When billg says, "That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft," what you should reply is, "Bullshit, how could it be any dumber than a talking paper clip?"
It's only a matter of time until this guy sues himself. I can see it now:
"Your honor, on the day in question after locking my keys in my car I called myself an idiot and slapped myself on the forehead. This is a clearcut case of slandering myself and, even worse, assaulting myself. It's obvious I present a clear and present danger to myself and I demand you grant a restraining order ordering me to stay at least 500 feet from me at all times. In addition I think it only right you award me $3 million in damages to be paid by me to me at once. Thank you."
Yup, any day now.
OK, I'm from Tacoma. I really love it there but it's not the kind of place where you leave your door unlocked. Ever heard of Ted Bundy? He grew up in Tacoma. The Beltway Snipers got their gun in Tacoma. One of the Watergate conspirators was from Tacoma. You lock your doors.
It's also the hometown of Frank Herbert and Bing Crosby so it's not all bad, but still.
My first computer was a Packard Bell with Navigator. We took it off about a week after we got the machine. It was really awful but to this day I want to live in that house.
I would imagine that a single, large, well maintained and regulated power plant produces significantly less pollution than a number of internal combustion cars producing the same amount of energy.
I can understand buying the big steel box for your kids but why do you need it to commute? Why not leave the gas guzzler at home and drive something more economical when you're going someplace by yourself? And at any rate with the advent of airbags and crumple zones are big steel cars really that much safer?
Now that's funny. I'm trying real hard to picture the glorious fireball a craft traveling at orbital velocities through gas dense enough to propagate sound would become real fast.
Gun sounds are my favorite, whenever somebody is handling a gun in a movie it always makes all the little clicky, rattling noises like there are parts moving around inside the gun. In my experience (I'm an army.navy brat and was in the navy myself) guns are some serious precision engineering and don't make much noise until you actually shoot it.
I attend a research university and the way I understand it is the profs get paid from our tuition but if they want research money they have to find a third party source. And anyway why would I mind my tuition dollar going to valid medical research? It's better than the way the government spends my taxes.
Most US Navy ships have at least one gun known as the CIWS on board. It's a large gatling-style machine gun with its own radar system mounted above the barrels. The whole thing can swivel in either direction and pivot up and down, its purpose it to shoot down incoming missiles. Inside the radar dome is an electric heater for use in cold environments (to keep ice and snow from borking the radar). A friend of mine in the Navy was a technician who worked on these things and one of them on his boat started malfunctioning and would only rotate in one direction. he and the other guys who worked on it spent days trying to fix it but nothing worked so they finally called in one of the engineers who designed. He replaced the heater and it worked. This was in San Diego so the heater was not being used. Just some kind of weird electrical problem. Complicated electronics can be awfully weird sometimes.
Microsoft had more money than many of the worlds countries combined and a gigantic army of developers and it still took them the better part of a decade to ship Vista. Sometimes software can be tough.
I hate sports as much as the next dork but seriously, if you were a network executive and you had to choose between a guaranteed ratings grabber like FOOTBALL!! or a moderately successful science fiction cartoon which way would you go?
So this thing can shoot down a missile when its controllers know one is on the way. How well does it work against a whole fleet of unexpected incoming missiles along with decoys,chaff and multiple warheads? Or, to be a little more up to date, how well does it work against a handful of fanatics in a stolen jumbo jet, or with a mini-van loaded with fertalizer? "Missile defense" is a gigantic, money sucking hole. How much did this thing cost and how much safer would we be if we had spent the same amount on diplomacy or on improving conditions for our own countrymen rather than fattening the wallets of a handful of defense contractors?
If you are so naive that you actually think Start Trek is an accurate reflection of humaity and you're over 13 years old you should seriously consider having yourself committed. For your own safety.
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When billg says, "That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft," what you should reply is, "Bullshit, how could it be any dumber than a talking paper clip?"
It's only a matter of time until this guy sues himself. I can see it now: "Your honor, on the day in question after locking my keys in my car I called myself an idiot and slapped myself on the forehead. This is a clearcut case of slandering myself and, even worse, assaulting myself. It's obvious I present a clear and present danger to myself and I demand you grant a restraining order ordering me to stay at least 500 feet from me at all times. In addition I think it only right you award me $3 million in damages to be paid by me to me at once. Thank you." Yup, any day now.
It stands for Furry Orangutan right?
Yeah you should have seen it in the 80's when I was a kid. It was like Detroit in Robocop.
I didn't say he grew up there, he was born there though. I've been to the house and everything.
It's also the hometown of Frank Herbert and Bing Crosby so it's not all bad, but still.
My first computer was a Packard Bell with Navigator. We took it off about a week after we got the machine. It was really awful but to this day I want to live in that house.
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I would imagine that a single, large, well maintained and regulated power plant produces significantly less pollution than a number of internal combustion cars producing the same amount of energy.
So then you turn a valve and the cold air doesn't come in anymore. You fucking idiot.
I can understand buying the big steel box for your kids but why do you need it to commute? Why not leave the gas guzzler at home and drive something more economical when you're going someplace by yourself? And at any rate with the advent of airbags and crumple zones are big steel cars really that much safer?
You probably already know this but Lian-Li makes delightfully boxy cases.
Now that's funny. I'm trying real hard to picture the glorious fireball a craft traveling at orbital velocities through gas dense enough to propagate sound would become real fast.
Gun sounds are my favorite, whenever somebody is handling a gun in a movie it always makes all the little clicky, rattling noises like there are parts moving around inside the gun. In my experience (I'm an army.navy brat and was in the navy myself) guns are some serious precision engineering and don't make much noise until you actually shoot it.
I attend a research university and the way I understand it is the profs get paid from our tuition but if they want research money they have to find a third party source. And anyway why would I mind my tuition dollar going to valid medical research? It's better than the way the government spends my taxes.
Most US Navy ships have at least one gun known as the CIWS on board. It's a large gatling-style machine gun with its own radar system mounted above the barrels. The whole thing can swivel in either direction and pivot up and down, its purpose it to shoot down incoming missiles. Inside the radar dome is an electric heater for use in cold environments (to keep ice and snow from borking the radar). A friend of mine in the Navy was a technician who worked on these things and one of them on his boat started malfunctioning and would only rotate in one direction. he and the other guys who worked on it spent days trying to fix it but nothing worked so they finally called in one of the engineers who designed. He replaced the heater and it worked. This was in San Diego so the heater was not being used. Just some kind of weird electrical problem. Complicated electronics can be awfully weird sometimes.
Microsoft had more money than many of the worlds countries combined and a gigantic army of developers and it still took them the better part of a decade to ship Vista. Sometimes software can be tough.
Being American I was on the verge of replying with some smart-assed comment but, alas, you're not too far off the mark.
I'm using linux with an ATI notebook card and it works great. Except when it doesn't, like when I want to log out or restart X, then I'm screwed.
I hate sports as much as the next dork but seriously, if you were a network executive and you had to choose between a guaranteed ratings grabber like FOOTBALL!! or a moderately successful science fiction cartoon which way would you go?
Did you get to ask him if it's going to suck as hard as the last several years of the Simpsons?
Since it started being "News for Nerds".
So this thing can shoot down a missile when its controllers know one is on the way. How well does it work against a whole fleet of unexpected incoming missiles along with decoys,chaff and multiple warheads? Or, to be a little more up to date, how well does it work against a handful of fanatics in a stolen jumbo jet, or with a mini-van loaded with fertalizer? "Missile defense" is a gigantic, money sucking hole. How much did this thing cost and how much safer would we be if we had spent the same amount on diplomacy or on improving conditions for our own countrymen rather than fattening the wallets of a handful of defense contractors?
If you are so naive that you actually think Start Trek is an accurate reflection of humaity and you're over 13 years old you should seriously consider having yourself committed. For your own safety.
Double breve and two caffeinated doughnuts.