We have disproven that communism is good by showing, under every axiom we have, that communism does not meet those axioms of being good.
While I'm not a proponent of communism, I find your simplistic argument wanting. You haven't demonstrated that the axioms provided are the only axioms available. You've also assumed that the worst examples of communism are representative of the ideals of communism, which is in all likelihood false. You also fail to take into consideration that there were communistic societies in the United States (eg: various hippy communes in the sixties) which celebrated life, liberty, and they pursued happiness in a communal manner. Are all forms of communism bad? Maybe, maybe not. But I'm certainly not swayed by your argument.
There you go - I can get a very good 19" CRT for around that, that will do higher resolutions and cope with games just fine.
Don't forget that a 19" CRT has about the same viewable area as a 17" TFT. Also factoring in power requirements, etc. then depending on usage, the CRT might be more expensive in the long run. Though for color saturation, resolution independence, etc. a CRT *is* really hard to beat... for now.
"Along with the SDK, id plans to release a web site link with some tutorials on the tools that was written mainly by Harris."
The phrase "was written" is interesting. It implies that the subject is singular, as in "the apple was chosen" -- if the subject were plural, the phrase would be "the apples were chosen". So if we look in the sentence for the singular subject, the only thing that's singular in that sentence is "a web site link". Ergo, we can conclude that Intern Harris wrote only the link and not the tutorials nor the tools. For an intern, I'd say that sounds about right.:)
As an aside, didn't AT&T purchase this technology from Lernout & Hauspie many many years ago, back in the dot-com days? The quality of this speech seems to be a bit poorer than others I've heard, but of course it depends on the quality of the phoneme recording by the voice actors. A good, consistent recording will allow the parts of speech to be strung together without variances in intonation... some of the voices are choppy probably due to these inconsistencies in recording.
I think Dell uses this voice for their technical support.:)
Absent of any other forces, you can never tack towards a star using the force applied from that star and a solar sail. You know, conservation of momentum and all that. That'd be like trying to hit the eight ball with the cue ball and (without rebounds off the cushion or using gravity to jump over) having the eight ball move towards the cue ball -- no matter how fine an angle you cut it on the side, it'll never happen.
Same principles apply as in Earth-based ocean sailing - if you angle the sail, you can deflect the particles, thus allowing you to use the solar wind of another star even though you are approaching it rather than leaving it.
Regardless of space or the ocean, basic principles of physics apply. Action and reaction.
Uh, that's a resounding negative, Houston. In the ocean, we have this thing called *water* in which one sails. Action: wind pushes against sails from somewhere near the front. Reaction: sail pushes back agains wind and pushes into the water; water pushes back, and ship tends to go forward. In space, there is no dense medium through which one sails. Action: photons from a star push against sails from somewhere near the front. Reaction: ship pushes back and moves further away from the star. You can't "tack" in a vacuum.
It could totally backfire if MS says "we dint give you permission to do that." MS has made murmurs before about limiting SP's to only verified serial #s. (I don't remember what the outcome of that was. A refresher would be appreciated.) If the SP's given out when MS is trying to control it, then you'll have made MS an enemy of it. Bad news.
Bit risky if you ask me.
Why is it risky? Microsoft provides the download to anybody with a web browser. I'm downloading XP SP2 on a Mac right now, directly from Microsoft's website. So they're clearly not checking for valid serials before allowing the download. Perhaps the *install* is a different matter, however.
As an aside, I'm also getting *much* better bandwidth directly from Microsoft than from the torrent.
Should've used a faster connection. I've seen up to 3MB/s on some downloads, and that was on an old Pentium Pro system.
On another note, the torrent file's MIME type on the site is set to plain text. They might want to fix that for browsers which are actually compliant...:)
After a few tries, the person at the register wrapped it in Saran Wrap (I'm not kidding!)
Are you sure it was Saran Wrap and not, say, Reynolds Wrap, Glad Wrap, or any of the other hundreds of major name- and noname- brands (many private labeled from other brands) available outside of the mighty US of A?:)
Your assumption of a 1,000,000 word list is far-fetched. Sure, there may be that many words in the English language, but my/usr/share/dict/words file has a little over 200,000. If you strip off the uncommon words, you could probably get by with only 50,000 common words. That reduces the search space by quite a bit. How many people would use "Zygosaccharomyces" in their passwords?
$1500 is about a third of my laptop. What about the rest?
There's this wonderful product called insurance, where you pay $X/year to cover the odd chance that a product you own gets stolen. It's available for cars, jewelry, cameras, and also laptops amongst other things. You really should check out this revolutionary new financial product.
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We have disproven that communism is good by showing, under every axiom we have, that communism does not meet those axioms of being good.
While I'm not a proponent of communism, I find your simplistic argument wanting. You haven't demonstrated that the axioms provided are the only axioms available. You've also assumed that the worst examples of communism are representative of the ideals of communism, which is in all likelihood false. You also fail to take into consideration that there were communistic societies in the United States (eg: various hippy communes in the sixties) which celebrated life, liberty, and they pursued happiness in a communal manner. Are all forms of communism bad? Maybe, maybe not. But I'm certainly not swayed by your argument.
Yeah, sure, capitalists don't point AKs to anybody's head.
What about the Patriot AKt?
There you go - I can get a very good 19" CRT for around that, that will do higher resolutions and cope with games just fine.
Don't forget that a 19" CRT has about the same viewable area as a 17" TFT. Also factoring in power requirements, etc. then depending on usage, the CRT might be more expensive in the long run. Though for color saturation, resolution independence, etc. a CRT *is* really hard to beat... for now.
Why is coffee so popular?
We're just not physically constructed so to endure 8+ daily hours of work.
So without coffee, people would be unable to work an 8 hour day? You're not from Seattle by chance, are you?
Not to mention that slashdot isn't a person, so it should be:
"Are you aware to where you are posting?"
I just gave up and chose something that was close.
Well, at least you didn't spell it diarrhetics.
Perhaps, but read the quote again:
:)
"Along with the SDK, id plans to release a web site link with some tutorials on the tools that was written mainly by Harris."
The phrase "was written" is interesting. It implies that the subject is singular, as in "the apple was chosen" -- if the subject were plural, the phrase would be "the apples were chosen". So if we look in the sentence for the singular subject, the only thing that's singular in that sentence is "a web site link". Ergo, we can conclude that Intern Harris wrote only the link and not the tutorials nor the tools. For an intern, I'd say that sounds about right.
"whale oil beef hooked" - Audrey
:)
As an aside, didn't AT&T purchase this technology from Lernout & Hauspie many many years ago, back in the dot-com days? The quality of this speech seems to be a bit poorer than others I've heard, but of course it depends on the quality of the phoneme recording by the voice actors. A good, consistent recording will allow the parts of speech to be strung together without variances in intonation... some of the voices are choppy probably due to these inconsistencies in recording.
I think Dell uses this voice for their technical support.
The megaraid manpage seems to indicate support for RAID level 5; but the GUI in disk utility still only offers the old 0 and 1.
Do you have 3 or more identical volumes to try it on?
Too bad their finance department doesn't know the definition of "cusomer service."
:)
Come to think of it, I don't know the definition of that myself.
No, my enemy? I don't get it. Sheesh... at least get the grammar correct. You mean "No, You're Enemy". You're == You Are.
but are GPLed programs allowed to take BSD code in their projects?
Yes, if done properly. Here's an interesting discussion on how not to do it.
You can "tack" using solar sails.
Absent of any other forces, you can never tack towards a star using the force applied from that star and a solar sail. You know, conservation of momentum and all that. That'd be like trying to hit the eight ball with the cue ball and (without rebounds off the cushion or using gravity to jump over) having the eight ball move towards the cue ball -- no matter how fine an angle you cut it on the side, it'll never happen.
Same principles apply as in Earth-based ocean sailing - if you angle the sail, you can deflect the particles, thus allowing you to use the solar wind of another star even though you are approaching it rather than leaving it.
Regardless of space or the ocean, basic principles of physics apply. Action and reaction.
Uh, that's a resounding negative, Houston. In the ocean, we have this thing called *water* in which one sails. Action: wind pushes against sails from somewhere near the front. Reaction: sail pushes back agains wind and pushes into the water; water pushes back, and ship tends to go forward. In space, there is no dense medium through which one sails. Action: photons from a star push against sails from somewhere near the front. Reaction: ship pushes back and moves further away from the star. You can't "tack" in a vacuum.
So when you play Doom 50 you will be in a special suit that simulates blows...
What about a Leisure Suit Larry game that simulates blows? That'd sell like hotcakes!
Yes, he knows. And he doesn't seem to mind; I just checked my disk quota and it looks like he just allotted me a whole lot more space!
Yep... rm -rf * tends to give you a lot more space.
This is typical of every large company, I'm betting over 90$ of large american corperations have a hold off SP2
So if not *every* large company does this, does that mean you'll pay me $90?
It could totally backfire if MS says "we dint give you permission to do that." MS has made murmurs before about limiting SP's to only verified serial #s. (I don't remember what the outcome of that was. A refresher would be appreciated.) If the SP's given out when MS is trying to control it, then you'll have made MS an enemy of it. Bad news.
Bit risky if you ask me.
Why is it risky? Microsoft provides the download to anybody with a web browser. I'm downloading XP SP2 on a Mac right now, directly from Microsoft's website. So they're clearly not checking for valid serials before allowing the download. Perhaps the *install* is a different matter, however.
As an aside, I'm also getting *much* better bandwidth directly from Microsoft than from the torrent.
Well, unless someone hacked into microsoft.com and uploaded a trojan, I think it's the real deal.
Should've used a faster connection. I've seen up to 3MB/s on some downloads, and that was on an old Pentium Pro system.
:)
On another note, the torrent file's MIME type on the site is set to plain text. They might want to fix that for browsers which are actually compliant...
After a few tries, the person at the register wrapped it in Saran Wrap (I'm not kidding!)
:)
Are you sure it was Saran Wrap and not, say, Reynolds Wrap, Glad Wrap, or any of the other hundreds of major name- and noname- brands (many private labeled from other brands) available outside of the mighty US of A?
Usually one DOES have to rebuild after it EXPLODES!
Not always true -- the other alternatives are to give up trying altogether, or design an alternate rocket (which would be built, not rebuilt).
And here is a novell idea, make the systems more secure initally....
I wasn't aware that Novell pioneered that particular security scheme.
Your assumption of a 1,000,000 word list is far-fetched. Sure, there may be that many words in the English language, but my /usr/share/dict/words file has a little over 200,000. If you strip off the uncommon words, you could probably get by with only 50,000 common words. That reduces the search space by quite a bit. How many people would use "Zygosaccharomyces" in their passwords?
$1500 is about a third of my laptop. What about the rest?
There's this wonderful product called insurance, where you pay $X/year to cover the odd chance that a product you own gets stolen. It's available for cars, jewelry, cameras, and also laptops amongst other things. You really should check out this revolutionary new financial product.