I'm not saying they're not right about the NSTA being in Big Oil's pocket, but An Inconvenient Truth didn't have much in the way of science in it as far as hard numbers go. And without numbers, all of Al's pretty graphs don't mean anything. If my body temperature increases.000000001 of a degree, steadily year after year, I don't think it would amount to much. I'm not saying the science in An Inconvient Truth is wrong, it's just that the movie doesn't give any hard numbers to relate it to. I'm sure they're out there, but if I'm a science teacher and I'm going to spend valuable teaching time showing a movie, I want everything to be put together for me.
I hate to prove their point, but i find it annoying to have to scroll down under the text to read about the device. I wish there was a gadget to do it for me.
Seriously, it could be actual doorknobs. They can be quite tricky some times, especially if you try to install a left-handed knob on a right-handed door.
Let us not forget that Florida also has spawn-of-Satan weather. The difference is, the spawns in Florida usually have names given to them by the National Weather Service.
Speaking of details, I think it important to remember that one of the companies, Combe, switched to Linux nine years ago and back to Windows two years ago. It seems they bailed out too early for their words to be relevant now.
Not to mention that, practically speaking, it was impossible to have a democracy even when the nation was relatively small.
It is technically possible now, but undesirable, especially to the Slashdot world, because that would mean giving the evil Diebold more money and power.
As long as we're signs bashing, let's not forget that the movie was utterly boring past the first 20 minutes. The pre-release marketing was good, but the film didn't live up to it at all. And the message was about the stupidest I've ever seen - everything happens for a purpose? Do we have no freedom?
I did see The Village, and though it wasn't perfect, it was still quite good in my opinion.
I'd have to say the worst movie I've ever seen is A Christmas Story. I just wish the stupid kid would die, and that TNT would stop playing reruns of it.
Some good points, but I think the original story misses a major flaw with software use in government applications that seems to apply here.
Any software, closed or open, has to go through months, sometimes years of testing. The software being used by the government is often 3 generations behind what 's marked as stable. Any bugs fixed usually have to be in house, because the pathches or the updated versions of the software hasn't been approved for government use.
Personally, I think this makes the case stronger for open source versus closed. More use of open source would force different implementation methods and might just get more eyes looking at the code, hopefully making it stronger.
There are two reasons I can think of that this sort of system wouldn't be ideal: 1) I don't want to let MS run electricity through my body and 2) it would be far easier to sync all my devices with a wireless network, even if I had to do something to activate the syncing. Besides, if this patent is in the clear, it will likely be expired before anything significant has been done with it.
I've got to agree with the parent about the danger of the shuttles, not because of the beaurocracy at NASA, but because of the age of the craft. A normal plane goes through enough stress every time it leaves the ground an comes back. Something like those shuttles don't have what it takes to consistently withstand re-entry combined with human error on the ground. This is one case where I see newer as better, even if it is almost unproven.
Didn't we hear this from Sun about 10 years back when they were pushing client-server computing. Look where that got them. Now that serious client-server computing could become a reality, they're going pushing free hardware with another spin on it.
That's because you apparently never upgraded drviers in Windows.
My card acted strange for over a week after I installed one set of Detonator drivers. Unfortunately for me, I misdiagnosed the problem and upgraded my bios, when all I needed to do was revert to an earlier driver version.
Actually, I for one don't care what they do with the patents, I just think software patents are evil. And we know they've tried to patent hopelessly obvious things before, like the desktop pager. MS would not be doing this just to throw money at the patent office for registratoin fees. They hope to lock all the parts of their system together (like they've done with the latest Office) to make sure their customers are stuck with them.
This is primarily the fault of our stupid patent law, which doesn't give someone the right to produce something, only the right to keep other's from producing it.
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...if we should trust someone to give design interface advice who spreads their article over four pages.
I'm not saying they're not right about the NSTA being in Big Oil's pocket, but An Inconvenient Truth didn't have much in the way of science in it as far as hard numbers go. And without numbers, all of Al's pretty graphs don't mean anything. If my body temperature increases .000000001 of a degree, steadily year after year, I don't think it would amount to much. I'm not saying the science in An Inconvient Truth is wrong, it's just that the movie doesn't give any hard numbers to relate it to. I'm sure they're out there, but if I'm a science teacher and I'm going to spend valuable teaching time showing a movie, I want everything to be put together for me.
I hate to prove their point, but i find it annoying to have to scroll down under the text to read about the device. I wish there was a gadget to do it for me.
Seriously, it could be actual doorknobs. They can be quite tricky some times, especially if you try to install a left-handed knob on a right-handed door.
Yes, but it takes so, so long to build.
Let us not forget that Florida also has spawn-of-Satan weather. The difference is, the spawns in Florida usually have names given to them by the National Weather Service.
Even if you did manage to get it back together, it'd probably do a job on your drive when it tried to spin it really really fast to read the data.
I want full presidential debates.
That'd be great and all, but wouldn't a presidential Battle Royale be so much more fun?
Speaking of details, I think it important to remember that one of the companies, Combe, switched to Linux nine years ago and back to Windows two years ago. It seems they bailed out too early for their words to be relevant now.
Not to mention that, practically speaking, it was impossible to have a democracy even when the nation was relatively small.
It is technically possible now, but undesirable, especially to the Slashdot world, because that would mean giving the evil Diebold more money and power.
As long as we're signs bashing, let's not forget that the movie was utterly boring past the first 20 minutes. The pre-release marketing was good, but the film didn't live up to it at all. And the message was about the stupidest I've ever seen - everything happens for a purpose? Do we have no freedom?
I did see The Village, and though it wasn't perfect, it was still quite good in my opinion.
I'd have to say the worst movie I've ever seen is A Christmas Story. I just wish the stupid kid would die, and that TNT would stop playing reruns of it.
Some good points, but I think the original story misses a major flaw with software use in government applications that seems to apply here.
Any software, closed or open, has to go through months, sometimes years of testing. The software being used by the government is often 3 generations behind what 's marked as stable. Any bugs fixed usually have to be in house, because the pathches or the updated versions of the software hasn't been approved for government use.
Personally, I think this makes the case stronger for open source versus closed. More use of open source would force different implementation methods and might just get more eyes looking at the code, hopefully making it stronger.
On the other hand, I think AT&T's "&" commercial is a stroke of genius. Not all commercials should simply be skipped.
I've even seen a few worth downloading, like the EDS catherding one.
And I bet all those flies have to sign NDAs.
There are two reasons I can think of that this sort of system wouldn't be ideal: 1) I don't want to let MS run electricity through my body and 2) it would be far easier to sync all my devices with a wireless network, even if I had to do something to activate the syncing. Besides, if this patent is in the clear, it will likely be expired before anything significant has been done with it.
I've got to agree with the parent about the danger of the shuttles, not because of the beaurocracy at NASA, but because of the age of the craft. A normal plane goes through enough stress every time it leaves the ground an comes back. Something like those shuttles don't have what it takes to consistently withstand re-entry combined with human error on the ground. This is one case where I see newer as better, even if it is almost unproven.
Will this be Sockett 939?
It seems highly unlikely that it will, seeing how the extra pin on 940 is supposed to deal with/control multiple processors.
Didn't we hear this from Sun about 10 years back when they were pushing client-server computing. Look where that got them. Now that serious client-server computing could become a reality, they're going pushing free hardware with another spin on it.
Looks like a fantastic opportunity for worms.
Maybe that's the plan. Microsoft is finally going to put Windows' advanced worm capabilities to good use by writing a worm that creates a cluster.
That's because you apparently never upgraded drviers in Windows.
My card acted strange for over a week after I installed one set of Detonator drivers. Unfortunately for me, I misdiagnosed the problem and upgraded my bios, when all I needed to do was revert to an earlier driver version.
Actually, I for one don't care what they do with the patents, I just think software patents are evil. And we know they've tried to patent hopelessly obvious things before, like the desktop pager. MS would not be doing this just to throw money at the patent office for registratoin fees. They hope to lock all the parts of their system together (like they've done with the latest Office) to make sure their customers are stuck with them.
This is primarily the fault of our stupid patent law, which doesn't give someone the right to produce something, only the right to keep other's from producing it.
Thief doesn't have guns. Bows and arrows are the only long range weapons.
Sounds like the Tiberium from Command and Conquer.
Unless it's a Cisco router. See here.