Every couple months, a small group of "scientists" rushes out, states that the Earth is the warmest ever, ignoring any facts, then go back to hide for another couple months. For those that care to look for themselves, the hottest year on record was 1998, and temperature has held stable since 2001. So yeah, you've been lied to, again, by the enviro-alarmists, but that's how they get funding. A little set of facts to start off with can be found at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhM GIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFlNjc=. There is no excuse for the blatant stupidity and carping that passes itself off as science simply to scare people into giving them money. You need to go somewhere else, stop making flamewars about junk science, and go back to empirical observation and the scientific method.
(which is *only* 1200 lines less than the national average of 6200 lines of code per year).
Yeah, so? You have no idea if that 5000 lines of code is faster, more efficent and easier to modify than that 6200 lines of code. Don't you remember the Apple story? Stupid ignorant nubs.
As if the Union of Concerned Scientists isn't infamous for perverting science for its own political ends itself. Real science that contradicts the Union of Concerned Scientists highly normative ideologically-based junk science? No, can't have that, people might begin to question the agenda, and more importantly, the funding, of "scientific" special interest groups.
The uber-parent never heard of the infamous Great Molasses Flood? I'm totally shocked that someone could have gone through life and never heard of this. I have lived in New England most of my life, mostly in Massachusetts, but I keep coming across stories of this event that aren't at all something that only New Englanders would have heard about. Amazing ignorance, or just not well read?
It's ugly, looks very un-efficient and un-techie, and looks like it has been shat out of a Barbie using an iMac. Slashdot had better allow us to choose our versions, or else the vast majority of Slashdotters will be very, very pissed, I think. I don't like change for the sake of change, especially if the old version works better than the "new and improved" version.
You really think it's a good idea to have big government barging and telling people what they can and can't do on the internet? Wasn't one of the cool things about the internet was that it was supposed to be independent from government regulation and control? That it would allow for experimentation and innovation for both individuals and businesses, and not be told what we can and can't do?
Having a link in the uber-parent to one of Chomsky's endless rants against the United States strikes a terrible blow to the overall seriousness of the issue at hand. Chomsky is a crackpot, is trained in linguistics, not geo-politics, political theory, et al, and giving airs to this guy who will be completely forgotten in 50 years is not a very good way to build up any crediblity. I'm certain that a link from a reputable person of scholarly merits could have been found focusing on whether the US would have bugged the Chinese given the chance in situations X, Y and Z. Playing to the fringe may excite those who are too young or ignorant to know any better, but it makes Slashdot look very stupid.
I would never join a union, even if it meant the loss of my job or a lower salary. Unions are economic destructionists, and eat what they infest alive. They are violent, enrich the union leaders at the expense of the workers, cheat, depress wages in non-union sectors, and force all workers to join a union in in non Right to Work states. The US economy is 40% smaller than it would have been otherwise. How much would your standard of life improve if everyone was on average 40% wealthier?
It sounds like you can no longer perform your job, due to personal circumstances. Instead of mistreating others, even with a smile on, try taking a haitus, or quitting and taking something you can handle.
I have mixed feelings about getting another TP. I bought a TP T42 a bit before the acquisition, and it had screen issues, some parts just feel not tied down to anything (most notably the lower right palmrest area), and the rear ports aren't lined up exactly, most notably the AC port. I had to fight with IBM to get the screen replaced after they damaged it replacing the first screen, which had a number of dead pixels. When they shipped it back, the LCD bezel had gouges all over the place. So I had to send it in again to have the LCD bezel replaced. I believe that TPs are still the best laptop out there, but that's because everything else is really crappy, while TPs are just sort of crappy. And the Trackpoint. I don't know if IBM (which I know is sending its laptops to outsourced repair depots) has decided to stop trying or was this bad in support previously, or if they decided to make shoddier TPs sometime before the deal went through. In a couple years, I want another TP, but Lenovo had better cut their prices and offer the old IBM quality and support, or else I might take a hard look at the poor man's TP, the Toshiba.
Since the statute predates the Constitution of the U.S., a clever lawyer could argue it applies here equally.
Or maybe just a trolling legal neophyte. English statute law prior to 1789 is in no way relevant to US statute law. Our legal system was largely based on English common law, but that's totally separate from statute law. The US declared independence from Great Britain in 1776; being no longer under the rule British government, the US ceased to be beholden to her laws, past, present and future. The parent post is totally nonsensical on this point, and could be living in a time warp, or maybe is so ignorant of the world stage as to believe the US' head of state is HRM Queen Elizabeth II.
"A bona fide installation disc for Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Home or Professional (No multi-disc, upgrade or Media Center versions.)"
Well, apparently Apple wants us to all go out and buy the full version of Windows XP, which is far more expensive than the upgrade version. It seems to me that many of us who run Windows have an Upgrade version (mine goes back to NT 4.0). Is this just a beta issue, or will the actual release be limited to the Full Verson only? It's odd that Apple states a "bona fide" installation disc, to the exclusion of an upgrade CD, which has the same data as the full version on it. What would a multi-disc version be, anyways?
These guys seem to have a pretty weird idea of what Wikipedia is. It's chock full of errors and trash, badly written and formulated articles, and sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is lying or not. I work on Wikipedia, but there's no way that this form of document creation is ever going to be as reliable, credible and well-sourced as single/couple authored documents, and I don't think it was even meant to be.
I haven't moved to Linux not because of the lack of MS Office, but because Linux interacts bizarrely with PC hardware, especially networking. Networking can be fine one minute, then go out on the next. The sound server, lack of 3D accleration, and buggy software round out the package. Linux is very difficult to uninstall, and tends to render Windows unbootable sans some heavy duty wrangling. Linux, being second to Windows, has to play nice, and not take total control of the MBR and boot loader. Now, I'm sure that most of my criticisms can be answered by seasoned Linux admins, but Usenet and mail lists are quite useless for anything but the most basic Linux problems. If Linux is unusable for those who have been in IT for many years as a desktop solution, it's market penetration will remain close to nil. On servers that have gone through heavy testing prior to certification, yes, Linux may be a good choice, but not the desktop.
This isn't a new idea. Applied Technologies has a similiar concept in 1985, called the "Computer In a Book." Kudos for the new peopel for applying the concept to a modern format, but it's disingenuous to tout it as some breakthrough, innovative new product idea.
This isn't a new idea. Applied Technologies has a similiar concept in 1985, called the "Computer In a Book." Kudos for the new peopel for applying the concept to a modern format, but it's disingenuous to tout it as some breakthrough, innovative new product idea.
I want one, but for fencing. A boxing robot is pretty simplistic, compared.
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Only idiots think that opening a hard drive will somehow destroy it. Hard drives can be opened, left that way, and run for quite a long time. It's not recommended, but having a running hard drive in the open air is nothing special. It's even less special if you cover it back up again.
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1% of scientists, not all of them climatologists. Which could be one thousand or more, actually, as there are so many scientists.
Every couple months, a small group of "scientists" rushes out, states that the Earth is the warmest ever, ignoring any facts, then go back to hide for another couple months. For those that care to look for themselves, the hottest year on record was 1998, and temperature has held stable since 2001. So yeah, you've been lied to, again, by the enviro-alarmists, but that's how they get funding. A little set of facts to start off with can be found at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhM GIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFlNjc=. There is no excuse for the blatant stupidity and carping that passes itself off as science simply to scare people into giving them money. You need to go somewhere else, stop making flamewars about junk science, and go back to empirical observation and the scientific method.
Yeah, so? You have no idea if that 5000 lines of code is faster, more efficent and easier to modify than that 6200 lines of code. Don't you remember the Apple story? Stupid ignorant nubs.
As if the Union of Concerned Scientists isn't infamous for perverting science for its own political ends itself. Real science that contradicts the Union of Concerned Scientists highly normative ideologically-based junk science? No, can't have that, people might begin to question the agenda, and more importantly, the funding, of "scientific" special interest groups.
I don't have a social group... :-(
The uber-parent never heard of the infamous Great Molasses Flood? I'm totally shocked that someone could have gone through life and never heard of this. I have lived in New England most of my life, mostly in Massachusetts, but I keep coming across stories of this event that aren't at all something that only New Englanders would have heard about. Amazing ignorance, or just not well read?
It's ugly, looks very un-efficient and un-techie, and looks like it has been shat out of a Barbie using an iMac. Slashdot had better allow us to choose our versions, or else the vast majority of Slashdotters will be very, very pissed, I think. I don't like change for the sake of change, especially if the old version works better than the "new and improved" version.
You really think it's a good idea to have big government barging and telling people what they can and can't do on the internet? Wasn't one of the cool things about the internet was that it was supposed to be independent from government regulation and control? That it would allow for experimentation and innovation for both individuals and businesses, and not be told what we can and can't do?
Having a link in the uber-parent to one of Chomsky's endless rants against the United States strikes a terrible blow to the overall seriousness of the issue at hand. Chomsky is a crackpot, is trained in linguistics, not geo-politics, political theory, et al, and giving airs to this guy who will be completely forgotten in 50 years is not a very good way to build up any crediblity. I'm certain that a link from a reputable person of scholarly merits could have been found focusing on whether the US would have bugged the Chinese given the chance in situations X, Y and Z. Playing to the fringe may excite those who are too young or ignorant to know any better, but it makes Slashdot look very stupid.
I would never join a union, even if it meant the loss of my job or a lower salary. Unions are economic destructionists, and eat what they infest alive. They are violent, enrich the union leaders at the expense of the workers, cheat, depress wages in non-union sectors, and force all workers to join a union in in non Right to Work states. The US economy is 40% smaller than it would have been otherwise. How much would your standard of life improve if everyone was on average 40% wealthier?
It sounds like you can no longer perform your job, due to personal circumstances. Instead of mistreating others, even with a smile on, try taking a haitus, or quitting and taking something you can handle.
I have mixed feelings about getting another TP. I bought a TP T42 a bit before the acquisition, and it had screen issues, some parts just feel not tied down to anything (most notably the lower right palmrest area), and the rear ports aren't lined up exactly, most notably the AC port. I had to fight with IBM to get the screen replaced after they damaged it replacing the first screen, which had a number of dead pixels. When they shipped it back, the LCD bezel had gouges all over the place. So I had to send it in again to have the LCD bezel replaced. I believe that TPs are still the best laptop out there, but that's because everything else is really crappy, while TPs are just sort of crappy. And the Trackpoint. I don't know if IBM (which I know is sending its laptops to outsourced repair depots) has decided to stop trying or was this bad in support previously, or if they decided to make shoddier TPs sometime before the deal went through. In a couple years, I want another TP, but Lenovo had better cut their prices and offer the old IBM quality and support, or else I might take a hard look at the poor man's TP, the Toshiba.
Or maybe just a trolling legal neophyte. English statute law prior to 1789 is in no way relevant to US statute law. Our legal system was largely based on English common law, but that's totally separate from statute law. The US declared independence from Great Britain in 1776; being no longer under the rule British government, the US ceased to be beholden to her laws, past, present and future. The parent post is totally nonsensical on this point, and could be living in a time warp, or maybe is so ignorant of the world stage as to believe the US' head of state is HRM Queen Elizabeth II.
Figures that people so scientifically illiterate that they'd believe in global warming would still believe in nuclear winter too.
I think I mentioned that, somewhere. It's not a technical reality, it's either sloppy design or some sort of licencing snafu.
Well, apparently Apple wants us to all go out and buy the full version of Windows XP, which is far more expensive than the upgrade version. It seems to me that many of us who run Windows have an Upgrade version (mine goes back to NT 4.0). Is this just a beta issue, or will the actual release be limited to the Full Verson only? It's odd that Apple states a "bona fide" installation disc, to the exclusion of an upgrade CD, which has the same data as the full version on it. What would a multi-disc version be, anyways?
You could just try organizing by subject and author, instead of turning it into a technological fetish.
These guys seem to have a pretty weird idea of what Wikipedia is. It's chock full of errors and trash, badly written and formulated articles, and sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is lying or not. I work on Wikipedia, but there's no way that this form of document creation is ever going to be as reliable, credible and well-sourced as single/couple authored documents, and I don't think it was even meant to be.
Trigun, don't feed the anoynmous trolls! And being an extreme-right winger myself, disabled users sounds like a great underexploited market niche.
The article headline is a bad joke, right?
I haven't moved to Linux not because of the lack of MS Office, but because Linux interacts bizarrely with PC hardware, especially networking. Networking can be fine one minute, then go out on the next. The sound server, lack of 3D accleration, and buggy software round out the package. Linux is very difficult to uninstall, and tends to render Windows unbootable sans some heavy duty wrangling. Linux, being second to Windows, has to play nice, and not take total control of the MBR and boot loader. Now, I'm sure that most of my criticisms can be answered by seasoned Linux admins, but Usenet and mail lists are quite useless for anything but the most basic Linux problems. If Linux is unusable for those who have been in IT for many years as a desktop solution, it's market penetration will remain close to nil. On servers that have gone through heavy testing prior to certification, yes, Linux may be a good choice, but not the desktop.
See: APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES Computer In a Book
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I want one, but for fencing. A boxing robot is pretty simplistic, compared.
Only idiots think that opening a hard drive will somehow destroy it. Hard drives can be opened, left that way, and run for quite a long time. It's not recommended, but having a running hard drive in the open air is nothing special. It's even less special if you cover it back up again.