I'm using a quantum preprocessor for my/. post as a result I may or may not have told you about the benefits of quantum computing. Unfortunately you can't verify its validity, but I can tell you the state of this post depends in some probabilistic way on you reading it, maybe.
Besides slow, which I can't comment on, everything else you mentioned is a feature. I don't think they're all that bad either.
If sugar was a "real" program (whatever that means) as opposed to a script it wouldn't be user modifiable (at least at runtime).
Honestly when is the last time you saw a novice user create a directory? My mom and my sister certainly don't. On that same note it's not like you couldn't use a naming scheme that would effectively manage your files like directories. All you have to do is prefix related files with some kind of identifier. For all intend and purpose that's what a directory name really is, a prefix. It doesn't matter if it's not supported at the file system level.
If those so-called "spam" files contain the amount of time you spent with a program and other useful things like your interactions with the program then I think they aren't useless. Tracking your time is an important skill that many people haven't learned. Doing it for the user is very useful. The Wii tracks your time it's pretty interesting and useful too.
ight in the middle of Central Park, where the Bloods or the Crips might gank you and jack your ride?
Nonsense the Bloods and Crips are West Coast gangs. Thus nowhere near Central Park. On the other hand, landing in the middle of nowhere is risky. You wouldn't want some redneck with a shotgun confusing the situation for an Intergalactic Skeet Shoot.
That doesn't sort chronologically, so no it's not correct. The correct ISO 8601 format is 2008-09-09. Which would be big-endian, but I think that's an incorrect use of the term.
A few of the oil companies actually realize that selling oil is not a sustainable business, thus they are funding research. For example BP has put a lot into Biofuel. Just because Shell is a big bad oil company doesn't mean that it can't do good.
Forget the proportion of stars with planets. Fl is the real unknown. Why assume all planets that can support life will develop life? What if life is actually pretty rare? Try plugging in values less that 1 for Fl (0.1, 0.01, 0.001) and you'll get some disappointing results from this equation. Trying to quantify something with so many unknowns seems pretty silly to me. On the other hand maybe life isn't rare, but that's just me being hopeful.
When did Cheney have a heart? Certainly not during his vice presidency and certainly not as secretary of defense. I'm too young to know about his dabbling as white house chief of staff, but I'd bet someone died because of it.
That was my thought to. A package manager would be great! I'd also like full Posix compliance and a real fully supported Unix compatibility layer including support for GNU (bash, gcc etc). Then it wouldn't matter to me that it's Windows, I could work just like I do on Mac or Linux. Now that's bliss.
Oddly enough the screenshot feature of Mac OS X is disabled when you are playing a DVD. I'd take a screenshot of the error message, but I obviously can't.
This seems to be the current trend. You can't print bank notes from Photoshop, you can't record audio on your computer, you can't take screenshots. I'm sure this is just scratching the surface of treacherous computing...
I thought it was TSA's job to unpack my luggage and repack it in the most absurd way making sure to carefully break at least one item. But the jobs not done, next they leave a note in the bag explaining that they are protecting me and my fellow passengers then they partially zip the luggage back up and turn it over to they guys that have the really fun job: throwing luggage.
Ok right, and how are you going to make it small enough to begin with? You'd need some special equipment to contain the material as you break it into small particles. Don't you think Mohammed Makunammen is going to look really suspicious buying suitable equipment. If you try to do it without suitable equipment you'll inhale it and you'll be dead.
Strontium-90 emits beta particles. Those can penetrate your skin, so how are you going to protect yourself while you collect it, make the bomb and transport it. In order for your bomb to do anything significant your going to need enough Strontium to be deadly at the close proximity you'll be to it.
But let's say you have a material that emits alpha particles and it's small enough to make its way into soft tissue. Are you really going to effectively contaminate anything if you use a bomb as the mode of delivery? If you're going to rely on it getting into the ground water or into live stock why use a bomb at all? Why not just put it directly into the water supply or get a job a farm and feed the live stock the material?
A dirty bomb isn't practical. When it comes down to it your either going to expose yourself as a terrorist, end up dead before you can use the bomb, or the bomb will be so ineffective that it's laughable.
There are a million easier, less suspicious and effective ways to kill people in terror attacks. I'd like to think terrorist are stupid enough to attempt making dirty bombs, but they're not. They don't even bombs or even technological knowhow. They, just like anyone else, will keep it simple. Simple yet effective.
Luis Alvarez used to keep a piece of plutonium on his desk. The alpha particles emitted by Plutonium can't get past your outer layer of skin. To be poisonous very tinny plutonium particles would have to be inhaled -- you are unlikely to get very small fragments if your mode of delivery is a bomb. And as someone else pointed out there are things far more toxic than plutonium.
But the explosion would have to make the radioactive particles small enough to be inhaled. It would also have to be inhaled in a high enough concentration to do significant damage. Otherwise alpha particles are mostly benign. They can't penetrate your outer layer of skin. A house -- a piece of paper even -- would be enough to protect you from alpha particles.
Also you didn't name a material you just described the popular fear of dirty bombs.
Is there any radioactive material that is potent enough for a dirty bomb? Wouldn't blowing the material up just spread it out so that it's doesn't emit enough rem to do damage?
Even if you could find a material potent enough how would you store it? How would you move the bomb into a strategic position without killing yourself from radiation poisoning?
I think a dirty bomb is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
I tried your suggestion, but I get the same result as before. The file name in the mode line is zenburnish, but everything else is Aquamacs default color. I can use M-x zenbrun to load it manually but it doesn't work automatically.
It works perfectly fine with Emacs.app even with the color-theme-initialize.
Here is what I have in my.emacs file for Emacs.app
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I'm using a quantum preprocessor for my /. post as a result I may or may not have told you about the benefits of quantum computing. Unfortunately you can't verify its validity, but I can tell you the state of this post depends in some probabilistic way on you reading it, maybe.
Well, good thing the comparison was XP vs GNU/Linux with Sugar and not just Sugar in and of itself.
Besides slow, which I can't comment on, everything else you mentioned is a feature. I don't think they're all that bad either.
If sugar was a "real" program (whatever that means) as opposed to a script it wouldn't be user modifiable (at least at runtime).
Honestly when is the last time you saw a novice user create a directory? My mom and my sister certainly don't. On that same note it's not like you couldn't use a naming scheme that would effectively manage your files like directories. All you have to do is prefix related files with some kind of identifier. For all intend and purpose that's what a directory name really is, a prefix. It doesn't matter if it's not supported at the file system level.
If those so-called "spam" files contain the amount of time you spent with a program and other useful things like your interactions with the program then I think they aren't useless. Tracking your time is an important skill that many people haven't learned. Doing it for the user is very useful. The Wii tracks your time it's pretty interesting and useful too.
ight in the middle of Central Park, where the Bloods or the Crips might gank you and jack your ride?
Nonsense the Bloods and Crips are West Coast gangs. Thus nowhere near Central Park. On the other hand, landing in the middle of nowhere is risky. You wouldn't want some redneck with a shotgun confusing the situation for an Intergalactic Skeet Shoot.
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That doesn't sort chronologically, so no it's not correct. The correct ISO 8601 format is 2008-09-09. Which would be big-endian, but I think that's an incorrect use of the term.
A few of the oil companies actually realize that selling oil is not a sustainable business, thus they are funding research. For example BP has put a lot into Biofuel. Just because Shell is a big bad oil company doesn't mean that it can't do good.
Forget the proportion of stars with planets. Fl is the real unknown. Why assume all planets that can support life will develop life? What if life is actually pretty rare? Try plugging in values less that 1 for Fl (0.1, 0.01, 0.001) and you'll get some disappointing results from this equation. Trying to quantify something with so many unknowns seems pretty silly to me. On the other hand maybe life isn't rare, but that's just me being hopeful.
When did Cheney have a heart? Certainly not during his vice presidency and certainly not as secretary of defense. I'm too young to know about his dabbling as white house chief of staff, but I'd bet someone died because of it.
E3 is the new BSD. Constantly dying. Unsubstantiated predictions of doom an gloom.
You sir are probably correct. But the real question is who gave Darl McBride mod points? Both the GP poster and I were modded "Overrated". WTF?
They will obviously pay in Linux CPU licenses. I hear they're worth $699.
That was my thought to. A package manager would be great! I'd also like full Posix compliance and a real fully supported Unix compatibility layer including support for GNU (bash, gcc etc). Then it wouldn't matter to me that it's Windows, I could work just like I do on Mac or Linux. Now that's bliss.
Oddly enough the screenshot feature of Mac OS X is disabled when you are playing a DVD. I'd take a screenshot of the error message, but I obviously can't.
This seems to be the current trend. You can't print bank notes from Photoshop, you can't record audio on your computer, you can't take screenshots. I'm sure this is just scratching the surface of treacherous computing...
Well how else are they going to pimp their dictionary to metrosexuals?
I'm sure they'll add support for SketchUp really soon.
I thought it was TSA's job to unpack my luggage and repack it in the most absurd way making sure to carefully break at least one item. But the jobs not done, next they leave a note in the bag explaining that they are protecting me and my fellow passengers then they partially zip the luggage back up and turn it over to they guys that have the really fun job: throwing luggage.
(define (pigl wd)
(if (vowel? (first wd))
(word wd 'ay)
(pigl (word (bf wd) (first wd)))))
(define (vowel? letter)
(member? letter '(a e i o u)))
Ok right, and how are you going to make it small enough to begin with? You'd need some special equipment to contain the material as you break it into small particles. Don't you think Mohammed Makunammen is going to look really suspicious buying suitable equipment. If you try to do it without suitable equipment you'll inhale it and you'll be dead.
Strontium-90 emits beta particles. Those can penetrate your skin, so how are you going to protect yourself while you collect it, make the bomb and transport it. In order for your bomb to do anything significant your going to need enough Strontium to be deadly at the close proximity you'll be to it.
But let's say you have a material that emits alpha particles and it's small enough to make its way into soft tissue. Are you really going to effectively contaminate anything if you use a bomb as the mode of delivery? If you're going to rely on it getting into the ground water or into live stock why use a bomb at all? Why not just put it directly into the water supply or get a job a farm and feed the live stock the material?
A dirty bomb isn't practical. When it comes down to it your either going to expose yourself as a terrorist, end up dead before you can use the bomb, or the bomb will be so ineffective that it's laughable.
There are a million easier, less suspicious and effective ways to kill people in terror attacks. I'd like to think terrorist are stupid enough to attempt making dirty bombs, but they're not. They don't even bombs or even technological knowhow. They, just like anyone else, will keep it simple. Simple yet effective.
That and I think someone would notice if terrorist started building a nuclear reactor in the middle of a city...
Luis Alvarez used to keep a piece of plutonium on his desk. The alpha particles emitted by Plutonium can't get past your outer layer of skin. To be poisonous very tinny plutonium particles would have to be inhaled -- you are unlikely to get very small fragments if your mode of delivery is a bomb. And as someone else pointed out there are things far more toxic than plutonium.
But the explosion would have to make the radioactive particles small enough to be inhaled. It would also have to be inhaled in a high enough concentration to do significant damage. Otherwise alpha particles are mostly benign. They can't penetrate your outer layer of skin. A house -- a piece of paper even -- would be enough to protect you from alpha particles.
Also you didn't name a material you just described the popular fear of dirty bombs.
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Is there any radioactive material that is potent enough for a dirty bomb? Wouldn't blowing the material up just spread it out so that it's doesn't emit enough rem to do damage?
Even if you could find a material potent enough how would you store it? How would you move the bomb into a strategic position without killing yourself from radiation poisoning?
I think a dirty bomb is about the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
I tried your suggestion, but I get the same result as before. The file name in the mode line is zenburnish, but everything else is Aquamacs default color. I can use M-x zenbrun to load it manually but it doesn't work automatically.
It works perfectly fine with Emacs.app even with the color-theme-initialize.
Here is what I have in my .emacs file for Emacs.app
(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-initialize)
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/zenburn.el")
(if window-system
(color-theme-zenburn)
(color-theme-hober))