Here in the U.S. there is a strong tendency to ostracize those who do not believe. There are many states where testimony in court and the right to run for public office require belief in a diety. Think for a minute where politicians would be if they came out admitting the were atheist.
We are hard wired to "fit in".
As has been pointed out by so many other posts, the strong belief thing is large in the U.S. but not other countries.
Wow, it costs the same as a PDA Wow, with 64mb of storage it will hold almost an entire album. Wow, it does less than a (cheap) MP3 player AND a PDA yet costs more. Wow, it comes from Sony... the company which has let the consumer down so many times. Wow, I'm not going to buy one of these.
Why just brain tumors? I thought the Cell Phone / Brain Tumor link was due to the cell phone being held next to the head? Why no stomach tumors? Why no big toe tumors? I smell a rat.
I don't go to movies because the ticket is $7 and then popcorn and a coke is about a billion more dollars. I don't BUY DVDs because the ones I buy usually get viewed only once (they are boring) so everthing I view now is rented from NetFlix (low risk). Finally I get PLENTY to watch with TiVo.
Despite missing the fire fighting reference I still maintain that Chernobyl deaths were for the most part precipitated by a government bent on hiding the problem rather than looking out for it's citizens. Using your logic ship travel would be considerably unsafe because of the Titanic. Pointing out that Chernobyl was a failure of POLITICS rather than technology is not whitewashing.
Earth, we are on Earth. Sometimes referred to as the world by us earth centric individuals. Sorry about the UK. Parts of Mongolia are lacking as well but they make up for it with great barbecue.
I can only speak for the industry I work in but we are rapidly porting all our applications to embedded Linux platforms. Our systems run an RTOS but with the abundance of Linux savy programmers in the world it makes very good sense to use a widely deployed system.
Not exactly. It's more of a "this hasn't hurt anybody as far as we can tell". Don't look now but you are being bombarded by photons. Exposure to sunlight can cause cancer. Surely low levels of exposure to light over a long period of time will do the same thing.
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Welcome to your new world of DCE. The Ministry Of Truth had deemed copy protection to be your friend.
I can think of a Flying Spaghetti Monster therefore a Flying Spaghetti Monster exits. Anselms argument is only slightly better than Pascals.
Here in the U.S. there is a strong tendency to ostracize those who do not believe. There are many states where testimony in court and the right to run for public office require belief in a diety. Think for a minute where politicians would be if they came out admitting the were atheist.
We are hard wired to "fit in".
As has been pointed out by so many other posts, the strong belief thing is large in the U.S. but not other countries.
[If nobody knows everything then what knows everything?]
There is no requirement that there be a what that knows everything.
I've always resisted the ki-bee-byte and friends designations because they are so hard to pronounce.
Obligatory Futurama reference.
How do 50 full-time web-surfing employees constitute crippling the government?
Wow, it costs the same as a PDA
Wow, with 64mb of storage it will hold almost an entire album.
Wow, it does less than a (cheap) MP3 player AND a PDA yet costs more.
Wow, it comes from Sony... the company which has let the consumer down so many times.
Wow, I'm not going to buy one of these.
I understand this is what Windows Vista says the first time it fires up... "mmmmmm, ram". Feed me Seymore!
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-- TT
Why just brain tumors? I thought the Cell Phone / Brain Tumor link was due to the cell phone being held next to the head? Why no stomach tumors? Why no big toe tumors? I smell a rat.
We tried the COX box for a while and it wasn't very good. TiVo is much better. I would switch if I had the chance. We are on COX already.
I don't go to movies because the ticket is $7 and then popcorn and a coke is about a billion more dollars. I don't BUY DVDs because the ones I buy usually get viewed only once (they are boring) so everthing I view now is rented from NetFlix (low risk). Finally I get PLENTY to watch with TiVo.
"Well, lets just say that the brightest of them would make a texan look dumb."
Who you callin' DUMB asshole? Characterizing any ethtnic / geographic / political / sex / belief-system group as "dumb" comes across as... er... Dumb.
Thanks for the troll. http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4036830962. html
There will always be vertical markets in the IT/CS industry that will dictate it staying here rather than going offshore. Good luck finding one. :)
Despite missing the fire fighting reference I still maintain that Chernobyl deaths were for the most part precipitated by a government bent on hiding the problem rather than looking out for it's citizens. Using your logic ship travel would be considerably unsafe because of the Titanic. Pointing out that Chernobyl was a failure of POLITICS rather than technology is not whitewashing.
Great, another NIMBY.
The article didn't say anything about firemen. Chernobyl was a POLITICAL failure not a technological one.
ummmm... there is also frequency and amount.
So:
Earth is Round = Global Warming is caused by Humans
Earth is Flat = Crackpots believe there is no global warming
And you got modded to 5 for this? Let me clue you in. There is not a lot of funding for research into the earth being round.
Earth, we are on Earth. Sometimes referred to as the world by us earth centric individuals. Sorry about the UK. Parts of Mongolia are lacking as well but they make up for it with great barbecue.
Embedded development people give a rats ass.
I can only speak for the industry I work in but we are rapidly porting all our applications to embedded Linux platforms. Our systems run an RTOS but with the abundance of Linux savy programmers in the world it makes very good sense to use a widely deployed system.
Not exactly. It's more of a "this hasn't hurt anybody as far as we can tell". Don't look now but you are being bombarded by photons. Exposure to sunlight can cause cancer. Surely low levels of exposure to light over a long period of time will do the same thing.