The article suggests that it would cost more to send email, but not more to get it? How would this be enforced? Could we design a mail protocol that charges per email sent, which means that your co-worker can't send you and his 40 other email buddies the latest joke picture, or religious pronoucement that you must forward to 40 of your friends or face dire consequences?
This idea may have more than a little merrit. Although the cry for "annonymous" email will be loud, do any of us really need to live double lives on/. and use funny email nicknames so that no one can become offended by our words, find us on google.com, and come to our house and kill us? Or, maybe because of the accesiblity to our private lives on the Internet, there is a need for private, untraceable email?
That is a good point, even though you did misspell "peeve".
I never said I didn't like Astroboy. I thought it was great. But crap anime animation sucks in the suckiest way that can suck, and ruins a story that doesn't need neon pink colours, whiny girl voices, and flashing scenes that last a microsecond. I can get crap animation and stories from South Park, why bother with expensive foreign "art". It is all too artsy-fartsy for me.
I happened upon your unhelpful trolling, and would like to paraphrase and translate one of your statements. You also have not offered any useful discussion to this topic, so remember when you accuse Marvin of failing to help, you have not even tried.
You're trying to teach the dumb masses like some kind of math prophet when you aren't qualified! = Damn, if you make it that easy then I'm going to be out of a job scaring the shit out of kids!
As far as helpfulness is concerned, you are to that as Marvin is to generosity.
You mean to tell me that Rome wasn't built in 86400 seconds?
You completely missed the point. I never said you couldn't track the seconds for scientific events when precission, but it is utter foolishness to waste time contemplating seconds when they are an arbitrary unit of time. Time isn't even METRIC! As long as everyone know what is going on, then time can be kept. You don't have to introduce complexity, where simplicity is the name of the game.
Does anyone know or care what second the WTC disaster, or Pearl Harbour, or Moon Landing happened at? No. Days matter for history and calculations, seconds do not.
There is nothing significant enough to deserve an exact keeping of seconds, when humanity won't span long enough to have those extra seconds turn into days.
Isn't Starfleet the very reason the Federation exists? Without it there is no military force to repell the Borg, Dominion, and Romulans, not to mention the Klingons.
The Federation's capital may or may not be in Paris, because there are many thousands of worlds in the Federation, and to say the one city on Earth is the most important, may be a little short sighted of both you and I.
Of the people who registered in my city, and had "confirmed" registrations, did not appear on the guest list. They didn't get free software at the presentation, but were promised it would be mailed to them.
A month later and the software hasn't arrived. Not a high priority I guess.
But the software is already a year out of date.
-- I'm so confused. Make me your friend please, to clear my mind.
It will because we will try to replace one type of bacteria with another "harmless" one, not realizing that the new bacteria doesn't produce an important by-product, and by the time we realize, we will have all been infected and starving/rotting/going-loopy.
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The article suggests that it would cost more to send email, but not more to get it? How would this be enforced? Could we design a mail protocol that charges per email sent, which means that your co-worker can't send you and his 40 other email buddies the latest joke picture, or religious pronoucement that you must forward to 40 of your friends or face dire consequences?
/. and use funny email nicknames so that no one can become offended by our words, find us on google.com, and come to our house and kill us? Or, maybe because of the accesiblity to our private lives on the Internet, there is a need for private, untraceable email?
This idea may have more than a little merrit. Although the cry for "annonymous" email will be loud, do any of us really need to live double lives on
You mean like IPv6, too?
That has been "widely" accepted. I can see this becoming a "reality".
...but come on Moderators! Where better to put a cell fab than in a cell phone! It sure isn't going into a vibrating PS/3!
...but a Beowulf cluster of these 1 teraflop phones might just be my cup of tea.
And if they charge under their own vibrations, I'm getting them.
That is a good point, even though you did misspell "peeve".
I never said I didn't like Astroboy. I thought it was great. But crap anime animation sucks in the suckiest way that can suck, and ruins a story that doesn't need neon pink colours, whiny girl voices, and flashing scenes that last a microsecond. I can get crap animation and stories from South Park, why bother with expensive foreign "art". It is all too artsy-fartsy for me.
You simply misheard my Human accent. You daughter of a targ!
This has got to be a joke right?
I haven't wanted to see anime since I was 6 and Astroboy was on.
I happened upon your unhelpful trolling, and would like to paraphrase and translate one of your statements. You also have not offered any useful discussion to this topic, so remember when you accuse Marvin of failing to help, you have not even tried.
You're trying to teach the dumb masses like some kind of math prophet when you aren't qualified!
= Damn, if you make it that easy then I'm going to be out of a job scaring the shit out of kids!
As far as helpfulness is concerned, you are to that as Marvin is to generosity.
"Hell my wife was skeptical when we got married but now even she is hooked."
Is this in reference to you> or the Tivo?
TV or not TV, that is the question.
Please expand on this, we may answer the mystery of digitally recorded TV.
You mean to tell me that Rome wasn't built in 86400 seconds?
You completely missed the point. I never said you couldn't track the seconds for scientific events when precission, but it is utter foolishness to waste time contemplating seconds when they are an arbitrary unit of time. Time isn't even METRIC! As long as everyone know what is going on, then time can be kept. You don't have to introduce complexity, where simplicity is the name of the game.
I'm confused, as usual.
Does anyone know or care what second the WTC disaster, or Pearl Harbour, or Moon Landing happened at? No. Days matter for history and calculations, seconds do not.
There is nothing significant enough to deserve an exact keeping of seconds, when humanity won't span long enough to have those extra seconds turn into days.
"I'm afraid you might get some of your ghey on me."
Perhaps it is people like you that are driving away the people not yet on the Internet?
"Unlike you, Dirty Lunis Hippie."
You don't seem like the type who knows any philosophy. Let me share this:
I stink, therefore I am.
I'm confused. You don't seem to know that the Klingon homeworld is Kronos, yet you've heard of Klingons.
Are you feeling alright?
You're answer confuses me.
Isn't Starfleet the very reason the Federation exists? Without it there is no military force to repell the Borg, Dominion, and Romulans, not to mention the Klingons.
The Federation's capital may or may not be in Paris, because there are many thousands of worlds in the Federation, and to say the one city on Earth is the most important, may be a little short sighted of both you and I.
You mean there are people who don't strive to be geeks?
This is indeed confusing.
Confused Philospher thinks this is a strange place to do so.
Wouldn't San Fransico make more sense since it is at the heart of the Federation of Planets?
Of the people who registered in my city, and had "confirmed" registrations, did not appear on the guest list. They didn't get free software at the presentation, but were promised it would be mailed to them.
A month later and the software hasn't arrived. Not a high priority I guess.
But the software is already a year out of date.
--
I'm so confused. Make me your friend please, to clear my mind.
They sent Confused Philosopher an email this morning.
Turns out the "go ahead" is digital.
This is so confusing.
"Robust and Reliable"
Aren't those just buzz words used by dying companies, in order to make them sound like they know what they are doing?
Will genetic engineering kill humans?
Confused Philosopher is not confused about this:
Yes.
It will because we will try to replace one type of bacteria with another "harmless" one, not realizing that the new bacteria doesn't produce an important by-product, and by the time we realize, we will have all been infected and starving/rotting/going-loopy.
"5.000 isnt metric."
You sir have the insight of a drunken Socrates.
5.000 is metric to the precision of 3 decimal places in North America, OR it is notation in Europe to the precision of 0 decimal places.
My point about "metric" was that the USA doesn't conform to world standards.
That is the question.
"Will this lead to a shift from coders to "technical directors," as Carmack believes?"
Confused Philosopher says:
No.
No.
Confused Philosopher says:
What is metric?
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Befriend me if I made you want to think.