me and a bunch of friends were out on a week long mountain biking trip in the wilderness Moab, Utah
the third night out we were treated to the full lunar eclipse that occured while the Hale-Bopp Comet was visible
we were toally awed by the celestial display
one of my friends commented that "A few thousand years ago, this would have been taken as an omen. Perhaps an omen of the end of the earth!"
we all chuckled and got a bit smug about how far we've come as a civilization
five days later we returned from the wilderness, switched on the TV in the motel room and were treated to the news of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe (about 20 minutes from where we all grew up).
We had to re-evaluate our smug attitude about how far our civilization has progressed.
Just stepped out of the cave.
Indeed.
"it is plain obvious that the markets cannot grow forever"...... The markets absolutely CAN grow forever. The problem is that the markets cannot grow fast enough in the near future (say the next century) to maintain the kind of prosperity that many are accustomed to.
And that about sums it up. We use XML only when we're integrating with some external system that talks via XML. Internally, we always put data into a database rather than an XML document.
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me and a bunch of friends were out on a week long mountain biking trip in the wilderness Moab, Utah the third night out we were treated to the full lunar eclipse that occured while the Hale-Bopp Comet was visible we were toally awed by the celestial display one of my friends commented that "A few thousand years ago, this would have been taken as an omen. Perhaps an omen of the end of the earth!" we all chuckled and got a bit smug about how far we've come as a civilization five days later we returned from the wilderness, switched on the TV in the motel room and were treated to the news of the Heaven's Gate mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe (about 20 minutes from where we all grew up). We had to re-evaluate our smug attitude about how far our civilization has progressed. Just stepped out of the cave. Indeed.
"it is plain obvious that the markets cannot grow forever"...... The markets absolutely CAN grow forever. The problem is that the markets cannot grow fast enough in the near future (say the next century) to maintain the kind of prosperity that many are accustomed to.
thank you Fiorina :-(
Java, a crippled language that's all hype and no substance Bitter C++ programmer?
And that about sums it up. We use XML only when we're integrating with some external system that talks via XML. Internally, we always put data into a database rather than an XML document.
subject should read.... "genetically engineered hydrogen producing bacteria"
Lets just modify some photosynthetic bacteria to exhale hydrogen! Just be sure it doesn't get loose into the oceans!
Yes indeed. Moreover, it is this demostration of how light waves DO indeed interfere with each other which gives rise to quantum physics!