I spent many years thinking that we should respect the religions of others; that people have the right to worship what and/or who they want. As I've grown older (and more dogmatic), I see this atitude as harmful. Pandering to superstition does nothing except encourage redneck savages to remove evolution from schools' curriculum. In the main, this change in attitude comes from the staggering hypocrisy displayed by most Christians (the religion with which I'm most familiar. I'm Irish). Hands up all the Christians out there who turn the other cheek? Hands up the christians who've never copied someone else's CD (Thou Shalt Not Steal)?
Wait, tell me again when Christians stopped being fallable human beings and started being Perfect? Last time I checked I was still human, I still did things that were wrong, I didn't always feel bad about it afterwards... I'm still a Christian, I still TRY to do the right thing. Of course, it's not always easy to tell what the Right Thing is with snap judgement, so I make mistakes. Are you infallible? Do you make no mistakes? Remember, Christians are People too.
And you are the type that makes the BOFH what he really is... a prick.
Exactly, if you're going to be an idiot I'm going to be a prick. If you have some desire to learn more than how to call me to fix your problem I'll be much nicer.
Also - after reading this article I have no sympathy for cDc getting the shaft by several anti-virus makers - when your image includes swear words and thinly-veiled slams on serious questions about your group - it's very difficult to take you guys seriously.
Then you MISSED THE POINT!! They don't want to be taken seriously! They are doing what they are interested in and DON'T GIVE A SHIT about you or your opinion. Just because they don't consider programming to be the focus of the group doesn't make them skript kiddies. Programming isn't the main focus of my work either, does that make me a script kiddie? NO! It makes me a fucking Tech Guru. Just because someone isn't a programmer doesn't mean they can't program or should be considered a script kiddie. The CDC developed a useful tool and gave it away. That was just a side affect of their normal lunatic activities, which is exactly the way they like it. Don't blame them for not being 'Suits' just because you think they should be all stodgy and corporate.
The biggest problem with OSS is that there are always people willing to fix your software for you or upgrade it for free. That's a hell of a big assumption. Right now, the economy is good, so there are lots of college kids and uber-geeks with enough free time to write code for free, great. What if the economy goes in the toilet? What if OSS isn't "cool" anymore (I don't happen to think that it is)? OSS relies on people's good nature to get software written. That's just plain crazy! No company, with any kind of clue, would base something as important as their computers' OS on people's good nature. Anybody who does, deserves to, and more than likely will get hit in the face for it. You simply don't get shit for free. You're kidding yourself if you think that you do.
You make an erroneous assumption. The affects of 'Good Will' on the OSS industry are secondary to the driving force of Self Interest. The people who hack on linux are people who want their OS to do more than the commercial alternatives. No one does work on OSS just out of the goodness of their heart, they do it because they want to see a certain feature develop for their own use. They don't care if anyone else uses it, as long as they get to use it. Good will is secondary.
btw call me stupid, but what is the difference between a CEO (ChiefExacutiveOfficer?), CTO, COO, Cwhatever, where these American sites always talk about?
Would someone care to explain how GPAs are calculated for those non-Americans among us? What's a typical/good value? Oh, and the same applies for SATs.
GPA is calculated as follows: anything below a 70 is a 1.9 or lower, which is failing. 2.0 is from 70-79, 3.0 is from 80-89, 4.0 is from 90-100.
So, my GPA of 2.3 is about a 73 on a conventional grading scale.
SAT scores go up to 1600, with half coming from the Verbal portion and half from the Math. So, my scores of 800 on the Verbal (Perfect) and 650 on the math (Damn trigonometry) are very good, but not the best.
The other Big Test is the ACT which is on a scale up to 36, my score of a 32 is good enough for governors honors in Georgia, but not quite perfect.
First their are a number of practical problems in the way. The biggest one I see is computational and storage power. If each one of these little nanites is going to be self replicating, then it is going to need to contain, within itself, instructions to build a complete replica of itself with the materials it can find. This in itself is no small task, as the nanities will be neccessarly very complex machines. Also necessar are instructions to do all the various tasks that the machine will be designed to caryout. Human cells are increadibly complex living machines. The idea that a nanoscale machine will be able to contain directions for repairing all of the millions of types of cells in the human body to me seems to be a vary long way off, if not impossible altogether
Everyone seems to be assuming that the nanites will be autonomous creations which react of their own volition. I don't see that as a viable option at all. Instead I would propose that a central computer system be used to coordinate the nanites, it would contain all information and processing power that the nanites needed. The only obstacle then is communication. The nanites must communicate their surroundings to the base machine and the base must send out commands to the nanites. This brings up two problems, 1. The nanites must be able to 'know' their surroundings somehow to transfer the info back. 2. There must be some way for communication to take place.
Once those two are taken care of, I don't see a problem with coordinating 40 trillion nanites to manufacture a car from a pile of dirt.
An alternative to this would be instead of using nanites as labor, we simply use them to manufactor raw materials and/or fuel from more common substances. Imagine being able to take a bigass sand dune from the Sahara and turn it into steel plates or something of the sort. In order to revolutionize industry the nanites need not replace labor.
The article was ok until I found the word list from "The Anti-Defamation League". Vince Foster? Ollie North? Gun? These people are loonies. Somehow I doubt the NSA has time to pore over messages that contain the word 'gun' or 'drug', much less crackpot militia theories about Vince Foster. And I'm sure the NSA is real worried about the remaning Davidians.
's why I did a shorter list, FBI, C4 Mossad, Kill, President, NSA, a few others... Things that are sure to be relevant.>:)
Last time I checked ISPs had to pay for extra lines in the first place. As I recall it's no ones business how you use those lines, if I want to stick an autodialer on my phone and call my second line 24/7/365 that's my own business. I just don't see the logic behind the telco's complaint. Of course, perhaps it's not logic based and they just want to cash in on the thousands of ISPs all over the country...
Yes, that is cause, 0 denotes (i believe) caps. So the first letter of every sentence is captilized?
So why would the second letter of the first 2 sentences be capitalized? Unless the first letter is I and the second letter is the beginning of a proper name? But that is assuming thant 0 denotes capitalization and that they use proper syntax for capitalization of names.
How exactly does one become a grand master in chess? Do you have to win a certain # of matches against highly ranked opponents? Is there a chess board somewhere that deems one a 'grand master'?
Chess has a point rating system determined by sancitoned tournament play. The higher ranked your opponent the more points you can gain from beating them. If I remember correctly Grandmaster is 100 thousand points. I might be very very wrong about that, but it's what I remember.
http://www.igl.net/echess/ uses a simpler Ladder system of ranking whereby you start out unranked, then play up the ladder by defeating opponents above you. This is the simplest form of ranking system.
http://www.chess.net may have more info on ranking systems somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm Has a LOT of Chess info, including info on previous grandmasters and world champs.
http://www.worldfide.com/ Is the website for one of the major world chess organizations.
http://www.ishipress.com/ratingre.htm Has information about the current rating system and its problems.
I hope this helps, if you need more info on anything e-mail me or ask me here.
His species is capable of coming back from death, and there is a limit to how many times they can. 11 I think. If you recall he never returned exactly the same.
Random Facts about Timelords
1.They can return from the dead 13 times, however even if they do not get killed after a certain amount of time they change and use up 1 of those times.
2. They have 2 Hearts.
3. Dr Who is actually a Renegade Timelord who stops the other Timelords as well as 'The Master' from screwing around in everyones business.
4. There was a Dr. Who movie that was surprisingly good, but I have yet to be able to find it on VHS.
Anyone who knows of a good Dr. Who site point me to it.
The reviews of this book on Amazon were often less than complementary. Anyone care to offer up any books written in the Star Wars universe that are top quality?
Try the Dark Force Rising series. I found them to be pretty well written, but only the first 3 ( I THINK they kept spinning off even though it was only a 3 book set in reality). They honestly followed some interesting tangents of the SW universe and read about like the original movies were written.
I hope other slashdotters are able to take this in the proper context. There seems to be a sense of 'Carmack says NT, therefore everybody should use that until Linux is better', and I don't consider that a sensible position.
You seem to be suggesting that everyone switch to a non-MS OS regardless of whether that is the best option for what they are doing. This is the highest degree of shortsided OS Religion. The man is using the OS as a TOOL, not as a lifestyle. If he said Hammer X is better for hitting big nails than Hammer Y, but hammer Y works better for small nails. Would you advocate he use hammer Y because it was non-MS, even though he was hammering big nails all the time? I hope not...
This is what we all assumed would happen at the beginning. Once MS realized it was losing it pulled out the cash. This is where we see the REAL power behind this country, big business. The government needs money to function, big business, especially Microsoft, have LOTS of money. So MS just quietly (or not so quietly) informs the government that they need to pull funding from the DOJ. And I'm sure this is just a friendly request, based on logical reasoning and sound principles. I'm certain that MS isn't threatening to drop the US Gov, remove technical support (such as it is), move its operations over seas, or any other such militaristic business practices.
Now we're going to see just how big a stick MS wields, and how hard they can beat a government superpower with it.
However, it never makes me feel "wired" and I don't feel tired if I don't have it. I can drink a liter of Pepsi and go straight to bed with no trouble, either. I don't consume an abnormally large amount either, during a typical day, I'll probably have 2 cans of Coke/Pepsi at work, and maybe another one with lunch, that's it. It doesn't bother me to have none during the day, if anything, the sugar in a non-caffeinated soda makes me feel just as good as a caffeinated one.
This happens to me on a 6 month cycle. So I go off caffeine, drink nothing but water for a month, and then get back on caffeine. BLAMMO! One can of surge will wire me all weekend!!! Caffeine is THE most tolerable drug, to better phrase that, most people will build up a huge tolerance to caffeine very quickly, hence needing more and more for the same affect. So cyclicle intake can reduce the amount of caffeine you need to get a buzz.
Americans should be geniuses when it comes to recall!!! I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but in the ingredients to regular pepsi, caffiene actully comes before the flavoring. I shouln't ever forget anything, ever, mwahaha.
They are, it's jut misused. Find an average american teen, ask them the plot of 90210 (or whatever the latest lame teen drama is) from the first episode on. You get a perfect replay. Pick a sports guy, ask them the batting average of every american league player in 1983, no problem. Americans remember all kinds of arcane things.
Anybody here see the Ameritrade, I think, commercial with the kid who's supposedly the hacker at work? They have a new one now where he's even more krad w/ a wilder hairstyle and off-beat behavior - walks into the pool on his way to breakfast al fresco w/ his grilfriend's parents. He then goes on to extoll his desire to shake money out of Wall Street via on-line trading. (His gf's dad is a broker.)
Heh, I thought that guy was a crackHEAD, not a CrackER...
Wow. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you really need an education that bad, let me know, I'll send you some research. In the interim, check out the latest reports from the Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/ and see how much discrimination doesn't exist. And let's remember that most of those hate groups that SPLC tracks are made up of individuals who identify themselves as white christians.
OK. maybe using hate groups isn't fair. How about some other information. How about the "egregious cases" from US Dept. of Labor's OFCCP - detailing some of the more heinous examples of systematic discrimination that have been documented in the last two years (if that's that current enough for you). See http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/media/reports/of ccp/egregis.htm
There has also been recent work done in the states of Washington and Georgia documenting ONGOING discrimination based on race and gender. I can't find a copy of the reports right now, but since I've met the guy doing them, I do know they exist.
But this does show your true intentions. You want to ignore the fac that racism against people of color exists, but you want to invent systemic racism against white males. A prefered of spin doctors - refuse to accept what reality is, and invent your own.
So, here it is, according to Kintanon: current discrimination against African Americans doesn't exist, but look out for discrimination against white males - it's on the rise!
Ok, it seems to me that whenever I look around I see a few isolated incidents of bigotry. I see them coming from a lot of places, from white males, from black males, from women, etc... All of these groups have bigots and racists in them. But there is NO GIANT PLOT to 'Keep the Black Man Down'. OR anything like that. It is Socially, and legally unacceptable to attempt to discriminate against a black man, or a woman, or a latino, or just about anything else, EXCEPT for White men. It has become socially acceptable to discriminate against white men in favor of other races/genders. I do NOT say there is a systemic racism against white males. But I DO say that it is possible that one could develop, and if we are truly interested in having an equal society we should watch out for discrimination against EVERYONE, not just people who have been discriminated against in the past. It amazes me how people will take any suggestion that goes against the status quo of accepted morality or lackthereof and explode it to its most extreme measures. I suggested that there was no organized society wide plot to discriminate against African Americans (Are they Americans or Africans? Come on people, pick one or I start calling myself protuguese American), but that there is a beginning socially acceptable discrimination against white males and I get back this supposed summary of what I said:
So, here it is, according to Kintanon: current discrimination against African Americans doesn't exist, but look out for discrimination against white males - it's on the rise!
Isn't this exactly what the media did to the scientist/professor in question here? Took a reasonable, but non-conformist suggestion/opinion and turned it into some lunatics insane ravings? I think I made my point.
Actually, said program was on earlier in the week, so sorry to all you/.'ers who didn't get the privilege of seening a awesome show on wormholes, quantum physics and time travel.
(Oh, wait, if there is no time, then how could it have been on earlier in the week?)
It wasn't, you only think it was because you were created with the 'memory' that it was. Just as I was created with the memory that I wrote this post, even though the post was just created as well.>:) I only think I remember typing the letters before these.
This is unnecesary as every Equivelant MHZ Mac has been able to trash the hell out of its Intel counterpart. So paying for that 400mhz Mac is closer to paying for an 800mhz intel chip.
And by the way, I'm not here to determine whether African Americans are oppressed and/or discriminated against - that's already been proven. The question is, what's all this business about white christian males? If you can show me a pattern of discrimination, or even anything larger than an handful of anecdotes, your argument might be a little easier to swallow.
I'm not saying there is yet a pattern of discrimination. I'm saying that it is becoming acceptable to discriminate against WMCs. Also, it has NOT been proven that African Americans ARE discriminated against, only that they HAVE BEEN.
Also, which of the NBA owners has more cash than Michael Jordan? How many of them do you see in Sprite commercials? How is discrimination in the Entertainment industry any different that discrimination anywhere else? Also, the people who are in charge got there by being voted in. Which means that the majority of the people must have agreed with their views one way or another. This is not opression, this is not descrimination. In fact, I don't think that at this moment there are 51% caucasions in the US, much less 51% caucasion Males. This entire thread was started by my attempt to head off the possible society sanctioned opression of a group. It hasn't happened yet, but it is happening. Will you only believe it when they start throwing unarmed people into the pit with the gladiator?
Ummm... ok, I THOUGHT your first statement was a joke, and a damn funny one. Now I think your an insane biggot with no clue whatsoever and an IQ of around 75. Have you ever bothered to even SPEAK to a female engineer? They are competent bastards! I've YET to see a Fem programmer or engineer make a serious mistake. They are VERY VERY good at what they do. And guess what, a lot of them do it without and sometimes inspite of parental or societal guidance. A good female friend of mine, despite her insane mother, is an excellent programmer and techie. As is my GF. You are just insane. And should I ever meet you I would be hard pressed not to maim you and leave you in a ditch to die to make sure your DNA was never propogated.
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I spent many years thinking that we should respect the religions of others; that people have the right to worship what and/or who they want. As I've grown older (and more dogmatic), I see this atitude as harmful. Pandering to superstition does nothing except encourage redneck savages to remove evolution from schools' curriculum.
In the main, this change in attitude comes from the staggering hypocrisy displayed by most Christians (the religion with which I'm most familiar. I'm Irish). Hands up all the Christians out there who turn the other cheek? Hands up the christians who've never copied someone else's CD (Thou Shalt Not Steal)?
Wait, tell me again when Christians stopped being fallable human beings and started being Perfect? Last time I checked I was still human, I still did things that were wrong, I didn't always feel bad about it afterwards... I'm still a Christian, I still TRY to do the right thing. Of course, it's not always easy to tell what the Right Thing is with snap judgement, so I make mistakes. Are you infallible? Do you make no mistakes?
Remember, Christians are People too.
Kintanon
And you are the type that makes the BOFH what he really is... a prick.
Exactly, if you're going to be an idiot I'm going to be a prick. If you have some desire to learn more than how to call me to fix your problem I'll be much nicer.
Kintanon
Also - after reading this article I have no sympathy for cDc getting the shaft by several anti-virus makers - when your image includes swear words and thinly-veiled slams on serious questions about your group - it's very difficult to take you guys seriously.
Then you MISSED THE POINT!! They don't want to be taken seriously! They are doing what they are interested in and DON'T GIVE A SHIT about you or your opinion. Just because they don't consider programming to be the focus of the group doesn't make them skript kiddies. Programming isn't the main focus of my work either, does that make me a script kiddie? NO! It makes me a fucking Tech Guru. Just because someone isn't a programmer doesn't mean they can't program or should be considered a script kiddie. The CDC developed a useful tool and gave it away. That was just a side affect of their normal lunatic activities, which is exactly the way they like it. Don't blame them for not being 'Suits' just because you think they should be all stodgy and corporate.
Kintanon
The biggest problem with OSS is that there are always people willing to fix your software for you or upgrade it for free. That's a hell of a big assumption. Right now, the economy is good, so there are lots of college kids and uber-geeks with enough free time to write code for free, great. What if the economy goes in the toilet? What if OSS isn't "cool" anymore (I don't happen to think that it is)? OSS relies on people's good nature to get software written. That's just plain crazy! No company, with any kind of clue, would base something as important as their computers' OS on people's good nature. Anybody who does, deserves to, and more than likely will get hit in the face for it. You simply don't get shit for free. You're kidding yourself if you think that you do.
You make an erroneous assumption. The affects of 'Good Will' on the OSS industry are secondary to the driving force of Self Interest. The people who hack on linux are people who want their OS to do more than the commercial alternatives. No one does work on OSS just out of the goodness of their heart, they do it because they want to see a certain feature develop for their own use. They don't care if anyone else uses it, as long as they get to use it. Good will is secondary.
Kintanon
btw call me stupid, but what is the difference between a CEO (ChiefExacutiveOfficer?), CTO, COO, Cwhatever, where these American sites always talk about?
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Operations Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Those are all of the C?O I can think of right now in the company I work for...
Kintanon
Would someone care to explain how GPAs are calculated for those non-Americans among us? What's a typical/good value? Oh, and the same applies for SATs.
GPA is calculated as follows:
anything below a 70 is a 1.9 or lower, which is failing. 2.0 is from 70-79, 3.0 is from 80-89, 4.0 is from 90-100.
So, my GPA of 2.3 is about a 73 on a conventional grading scale.
SAT scores go up to 1600, with half coming from the Verbal portion and half from the Math.
So, my scores of 800 on the Verbal (Perfect) and 650 on the math (Damn trigonometry) are very good, but not the best.
The other Big Test is the ACT which is on a scale up to 36, my score of a 32 is good enough for governors honors in Georgia, but not quite perfect.
Kintanon
First their are a number of practical problems in the way. The biggest one I see is computational and storage power. If each one of these little nanites is going to be self replicating, then it is going to need to contain, within itself, instructions to build a complete replica of itself with the materials it can find. This in itself is no small task, as the nanities will be neccessarly very complex machines. Also necessar are instructions to do all the various tasks that the machine will be designed to caryout. Human cells are increadibly complex living machines. The idea that a nanoscale machine will be able to contain directions for repairing all of the millions of types of cells in the human body to me seems to be a vary long way off, if not impossible altogether
Everyone seems to be assuming that the nanites will be autonomous creations which react of their own volition. I don't see that as a viable option at all. Instead I would propose that a central computer system be used to coordinate the nanites, it would contain all information and processing power that the nanites needed. The only obstacle then is communication. The nanites must communicate their surroundings to the base machine and the base must send out commands to the nanites. This brings up two problems, 1. The nanites must be able to 'know' their surroundings somehow to transfer the info back. 2. There must be some way for communication to take place.
Once those two are taken care of, I don't see a problem with coordinating 40 trillion nanites to manufacture a car from a pile of dirt.
An alternative to this would be instead of using nanites as labor, we simply use them to manufactor raw materials and/or fuel from more common substances. Imagine being able to take a bigass sand dune from the Sahara and turn it into steel plates or something of the sort. In order to revolutionize industry the nanites need not replace labor.
Kintanon
The article was ok until I found the word list from "The Anti-Defamation League". Vince Foster? Ollie North? Gun? These people are loonies. Somehow I doubt the NSA has time to pore over messages that contain the word 'gun' or 'drug', much less crackpot militia theories about Vince Foster. And I'm sure the NSA is real worried about the remaning Davidians.
's why I did a shorter list, FBI, C4 Mossad, Kill,
President, NSA, a few others... Things that are sure to be relevant.>:)
Kintanon
Last time I checked ISPs had to pay for extra lines in the first place. As I recall it's no ones business how you use those lines, if I want to stick an autodialer on my phone and call my second line 24/7/365 that's my own business. I just don't see the logic behind the telco's complaint. Of course, perhaps it's not logic based and they just want to cash in on the thousands of ISPs all over the country...
Kintanon
Yes, that is cause, 0 denotes (i believe) caps. So the first letter of every sentence is captilized?
So why would the second letter of the first 2 sentences be capitalized? Unless the first letter is I and the second letter is the beginning of a proper name? But that is assuming thant 0 denotes capitalization and that they use proper syntax for capitalization of names.
Kintanon
Right Here!- 98-2/sld008.htm
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http://theory.stanford.edu/people/jcm/cs099j/mk
For those of you too lazy to cut and paste, the run down is:
E ~=
TAOINSHR ~=
DL ~=
CUMWFGYPB ~=
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Kintanon
How exactly does one become a grand master in chess? Do you have to win a certain # of matches against highly ranked opponents? Is there a chess board somewhere that deems one a 'grand master'?
Chess has a point rating system determined by sancitoned tournament play. The higher ranked your opponent the more points you can gain from beating them. If I remember correctly Grandmaster is 100 thousand points. I might be very very wrong about that, but it's what I remember.
http://www.igl.net/echess/
uses a simpler Ladder system of ranking whereby you start out unranked, then play up the ladder by defeating opponents above you. This is the simplest form of ranking system.
http://www.chess.net
may have more info on ranking systems somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm
Has a LOT of Chess info, including info on previous grandmasters and world champs.
http://www.worldfide.com/
Is the website for one of the major world chess organizations.
http://www.ishipress.com/ratingre.htm
Has information about the current rating system and its problems.
I hope this helps, if you need more info on anything e-mail me or ask me here.
Kintanon
Dr. Who
His species is capable of coming back from death, and there is a limit to how many times they can. 11 I think. If you recall he never returned exactly the same.
Random Facts about Timelords
1.They can return from the dead 13 times, however even if they do not get killed after a certain amount of time they change and use up 1 of those times.
2. They have 2 Hearts.
3. Dr Who is actually a Renegade Timelord who stops the other Timelords as well as 'The Master' from screwing around in everyones business.
4. There was a Dr. Who movie that was surprisingly good, but I have yet to be able to find it on VHS.
Anyone who knows of a good Dr. Who site point me to it.
Kintanon
The reviews of this book on Amazon were often less than complementary. Anyone care to offer up any books written in the Star Wars universe that are top quality?
Try the Dark Force Rising series. I found them to be pretty well written, but only the first 3 ( I THINK they kept spinning off even though it was only a 3 book set in reality). They honestly followed some interesting tangents of the SW universe and read about like the original movies were written.
Kintanon
I hope other slashdotters are able to take this in the proper context. There seems to be a sense of 'Carmack says NT, therefore everybody should use that until Linux is better', and I don't consider that a sensible position.
You seem to be suggesting that everyone switch to a non-MS OS regardless of whether that is the best option for what they are doing. This is the highest degree of shortsided OS Religion. The man is using the OS as a TOOL, not as a lifestyle. If he said Hammer X is better for hitting big nails than Hammer Y, but hammer Y works better for small nails. Would you advocate he use hammer Y because it was non-MS, even though he was hammering big nails all the time? I hope not...
Kintanon
This is what we all assumed would happen at the beginning. Once MS realized it was losing it pulled out the cash. This is where we see the REAL power behind this country, big business. The government needs money to function, big business, especially Microsoft, have LOTS of money. So MS just quietly (or not so quietly) informs the government that they need to pull funding from the DOJ. And I'm sure this is just a friendly request, based on logical reasoning and sound principles. I'm certain that MS isn't threatening to drop the US Gov, remove technical support (such as it is), move its operations over seas, or any other such militaristic business practices.
Now we're going to see just how big a stick MS wields, and how hard they can beat a government superpower with it.
Kintanon
However, it never makes me feel "wired" and I don't feel tired if I don't have it. I can drink a liter of Pepsi and go straight to bed with no trouble, either. I don't consume an abnormally large amount either, during a typical day, I'll probably have 2 cans of Coke/Pepsi at work, and maybe another one with lunch, that's it. It doesn't bother me to have none during the day, if anything, the sugar in a non-caffeinated soda makes me feel just as good as a caffeinated one.
This happens to me on a 6 month cycle. So I go off caffeine, drink nothing but water for a month, and then get back on caffeine. BLAMMO! One can of surge will wire me all weekend!!!
Caffeine is THE most tolerable drug, to better phrase that, most people will build up a huge tolerance to caffeine very quickly, hence needing more and more for the same affect. So cyclicle intake can reduce the amount of caffeine you need to get a buzz.
Kintanon
Americans should be geniuses when it comes to recall!!! I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but in the ingredients to regular pepsi, caffiene actully comes before the flavoring. I shouln't ever forget anything, ever, mwahaha.
They are, it's jut misused. Find an average american teen, ask them the plot of 90210 (or whatever the latest lame teen drama is) from the first episode on. You get a perfect replay. Pick a sports guy, ask them the batting average of every american league player in 1983, no problem. Americans remember all kinds of arcane things.
Kintanon
my record was 192 oz in 25 hours; if anyone else has beaten that I'd like to hear about it.
288oz of Surge in 24 hours. Dunno how that stacks up to 192 of coffee ( assume that's what you were chugging) but I got you beat for pure volume.
Kintanon
Anybody here see the Ameritrade, I think, commercial with the kid who's supposedly the hacker at work? They have a new one now where he's even more krad w/ a wilder hairstyle and off-beat behavior - walks into the pool on his way to breakfast al fresco w/ his grilfriend's parents. He then goes on to extoll his desire to shake money out of Wall Street via on-line trading. (His gf's dad is a broker.)
Heh, I thought that guy was a crackHEAD, not a CrackER...
Kintanon
Wow. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you really need an education that bad, let me know, I'll send you some research. In the interim, check out the latest reports from the Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/ and see how much discrimination doesn't exist. And let's remember that most of those hate groups that SPLC tracks are made up of individuals who identify themselves as white christians.
f ccp/egregis.htm
OK. maybe using hate groups isn't fair. How about some other information. How about the "egregious cases" from US Dept. of Labor's OFCCP - detailing some of the more heinous examples of systematic discrimination that have been documented in the last two years (if that's that current enough for you). See http://www.dol.gov/dol/esa/public/media/reports/o
There has also been recent work done in the states of Washington and Georgia documenting ONGOING discrimination based on race and gender. I can't find a copy of the reports right now, but since I've met the guy doing them, I do know they exist.
But this does show your true intentions. You want to ignore the fac that racism against people of color exists, but you want to invent systemic racism against white males. A prefered of spin doctors - refuse to accept what reality is, and invent your own.
So, here it is, according to Kintanon: current discrimination against African Americans doesn't exist, but look out for discrimination against white males - it's on the rise!
Ok, it seems to me that whenever I look around I see a few isolated incidents of bigotry. I see them coming from a lot of places, from white males, from black males, from women, etc... All of these groups have bigots and racists in them. But there is NO GIANT PLOT to 'Keep the Black Man Down'. OR anything like that. It is Socially, and legally unacceptable to attempt to discriminate against a black man, or a woman, or a latino, or just about anything else, EXCEPT for White men. It has become socially acceptable to discriminate against white men in favor of other races/genders. I do NOT say there is a systemic racism against white males. But I DO say that it is possible that one could develop, and if we are truly interested in having an equal society we should watch out for discrimination against EVERYONE, not just people who have been discriminated against in the past.
It amazes me how people will take any suggestion that goes against the status quo of accepted morality or lackthereof and explode it to its most extreme measures. I suggested that there was no organized society wide plot to discriminate against African Americans (Are they Americans or Africans? Come on people, pick one or I start calling myself protuguese American), but that there is a beginning socially acceptable discrimination against white males and I get back this supposed summary of what I said:
So, here it is, according to Kintanon: current discrimination against African Americans doesn't exist, but look out for discrimination against white males - it's on the rise!
Isn't this exactly what the media did to the scientist/professor in question here? Took a reasonable, but non-conformist suggestion/opinion and turned it into some lunatics insane ravings?
I think I made my point.
Kintanon
Actually, said program was on earlier in the week, so sorry to all you /.'ers who didn't get the privilege of seening a awesome show on wormholes, quantum physics and time travel.
(Oh, wait, if there is no time, then how could it have been on earlier in the week?)
It wasn't, you only think it was because you were created with the 'memory' that it was. Just as I was created with the memory that I wrote this post, even though the post was just created as well.>:) I only think I remember typing the letters before these.
Kintanon
4. Reach MHz/price-parity with Intel.
This is unnecesary as every Equivelant MHZ Mac has been able to trash the hell out of its Intel counterpart. So paying for that 400mhz Mac is closer to paying for an 800mhz intel chip.
Kintanon
And by the way, I'm not here to determine whether African Americans are oppressed and/or discriminated against - that's already been proven. The question is, what's all this business about white christian males? If you can show me a pattern of discrimination, or even anything larger than an handful of anecdotes, your argument might be a little easier to swallow.
I'm not saying there is yet a pattern of discrimination. I'm saying that it is becoming acceptable to discriminate against WMCs. Also, it has NOT been proven that African Americans ARE discriminated against, only that they HAVE BEEN.
Also, which of the NBA owners has more cash than Michael Jordan? How many of them do you see in Sprite commercials? How is discrimination in the Entertainment industry any different that discrimination anywhere else? Also, the people who are in charge got there by being voted in. Which means that the majority of the people must have agreed with their views one way or another. This is not opression, this is not descrimination. In fact, I don't think that at this moment there are 51% caucasions in the US, much less 51% caucasion Males.
This entire thread was started by my attempt to head off the possible society sanctioned opression of a group. It hasn't happened yet, but it is happening. Will you only believe it when they start throwing unarmed people into the pit with the gladiator?
Kintanon
Ummm... ok, I THOUGHT your first statement was a joke, and a damn funny one. Now I think your an insane biggot with no clue whatsoever and an IQ of around 75.
Have you ever bothered to even SPEAK to a female engineer? They are competent bastards! I've YET to see a Fem programmer or engineer make a serious mistake. They are VERY VERY good at what they do. And guess what, a lot of them do it without and sometimes inspite of parental or societal guidance. A good female friend of mine, despite her insane mother, is an excellent programmer and techie. As is my GF. You are just insane. And should I ever meet you I would be hard pressed not to maim you and leave you in a ditch to die to make sure your DNA was never propogated.
Kintanon