Was altavista. Altavista was cool, it'd give 200 good results (okay, 100 good results, 100 junk). Unfortunately it rolled out with a *new* look that made it little more than a copy of yahoo - even looked like yahoo. Go there now and it looks like google. I don't know why but it seems altavsita has become the clone of whatever the top search engine for this month is. Yahoo on the other hand just decided to use the same search engine as google so why go to yahoo and not just google in the first place? Its good that we finally now have soem variety again in search engines on the net.
"the UN is driving policy" and instantly reread it cause they it was wrong. Nevertheless, I am forced to agree with the opponents of the current US government and say that thier policy of intellectual protectionism to the point of intellectual imperialism is not the way to go. Japan went isolationist for a century and what did that get them? The same here, only instead of just isolating ourselves from the innovations of the rest of the world we are isolating ourselves and arresting the progres of our own innovation. There is a darwinism to nations and policies that clearly shows that nations that create policies (no matter how justified they may seem) if those current policies retard that nations sucess either those policy must go or that nations will. Laws that don't work either will collapse themselves or bring down those who attempt to enforce them. You cannot control innovation. If you try, you will fail. That is why the concept of intellectual property will colaapse. Either we must abandon are perceptions of it or face the growing threat of those who will ignore such absurd laws. Just as we can innobvate so can they and saying that we own one thought will just be laughed at by those who do not follow our laws and realize that just becuase you are the first to have a thought does not by nature give you the sole and exlcusive oweneship of that thought.
"The article clearly states the piece was from the Progress or Soyuz spacecraft docked to the Space Station. It is a part that locks down the solar panels on these craft."
In other words the next part we shoudl expect to hear floating off the station is the solar panels. Uhhh, if the solar panels go, what will keep the capsule powered (I assume it has something running that the solar panels power)???
Who is going to be writing open source software when where all unemployed and unable to purchase computers when our current ones breakdown? OSS requires ppl contributing to it. If the market goes all OSS cause its cheaper, then most people will be out of a job in the tech sector (cuase no one will be buying software). No job, no money. If everyone goes broke, no one will be able to contribute, and OSS will suffer. Some will decide to start selling software again cause OSS is badly outdated. Everyoen starts selling software again. Then an OSS market pops up again cause there are nough ppl to contribute. The pattern continues.
Is stress the social factor of the game. Anyone can go and play online alone. But what bout going to a place with a nice atmosphere like a restruant and setting up a LAN party or something (instead of trying to pack it all in your house.) You coudl have nightly tournaements. You could actually meet people in real life. You could... wait, this idea is great! There goes the millions I was going to make on the idea...
I agree with you: the old school arcades rocked. There was nothing like standing in a dark smoky room with the sounds of video war being raged all around you. The real reason those places began to collapse though is not just becuase the games got more complex (any RPG beyond Cadash would never work in an aracde) but also becuase the atmosphere of those hole-in-the-wall arcades changed. You have a bunch of teenagers running around a darkened room, their pockets filled with cash. You just knew crime would become a problem and it did. The arcades began to be populated by gangs and older kids who would steal the cash off the littler kids. Arcades became a place were children should be afraid to enter. That's what led to the rise of the family arcade places (which were no fun for teenagers.) That's what probably hurt the arcades most - they became dangerous. Then gradually as the NES and the consoles began to not only match but outdo any game you'd find in the arcades (during the atari era the console games were cheesy compared to the arcades), people could no longer justify putting $50 in machines when they could just buy the carts. So one by one the places shutdown. The only thing keeping the arcade business running now, I bet, is the children who can't afford a console, the supermarket arcade machines (play video games while I shop), and the arcades that try to recapture the feel of what the arcades were in our youths (i.e. nostalgia).
Then again, can you name any Disney movie in the last couple of years that was:
1. Animated
2. A hit
3. Not made by Pixar
Their only non Pixar movie in the last couple fo years that was considered major and not a pixar film was that Sinbad one that tanked at the box office. Unless the future of Disney Animations is making cheesy home videos, they're going to have to do a lot of work to get anywhere near where Pixar and who ever they ally with will be.
"The peole who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world without a lot of cash don't. But then again we are talking about Apple ppl here who must have more money than God in order to afford an Apple computer.
Why not test out such things as a real free trade economy on The Sims before we try it out in real life? Would it not make more sense to test these policies out in a virtual world of real people instead of just going straight from a phisophical theory to a real world reality?
Actaully my guess is redhat's answer would be fedora redhat linux (the fedora project). Afterall, its only existed what? since 2003 (before that it had been the Fedora Linux project).
Red Hat Linux. I mean come on, its gotten to the point where its started to divide into its own set of sub-distros. Red Hat Enterpirse, Red hat, Fedora...
Btw, debian is pronounced deb-een after debbie and ian murdock(sic? - i think its murdock - too much of watching the a-team i guess). I am such a geek.
You forget the {} for the first loop. As it written currently, the porgram under a harsh and strict compiler will declare while(alive) an error and... umm... terminate the application before it is ever run. Or a less severe compiler will allow the error and give you a fault during runtime. Gives a whole new meaning to the words "blue screen of death".
I agree with you there. Nothing written in COBOL could ever be mistaken for poetry. But there is some code in langauges like Lisp that is so elegant that one can only call it poetry.
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Was altavista. Altavista was cool, it'd give 200 good results (okay, 100 good results, 100 junk). Unfortunately it rolled out with a *new* look that made it little more than a copy of yahoo - even looked like yahoo. Go there now and it looks like google. I don't know why but it seems altavsita has become the clone of whatever the top search engine for this month is. Yahoo on the other hand just decided to use the same search engine as google so why go to yahoo and not just google in the first place? Its good that we finally now have soem variety again in search engines on the net.
Itanium here Billions wasted on effort Cash flushed down the drain
"the UN is driving policy" and instantly reread it cause they it was wrong. Nevertheless, I am forced to agree with the opponents of the current US government and say that thier policy of intellectual protectionism to the point of intellectual imperialism is not the way to go. Japan went isolationist for a century and what did that get them? The same here, only instead of just isolating ourselves from the innovations of the rest of the world we are isolating ourselves and arresting the progres of our own innovation. There is a darwinism to nations and policies that clearly shows that nations that create policies (no matter how justified they may seem) if those current policies retard that nations sucess either those policy must go or that nations will. Laws that don't work either will collapse themselves or bring down those who attempt to enforce them. You cannot control innovation. If you try, you will fail. That is why the concept of intellectual property will colaapse. Either we must abandon are perceptions of it or face the growing threat of those who will ignore such absurd laws. Just as we can innobvate so can they and saying that we own one thought will just be laughed at by those who do not follow our laws and realize that just becuase you are the first to have a thought does not by nature give you the sole and exlcusive oweneship of that thought.
"The article clearly states the piece was from the Progress or Soyuz spacecraft docked to the Space Station. It is a part that locks down the solar panels on these craft."
In other words the next part we shoudl expect to hear floating off the station is the solar panels. Uhhh, if the solar panels go, what will keep the capsule powered (I assume it has something running that the solar panels power)???
faster than an old rusty valiant. We need to send some duct tape up there pronto!
There goes the $10,000 wrench. There goes the $20,000 hammer...
Who is going to be writing open source software when where all unemployed and unable to purchase computers when our current ones breakdown? OSS requires ppl contributing to it. If the market goes all OSS cause its cheaper, then most people will be out of a job in the tech sector (cuase no one will be buying software). No job, no money. If everyone goes broke, no one will be able to contribute, and OSS will suffer. Some will decide to start selling software again cause OSS is badly outdated. Everyoen starts selling software again. Then an OSS market pops up again cause there are nough ppl to contribute. The pattern continues.
Is stress the social factor of the game. Anyone can go and play online alone. But what bout going to a place with a nice atmosphere like a restruant and setting up a LAN party or something (instead of trying to pack it all in your house.) You coudl have nightly tournaements. You could actually meet people in real life. You could... wait, this idea is great! There goes the millions I was going to make on the idea...
I agree with you: the old school arcades rocked. There was nothing like standing in a dark smoky room with the sounds of video war being raged all around you. The real reason those places began to collapse though is not just becuase the games got more complex (any RPG beyond Cadash would never work in an aracde) but also becuase the atmosphere of those hole-in-the-wall arcades changed. You have a bunch of teenagers running around a darkened room, their pockets filled with cash. You just knew crime would become a problem and it did. The arcades began to be populated by gangs and older kids who would steal the cash off the littler kids. Arcades became a place were children should be afraid to enter. That's what led to the rise of the family arcade places (which were no fun for teenagers.) That's what probably hurt the arcades most - they became dangerous. Then gradually as the NES and the consoles began to not only match but outdo any game you'd find in the arcades (during the atari era the console games were cheesy compared to the arcades), people could no longer justify putting $50 in machines when they could just buy the carts. So one by one the places shutdown. The only thing keeping the arcade business running now, I bet, is the children who can't afford a console, the supermarket arcade machines (play video games while I shop), and the arcades that try to recapture the feel of what the arcades were in our youths (i.e. nostalgia).
Na-na-na-na-na, Na-na-na-na-na, Leader!
Na-na-na-na-na, Na-na-na-na-na, Leader!
D'oh!
Email them all back. See how they like it.
Or he could just change the formatting to 'Code'
Sorry forgot the second '-', thanks for the heads up.
Then again, can you name any Disney movie in the last couple of years that was:
1. Animated
2. A hit
3. Not made by Pixar
Their only non Pixar movie in the last couple fo years that was considered major and not a pixar film was that Sinbad one that tanked at the box office. Unless the future of Disney Animations is making cheesy home videos, they're going to have to do a lot of work to get anywhere near where Pixar and who ever they ally with will be.
"The peole who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world without a lot of cash don't. But then again we are talking about Apple ppl here who must have more money than God in order to afford an Apple computer.
Why not test out such things as a real free trade economy on The Sims before we try it out in real life? Would it not make more sense to test these policies out in a virtual world of real people instead of just going straight from a phisophical theory to a real world reality?
fp?
You obviously haven't seen how fast mold grows on an old hat!
Actaully my guess is redhat's answer would be fedora redhat linux (the fedora project). Afterall, its only existed what? since 2003 (before that it had been the Fedora Linux project).
Yep, Mcbride was able to convince someone other than himself to use it!
Red Hat Linux. I mean come on, its gotten to the point where its started to divide into its own set of sub-distros. Red Hat Enterpirse, Red hat, Fedora...
Btw, debian is pronounced deb-een after debbie and ian murdock(sic? - i think its murdock - too much of watching the a-team i guess). I am such a geek.
Now what you need to do is work on the first set where dean was winning, work in the 'i have a scream' speech, and you'll have yourself an epic.
You forget the {} for the first loop. As it written currently, the porgram under a harsh and strict compiler will declare while(alive) an error and... umm... terminate the application before it is ever run. Or a less severe compiler will allow the error and give you a fault during runtime. Gives a whole new meaning to the words "blue screen of death".
"There is no poetry in COBOL"
I agree with you there. Nothing written in COBOL could ever be mistaken for poetry. But there is some code in langauges like Lisp that is so elegant that one can only call it poetry.
Personally I am still expecting Latin to make a huge comeback...