"There was a big protest at my university during my time there, and during the course of the protest, they blocked a major throughfare to all traffic for an extended period.
It goes without saying this wasn't a liscensed protest.
Turns out there was an ambulance tied up in the traffic jam, and all the ringleaders of the protest got charged with felony obstruction of emergency vehicles."
Give us some names and dates. I heard this same story one night on FauxNews on the Oh Really? Factor.
"Any competent and sane self-defense instructor will tell you to give the nice man with the gun your wallet. Same principle applies whether the thug with the gun has a badge or not."
Heh. Yeah. And pre-9-11-01 expert wisdom said for passengers to not resist nice little hijackers with funny accents. All following the expert wisdom bought the people on four jets in the U.S. was a few minutes of fame as they plowed into some buildings.
"You should write them down on a card without giving away which passwords they are and then keep that card like a credit card: as if it were money."
Cool, so when the Feds arrest you AND take your hard drive, they have many fewer choices since you conviently wrote your passwords on the back of a business card and stuck it in your wallet.
I agree. I really didn't see much wrong with the warning label for the books, in and of itself. I suggested they should put the same label on physics texts, economics texts, political science texts, etc. Of course, doing this would defeat the religious Christer-fundi purpose behind the law, which purpose is something that I do have a problem with.
There are lots of theories in the world and they aren't facts. To believe that a theory is a fact is to imply that it cannot be refined which is completely counter to the scientific method.
"If you don't understand this, then you are an idiot. I'm sorry, but it is almost not worth explaining..."
No, what is not worthwhile is your "explanation" which doesn't address the parent poster's comment at all, not to mention your absurd rudeness. He is quite correct that a fact is different than an approximation. A fact is a datum, an approximation is a guess.
Example. Three points on a graph are three facts. A curve drawn through them is an approximation. It is simply a guess about where other data might fall.
Clearly these folks who don't find the humor in sending this wanker around the circle line for a day have never seen annoying tourists.
When I was at New College, some of my American school mates were assholes, but most were not. However, we all noticed the Italians and the Japanese who had to have been absolutely the most annoying tourists of all time.
I too gave more than one annoying tourist bad directions. It seems non-native English speakers can't tell the difference between an English accent and an American one.
"However, for the hardcore gamer, there's no arguing that you need a PC."
For the hardcore gamer, there's no arguing that you need a PS2 or Xbox.
I want just two things out of a gaming PC: 1) really cool games; 2) stability; i.e. I would like the machine to continue to run the game until I want to quit.
Neither of these things do I get from my PC running XP.
I do, however, get spontaneous reboots, which is kind of unique, at least for me, since I otherwise only use *nix-type OSes.
Regardless of which side of the debate you fall on, don't yuou find it amusing that researchers even allow for the possiblity that the other side has something you would consider a "brain"?
Better yet, since games are basically all one would want to run on the Mac that are Windows-only, how about someone writes a non-emulator to not emulate a PS2 but allow us to play PS2 games on the Mac?
Now, if he could invent a box, other than a game console, that I could attach to my TV that would make the TV into something I would be willing to waste an hour or two in front of, it would be a real accomplishement.
Sure, "defense" spending (offense spending, really) is dominating all research. But think of it the way the True Belieivers (tm) and Patriotic Americans (R) think of it: who cares if we are stupid if we can kick the snot out of everybody else in the world. They'll all be to busy peeing in their pants to call us stupid to oru face.
Sure, we have had a pretty bad showing in our fights with the two weakest countries in the world, but reality is something smart people have to worry about, not True Belieivers (tm) and Patriotic Americans (R). Embrace your inadequacies, ignorance really is bliss.:-)
I'm stunned that anyone really thought a Delorean looked good to begin with. At the time, I was interested in seeing a new car company and all that, but the car itself looked pretty crappy even for it's time. Stainless Steel was an interesting gimic and might have pre-figured all the silver colored cars we see today, but that was about it.
It looked to me like it has the front end of a period Datsun stuck onto the ass-end of a Dodge Daytona.
There is nothing wrong with a rackmount for 3 PC's. In fact it makes sense if yuou have space considerations and if you don't want cables laying all over the place.
My suggestion is that you look on ebay for a rack cabinet. I just bought two of them on there for $50.00 each. One was a Sun Storage Array which probably cost over $1,000.00 new. The other was some generic cabinet, but both are perfectly functional. The Sun is too large for the house, but the other easily fits in a closet I use for my servers.
Cases can easily be found brand new on PriceWatch for under $100.00. Sometimes you can find them for under $70.00. You can also buy used cases on ebay fairly cheaply.
One additional think to think of is this. It strikes me that with some aluminum angle shelving material from Lowes, a drill, and some bolts, you could easily make a rack frame to put rack cases in. I also think that some heavy drawer rails would work as well as the server rack rails folks sell, which you cna also pick up cheaply on ebay.
Two-dimensional characters played by wooden actor-props fighting CGI bug-alien-things and all done with about as much plot as Doom I: yeah, that deserves a sequel if anything does.
At least with a video game I get to control the lame-assed character with the gun.
"of course, imagine what would happen when the religions of the world that believed in life just on earth were shown proof that...it wasnt just on earth. Theyd freak, billions of people would freak out because suddenly an enourmous amount of what they believed was proven wrong...."
I think you are seriously underestimating the ability of religious people to ignore contrary evidence. Firmly held religious beliefs have been shown to be objectively false on many occassions in the past and these "revelations" seem to have very little effect on True Believers (tm). I think people segment their minds. There is religious truth and there is real world truth, and they don't have to mesh, necessarily.
Does anyone actually verbalize, even in his head, abstract thoughts all the time? Frankly, other than writing, I find that I never verbalize my thoughts. How in the world can anyone think fast if he has to express everything in words?
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It goes without saying this wasn't a liscensed protest.
Turns out there was an ambulance tied up in the traffic jam, and all the ringleaders of the protest got charged with felony obstruction of emergency vehicles."
Give us some names and dates. I heard this same story one night on FauxNews on the Oh Really? Factor.
Heh. Yeah. And pre-9-11-01 expert wisdom said for passengers to not resist nice little hijackers with funny accents. All following the expert wisdom bought the people on four jets in the U.S. was a few minutes of fame as they plowed into some buildings.
God bless the experts and all their wisdom.
Cool, so when the Feds arrest you AND take your hard drive, they have many fewer choices since you conviently wrote your passwords on the back of a business card and stuck it in your wallet.
There are lots of theories in the world and they aren't facts. To believe that a theory is a fact is to imply that it cannot be refined which is completely counter to the scientific method.
"If you don't understand this, then you are an idiot. I'm sorry, but it is almost not worth explaining..."
No, what is not worthwhile is your "explanation" which doesn't address the parent poster's comment at all, not to mention your absurd rudeness. He is quite correct that a fact is different than an approximation. A fact is a datum, an approximation is a guess.
Example. Three points on a graph are three facts. A curve drawn through them is an approximation. It is simply a guess about where other data might fall.
I think Mickey Mouse is a Famouse.
When I was at New College, some of my American school mates were assholes, but most were not. However, we all noticed the Italians and the Japanese who had to have been absolutely the most annoying tourists of all time.
I too gave more than one annoying tourist bad directions. It seems non-native English speakers can't tell the difference between an English accent and an American one.
For the hardcore gamer, there's no arguing that you need a PS2 or Xbox.
I want just two things out of a gaming PC: 1) really cool games; 2) stability; i.e. I would like the machine to continue to run the game until I want to quit.
Neither of these things do I get from my PC running XP.
I do, however, get spontaneous reboots, which is kind of unique, at least for me, since I otherwise only use *nix-type OSes.
No you haven't. Every true Mac user knows the original had only 128K of RAM.
I think you are a Windows monkey-boy. :-)
Anarchy is the answer.
Better yet, since games are basically all one would want to run on the Mac that are Windows-only, how about someone writes a non-emulator to not emulate a PS2 but allow us to play PS2 games on the Mac?
Now, if he could invent a box, other than a game console, that I could attach to my TV that would make the TV into something I would be willing to waste an hour or two in front of, it would be a real accomplishement.
They would have a better chance of getting a meswsage read by the poor where I live, if they printed it on rolling paper.
Haven't you heard of this one running OSX on 2200 processors:
http://www.tcf.vt.edu/
I think one of the other posters was right, you really don't know anything about OSX.
...without the lame-assed ending? That might get a few $$ from me.
He he, no problem. It happens to all of us every now and then. :-)
Yeah, boy, that OSX sure is hard to set up and use. Thank God there's Windows to make things easy.
Sure, we have had a pretty bad showing in our fights with the two weakest countries in the world, but reality is something smart people have to worry about, not True Belieivers (tm) and Patriotic Americans (R). Embrace your inadequacies, ignorance really is bliss. :-)
I'm stunned that anyone really thought a Delorean looked good to begin with. At the time, I was interested in seeing a new car company and all that, but the car itself looked pretty crappy even for it's time. Stainless Steel was an interesting gimic and might have pre-figured all the silver colored cars we see today, but that was about it. It looked to me like it has the front end of a period Datsun stuck onto the ass-end of a Dodge Daytona.
My suggestion is that you look on ebay for a rack cabinet. I just bought two of them on there for $50.00 each. One was a Sun Storage Array which probably cost over $1,000.00 new. The other was some generic cabinet, but both are perfectly functional. The Sun is too large for the house, but the other easily fits in a closet I use for my servers.
Cases can easily be found brand new on PriceWatch for under $100.00. Sometimes you can find them for under $70.00. You can also buy used cases on ebay fairly cheaply.
One additional think to think of is this. It strikes me that with some aluminum angle shelving material from Lowes, a drill, and some bolts, you could easily make a rack frame to put rack cases in. I also think that some heavy drawer rails would work as well as the server rack rails folks sell, which you cna also pick up cheaply on ebay.
Alcmaon
Two-dimensional characters played by wooden actor-props fighting CGI bug-alien-things and all done with about as much plot as Doom I: yeah, that deserves a sequel if anything does.
At least with a video game I get to control the lame-assed character with the gun.
I think you are seriously underestimating the ability of religious people to ignore contrary evidence. Firmly held religious beliefs have been shown to be objectively false on many occassions in the past and these "revelations" seem to have very little effect on True Believers (tm). I think people segment their minds. There is religious truth and there is real world truth, and they don't have to mesh, necessarily.
Alcmaeon
I find most sigs do not follow standard grammar conventions. :-)
Pedant
...for about $350.00 and a much smaller footprint?
Does anyone actually verbalize, even in his head, abstract thoughts all the time? Frankly, other than writing, I find that I never verbalize my thoughts. How in the world can anyone think fast if he has to express everything in words?
Alcmaeon