit Added to Improve Security
IPv4 Headers Investigated
Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets
Unfortunately, the position is appointed and not elected, so it's not like we're going to get rid of him as easily as voting someone else into office instead.
Are you serious? The fact that it's an appointed position is the only reason the whole bank of judges wasn't as incompetent has him. At least judges have time to at least read what they're working on. The people who pass these laws are so busy keeping their eyes on the polls that they make this guy look enlightened.