That sounds worthy of further research. I don't have blue LEDs in my clock, but it's an ancient Radio Shack model (I keep it because of the battery backup) with the old-school blue electroluminescent display. It's not terribly bright on the lower setting, fortunately.
Most motherboards blink the power LED in sleep mode. However, there is normally a separate connection for a "sleep" LED, so it's fair to say they're too cheap to add one LED.
CGA was truly an abomination. The text quality was horrible (8x8 cells interlaced so they appeared to be 8x16) and color quality that was blown away by a $200 VIC-20.
i personally would lean more towards the former. due to the "War on Drugs" the U.S. prison population has quadrupled since the 1980's (despite a decline in violent crime and property crime), causing a nation with only 5% of the world's population to have 25% of the world's incarcerated population. therefore it's doubtful that every prison inmate is a murderer, rapist, thief, or bank robber.
I tend to agree with you, but this is a bit of a post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument. In addition, capital punishment was phased out (either de jure or de facto) in some states in the last two decades, increasing the general population. China doesn't have this problem because they keep their execution chambers busy.
Although this is probably limited to people who are caught after "disappearing" to avoid making the payments.
In New Jersey, you can be in the hospital with a life-threatening illness and they will put you in jail once you are released should you miss a payment. They know where you are, you are in no way capable of paying, you are not intentionally avoiding payment, but you will be jailed without due process of law as if you were an escaped criminal.
why the largest slaughters of humans have been in the names of religious deities
In the name of which deity were six million Jews murdered in WWII? For what religion did Chairman Mao execute and starve millions in the "Cultural Revolution?" To what religion did Josef Stalin, who was responsible for the death of at least 10 million, belong?
You may find this ironic, but I have asked all my Christian friends to challenge Obama if given the opportunity; since he claims to be a Christian, we are expected to call him out on his support of the murder of the unborn and even viable infants. He also supports the farming of clones for fetal tissue to support embryonic stem cell research. We don't need another Mao, Hitler, or Stalin who-- this time-- will set up the laws to passively enable the murder of millions by others.
By the way, I agree with everything else you said.
Ah, this explains the "global warming" hysteria, then. The theory is being foisted on us not because it's true, but because it's useful for someone's agenda.
I can't help but notice that the article contains no counterpoint to the "Jesus conspiracy" item. You only need to know that the Priory of Sion was a hoax and never existed (except in the minds of the two hoaxsters). Since all the "evidence" of his involvement with Mary Magdalene rests on alleged Priory of Sion texts, it renders the entire theory invalid. Unfortunately, the release of a hack movie by a hack writer only supported this foolishness. news flash: in Hollywood, they make stuff up (see also: the duplicate "Resolute desk" in National Treasure II").
Some truth in there, but I believe that, from my perspective of having switched from 98 to OS/X a couple years ago, the major 'feature' is not having to piss with the O/S every other week or reboot the machine three times a day.
You do realize that Windows 98 is a totally different animal from the NT-kernel line, right? I could compare Windows XP to Mac OS 9 and Mac OS wouldn't look too good.
Some people need a large passenger or towing vehicle, so there's a place for hybrid Tahoe. Not everyone is a single urban geek like the average Slashdotter, who can get by with a Segway.
I'm not a Vista fan, but to claim that it is "half as fast" is unqualified nonsense. Fortunately for you, the huge Anti-MS crowd here has no problem modding you up.
In reverse order, I did not remove any Microsoft products from our department. Firstly, I have no right to as I am only responsible for backend stuff, not clients. Secondly, I rather like XP which is what we use. Thirdly, I feel less strongly about Microsoft. Whilst they may fund efforts that are intended to damage GNU/Linux, the enemy is not usually as hated as much as the traitor that turns on you.
Applying this line of logic to homicidal dictators, Stalin was a monster while Hitler was OK.
I liked the one for 5.x, which had a man's face prominent in the logo with lines and a red circle inexplicably placed over one eye. He looked like a Borg.
Barely-modest shots of nude t'Pol in Enterprise FTW. Oh, and Hoshi Sato getting her top yanked off jumping out of a Jefferies tube, thereby sneaking in an audition for Holding Your Own Boobs magazine.
And I thought they'd jumped the shark with 7 of 9's catsuit.
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That sounds worthy of further research. I don't have blue LEDs in my clock, but it's an ancient Radio Shack model (I keep it because of the battery backup) with the old-school blue electroluminescent display. It's not terribly bright on the lower setting, fortunately.
Most motherboards blink the power LED in sleep mode. However, there is normally a separate connection for a "sleep" LED, so it's fair to say they're too cheap to add one LED.
The first atom said, "Thanks! What do I owe you?" The second said, "This one's on me. No charge!"
CGA was truly an abomination. The text quality was horrible (8x8 cells interlaced so they appeared to be 8x16) and color quality that was blown away by a $200 VIC-20.
Worst. Config. Ever. (8x8 characters cells with no color... how's your eyesight these days?)
It's not America's fault the Blue Jays stink. By the way: HOW 'BOUT DEM PHILS!
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
If someone blew up all of Rhode Island, I don't think anyone would care either. OH NOES, WE LOST PROVIDENCE!
I tend to agree with you, but this is a bit of a post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument. In addition, capital punishment was phased out (either de jure or de facto) in some states in the last two decades, increasing the general population. China doesn't have this problem because they keep their execution chambers busy.
In New Jersey, you can be in the hospital with a life-threatening illness and they will put you in jail once you are released should you miss a payment. They know where you are, you are in no way capable of paying, you are not intentionally avoiding payment, but you will be jailed without due process of law as if you were an escaped criminal.
In the name of which deity were six million Jews murdered in WWII? For what religion did Chairman Mao execute and starve millions in the "Cultural Revolution?" To what religion did Josef Stalin, who was responsible for the death of at least 10 million, belong?
You may find this ironic, but I have asked all my Christian friends to challenge Obama if given the opportunity; since he claims to be a Christian, we are expected to call him out on his support of the murder of the unborn and even viable infants. He also supports the farming of clones for fetal tissue to support embryonic stem cell research. We don't need another Mao, Hitler, or Stalin who-- this time-- will set up the laws to passively enable the murder of millions by others. By the way, I agree with everything else you said.
Ah, this explains the "global warming" hysteria, then. The theory is being foisted on us not because it's true, but because it's useful for someone's agenda.
This comment was invented by Shampoo.
I can't help but notice that the article contains no counterpoint to the "Jesus conspiracy" item. You only need to know that the Priory of Sion was a hoax and never existed (except in the minds of the two hoaxsters). Since all the "evidence" of his involvement with Mary Magdalene rests on alleged Priory of Sion texts, it renders the entire theory invalid. Unfortunately, the release of a hack movie by a hack writer only supported this foolishness. news flash: in Hollywood, they make stuff up (see also: the duplicate "Resolute desk" in National Treasure II").
No. Stupid git.
You do realize that Windows 98 is a totally different animal from the NT-kernel line, right? I could compare Windows XP to Mac OS 9 and Mac OS wouldn't look too good.
Some people need a large passenger or towing vehicle, so there's a place for hybrid Tahoe. Not everyone is a single urban geek like the average Slashdotter, who can get by with a Segway.
I'm not a Vista fan, but to claim that it is "half as fast" is unqualified nonsense. Fortunately for you, the huge Anti-MS crowd here has no problem modding you up.
Were you bringing it to Chris Farley's van?
Applying this line of logic to homicidal dictators, Stalin was a monster while Hitler was OK.
Not until they start the summary executions.
I liked the one for 5.x, which had a man's face prominent in the logo with lines and a red circle inexplicably placed over one eye. He looked like a Borg.
Barely-modest shots of nude t'Pol in Enterprise FTW. Oh, and Hoshi Sato getting her top yanked off jumping out of a Jefferies tube, thereby sneaking in an audition for Holding Your Own Boobs magazine.
And I thought they'd jumped the shark with 7 of 9's catsuit.
Very interesting. Sorry I wasted all my mod points on the stupid light saber article :-P
Arstechnica is now a shill for Fox News! You heard it from DocRuby first!