What is all this concern over gas mileage? You people are a poor excuse for Americans. Where are your balls? Did Hillary Clinton steal them? We are consumers, we live in the country and many have died for this country to give us a choice as to if we want to buy the hybrid or buy the gas guzzling SUV. I've visited many soviet block contries where you have only one choice in car that you can buy and you have only one gas station in the whole city with a population of 2 million people. Imagine the lines. I remember.
Let me re-iterate, we are consumers, which mean we consume. You pay for something, you damn well better get what you pay for. If i'm going to pay +20k for a vehicle and it's only going to seat one person and only have a range of 50 miles (IE electric cars), that thing better give me a "hummer" along the drive, so I'll feel better about walking the other 30 miles I have to commute.
Let's not forget safety...
http://www.ems.org/suv/facts.html
Put it this way, when you go out to a singles bar, do you look for the economical, slightly overweight, read books, fair skinneded, drinking iced tea girl, or do you strive for the tall, slender, tanned, blond haired, big breasted, outgoing, bombshell. I don't know what you observer, but everyone I see there is going after the bombshell.
Never settle for less. Strive for more you pussies.
Aside from the fact that I know how to solder. As a regular consumer, I'd be hard pressed to accomplish this with little effort. If they changed the proprietary nature of their DVD's they'd sell much more of them.
Cheers.
I agree, why are so many contributors here so pesamistic when it comes to NASA's space program. I think two accidents (not deliberate I might add), out of 88 missions is a formidable statistic considering all cosmonauts and astronauts agree that space travel inherently comes with these types of dangers and risks.
Consider what percentage of fatal accidents occur with traveling in an automobile which most people agree should be inherently safer but is apparently not.
I hope at least that all these people that are arguing that the NASA STS program should be shut down are consistant and oppose stem cell and cloning research programs.
Maybe the military can write standard operating procedures on the control and use of such flying support vehicles with their WordStar. Perhaps they can fund the maintenance of them with krispy kreme bake-sales.
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As for the specifics. If Sun made it policy that it required an NDA to get Sparc 3 Theo would go away. That makes Sparc 3 a closed architecture. But Sun claims Sparc 3 is open. All Theo is doing is either:
A Non-Disclosure Agreement is not something that signifies closed architechture. It is simply a legal binding document that protects SUNW from it's competitors. In a perfect world, there would be no need for NDA's and you wouldn't have to sign them to accept that position at your current job. The fact is we don't live in a perfect world and as such corporations as well as non-profit organizations, (which I currently work for) still have you sign an NDA before they agree to employ you.
Don't ridicule them for requiring something that is legally accepted by everyone in the corporate world. Especially, in comparison to Micro$oft which doesn't even give you the option to sign an NDA to get their source code. I know, It looks as if I'm comparing hardware to software here, but I'm actually identifying the principle of the company.
The one thing I don't understand is why if you purchase a Sparc platform from Sun Microsystems does everyone complain about the O.S. so much, cause you get a free copy of Solaris, so it's not as if you're paying for the operating system, which is remarkably different from what Microsoft does. Granted the cost of a Sparc from Sun is extremely expensive to begin with but you'd still have to pay that outrageous price to run the OpenBSD on that platform in any case, unless you build a Spork. Who trust Spork's around here, not me.
Only redhat has non-mandatory update costs. in most cases, those updates can be gotten from somewhere else (not redhat).
Actually, to get automatic errata updates from Redhat you have to purchase enabler's from Redhat(and that only requires a purchase for additional enablers not the first one you use). You can still download errata updates from Redhat for free.
I don't know how much data they are actually talking about, but I can offer up a solution.
Some of you might disagree. I've run into a scalable piece of software which will interogate all their information sources irregardless of their storage format, index them, and still leave them all in their respective locations.
Autonomy Inc. has a product called DRE AXE which is also XML compliant. They have a pretty simple API to work with and have even seen it work on Java, PHP, and Perl. The query engine is extremely fast, and supports laymans terms. The engine supports both Boolean as well as natural language queries. Check them out, i've been administering their products for about 2 to 3 years now.
Ok, Ok, I'm giving them a plug, but hey their product works well.
You obviously don't look at it from my point of view, which doesn't fall into the dichotomy you set up.
Since, I didn't state my point of view and neither did you on this topic, your comment >/dev/null.
The reasons you allude to are just facts - initial differences in genotype and persistent differences in selection pressures and niches occupied by the two species.
With brilliant people like you around there's no need for me to specify them.
No. It is too far fetched. In fact, it doesn't even follow from what you just said. It's a complete non sequitur, and you are babbling.
Give me reasons why it is too far fetch don't just state what comes to your mind without backing it up. Obviously it's not that far fetched if such a simpleton like myself, as you claim, has thought of it.
The common cold isn't an easy problem to fix.
Hmmm, and you know this from years of valued medical research experience. . I can't seem to find any references to research using animals or animal testing there.
But you cross the line when you fail to distinguish your own ignorance from everyone else's.
I think you're right. I am unintentional and at least try to distance myself from stupidity. Whats your excuse for being deliberate.
Either way you look at it there are still some negative implications as well as positive possibilities to this research.
If you look at it from the spiritual view, you'll argue that you shouldn't mess with God's plan and his formula. All God fearing persons believe that the human body is a temple that shouldn't be messed with. This in their minds would be considered messing with the temple. Hence, the negativity to such an experiement. I can't think of any positive side to this spiritually. Probably because there isn't any.
As far as Mother Nature and Evolution, there is a reason why humans didn't evolve into Mice and vice versa if you believe in evolution. You believe in survival of the fittest, what happens if you start making other organisms more fit and strong, you start to unbalance the natural cycle of our earthly habitat. Pretty soon, as outlandish as it sounds, it not to far fetched to think that we'll have to include amendments in our constitution for civil rights for our pet dog Rover.
The benefits of this type of research aren't really spelled out, because they haven't been discovered yet. One could hope that a cure for cancer could come from this, but as many years as we have been doing animal testing we still haven't come with a simple cure for the common cold.
Nevertheless, scientists and religious leaders will always but heads on this subject for years to come.
Well since all that's been release from IEEE that is being including in manufacturing of wireless products now is 802.11b which has no reliable sense of security built in, you can bet I'll be grabing your PST files and reading your love notes.
The private companies and park services will have to wait until Q3 of 2003 before 802.11G is approved by IEEE and manufacturers start to make Wireless secure.
Get real, RadioShack (well it used to be) a great place to get parts from.
That establishment is just like 7-11, it's late at night and you're desperate, Best Buy and Circuit City is closed and you need that darn DB gender bender so you'll pay the 26 bucks for it. We've all been in the situation. I miss the days of living in Sacramento and being able to go to HSC and purchase a needed part out of a bulk bin. But they we're put out of business by bad management and old, bearded, child molesters.
I know we've all seen em, the geeky, computer type, bbs surfin for child porn, lookin' like Charles Manson, stains up and down their two sizes too small grey sweat pants pulling up in the green ford F-100.
Perhaps, Radio Shack should go back and employ these guys at least they have a clue about electronics.
The last experience I had there was when I was looking for a replacement RCA type cable to go in between my PC speakers (because I lost the original in a move). Damn clueless kid tried to sell me a set of gold-plated RCA cable interconnect with a noise filter. I said Are you stupid? He said Stupid is as stupid does, Mister
The only thing keeping me from jumping over the counter and thumping this kid was the hope that I'd make it home and be able to relieve some stress and visit Cliff's I hate you site!
Cliff 's I hate you
Someone else has had to have done this but when i was 14 or so, I had an Atari 800XL not the pop top ones that fit two cartridges but the slot ones that only fit one cartridge.
The point....
I upgraded that sucker to 1 meg of memory by stacking and soldiering the old 64k memory chips near the back. I had to cut a hole in the top of the Atari's case to stack the chips. It protruded about 3 inches above case. In addition, I picked up one of those ATR8000 interfaces and hooked up a 20 MB, Seagate ST-525 or 255 (I forgot which?) MFM hard drive, and a 5 1/2 toshiba floppy which I think it was a 360k floppy at the time. Booted that sucker with SpartaDOS.
You're probably asking why? Well I ran a pretty successful Wildcat BBS out in California on that sucker. Ran it for about 3 years. I paid less for it then my PC using buds. The thing rarely went down. I'd hazzard that it had less downtime then most IIS servers nowadays.
If that is true, why did all inactive and full accounts on hotmail suddenly get deleted during the migration? Why is there a limit on mailboxes and a charge for larger limits? Its seems to me like the new W2K servers can't handle the amount of accounts and email that the BSD servers did handle in the past. It was hard work collecting all that spam. Now you can't use a hotmail account for registering stuff for spam because if you're account gets over that 10 meg limit (and it does that within a week without giving the email address out) you're account is deleted.
Strange. This never was the case before Microsoft took over hotmail.
I can come up with a list of human beings that need to have this done to them. Oh... wait they already perform this procedure in psychiatric institutions.... It's call a labotomy.
Yeah, kinda like a DVD player on your Dell PowerEdge 1650 or Sun Microsystems E250. Or even your 12 inch active matrix display on a laptop showing Lord of the Rings.
Just recently, in the past 2 years, all uniformed services stop teaching ADA to their developers coming out of tech school and started teaching C.
They still use DBase I or II at most installations. Only a few use Access 95 for databases.
As far as messaging, I think DMS (Defense Messaging Service) is still not rolled over to Exchange or Sendmail).
Air Force is still running Brownie Bake Sales to fund the 2 million dollar toilet seats and coffee makes on the B2 Bombers as your mothers bumper sticker states.
"But you still haven't cited any proof of your claim that the US gives more to needy countries than the rest of the world combined. It simply isn't true. Constant images on TV of bags of grain marked "US Aid" doesn't amount to much other than nationalistic propaganda. The rest of us don't make a big deal of it, and generally don't make foreign aid a media event. "
Here is your proof.
According to the U.S. Overseas Loans & Grants Online
The U.S. in the period of 1946 to 1999 has Loaned or Granted 346 Billion in US dollars to Foriegn AID just in the Economic Aid, this doesn't included military aid or assistance. Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Asia top just a little over 100 Billion during that period when combined. Here's another fact from the same website, of the 346 Billion only 41 Billion of the principal amount has been repaid to the United States.
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The earth is round....
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html
We'll never fly....
http://www.manwillneverfly.com/
We never went to the moon....
http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~akapadia/moon.html
Gee.... This sounds awefully familiar.... Oh wait here...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/26/13192
What is all this concern over gas mileage? You people are a poor excuse for Americans. Where are your balls? Did Hillary Clinton steal them? We are consumers, we live in the country and many have died for this country to give us a choice as to if we want to buy the hybrid or buy the gas guzzling SUV. I've visited many soviet block contries where you have only one choice in car that you can buy and you have only one gas station in the whole city with a population of 2 million people. Imagine the lines. I remember.
Let me re-iterate, we are consumers, which mean we consume. You pay for something, you damn well better get what you pay for. If i'm going to pay +20k for a vehicle and it's only going to seat one person and only have a range of 50 miles (IE electric cars), that thing better give me a "hummer" along the drive, so I'll feel better about walking the other 30 miles I have to commute.
Let's not forget safety...
http://www.ems.org/suv/facts.html
Put it this way, when you go out to a singles bar, do you look for the economical, slightly overweight, read books, fair skinneded, drinking iced tea girl, or do you strive for the tall, slender, tanned, blond haired, big breasted, outgoing, bombshell. I don't know what you observer, but everyone I see there is going after the bombshell.
Never settle for less. Strive for more you pussies.
Aside from the fact that I know how to solder. As a regular consumer, I'd be hard pressed to accomplish this with little effort. If they changed the proprietary nature of their DVD's they'd sell much more of them. Cheers.
....you have to replace the poor excuse for a DVD player on it a few times.
I agree, why are so many contributors here so pesamistic when it comes to NASA's space program. I think two accidents (not deliberate I might add), out of 88 missions is a formidable statistic considering all cosmonauts and astronauts agree that space travel inherently comes with these types of dangers and risks.
Consider what percentage of fatal accidents occur with traveling in an automobile which most people agree should be inherently safer but is apparently not.
I hope at least that all these people that are arguing that the NASA STS program should be shut down are consistant and oppose stem cell and cloning research programs.
Maybe the military can write standard operating procedures on the control and use of such flying support vehicles with their WordStar. Perhaps they can fund the maintenance of them with krispy kreme bake-sales.
As for the specifics. If Sun made it policy that it required an NDA to get Sparc 3 Theo would go away. That makes Sparc 3 a closed architecture. But Sun claims Sparc 3 is open. All Theo is doing is either:
A Non-Disclosure Agreement is not something that signifies closed architechture. It is simply a legal binding document that protects SUNW from it's competitors. In a perfect world, there would be no need for NDA's and you wouldn't have to sign them to accept that position at your current job. The fact is we don't live in a perfect world and as such corporations as well as non-profit organizations, (which I currently work for) still have you sign an NDA before they agree to employ you.
Don't ridicule them for requiring something that is legally accepted by everyone in the corporate world. Especially, in comparison to Micro$oft which doesn't even give you the option to sign an NDA to get their source code. I know, It looks as if I'm comparing hardware to software here, but I'm actually identifying the principle of the company.
The one thing I don't understand is why if you purchase a Sparc platform from Sun Microsystems does everyone complain about the O.S. so much, cause you get a free copy of Solaris, so it's not as if you're paying for the operating system, which is remarkably different from what Microsoft does. Granted the cost of a Sparc from Sun is extremely expensive to begin with but you'd still have to pay that outrageous price to run the OpenBSD on that platform in any case, unless you build a Spork. Who trust Spork's around here, not me.
Only redhat has non-mandatory update costs. in most cases, those updates can be gotten from somewhere else (not redhat).
Actually, to get automatic errata updates from Redhat you have to purchase enabler's from Redhat(and that only requires a purchase for additional enablers not the first one you use). You can still download errata updates from Redhat for free.
I don't know how much data they are actually talking about, but I can offer up a solution.
Some of you might disagree. I've run into a scalable piece of software which will interogate all their information sources irregardless of their storage format, index them, and still leave them all in their respective locations.
Autonomy Inc. has a product called DRE AXE which is also XML compliant. They have a pretty simple API to work with and have even seen it work on Java, PHP, and Perl. The query engine is extremely fast, and supports laymans terms. The engine supports both Boolean as well as natural language queries. Check them out, i've been administering their products for about 2 to 3 years now.
Ok, Ok, I'm giving them a plug, but hey their product works well.
You obviously don't look at it from my point of view, which doesn't fall into the dichotomy you set up.
/dev/null.
Since, I didn't state my point of view and neither did you on this topic, your comment >
The reasons you allude to are just facts - initial differences in genotype and persistent differences in selection pressures and niches occupied by the two species.
With brilliant people like you around there's no need for me to specify them.
No. It is too far fetched. In fact, it doesn't even follow from what you just said. It's a complete non sequitur, and you are babbling.
Give me reasons why it is too far fetch don't just state what comes to your mind without backing it up. Obviously it's not that far fetched if such a simpleton like myself, as you claim, has thought of it.
The common cold isn't an easy problem to fix.
Hmmm, and you know this from years of valued medical research experience. . I can't seem to find any references to research using animals or animal testing there.
But you cross the line when you fail to distinguish your own ignorance from everyone else's.
I think you're right. I am unintentional and at least try to distance myself from stupidity. Whats your excuse for being deliberate.
Better yet, this might have been cause by some over zealous security freak who wanted to monitor bandwidth or set up an IDS.
I had this exact same thing happen but on a smaller scale and with less impact on operations.
Either way you look at it there are still some negative implications as well as positive possibilities to this research.
If you look at it from the spiritual view, you'll argue that you shouldn't mess with God's plan and his formula. All God fearing persons believe that the human body is a temple that shouldn't be messed with. This in their minds would be considered messing with the temple. Hence, the negativity to such an experiement. I can't think of any positive side to this spiritually. Probably because there isn't any.
As far as Mother Nature and Evolution, there is a reason why humans didn't evolve into Mice and vice versa if you believe in evolution. You believe in survival of the fittest, what happens if you start making other organisms more fit and strong, you start to unbalance the natural cycle of our earthly habitat. Pretty soon, as outlandish as it sounds, it not to far fetched to think that we'll have to include amendments in our constitution for civil rights for our pet dog Rover.
The benefits of this type of research aren't really spelled out, because they haven't been discovered yet. One could hope that a cure for cancer could come from this, but as many years as we have been doing animal testing we still haven't come with a simple cure for the common cold.
Nevertheless, scientists and religious leaders will always but heads on this subject for years to come.
Well since all that's been release from IEEE that is being including in manufacturing of wireless products now is 802.11b which has no reliable sense of security built in, you can bet I'll be grabing your PST files and reading your love notes.
The private companies and park services will have to wait until Q3 of 2003 before 802.11G is approved by IEEE and manufacturers start to make Wireless secure.
HACK THE PLANET!!!!!! HACK THE PLANET!!!!
Get real, RadioShack (well it used to be) a great place to get parts from.
That establishment is just like 7-11, it's late at night and you're desperate, Best Buy and Circuit City is closed and you need that darn DB gender bender so you'll pay the 26 bucks for it. We've all been in the situation. I miss the days of living in Sacramento and being able to go to HSC and purchase a needed part out of a bulk bin. But they we're put out of business by bad management and old, bearded, child molesters.
I know we've all seen em, the geeky, computer type, bbs surfin for child porn, lookin' like Charles Manson, stains up and down their two sizes too small grey sweat pants pulling up in the green ford F-100. Perhaps, Radio Shack should go back and employ these guys at least they have a clue about electronics. The last experience I had there was when I was looking for a replacement RCA type cable to go in between my PC speakers (because I lost the original in a move). Damn clueless kid tried to sell me a set of gold-plated RCA cable interconnect with a noise filter. I said Are you stupid? He said Stupid is as stupid does, Mister
The only thing keeping me from jumping over the counter and thumping this kid was the hope that I'd make it home and be able to relieve some stress and visit Cliff's I hate you site! Cliff 's I hate you
Someone else has had to have done this but when i was 14 or so, I had an Atari 800XL not the pop top ones that fit two cartridges but the slot ones that only fit one cartridge.
The point....
I upgraded that sucker to 1 meg of memory by stacking and soldiering the old 64k memory chips near the back. I had to cut a hole in the top of the Atari's case to stack the chips. It protruded about 3 inches above case.
In addition, I picked up one of those ATR8000 interfaces and hooked up a 20 MB, Seagate ST-525 or 255 (I forgot which?) MFM hard drive, and a 5 1/2 toshiba floppy which I think it was a 360k floppy at the time. Booted that sucker with SpartaDOS.
You're probably asking why? Well I ran a pretty successful Wildcat BBS out in California on that sucker. Ran it for about 3 years. I paid less for it then my PC using buds. The thing rarely went down. I'd hazzard that it had less downtime then most IIS servers nowadays.
Who??????
Back up that "True American Hero" statement with facts that those of us who are unfamiliar can understand.
Still no reason to confiscate the VCR, except to show just how unprepared the FBI is to handle computer crimes.
Perhaps they found child pornography, law enforcement can't release information about that to the press.
If that is true, why did all inactive and full accounts on hotmail suddenly get deleted during the migration? Why is there a limit on mailboxes and a charge for larger limits? Its seems to me like the new W2K servers can't handle the amount of accounts and email that the BSD servers did handle in the past. It was hard work collecting all that spam. Now you can't use a hotmail account for registering stuff for spam because if you're account gets over that 10 meg limit (and it does that within a week without giving the email address out) you're account is deleted.
Strange. This never was the case before Microsoft took over hotmail.
I can come up with a list of human beings that need to have this done to them. Oh... wait they already perform this procedure in psychiatric institutions.... It's call a labotomy.
Thank god CSC won the Eagle Alliance contract and not EDS is all i have to say.
Yeah, kinda like a DVD player on your Dell PowerEdge 1650 or Sun Microsystems E250. Or even your 12 inch active matrix display on a laptop showing Lord of the Rings.
-Heh
One day I'll get the spell checker worked into VI. Remove that ) trailing Sendmail. and replace makes with makers
Just recently, in the past 2 years, all uniformed services stop teaching ADA to their developers coming out of tech school and started teaching C.
They still use DBase I or II at most installations. Only a few use Access 95 for databases.
As far as messaging, I think DMS (Defense Messaging Service) is still not rolled over to Exchange or Sendmail).
Air Force is still running Brownie Bake Sales to fund the 2 million dollar toilet seats and coffee makes on the B2 Bombers as your mothers bumper sticker states.
"But you still haven't cited any proof of your claim that the US gives more to needy countries than the rest of the world combined. It simply isn't true. Constant images on TV of bags of grain marked "US Aid" doesn't amount to much other than nationalistic propaganda. The rest of us don't make a big deal of it, and generally don't make foreign aid a media event. "
Here is your proof.
According to the U.S. Overseas Loans & Grants Online
The U.S. in the period of 1946 to 1999 has Loaned or Granted 346 Billion in US dollars to Foriegn AID just in the Economic Aid, this doesn't included military aid or assistance. Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Asia top just a little over 100 Billion during that period when combined. Here's another fact from the same website, of the 346 Billion only 41 Billion of the principal amount has been repaid to the United States.
If you don't believe it go check out the website.
http://qesdb.cdie.org/gbk/index.html