If your point is that it fell by continued complacence by Roman citizens, heavier and heavier reliance on foreign-born legionary soldiers, and increased pressure from upwardly sophisticated (often by those same soldiers going back home and taking what they learned from the legions with them) "barbarian" attacks from the tribes in Germania and Gual, and a continuously lops-sided and punitive tax code, yeah...
Luckily, magic underwear was discovered and humans survived the event.
I'm reading about a new theory that argues H. Sapiens actually DID die out and was replaced by the nearly identical H. Idioticus. Personally, I could see such a genus appealing to magic underwear for survival.
As long as you are fine with having a single point of failure...
Speaking for myself, I usually lose these gadgets before they fail with one exception; for some reason I was able to hang on to my ancient RCA 5 gig b/w display usb mp3 player for something like 6 years. It finally gave me a "File system failure" error that a reset couldn't correct. Other than that, my gadget collection is one long list of lost or stolen devices over the years, not one of them "failed" in the broken sense. Unless you can say my tom tom one "failed" me when my house was broken into over the summer and the thief took it (without the usb car charger, and without that it is useless, battery life of miliseconds). So when I lost my rather expensive Palm Centro, and since my plan was up, I decided to go with a pay as you-go-plan, and a brand spanking new Samsung FreeForm. Best desision I ever made. Not only does this thing have an mp3 player w/stereo bluetooth and with a capacity limited only by the size of your mini sd card, it also has by-direction gps, pretty much like the tom tom. And it comes with the plan, no extra charge! A dandy WAP web browser too. All in the plan. Goodbye to the gadget assortment. Frankly, you can have your gaggle of crap. I'm very happy with my new phone. $80. Not bad. If anything fails on the phone I'm just going to buy a new one.
By the way, Nokia seems like they are touting their gps feature as unique among cellphones. This phone I just got has been around for a while.
Elitists are jerks, news at 11. There, fixed that for you...
You're shouting in the wind. Yeah, they can be jerks. Now what? When a select few are the only ones who can perform a certain task, well, don't be surprised the next time you call a archetypal programmer a jerk he refuses to write that critical code section your million-dollar product so desperately needs.
I don't think they're going to remove the Print Screen function, just the SysRq function. Going over my digital life (of over 30 years, by my reckoning) I can't think of a time I ever noticed the SysRq function, much less used it.
*wave hand in Storm Trooper's face* "This isn't the privacy you're looking for..."
Looks like I picked a good time to never have registered for Facebook. Hey, a college geek creates a web page and is able to retire (if he wants) a year later from its action. More power to 'im. But then sit there and blow a corporate line of smoke in my face? That's just insulting. Facebook, you'll NEVER know me. Boo ya!
Speaking as someone whom your proposal would kill, I'm gonna say... no.
Kelsoe (I prefer "Kelsoe" to "Kelson", live with it) raises a valid point though. Rather than declaring a nut-free zone on all flights, I think the Air Canada, which I've had my own run-ins with and let me tell you, mgmt. could use a brain injection, doesn't it make more sense to simply make arraignments with that passenger for her nutty allergy? If they are willing to make a nut-free zone on all of their flights. then they should be willing to make a sugar-free zone for diabetics, and a neon-free zone for people that get seizures from flashing lights, and a "Never on a Sunday" zone for religious zealots, and an elephant-free zone, and so on.
Never the less COM adds a layer of complexity that I don't find when using OpenGL. I'm not sure what the situation is now with DirectX, I understand its better since 9, but still, I have nightmares about COM activation across network domains and permissions issues and the list really went on and on; COM was a nightmare if you wanted to implement it on a complex distributed system, you really had to know what you were doing. Now we have opengl and signals with Linux, and its pretty strait forward. I remember years ago when I first played around with ogl and I remember I had my first example program running in less than 15 minutes after installing the sdk; and this was on cygwin! A few years later and I'm writing ogl object activation with the libsigc++ library. DirectX; not so much. It took me a few days to understand what I was doing and figure out how to get one simple example working.
"PDFs full of x86 virtual machines, complete with embedded video documentation, to one another..."
Can you imagine the chaos that would bring? "Here's your presentation on the XYZ effort", let'er rip and a Pandora's box of digital mayhem starts to eat away at your corp's lan...
If you would have quoted me in full, then the statement is perfectly valid. I could argue that your local PTA is a creed or a weak philosophy; ie, the regular meetings are to help ensure a smoothly running and cooperative learning environment, just as regular sacrifices to the gods ensured a good harvest.
They can differ all they want. Atheism isn't a religion thus has no creeds or shades of gray in its belief system, indeed is not a belief system. If you want to participate in an alternate belief system that's a religion and is not atheism.
"Rich and colorful flavors"? As an atheist, I have to ask "WTF are you talking about?" Atheists do not believe an entity identified as "God" exists, period. Anything else is not atheism, just divergent nonsense. We do not get together and revel in our atheism, have schisms with one part sort of not believing in God and the other part strongly not believing in God, or have a guy who preaches against God in one way and another who preaches against God with another set of principals, and we don't deny his existence using a particular ceremony, or a particular philosophy. Its really simple. Anything else is not atheism. So your comment is nonsense.
Yeah, getting 10 years without any real representation or legal recourse for saying anything the Gov. doesn't like is just like the seat belt law in the west. Well, I'm going to go watch Rage Against The Machine's video "Testify". Don't know that one? Oh, its a complete slam against W & Al Gore and the US Congress. I wonder why I can't find videos critical of Hu Jintao or the PRC Politburo?
AMERICAN airport security is stupid, I'll agree to that. Having every single little old lady from Peoria, Il. take off her slippers before boarding a plane is asinine. The Fed. needs to do only two things; sky marshals, and send the idiots who head the TSA (perhaps after firing the lot of them currently in place and replacing 'em with a fresh pack of idiots) to training in Israel for a few months. That's it. All the scanner machines and removed shoes can't match one man who is allowed to board with a gun and some proper anti-terrorist training org-wide. That's security, and it won't cost billions.
That's not how the NSA, CERN, The FBI, and other agencies saw Morris' act. He was found guilty in a trial and sentenced to quite a bit of community service and fines in the millions. That sounds exactly like the same thing to me.
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Notice how the Roman empire fell.
If your point is that it fell by continued complacence by Roman citizens, heavier and heavier reliance on foreign-born legionary soldiers, and increased pressure from upwardly sophisticated (often by those same soldiers going back home and taking what they learned from the legions with them) "barbarian" attacks from the tribes in Germania and Gual, and a continuously lops-sided and punitive tax code, yeah...
Luckily, magic underwear was discovered and humans survived the event.
I'm reading about a new theory that argues H. Sapiens actually DID die out and was replaced by the nearly identical H. Idioticus. Personally, I could see such a genus appealing to magic underwear for survival.
As long as you are fine with having a single point of failure...
Speaking for myself, I usually lose these gadgets before they fail with one exception; for some reason I was able to hang on to my ancient RCA 5 gig b/w display usb mp3 player for something like 6 years. It finally gave me a "File system failure" error that a reset couldn't correct. Other than that, my gadget collection is one long list of lost or stolen devices over the years, not one of them "failed" in the broken sense. Unless you can say my tom tom one "failed" me when my house was broken into over the summer and the thief took it (without the usb car charger, and without that it is useless, battery life of miliseconds). So when I lost my rather expensive Palm Centro, and since my plan was up, I decided to go with a pay as you-go-plan, and a brand spanking new Samsung FreeForm. Best desision I ever made. Not only does this thing have an mp3 player w/stereo bluetooth and with a capacity limited only by the size of your mini sd card, it also has by-direction gps, pretty much like the tom tom. And it comes with the plan, no extra charge! A dandy WAP web browser too. All in the plan. Goodbye to the gadget assortment. Frankly, you can have your gaggle of crap. I'm very happy with my new phone. $80. Not bad. If anything fails on the phone I'm just going to buy a new one.
By the way, Nokia seems like they are touting their gps feature as unique among cellphones. This phone I just got has been around for a while.
I don't know. Ask your grandmother, apparently she codes. Or your high school janitor. I guess in your world anyone and every one has the mad skilz.
Elitists are jerks, news at 11. There, fixed that for you...
You're shouting in the wind. Yeah, they can be jerks. Now what? When a select few are the only ones who can perform a certain task, well, don't be surprised the next time you call a archetypal programmer a jerk he refuses to write that critical code section your million-dollar product so desperately needs.
Personally, I'd much rather see the biography of Confucius....
I bet you're great fun at parties too.
I don't think they're going to remove the Print Screen function, just the SysRq function. Going over my digital life (of over 30 years, by my reckoning) I can't think of a time I ever noticed the SysRq function, much less used it.
*wave hand in Storm Trooper's face* "This isn't the privacy you're looking for..."
Looks like I picked a good time to never have registered for Facebook. Hey, a college geek creates a web page and is able to retire (if he wants) a year later from its action. More power to 'im. But then sit there and blow a corporate line of smoke in my face? That's just insulting. Facebook, you'll NEVER know me. Boo ya!
Speaking as someone whom your proposal would kill, I'm gonna say... no.
Kelsoe (I prefer "Kelsoe" to "Kelson", live with it) raises a valid point though. Rather than declaring a nut-free zone on all flights, I think the Air Canada, which I've had my own run-ins with and let me tell you, mgmt. could use a brain injection, doesn't it make more sense to simply make arraignments with that passenger for her nutty allergy? If they are willing to make a nut-free zone on all of their flights. then they should be willing to make a sugar-free zone for diabetics, and a neon-free zone for people that get seizures from flashing lights, and a "Never on a Sunday" zone for religious zealots, and an elephant-free zone, and so on.
it can call COM APIs as well.
Never the less COM adds a layer of complexity that I don't find when using OpenGL. I'm not sure what the situation is now with DirectX, I understand its better since 9, but still, I have nightmares about COM activation across network domains and permissions issues and the list really went on and on; COM was a nightmare if you wanted to implement it on a complex distributed system, you really had to know what you were doing. Now we have opengl and signals with Linux, and its pretty strait forward. I remember years ago when I first played around with ogl and I remember I had my first example program running in less than 15 minutes after installing the sdk; and this was on cygwin! A few years later and I'm writing ogl object activation with the libsigc++ library. DirectX; not so much. It took me a few days to understand what I was doing and figure out how to get one simple example working.
Yeah, that's my understanding as well. Its not an issue with Windows, per se. I would use TrueCrypt as well. (Which I do.)
"PDFs full of x86 virtual machines, complete with embedded video documentation, to one another..."
Can you imagine the chaos that would bring? "Here's your presentation on the XYZ effort", let'er rip and a Pandora's box of digital mayhem starts to eat away at your corp's lan...
If you would have quoted me in full, then the statement is perfectly valid. I could argue that your local PTA is a creed or a weak philosophy; ie, the regular meetings are to help ensure a smoothly running and cooperative learning environment, just as regular sacrifices to the gods ensured a good harvest.
They can differ all they want. Atheism isn't a religion thus has no creeds or shades of gray in its belief system, indeed is not a belief system. If you want to participate in an alternate belief system that's a religion and is not atheism.
"Rich and colorful flavors"? As an atheist, I have to ask "WTF are you talking about?" Atheists do not believe an entity identified as "God" exists, period. Anything else is not atheism, just divergent nonsense. We do not get together and revel in our atheism, have schisms with one part sort of not believing in God and the other part strongly not believing in God, or have a guy who preaches against God in one way and another who preaches against God with another set of principals, and we don't deny his existence using a particular ceremony, or a particular philosophy. Its really simple. Anything else is not atheism. So your comment is nonsense.
Yeah, getting 10 years without any real representation or legal recourse for saying anything the Gov. doesn't like is just like the seat belt law in the west. Well, I'm going to go watch Rage Against The Machine's video "Testify". Don't know that one? Oh, its a complete slam against W & Al Gore and the US Congress. I wonder why I can't find videos critical of Hu Jintao or the PRC Politburo?
AMERICAN airport security is stupid, I'll agree to that. Having every single little old lady from Peoria, Il. take off her slippers before boarding a plane is asinine. The Fed. needs to do only two things; sky marshals, and send the idiots who head the TSA (perhaps after firing the lot of them currently in place and replacing 'em with a fresh pack of idiots) to training in Israel for a few months. That's it. All the scanner machines and removed shoes can't match one man who is allowed to board with a gun and some proper anti-terrorist training org-wide. That's security, and it won't cost billions.
Wow. Looks like the cast of "How I Met Your Mother" meets Geeksquad & the Ronettes.
That's not how the NSA, CERN, The FBI, and other agencies saw Morris' act. He was found guilty in a trial and sentenced to quite a bit of community service and fines in the millions. That sounds exactly like the same thing to me.
The first being the famous Morris Worm from the 80's; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm/.
Wow. What did we do to make the Chinese invade Tibet? Or is that when Germany sent VW production to Mexico?
Can we finally have something like a "Godwin" for whenever some one makes a negative comment about the US, PLEASE?
I take it you missed the part where this Representative is a Democrat?
No. I was responding to an earlier post about republicans, and adding this fool to the list of bad dems.
lol
Indeed.
There are worlds of difference between that and a full, playable game.
Yeah, you're right. Those developers are completely over the hill now and have no chance of doing anything productive ever again.
You've got to be joking.
Come get me, Mr. Grayson.
Really. With powerful nutbags like Grayson ready to ignore the 1st amendment and lock you up, who needs enemies?
As for the liberals ready to point out how this maniac is typical of the right side of the isle, lets not forget the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five/Keating Five, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Jefferson/William Jefferson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski/Dan Rostenkowski, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich/Rod Blagojevich, need I go on about how equally smelly the democrats are? Both sides are losers in my opinion.