Believe it or not, many people use the server version as a desktop OS. Usually this is people with too much money who want as many toys as possible in setting up their home network... seriously...
I, like many people, use 2003 as a desktop simply because it is convenient to develop on. You need a server OS to run things like SQL Server Enterprise or multiple websites bound to different ports. Sure I could run XP and have the server stuff on a separate machine, but all the software is included with your MSDN subscription so you might as well just have the whole deal on your local machine.
Why is it that the smaller an animal is, the more acceptable it is to kill it in a gruesome fashion?
I don't think it is size that matters, but general level of social interaction. I mean the worst part about something dying is the grief experienced by those left behind. This is strong for humans, some birds, dogs, cats, but I don't really think those cockroaches give a crap about each other.
The obvious conclusion is that if you want to avoid bankruptcy, don't illegally share songs on Kazaa. I don't see what's so hard about that.
Good, and with similar forethought, let's increase the fine for speeding to $250,000. Enough screwing around, let's enforce the laws like we mean it. If people can't pay, let's have special prisons for them. Or maybe a penal colony for the new "war on speed". I mean come on, there's no excuse for speeding.
What issues are you talking about exactly? I've worked with.Net for six years and am unaware of "all kinds of issues"
Maybe he's talking about the IDE. I've run into lots of junk that hasn't been fixed for years. Things like.lic files becoming corrupted, loosing the ability to type non-word characters, source safe integration breaking, files in the.Net temporary directory getting locked, and projects loosing the ability to load DLLs. These are all design time problems, so my impression was they got a low priority and MS just decided to let us live with it.
The risk of nuclear accidents is VERY small, but the potential worst case effect of one if it does happen is massive.
Is it more dangerous than what we have now? In our case, coal. Nobody worries about the dangers of coal, because it just kills everyone very slowly. It seems to me the worst nuclear accident in North America killed orders of magnitude less people than coal.
I don't think it's much like Wine. Softgrid allows you to have a central server containing data for applications such as Word or Excel. Clients running Softgrid can then launch Word on their local PC, and Softgrid will download application data and run the app, without actually ever installing it on the clients. This greatly simplifies large deployments of apps and allows quick updates.
One interesting thing is they can't virtualize IE, because it is "too tied to the operating system".
-Canada believes in cultivating the best and the brightest, no matter where they were born
I wouldn't go that far. Canada doesn't recognize many foreign degrees and certifications. There is a huge problem in health care, where there is a great shortage of registered and practical nurses, and a huge supply of qualified immigrants. But since the government doesn't recognize the credentials, the immigrants would have to start off getting their high school equivalency.
I think Microsoft's reason is more like
1. Vancouver is a couple hours drive from Redmond, or 20 minutes by Billothopter.
2. Wages are about 30-40% less in Vancouver than in Seattle.
3. Pretty decent high tech industry already present in Vancouver, but no major presence from the big boys yet.
I'm pretty sure it is the central bank (eg. Federal Reserve) that actually invents the cash. Otherwise you you would have different banks printing like madmen before the other guy did, and it would end up as profit for the bank. But yeah money gets created out of thin air. At least with currencies not backed by gold or something.
Well, theres a difference between "not like it" and "believe it is detrimental to society". Aren't there things, legal things, that you think the world would be better off without? I'm making a moral judgement, not a legal one.
Well, the creation of Blair's Labour party resulted in the total destruction of the existing Liberal party. More recently, Blair just got his ass retired mid term so that Labour could avoid a similar fate. That would seem to support my assertions.
And the way I understand it, it isn't a whole lot different in most other voting republics.
Get yourselves a parliamentary democracy. You typically get more than 2 choices of candidate. Plus, when parties screw up, they are fairly regularly completely obliterated.
Printing money is common slang among gold standard proponents for any type of expansion of the money supply. Some specifically define inflation as a change in the money supply. See also "running the printing presses" or "Ben 'helicopter' Bernake".
You may dissagree with his viewpoint, but Paul is definitely well versed in the concept of money supply.
Is one supposed to spontaneously discover Christ unprompted?
Well, this assumes that the only way someone can discover Christ is through human agency. It's certainly one way, but God is quite capable of speaking for Himself.
Ok I would like to understand this more. I understood that fundamentalist christians believe that you need to accept Christ as your personal saviour in order to be saved. I understood this as to be a test of faith. You have free will so you have to choose to accept Christ. Your last sentence suggests it may actually be God who chooses. God may come to you, or not. Am I misunderstanding?
Frostalicious remarked So basically you believe in the literal truth of the Bible...
I don't think you know me well enough to really know what I believe.
And I didn't assume otherwise. Of course when you misquoted me by redacting a word out of my sentence, it certainly looked that way. But thanks for your other answers, they were informative.
OK that's interesting. So basically you can believe in the literal truth of the Bible, but the nonbelievers are God's concern, not yours. So are missionaries behaving improperly? Is one supposed to spontaneously discover Christ unprompted?
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Wouldn't the strongest passwords be random, within the largest character set practical to type? Any further rule would reduce the search space.
The secret is in this function patented by the MPAA:
private bool isInfringing(IP IPAddress)
{
return true;
}
I know that. This was an argument Colbert himself made in jest.
Colbert's >35 years old and is a natural born citizen (born in DC, actually)
Colbert's born in DC? Well he's not a United States citizen then is he? I mean it's not a state.
Believe it or not, many people use the server version as a desktop OS. Usually this is people with too much money who want as many toys as possible in setting up their home network... seriously...
I, like many people, use 2003 as a desktop simply because it is convenient to develop on. You need a server OS to run things like SQL Server Enterprise or multiple websites bound to different ports. Sure I could run XP and have the server stuff on a separate machine, but all the software is included with your MSDN subscription so you might as well just have the whole deal on your local machine.
Actually, multiple personality disorder is a form of schizophrenia.
In layman's terms maybe, but currently the DSM-IV places them in completely different categories.
Why is it that the smaller an animal is, the more acceptable it is to kill it in a gruesome fashion?
I don't think it is size that matters, but general level of social interaction. I mean the worst part about something dying is the grief experienced by those left behind. This is strong for humans, some birds, dogs, cats, but I don't really think those cockroaches give a crap about each other.
The obvious conclusion is that if you want to avoid bankruptcy, don't illegally share songs on Kazaa. I don't see what's so hard about that.
Good, and with similar forethought, let's increase the fine for speeding to $250,000. Enough screwing around, let's enforce the laws like we mean it. If people can't pay, let's have special prisons for them. Or maybe a penal colony for the new "war on speed". I mean come on, there's no excuse for speeding.
What issues are you talking about exactly? I've worked with .Net for six years and am unaware of "all kinds of issues"
.lic files becoming corrupted, loosing the ability to type non-word characters, source safe integration breaking, files in the .Net temporary directory getting locked, and projects loosing the ability to load DLLs. These are all design time problems, so my impression was they got a low priority and MS just decided to let us live with it.
Maybe he's talking about the IDE. I've run into lots of junk that hasn't been fixed for years. Things like
The risk of nuclear accidents is VERY small, but the potential worst case effect of one if it does happen is massive.
Is it more dangerous than what we have now? In our case, coal. Nobody worries about the dangers of coal, because it just kills everyone very slowly. It seems to me the worst nuclear accident in North America killed orders of magnitude less people than coal.
I don't think it's much like Wine. Softgrid allows you to have a central server containing data for applications such as Word or Excel. Clients running Softgrid can then launch Word on their local PC, and Softgrid will download application data and run the app, without actually ever installing it on the clients. This greatly simplifies large deployments of apps and allows quick updates.
One interesting thing is they can't virtualize IE, because it is "too tied to the operating system".
Is it still a WMD if it is incapable of being used as a weapon, or destroying anything?
Can we get more controls, like combo boxes and numeric up down?
Did We Really Need Seven New Wonders?
Well maybe Civilization V is coming out soon and they didn't want to go with the same crap as last time?
-Canada believes in cultivating the best and the brightest, no matter where they were born
I wouldn't go that far. Canada doesn't recognize many foreign degrees and certifications. There is a huge problem in health care, where there is a great shortage of registered and practical nurses, and a huge supply of qualified immigrants. But since the government doesn't recognize the credentials, the immigrants would have to start off getting their high school equivalency.
I think Microsoft's reason is more like
1. Vancouver is a couple hours drive from Redmond, or 20 minutes by Billothopter.
2. Wages are about 30-40% less in Vancouver than in Seattle.
3. Pretty decent high tech industry already present in Vancouver, but no major presence from the big boys yet.
I'm pretty sure it is the central bank (eg. Federal Reserve) that actually invents the cash. Otherwise you you would have different banks printing like madmen before the other guy did, and it would end up as profit for the bank. But yeah money gets created out of thin air. At least with currencies not backed by gold or something.
Well, theres a difference between "not like it" and "believe it is detrimental to society". Aren't there things, legal things, that you think the world would be better off without? I'm making a moral judgement, not a legal one.
I don't know about everyone else, but I just think the world would be a better place if the music industry underwent a hard reboot.
How's that working out for Britain?
Well, the creation of Blair's Labour party resulted in the total destruction of the existing Liberal party. More recently, Blair just got his ass retired mid term so that Labour could avoid a similar fate. That would seem to support my assertions.
And the way I understand it, it isn't a whole lot different in most other voting republics.
Get yourselves a parliamentary democracy. You typically get more than 2 choices of candidate. Plus, when parties screw up, they are fairly regularly completely obliterated.
"Inflation is caused by printing too much money"
Printing money is common slang among gold standard proponents for any type of expansion of the money supply. Some specifically define inflation as a change in the money supply. See also "running the printing presses" or "Ben 'helicopter' Bernake".
You may dissagree with his viewpoint, but Paul is definitely well versed in the concept of money supply.
Last I checked, both Rogers and Shaw were refusing to turn over account information to the CRIAA. Has this changed?
Is one supposed to spontaneously discover Christ unprompted? Well, this assumes that the only way someone can discover Christ is through human agency. It's certainly one way, but God is quite capable of speaking for Himself.
Ok I would like to understand this more. I understood that fundamentalist christians believe that you need to accept Christ as your personal saviour in order to be saved. I understood this as to be a test of faith. You have free will so you have to choose to accept Christ. Your last sentence suggests it may actually be God who chooses. God may come to you, or not. Am I misunderstanding?
Frostalicious remarked So basically you believe in the literal truth of the Bible...
I don't think you know me well enough to really know what I believe.
And I didn't assume otherwise. Of course when you misquoted me by redacting a word out of my sentence, it certainly looked that way. But thanks for your other answers, they were informative.
OK that's interesting. So basically you can believe in the literal truth of the Bible, but the nonbelievers are God's concern, not yours. So are missionaries behaving improperly? Is one supposed to spontaneously discover Christ unprompted?