Too true. Back when IBM was king, or AT&T, lots of genuine new inventions can from their labs. Now we have Apple and Microsoft, who seem to invent very little, just buying up some real innovations (e.g. Siri) so nobody else can share them. With all their billions, has Apple or Microsoft ever invented anything interesting - like a new display or input technology? Has either made real contributions to the science of filesystems or networking protocols?
Don't you see a big difference between selective breeding and mixing the genetic material of organisms that could never otherwise mate?
Much of the plant food you eat has been produced by crossing species that do not otherwise mate. GM foods are safer, as they involve a much smaller more targeted gene transfer, and have much more testing.
2009: Researchers: Somebody set up us the seawall. Japan Atomic Power: Main wall turn on. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO): All our time are belong to us. 2011: Researchers: You have no chance to survive make your time. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO): For great justice.
Back in the day, you could recompile Linux in 4MB on a 386 in a few hours. Thats mega-, not giga-. Good thing, since building your own kernel was almost compulsory before kernel modules were invented. For Android to _require_ 4000X that seems a little bloated. I know it has a lot more than a kernel, but do all those parts really have to be compiled at the same time?
As long as we're in fantasy land, why not get it from the Sun ? It's a lot closer.
I was going to say because of the gravity well - it is much harder to lift things from the Sun's deeper well. But then I remembered we were talking about helium, so you can just float it up. Getting it down to ground level from earth orbit is the hard part.
At least naming them after deserts is better than the vulgar and juvenile sexual terms many FOSS projects use (gimp, kuntlik, fetchmail, jizm, I'm looking at you!)
Playpens _are_ the answer, if you want to interact with an under-2, while working with dangerous tools (cooking, ironing, soldering). Even a crawling baby can move very fast. Though these days, with open-plan homes, it is usually easier to put a gate on the kitchen area and have the parent in the pen.
Is a government not the politicians and government employees?
No, the government does not include opposition politicians or public servants who remain in place with a change of government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
Replace enough of Congress and you can get something done.
But you replaced the whole federal executive in your last election, and almost nothing changed. Judging by the complete lack of prosecutions on Wall St, the same people still hold the real power.
I left Edison off the list because he was a bit too much like Jobs for my taste.
You might argue that Ritchie and Edison changed the world far more than those other people. Most of them are famous for discoveries of important things. Rightly so, but they were there at the right time and place. If Einstein had not discovered relativity, someone else would have. If Bell Labs had not provided Unix, we might by running Classic MacOS with co-operative multitasking and NetBIOS. The internet would be called Compuserve/AOL. and you could buy shares in it.
Neither is a grammatically correct sentence, as they lack a main verb. Not even a correct clause, though both are clear enough. There seem to be no rules governing grammar of article headlines.
TFS says "tests at the age of 113 showed she had the mental abilities of a woman aged 60-75 years." But wiki article says she moved into a nursing home at 105. Why was that?
It is possible to fire a government, usually. You'd have recall elections, petitions, etc.
Governments can be fired by the head of state, or by the elected parliament. A "recall election" makes no sense as governments are not directly elected. Yes, slingshots and crossbows are somewhat banned. Gun ownership is still high outside the cities, but here we prefer to use them for sport than for killing people.
, while Jesus laid out very few hard-and-fast rules (hence the schisms in the church), on one point he was very clear: honour the laws of God and of man.
He was also very clear that the old testament laws should be followed, and criticised the Pharisees for being too soft, e.g. not stoning rebellious children to death. Be careful about advocating laws supported by Jesus.
Why do they still bother racing in the Northern Territory? It was one of the few places in the world without road speed limits until 2007. Now there is a 110km/hr limit.
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there are 600 cars taking their kids to school at the same time as another 600 kids are walking
So ban car drop-offs with less than four kids. It might do something about the diabetes and obesity epidemics as well.
Anyone who would slog through all those one question per page pages has a two digit IQ, disqualifying them for either term "nerd" or "geek".
The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
Too true. Back when IBM was king, or AT&T, lots of genuine new inventions can from their labs.
Now we have Apple and Microsoft, who seem to invent very little, just buying up some real innovations (e.g. Siri) so nobody else can share them.
With all their billions, has Apple or Microsoft ever invented anything interesting - like a new display or input technology?
Has either made real contributions to the science of filesystems or networking protocols?
Don't you see a big difference between selective breeding and mixing the genetic material of organisms that could never otherwise mate?
Much of the plant food you eat has been produced by crossing species that do not otherwise mate. GM foods are safer, as they involve a much smaller more targeted gene transfer, and have much more testing.
It also has to do with US government policies that end up incentivizing
How much US creativity is squandered on making up new jargon words like that, when perfectly cromulent words (e.g. motivate) exist already?
He was right there, no question the sig. was legit. I offered 25% cashing fee and they still wouldn't do it.
I'll bet they were kicking themselves later when they recognised your friend Bill on the TV news.
My app "The Blue Flame of Death" will be in beta soon.
build a hard drive factory in response to a temporary shortage.....
No, just re-open the US HDD factories that got mothballed when production shifted to the far east.
All we need is a supply of PCIe ST-506 controllers.
Translation from original Japanese:
2009:
Researchers: Somebody set up us the seawall.
Japan Atomic Power: Main wall turn on.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO): All our time are belong to us.
2011:
Researchers: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO): For great justice.
"5+ hours of CPU time for a single build, 25+ minutes of wall time"
On a system with two quad-core CPUs, how can you get 300 minutes of core time in 25 of wall? Does not add up.
Back in the day, you could recompile Linux in 4MB on a 386 in a few hours. Thats mega-, not giga-.
Good thing, since building your own kernel was almost compulsory before kernel modules were invented.
For Android to _require_ 4000X that seems a little bloated. I know it has a lot more than a kernel, but do all those parts really have to be compiled at the same time?
As long as we're in fantasy land, why not get it from the Sun ? It's a lot closer.
I was going to say because of the gravity well - it is much harder to lift things from the Sun's deeper well.
But then I remembered we were talking about helium, so you can just float it up. Getting it down to ground level from earth orbit is the hard part.
That video should be titled too much HFCS. Not too much sugar.
No, HFCS is an American thing. The obesity epidemic and oil depletion are global.
At least naming them after deserts is better than the vulgar and juvenile sexual terms many FOSS projects use (gimp, kuntlik, fetchmail, jizm, I'm looking at you!)
Onanistic Ocelot?
Playpens _are_ the answer, if you want to interact with an under-2, while working with dangerous tools (cooking, ironing, soldering).
Even a crawling baby can move very fast.
Though these days, with open-plan homes, it is usually easier to put a gate on the kitchen area and have the parent in the pen.
More V14GRA spam.
Is a government not the politicians and government employees?
No, the government does not include opposition politicians or public servants who remain in place with a change of government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government
Replace enough of Congress and you can get something done.
But you replaced the whole federal executive in your last election, and almost nothing changed.
Judging by the complete lack of prosecutions on Wall St, the same people still hold the real power.
Where is the "+1 troll" button?
I left Edison off the list because he was a bit too much like Jobs for my taste.
You might argue that Ritchie and Edison changed the world far more than those other people.
Most of them are famous for discoveries of important things. Rightly so, but they were there at the right time and place.
If Einstein had not discovered relativity, someone else would have.
If Bell Labs had not provided Unix, we might by running Classic MacOS with co-operative multitasking and NetBIOS. The internet would be called Compuserve/AOL.
and you could buy shares in it.
Neither is a grammatically correct sentence, as they lack a main verb. Not even a correct clause, though both are clear enough.
There seem to be no rules governing grammar of article headlines.
RMS? I rather give my body to Bill Gates.
He is waiting.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/uploads/post-59416-1105987532.jpg
TFS says "tests at the age of 113 showed she had the mental abilities of a woman aged 60-75 years."
But wiki article says she moved into a nursing home at 105. Why was that?
It is possible to fire a government, usually. You'd have recall elections, petitions, etc.
Governments can be fired by the head of state, or by the elected parliament. A "recall election" makes no sense as governments are not directly elected.
Yes, slingshots and crossbows are somewhat banned. Gun ownership is still high outside the cities, but here we prefer to use them for sport than for killing people.
, while Jesus laid out very few hard-and-fast rules (hence the schisms in the church), on one point he was very clear: honour the laws of God and of man .
He was also very clear that the old testament laws should be followed, and criticised the Pharisees for being too soft, e.g. not stoning rebellious children to death.
Be careful about advocating laws supported by Jesus.
Why do they still bother racing in the Northern Territory?
It was one of the few places in the world without road speed limits until 2007. Now there is a 110km/hr limit.