Re:Wow! Who ever would have guessed that!?
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In case you haven't noticed, the standard for a criminal trial is "beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty." In a civil case, it's "the preponderance of evidence," which is an even lower standard. Nowhere in American law is there a standard of "beyond the shadow of a doubt." I'm not saying your idea is wrong, just that you're not expressing it correctly.
I'm not sure, but I think you have that backwards. The more customers per mile, the more revenue per mile. More revenue means that you can charge each customer less, and still make more money.
If it were me, I'd go for both California options. They're both near enough to the San Andreas Fault to be vulnerable to a major quake, but far enough apart that no one temblor would get both of them.
If they want to somehow draw a comparable link between 1709 and 2009, you can throw that back at them as another meaningless statistic.
Yes, especially when you consider that in 1709, Europe was in the early stages of the Little Ice Age. The weather in general was much colder then than it is now.
Don't worry... I don't expect you to actually be able to produce such a thing... which is why I think your side of the discussion is nothing more than feel good non-sense.
I've pointed out to you, several times, that back before anybody had come up with the idea of dyslexia, well over 90% of the children who went to school learned to read, and that's not true any more. You've never denied it, you've just ignored it because it's an inconvenient truth. I think that says more than any study, especially as it's hard to dismiss it as "biased" if it doesn't fit your preconceptions. Of course, considering some of the things you've already written, I'm sure you'll try.
Don't forget Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster. They also wrote some heavy science fiction. Oh wait... I understand why you forgot them. They also wrote Star Trek script material.
I also "forgot" Murry Leinster, J. C. Campbell and a number of others, as well as David Gerrold, who did write Star Trek material. Actually, I just listed the first few to come off the top of my head and never claimed to have given an exhaustive list. Nice strawman, but not even close to what I actually said. I also never denied the importance of Star Trek, nor did Frankie Thomas on the several occasions I met him. Do you have anything to say that's actually an answer to what I wrote, instead of what you want people to think I wrote?
The effects might look cheesy now, but they were much better than anything else on TV at the time. If you really want to see cheesy effects, watch the original Dr. Who sometime, or Blake's 7, for that matter.
Among all the firsts that the original series created they also created true science fiction;
I suspect that Frankie Thomas and the other people who created Tom Corbet -- Space Cadet would disagree with you, considering that they pre-dated Star Trek by almost 20 years. And, for that matter, Clark, Heinlein, Asimov, Smith and many others were writing it long before Tom Corbet was created.
why not, instead of going to some absurd future date in milliseconds, pinpoint the start date in the distant past?
Astronomers have long been doing this by using the Julian day in their records. It's convenient because not only does it ignore things like years (avoiding any issues caused by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar) it makes it easy to calculate intervals because it's just the number of days since an arbitrary starting point. And, because it counts the days since Jan 1, 4713 BCE at Greenwich noon, it's unlikely that anybody will ever really need a negative date. Of course, this probably isn't appropriate for computers, which is why they've picked a more recent date for their epoch.
But then there's all the other installation methods including RPC.
If you're going to roll out a large-scale installation, you do the install on one box, get everything tweaked just the way you need it, then ghost it to the rest of the boxes. I'd think it was clear by now that turning off autorun should be one of the tweaks you do by reflex before ghosting.
I don't care how fast Windows 7 does a defrag, it still can't win. The average home user of Ubuntu (or any other Linux or Free-BSD for that matter) will never have to defrag their hard disk because of a better system of deciding where on the disk to put files as they're created.
Yes and no. It does show you what difference Aunt Millie will see if you boot from an Ubuntu Live CD on her box with an un-tweaked Windows 7 beta install. (Why she'd have such a thing is another question, but let's just ignore that for the moment.) The comparison would be more interesting with two others: before and after tweaking for each of the two OSs, and one between Ubuntu and Windows 7 after tweaking both for efficiency.
You want someone who practices law like that to be in a position of authority in terms of justice?
No, I don't, and this makes me very happy that I can say that I didn't vote for BO. The fact that he's picking unethical shysters like this to run the DOJ tells us quite a bit about what kind of change he's really planning. I hope you Democrats bought yourselves a lot of lube; you're going to need it.
Sorry, but no. A soldier (or sailor, for that matter) has two choices: go where they're told or go to prison. Quitting is called "desertion" and if you try it, you'll spend time behind bars before being dishonorably discharged and losing many of your civil rights, such as the right to vote.
It is not impossible, in fact it is very possible.Microsoft would have to create a flag so that programmers can set it to tell the system that it is a security related program and thus should be allowed to execute under the admin account.
Once they do that, the game's over, because the malware programmers would all set that flag, run as admin and go right around any anit-virus software you might think you were running to protect your computer. I'm a Linux user and advocate, and I wouldn't want to see that happen.
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In case you haven't noticed, the standard for a criminal trial is "beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty." In a civil case, it's "the preponderance of evidence," which is an even lower standard. Nowhere in American law is there a standard of "beyond the shadow of a doubt." I'm not saying your idea is wrong, just that you're not expressing it correctly.
I'm not sure, but I think you have that backwards. The more customers per mile, the more revenue per mile. More revenue means that you can charge each customer less, and still make more money.
If it were me, I'd go for both California options. They're both near enough to the San Andreas Fault to be vulnerable to a major quake, but far enough apart that no one temblor would get both of them.
Judging by this picture of her, she's got the figure for it, but I've no idea if she's interested in dressing that way. Enquiring minds want to know!
Not if you're talking about Melbourne, Australia, it won't be. You have to be a tad more careful in making these blanket statements.
Yes, especially when you consider that in 1709, Europe was in the early stages of the Little Ice Age. The weather in general was much colder then than it is now.
I've pointed out to you, several times, that back before anybody had come up with the idea of dyslexia, well over 90% of the children who went to school learned to read, and that's not true any more. You've never denied it, you've just ignored it because it's an inconvenient truth. I think that says more than any study, especially as it's hard to dismiss it as "biased" if it doesn't fit your preconceptions. Of course, considering some of the things you've already written, I'm sure you'll try.
I also "forgot" Murry Leinster, J. C. Campbell and a number of others, as well as David Gerrold, who did write Star Trek material. Actually, I just listed the first few to come off the top of my head and never claimed to have given an exhaustive list. Nice strawman, but not even close to what I actually said. I also never denied the importance of Star Trek, nor did Frankie Thomas on the several occasions I met him. Do you have anything to say that's actually an answer to what I wrote, instead of what you want people to think I wrote?
I think we should start a movement to get Galaxy Quest back on the air!
The effects might look cheesy now, but they were much better than anything else on TV at the time. If you really want to see cheesy effects, watch the original Dr. Who sometime, or Blake's 7, for that matter.
I suspect that Frankie Thomas and the other people who created Tom Corbet -- Space Cadet would disagree with you, considering that they pre-dated Star Trek by almost 20 years. And, for that matter, Clark, Heinlein, Asimov, Smith and many others were writing it long before Tom Corbet was created.
If people stopped using programs that they've been using for years just because of a sucky interface, vi would have died the death decades ago.
Good idea. That way, if some blue-nose complains, just boot into Windows and dare them to find any pr0n.
Astronomers have long been doing this by using the Julian day in their records. It's convenient because not only does it ignore things like years (avoiding any issues caused by the change from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar) it makes it easy to calculate intervals because it's just the number of days since an arbitrary starting point. And, because it counts the days since Jan 1, 4713 BCE at Greenwich noon, it's unlikely that anybody will ever really need a negative date. Of course, this probably isn't appropriate for computers, which is why they've picked a more recent date for their epoch.
However, considering that OSX is based on BSD, you can also get Apple pi.
If you're going to roll out a large-scale installation, you do the install on one box, get everything tweaked just the way you need it, then ghost it to the rest of the boxes. I'd think it was clear by now that turning off autorun should be one of the tweaks you do by reflex before ghosting.
Currently, nothing. If somebody ever does come up with something that will, it will spell the end of spam. I'm not holding my breath.
I don't care how fast Windows 7 does a defrag, it still can't win. The average home user of Ubuntu (or any other Linux or Free-BSD for that matter) will never have to defrag their hard disk because of a better system of deciding where on the disk to put files as they're created.
Yes and no. It does show you what difference Aunt Millie will see if you boot from an Ubuntu Live CD on her box with an un-tweaked Windows 7 beta install. (Why she'd have such a thing is another question, but let's just ignore that for the moment.) The comparison would be more interesting with two others: before and after tweaking for each of the two OSs, and one between Ubuntu and Windows 7 after tweaking both for efficiency.
In which case this discussion becomes pointless.
No, I don't, and this makes me very happy that I can say that I didn't vote for BO. The fact that he's picking unethical shysters like this to run the DOJ tells us quite a bit about what kind of change he's really planning. I hope you Democrats bought yourselves a lot of lube; you're going to need it.
Sorry, but no. A soldier (or sailor, for that matter) has two choices: go where they're told or go to prison. Quitting is called "desertion" and if you try it, you'll spend time behind bars before being dishonorably discharged and losing many of your civil rights, such as the right to vote.
I should hope not, considering that a batch file is simply a text file containing commands!
Once they do that, the game's over, because the malware programmers would all set that flag, run as admin and go right around any anit-virus software you might think you were running to protect your computer. I'm a Linux user and advocate, and I wouldn't want to see that happen.