Although it would be ludicrous to argue that the printing press is a bad thing, I just want to say that all the scribes who lost their jobs would probably disagree with you that they now have "more money".;)
To be perfectly pedantic, there are only 192 independant states, of which the United States of America is one, leaving only 191 "countries that are not the United States."
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If you use GMail, you should be familiar with the concept of "labels". Of course, it's overly simplistic for organizing files with, but it works well for emails.
Instead of trying to remember precisely which folder you saved a certain file to, you'd just have all kinds of tags on each file. So your video of penguins fishing for food could be tagged under tags like video, penguins, animals, fishing, etc. So all your videos are conveniently organized in one place, but all your *penguin stuff* is also organized in another place, even if that set overlaps.
I think it would be a more efficient way of storing things, you don't need to know exactly *where* you put it, you just need to know what it is you are looking for.
No need to worry. Some open source hackers will create something similar, but they'll playfully call it the "Monad Universal SHell", or "MUSH". Adding "Universal" because it'll run on all the other OS's, where MSH will only work on Windows.
It uses a model of namespaces, so in Windows, you are able to browse registry, file systems, environment variables, etc. in unified way.
That's actually funny, because the decision to wrap up the registry in some undocumented binary file is probably one of the worst things about windows... they should have used the file system and made it a directory of text files. Then there wouldn't be any problems with the registry corrupting or needing a special editor for it.
So apparently the solution to the problem isn't to fix the problem, but to abstract the problem, to hide it behind a layer of interface. Nice.
Oh, forgot to say: Your vote is "wasted" either way, so why not just vote for the guy with less of a chance? It sends a message to the government that you're not happy with the status quo and you want change. And if enough people vote for these 3rd parties, you might even get the change you're looking for.
The person they voted for in my state, and won by a large margin, isn't the president... How many people have you heard that wouldn't even think of voting for a 3rd party candidate, because it was wasting a vote?
I'm always amazed by people who say they wouldn't vote for a 3rd party, and then go on to vote for the guy who loses anyway.
I often think that if all you people who said "well, I would vote for a 3rd party, but can't because then the wrong candidate will win!" just went and voted for your 3rd party, that 3rd party guy would win!!
Crap, I got the age wrong. That's what I get for googling "tesla died" and then reading the year from the google blurb without checking to make sure it was the actual death date for tesla and not his father. Fuck.
Still, the joke about zombies in courtrooms is good, eh? eh?;)
You're absolutely right. No books are written by hand anymore (well, perhaps drafts, but what I meant was, if you walk into a bookstore and look at the books, exactly zero of them will have been handwritten by a human being).
Actually, I doubt you'd want to come to a complete stop near your destination star. Then you'd go into freefall as the star's gravity pulls you in. What you'd really want to do is establish an orbit around either the star or one of it's planets.
I always find this idea strange. I mean, I suppose it's possible, but if you look at all the effort it takes NASA to get a rocket off the ground, all that lift and all that jet fuel, just to get off the ground, and you're telling me that a rock covered in bacteria is just going to fall off the planet and land on mars? Yeah, sure;)
Slashdot Mirror
Even your average Dumbfuck Joe isn't that stupid. Even he knows his PC isn't the internet.
I can only wish that were true.
Didn't know about the rest of his website. It is a bit creepy. I still think ladder theory is funny though (I was posting it as a joke).
Although it would be ludicrous to argue that the printing press is a bad thing, I just want to say that all the scribes who lost their jobs would probably disagree with you that they now have "more money". ;)
I once moved my mouse ... taken care of it both times.
The only thing better than only making a mistake once is when you get it corrected twice...
To be perfectly pedantic, there are only 192 independant states, of which the United States of America is one, leaving only 191 "countries that are not the United States."
This is Slashdot, everything will remind someone of Natalie Portman.
You make a few good points, but I'm not sure if "hav'ent", "ru-non", or "t'heyre" are really words...
Every man should read up on Ladder Theory.
If you use GMail, you should be familiar with the concept of "labels". Of course, it's overly simplistic for organizing files with, but it works well for emails.
Instead of trying to remember precisely which folder you saved a certain file to, you'd just have all kinds of tags on each file. So your video of penguins fishing for food could be tagged under tags like video, penguins, animals, fishing, etc. So all your videos are conveniently organized in one place, but all your *penguin stuff* is also organized in another place, even if that set overlaps.
I think it would be a more efficient way of storing things, you don't need to know exactly *where* you put it, you just need to know what it is you are looking for.
No need to worry. Some open source hackers will create something similar, but they'll playfully call it the "Monad Universal SHell", or "MUSH". Adding "Universal" because it'll run on all the other OS's, where MSH will only work on Windows.
It uses a model of namespaces, so in Windows, you are able to browse registry, file systems, environment variables, etc. in unified way.
That's actually funny, because the decision to wrap up the registry in some undocumented binary file is probably one of the worst things about windows... they should have used the file system and made it a directory of text files. Then there wouldn't be any problems with the registry corrupting or needing a special editor for it.
So apparently the solution to the problem isn't to fix the problem, but to abstract the problem, to hide it behind a layer of interface. Nice.
Oh, forgot to say: Your vote is "wasted" either way, so why not just vote for the guy with less of a chance? It sends a message to the government that you're not happy with the status quo and you want change. And if enough people vote for these 3rd parties, you might even get the change you're looking for.
The person they voted for in my state, and won by a large margin, isn't the president... How many people have you heard that wouldn't even think of voting for a 3rd party candidate, because it was wasting a vote?
I'm always amazed by people who say they wouldn't vote for a 3rd party, and then go on to vote for the guy who loses anyway.
I often think that if all you people who said "well, I would vote for a 3rd party, but can't because then the wrong candidate will win!" just went and voted for your 3rd party, that 3rd party guy would win!!
The real question is, will these scientists use their new-found railgun powers for good, or for awesome?
Crap, I got the age wrong. That's what I get for googling "tesla died" and then reading the year from the google blurb without checking to make sure it was the actual death date for tesla and not his father. Fuck.
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Still, the joke about zombies in courtrooms is good, eh? eh?
I too am glad that 126-year dead corpses don't spend their time in court suing people who benefit from their inventions.
Oh yeah? Well I pay a billion yen per hogshead, so quit your complaining!
MS: "We're the leaders! Wait for us!"
*no more books will ever be written*
You're absolutely right. No books are written by hand anymore (well, perhaps drafts, but what I meant was, if you walk into a bookstore and look at the books, exactly zero of them will have been handwritten by a human being).
[Now, where's that fire extinguisher...?]
I'm bashing you over the head with it. That might explain why you're a little disoriented.
Because that Black & Decker cordless drill is supposed to be in lingerie.
Kinky.
Actually, I doubt you'd want to come to a complete stop near your destination star. Then you'd go into freefall as the star's gravity pulls you in. What you'd really want to do is establish an orbit around either the star or one of it's planets.
I always find this idea strange. I mean, I suppose it's possible, but if you look at all the effort it takes NASA to get a rocket off the ground, all that lift and all that jet fuel, just to get off the ground, and you're telling me that a rock covered in bacteria is just going to fall off the planet and land on mars? Yeah, sure ;)
What the hell is a mirror? :P
I downloaded the torrent a few days ago, 3.9 was released on May 27th.
Heh, I did that on firefox/linux and it took me to microsoft.com.
It just means microsoft is the first google hit for "http" because that's what firefox does when you give it an invalid URL, it googles it.