> Part of it is in our heads. Also, we eat mammals, not creepy-crawlies, because mammals aren't > poisonous. Meat (mammals, birds) is also highly concentrated food.
But we DO eat creepy crawlies, if by we you mean `humans`, as the OP stated. The other arguments about poison are pretty weak. It's trivial to only eat the non-poisonous ones, as is done with mushrooms, fish, plants etc. And your last "argument" about cats and dogs is pure nonsense.
Care to explain this sig file? I've seen it around a little, if only on your posts. Surely it's just 0x00010000 - a fixed point one, which will fit into modern int types?
Some people are like that. And some are second generation immigrants, and when they get to their teens/20s and need to be rebellious about something (like everyone is at that age) they sometimes channel those energies into suicide attacks. The clowns who pulled off the attacks in England a few years back haven't "lost so much". They're just muppets.
> terrorists act the way they do not because they are crazy and evil, but because they believe they > have legitimate grievances and that their cause is worth fighting for.
Some people who are described as terrorists do. Some don't. The people behind 9/11 came from a backwards culture AND were muslim. I think it's safe to say that they do have a cause, but that they were also crazy. It's an indication of how normal it's treated to follow any religion that picking any one religion appears odd. Religion will not be around forever, and people will look back and laugh at us for thinking we're advanced because we can attach jet engines to metal boxes and fly a short way to the moon, but all the time pretend some guy in the sky invented everything in the face of absolutely no evidence this is the case other than that every other fucker also believes it.
NSA? CIA? "US Naval Research Lab"? Whatever. The authorities. The people who want to ensure things don't change because for those guys and their rich friends there's no recession, no energy crisis, no job insecurity, no risk from "terrorism" etc.
Like the policemen talking about the woman who drink 20 gin and tonics and claimed she'd been spiked with rohypnol. What were you doing drinking 20 alcoholic drinks? Which one do you think was spiked?
Yeah, everyone wants office on their tablets. I do, my daughters and wife do, and just think of how stupid all those iPad users are going to feel when they see cool, cool windows tablets running a cut-down version of the latest version of Office. Excel on a train? No problem. Outlook in a nightclub? Sorted. Word in a park? Job done! I just hope Access works on mobile too - that would be sweet! I'd never leave the house! That'd show those Android using chumps!
What's special about Google Glass? What about Google Goggles, or indeed any of the various QR scanning apps available? Unless it has an "are you sure you want to visit this site" option (which understands URL shorteners), you're always going to be at risk. Glass owners are always going to be a tiny, tiny, tiny subset of the total number of Android users.
Why are Zip codes so lame? In the UK we have post codes, which are generally of the form:
XXN NXX
ie
LN2 3JN
and describe a small range of addresses. You can generally uniquely identify an address with just the house number and the postcode. What is the point of a Zip code, and not add the extra character and make it really useful?
Yes. The original device which inspired side-talking was a joke, but many smartphone users barely make any callers. They're called phones but they're really no more a phone than a laptop is. The phone part is just an app -one of hundreds of thousands available for all platforms (well, except Windows phones). You want a large screen so you can look at web pages, video etc. I don't think many people are that bothered about the whole `what you look like when you hold the phone to your head for a few minutes a month` thing.
Everyone knows it's a shit system - the same thing happens when privatised train companies underperform and get handed financial "penalties", but get to keep their franchise, get more subsidies from the government, put up prices, pay bonuses to the directors etc. But no-one seems interested in doing anything about it.
> I tend to judge leaders by those they choose to surround themselves with
Hmm. If the company tanks, no-one's going to remember those other people. Or the company, ultimately. In business, it's just profit that counts - keeping the company going, making products people want (or need). Currently, Microsoft don't seem to be doing very well, hence the falling PC sales, price cuts on Microsoft's overpriced tablets with poor battery life etc, shocking Windows 8 sales to which Microsoft reluctantly conceded needed a change so that people could actually use them the way they were used to etc. More time is needed to see if Microsoft can recover from these decisions or if the decline he's ruled over will continue until Microsoft exit the stage.
The average user doesn't care about it. I mean, if you ask them they'll say yes, but they don't do anything about it. Talk like they care, act like they don't. It's how governments get away with it in the first place. If this had kicked off pre-9/11 then things would be slightly different, but not much.
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> Part of it is in our heads. Also, we eat mammals, not creepy-crawlies, because mammals aren't
> poisonous. Meat (mammals, birds) is also highly concentrated food.
But we DO eat creepy crawlies, if by we you mean `humans`, as the OP stated. The other arguments about poison are pretty weak. It's trivial to only eat the non-poisonous ones, as is done with mushrooms, fish, plants etc. And your last "argument" about cats and dogs is pure nonsense.
> const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
Care to explain this sig file? I've seen it around a little, if only on your posts. Surely it's just 0x00010000 - a fixed point one, which will fit into modern int types?
Not affect.
It's time for someone to produce one of those things which actually work. That would be a novelty.
Some people are like that. And some are second generation immigrants, and when they get to their teens/20s and need to be rebellious about something (like everyone is at that age) they sometimes channel those energies into suicide attacks. The clowns who pulled off the attacks in England a few years back haven't "lost so much". They're just muppets.
> terrorists act the way they do not because they are crazy and evil, but because they believe they
> have legitimate grievances and that their cause is worth fighting for.
Some people who are described as terrorists do. Some don't. The people behind 9/11 came from a backwards culture AND were muslim. I think it's safe to say that they do have a cause, but that they were also crazy. It's an indication of how normal it's treated to follow any religion that picking any one religion appears odd. Religion will not be around forever, and people will look back and laugh at us for thinking we're advanced because we can attach jet engines to metal boxes and fly a short way to the moon, but all the time pretend some guy in the sky invented everything in the face of absolutely no evidence this is the case other than that every other fucker also believes it.
> I want a cheep device
You'll be wanting a sparrow, then!
Er...I think those arguments predate that movie. If we have to limit ourselves to movies any self-respecting nerd would be quoting Dark Star...
It's WikipediaMan!
NSA? CIA? "US Naval Research Lab"? Whatever. The authorities. The people who want to ensure things don't change because for those guys and their rich friends there's no recession, no energy crisis, no job insecurity, no risk from "terrorism" etc.
This, but without the sarcasm.
Like the policemen talking about the woman who drink 20 gin and tonics and claimed she'd been spiked with rohypnol. What were you doing drinking 20 alcoholic drinks? Which one do you think was spiked?
I think you're confusing Disney with some other company which does open source graphics software...
Yeah, everyone wants office on their tablets. I do, my daughters and wife do, and just think of how stupid all those iPad users are going to feel when they see cool, cool windows tablets running a cut-down version of the latest version of Office. Excel on a train? No problem. Outlook in a nightclub? Sorted. Word in a park? Job done! I just hope Access works on mobile too - that would be sweet! I'd never leave the house! That'd show those Android using chumps!
What's special about Google Glass? What about Google Goggles, or indeed any of the various QR scanning apps available? Unless it has an "are you sure you want to visit this site" option (which understands URL shorteners), you're always going to be at risk. Glass owners are always going to be a tiny, tiny, tiny subset of the total number of Android users.
Why are Zip codes so lame? In the UK we have post codes, which are generally of the form:
XXN NXX
ie
LN2 3JN
and describe a small range of addresses. You can generally uniquely identify an address with just the house number and the postcode. What is the point of a Zip code, and not add the extra character and make it really useful?
No, but I happen to enjoy profanity. So do a lot of other people. If you don't like it there's always the Disney channel.
I'm peer reviewing it for him right now, only I'm very busy. Remind me again, is it `heat bad, cold good` or is it the other way around.
Yes. The original device which inspired side-talking was a joke, but many smartphone users barely make any callers. They're called phones but they're really no more a phone than a laptop is. The phone part is just an app -one of hundreds of thousands available for all platforms (well, except Windows phones). You want a large screen so you can look at web pages, video etc. I don't think many people are that bothered about the whole `what you look like when you hold the phone to your head for a few minutes a month` thing.
Well that's that sorted then.
Everyone knows it's a shit system - the same thing happens when privatised train companies underperform and get handed financial "penalties", but get to keep their franchise, get more subsidies from the government, put up prices, pay bonuses to the directors etc. But no-one seems interested in doing anything about it.
> the same Pakistan that has a nuclear bombs and a missile to deliver them 2500 km?
Yeah, they've got money. Other countries have bought them, or paid for foreign (typically Russian) engineers to build them for you.
No highs. No lows. It's Bose.
Yep, I'm sticking with Sennheiser.
> I tend to judge leaders by those they choose to surround themselves with
Hmm. If the company tanks, no-one's going to remember those other people. Or the company, ultimately. In business, it's just profit that counts - keeping the company going, making products people want (or need). Currently, Microsoft don't seem to be doing very well, hence the falling PC sales, price cuts on Microsoft's overpriced tablets with poor battery life etc, shocking Windows 8 sales to which Microsoft reluctantly conceded needed a change so that people could actually use them the way they were used to etc. More time is needed to see if Microsoft can recover from these decisions or if the decline he's ruled over will continue until Microsoft exit the stage.
Dropbox encourage encryption. So it's not clear what you're talking about.
The average user doesn't care about it. I mean, if you ask them they'll say yes, but they don't do anything about it. Talk like they care, act like they don't. It's how governments get away with it in the first place. If this had kicked off pre-9/11 then things would be slightly different, but not much.
> He knows very well which side his peta bread is buttered on.
Is that a vegetarian snack?
Perhaps they're investigating which boat full of protestors they're going to blow up next.