I completely agree. When will Scietist learn, the idea of "let's throw it in there, and we'll see what happens" will eventually kill us. The idea of scientists creating black holes on Earth scares me. I'd rather they waited till they can build a permanent stationary space station away from the orbit of the planet Earth to try out these things. That way we will not be risking the Earth--unless it's with some Universe bomb that could destory the Universe (like the rainbow bomb or something like that from a whacked out Sci-fi book) in whihc case I think they should experiment with it at all.
Did you notice the typo in the code under the adding Windows section?
I think there is one mistake though. On the second slide of the adding windows you have "root (hd0,0)" but shouldn't that be "root (hd0,2)"? I am not all that familar with GRUB, but I pieced that together when you displayed the final boot menu file.
You forget there are a few people that feel threatened the moment they walk out their door. I can see someone wearing this in crime stricken neighborhood. How would you like it if someone shot you because they were merely threatened by you being near them?! This is really what this is equivilant to, and you know there will always be people who would abuse something like this.
What about someone with a pace maker or another electronic device used to keep them alive? Those are the cases that matter. I myself doubt it will kill your average human, but I would worry about people who have different electronics implanted in them to keep them a live. A shock could ruin something like a pace maker, and potentially kill the person if they don't get to a hospital in time to get a replacement.
You are missing the point. A gun needs someone to pull the trigger in order to activate it. If someone bumps into a gun, they probably will not die (unless it's the nozzle and someone pulled the trigger). The point is here someone HAS to pull the trigger on a gun for it to go off.
This shirt doesn't require someone to pull a trigger. If someone bumps into it, they get the shock. This could be pontentially deadily for someone who has a pace maker. This will lead to more lawsuits.
Guns don't kill people, people using guns kill people. This shirt could kill people either way.
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This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I can see it now. You're in a crowded subway, and you accidentally bump into a woman wearing this. You get the shock of your life. What if you have a weak heart? What if you have a pace maker? How will this jacket effect it?
You will probably see people sueing women, and even the maker for damages. This is the new equivilant of beating the crap out of someone for bumping into you. Any clothes made with this will be a lawsuit magnet!
I know what you mean about the colleges teaching less and less. I was checking into some of the night school options (so I could continue my job search during the day), and I was sadly disappointed that some of the colleges were just offering REALLY stupid Microsoft classes. I was looking to learn more on Unix, get some modern Java under my belt, and other stuff since I had the time. I should mention I already have a BA in COmputer Science/Mathematics, but I have been programmign since I was a kid.
I know I will take a Karma hit for saying this but it seems to fit after I read the article you presented.
One thing your article doesn't mention is the morals that can be put on a child when growing up within some families that enforce and stress a set of values. Take Christianity for instance. There is a set of rules that clearly define what is write and wrong. If the parents then follow and enforce these rules, then the kid will have more of a moral sense than the kids mentioned in the article. If the parants done enforce these rules, or they let children be influenced by society's influence that there is not really any right or wrong, then the kid won't have a developed moral values.
Society today hasn't been presenting morals like they used to in the past. If you look back a few decades, there were certain moral values that were presented and expected to be followed. Today you see what seems to be an attitude of everything goes, and it isn't until someone does something seriously wrong that society tries to impose any moral values. Everything is presented as ok or the perosn is considered a victim of their circumstances.
If society, and the entertainment industry in particular, were to start presenting and enforcing a set of moral values, then the next generation (not current teenagers) might grow up with more morals defined at an earlier age.
You see kids with a more defined set of moral values in third world countries where these values are necessary to live. I once watch a show on some tribal people of South America, and a child of no more than 8 years old was hacking away at a at a log and stopped immediated when his tolder brother walked by so he wouldn't hit the child.
Studies and articles like these only show how far we have gone astray from the core set of values that once prevailed Western Society. Unfortunately, if nothing is done to change this, then the eventually outcome in several generations is anarchy and everything is excepted.
Leading this charge into anarchy is the liberals who push their liberal agenda to push society's morals envelope. For the liberals, there is no end. There is no point where they can say, "we are here". Where they will stop pushing an agenda because they have finished. Each following generation has to one-up the previous generation and push the new boudries set by the previous generations. Look at today's shock musicians compared to those of the 80s.
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This is offtopic, but I like that code. What systems does that work on and what headers are needed? That's the first time I seen someone memory map a file.
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For a good IDE for Windows that's free try Dev-C++ over at source forge. It's just an IDE but you can get it prepacked with Mingw 3.2 (gnu c++ 3.2). It's great and improving everyday.
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Actually, Visual Studio is a great IDE. It's one of the few things Microsoft did well. It's not easy to understand at first, but it you take the time to learn it, you'll appreciate it.
My favorite feature was the scripting ability. You could write VB Scripts (or start by recording them as a macro) to accomplish tasks. I wrote several VB Scripts that wrote out comments in the code.
KDevelop is the only thing I have seen that's close to Visual Studio. I have C++ Builder 3.0 Professional at home, but I still like the design and easy of use of Visual Studio. The C++ Builder interface is missing some things--like scripting.
>Also, some individual systems have been obsoleted:... >Intel 386 family >Windows NT 3.x, i?86-*-win32
Does this mean that they are not going to support win32 any more. I still use mingw (Windows Port of gcc) as my primary compiler because it's free, and I don't have money to replace my PII 350 Windows 98 system.
I would have to agree with you. I haven't watched most movies for years because there wasn't much of a plot, and they gave away most it in the trailers and commercials! I guess that just means I will save a lot of money.
I wonder what a movie costs in Britian? It can't be that much if they are all going to crappy 8% plot movies.
I know I'll take a karma hit for this, but so be it.
Yet another reason to live in a fiscally conservative state such as NH. No sales tax or income tax!!! If you let the sociallists and liberals sprend money with control, supervision to insure the money is not wasted, and justification, then you end up with a big budget deficit--such as California's $35 billion. Taxation is never an answer to budget deficit. You are only putting off dealing with the real problem of spending the money that isn't their. States rarely lower taxes. They only increase taxes, and the next time a budget deficit comes around they raise taxes onces again. You need to cut spending when you have a deficit. If you don't have the money to spend, you shouldn't be spending if on social programs that are not really necessary.
Well, I would have to say it would be more than one person. Linus only speaks up on certain things, and more often than not, he keeps his mouth shut. RMS should sometimes keep his mouth shut, but he speaks up for a lot of good things. Then there is a lot of other people who speak up for various other aspects of OS.
Sometime last year, or the year before, I watch a show on TV (I think it was NOVA), and they found out that there is a black hole at the center of every Galaxy including ours. I believe that the "missing" mass has just been swallowed up by a black hole. We need to find a good way to measure the mass, density, and weight, of these Black Holes. I think we will then find most of the missing mass.
That's the tip of the iceberg. Once a tax is implemented, it NEVER goes away--or maybe I should say RARELY goes away. Taxes only go up! Just ask someone from a state that has a liberal spending habit which is now seeing budgets in the red by a LARGE amount. I garentee that someone in that state is talking about raising taxes. How do we know it'll stay at 1 cent/letter? If it's managed, or done at, the State level, what happens when the email crosses borders? I think the money won't get to the internet backbone if it's done at the state level because State's are always robbing Peter to pay Paul (reallocating money from one source to cover something else entirely different).
Look at the postage rate. It's gone up a lot recently--mainly to pay for the raises of the top positions in the US Postal service. (Yes, I know it's lower than other places in the world, but that doesn't matter. The rate is compared to what it used to be here, and why the increase was made.)
I will give a more concrete example from my home state of New Hampshire. Although this is not strictly about taxes, it brings up another issue about taxes. For years, New Hampshire used to advertise that the money from scratch tickets went to paying for education in the state, but it wasn't exactly true. The money went into the pot with all other income, and the amount for education was dependant upon how much the legislator decided to spend on education. How do we know the money will be spent on the the internals of the internet? How will the money get distributed, and who will get the money?
There is also the Microsft factor. What happens when another virus attacks and starts sending massive emails? There hasn't been a real virus in a while, but it will happen again. The cost could get enormous depending on the virus, and the responce time of the company whose product was targeted (like Microsoft for Outlook). Will the company be held responceably?
What about annonymous remailer options, and other methods used to send anonymous email? How will those get tracked and charged?
What if other things are taxed ont he internet? How will the those of us looking for a job be effected? A vast majority of the employed posts are on the internet, and they want resumes sent via email. Taxes on the internet, that will only go up, will make it harder for modern job seekers.
I think spammers will find new ways to send their emails so that they won't get charged, and there will probbably be loop holes that make the law useless.
I think these questions, and others not mentioned here REALLY need to be answered BEFORE we think about adding a tax to the internet. I don't think anything good will come from adding a tax to the internet.
No sales tax and no income tax. It's great to live here, and your close enough to drive to New York, Boston, Hartford, and soem say the skiing in this area is great, but I don't ski. Living in New Hampshire is the best.
How is this funny or insightful (what it was before). This is a TROLL and nothing more. This is about as good as the Cow Hampshire comment.
New Hampshire's current Governor is the founder of Cabletron (a high tech company), and southern New Hampshire has a lot of high technology companies (especially Portsmouth and Nashua New Hampshire).
Your TROLL assumes that the people of New Hampshire don't know what they are doing, and that may be true of some people, but not all of them. It's the same as in any other state in the US or place in the world.
It's not surprising considering our current Governer is the founder of Cabletron (a technology company). Southern New Hampshire (especially Portsmouth and Nashua) is rich with Technology Companies--along with northern Mass.
I am glad I still live here in New Hampshire. Close enough to almost everything that matters on the East Coast. I wonder if more poeple will start war driving here in New Hampshire. Last time I check (which was a while ago) there wasn't any spots listed in New Hampshire. Either there's not enough wireless technology here or we know to secure our wireless networks.
Actually, it more likely that someone from Tesltra sent spam mail to SEVERAL of AOL's users and those users REPORTED THE EMAIL(S) as spam and had them blocked. AOL has given it's users easier ways to report and block spam.
If AOL is blocking email from them, it's probably because someone their is sending spam. Perhaps even the original submitter was an Australian spammer. Did anybody consider that some of these people who submitted these stories may be sending unsolocited emails?
Why is it that creationists are so looked down upon, but other religions that, for example, believe that the world is sitting on an elephant that is sitting on a turtle are okay? Is it because it is expected that white people in North America should know better, but non-whites are free to believe whatever they want?!? That to me seems at the very least bigotted.
You are so true. It might be that creationists may be looked down upon by evolutionist because the evolutionist resent the fact that what they think is true and fact really isn't really any more true and fact than creationism when truly held under the microscope of scientific theory--that is why evolution is still called the Theory of Evolution and not the Law of Evolution.
Another possibility would be the general persecution of Christians in general (most creationist are Christians). You can display any other religion in public places and buildings except anything Christian. If something Christian is displayed, then the ACLU steps in and sues the city, state, etc. You can get away with displaying Satanist items (from the church of satan) and just about any other religion, but you can't display anything Christian.
The same goes for schools. You can teach just about anything, but if you answer a direct question about Christianity, you get sued. Next time your watching to the news, pay attention to who gets sued over displaying of religous items or ideas--it's only Christians.
I think the dislike of creationists stems from the greater dislike of Christians in todays world society-especially in America. I also think scientists get a little mad when their ideas which they consider to be fact (even though it may not be) are lumped together with ideas such as creationism.
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I completely agree. When will Scietist learn, the idea of "let's throw it in there, and we'll see what happens" will eventually kill us. The idea of scientists creating black holes on Earth scares me. I'd rather they waited till they can build a permanent stationary space station away from the orbit of the planet Earth to try out these things. That way we will not be risking the Earth--unless it's with some Universe bomb that could destory the Universe (like the rainbow bomb or something like that from a whacked out Sci-fi book) in whihc case I think they should experiment with it at all.
Did you notice the typo in the code under the adding Windows section?
I think there is one mistake though. On the second slide of the adding windows you have "root (hd0,0)" but shouldn't that be "root (hd0,2)"? I am not all that familar with GRUB, but I pieced that together when you displayed the final boot menu file.
You forget there are a few people that feel threatened the moment they walk out their door. I can see someone wearing this in crime stricken neighborhood. How would you like it if someone shot you because they were merely threatened by you being near them?! This is really what this is equivilant to, and you know there will always be people who would abuse something like this.
What about someone with a pace maker or another electronic device used to keep them alive? Those are the cases that matter. I myself doubt it will kill your average human, but I would worry about people who have different electronics implanted in them to keep them a live. A shock could ruin something like a pace maker, and potentially kill the person if they don't get to a hospital in time to get a replacement.
You are missing the point. A gun needs someone to pull the trigger in order to activate it. If someone bumps into a gun, they probably will not die (unless it's the nozzle and someone pulled the trigger). The point is here someone HAS to pull the trigger on a gun for it to go off.
This shirt doesn't require someone to pull a trigger. If someone bumps into it, they get the shock. This could be pontentially deadily for someone who has a pace maker. This will lead to more lawsuits.
Guns don't kill people, people using guns kill people. This shirt could kill people either way.
This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I can see it now. You're in a crowded subway, and you accidentally bump into a woman wearing this. You get the shock of your life. What if you have a weak heart? What if you have a pace maker? How will this jacket effect it?
You will probably see people sueing women, and even the maker for damages. This is the new equivilant of beating the crap out of someone for bumping into you. Any clothes made with this will be a lawsuit magnet!
I know what you mean about the colleges teaching less and less. I was checking into some of the night school options (so I could continue my job search during the day), and I was sadly disappointed that some of the colleges were just offering REALLY stupid Microsoft classes. I was looking to learn more on Unix, get some modern Java under my belt, and other stuff since I had the time. I should mention I already have a BA in COmputer Science/Mathematics, but I have been programmign since I was a kid.
You can opt-out of AOL advertisements. I don't get any from them, and I don't get any AOL cds either.
I know I will take a Karma hit for saying this but it seems to fit after I read the article you presented.
One thing your article doesn't mention is the morals that can be put on a child when growing up within some families that enforce and stress a set of values. Take Christianity for instance. There is a set of rules that clearly define what is write and wrong. If the parents then follow and enforce these rules, then the kid will have more of a moral sense than the kids mentioned in the article. If the parants done enforce these rules, or they let children be influenced by society's influence that there is not really any right or wrong, then the kid won't have a developed moral values.
Society today hasn't been presenting morals like they used to in the past. If you look back a few decades, there were certain moral values that were presented and expected to be followed. Today you see what seems to be an attitude of everything goes, and it isn't until someone does something seriously wrong that society tries to impose any moral values. Everything is presented as ok or the perosn is considered a victim of their circumstances.
If society, and the entertainment industry in particular, were to start presenting and enforcing a set of moral values, then the next generation (not current teenagers) might grow up with more morals defined at an earlier age.
You see kids with a more defined set of moral values in third world countries where these values are necessary to live. I once watch a show on some tribal people of South America, and a child of no more than 8 years old was hacking away at a at a log and stopped immediated when his tolder brother walked by so he wouldn't hit the child.
Studies and articles like these only show how far we have gone astray from the core set of values that once prevailed Western Society. Unfortunately, if nothing is done to change this, then the eventually outcome in several generations is anarchy and everything is excepted.
Leading this charge into anarchy is the liberals who push their liberal agenda to push society's morals envelope. For the liberals, there is no end. There is no point where they can say, "we are here". Where they will stop pushing an agenda because they have finished. Each following generation has to one-up the previous generation and push the new boudries set by the previous generations. Look at today's shock musicians compared to those of the 80s.
This is offtopic, but I like that code.
What systems does that work on and what headers are needed? That's the first time I seen someone memory map a file.
For a good IDE for Windows that's free try Dev-C++ over at source forge. It's just an IDE but you can get it prepacked with Mingw 3.2 (gnu c++ 3.2). It's great and improving everyday.
Actually, Visual Studio is a great IDE. It's one of the few things Microsoft did well. It's not easy to understand at first, but it you take the time to learn it, you'll appreciate it.
My favorite feature was the scripting ability. You could write VB Scripts (or start by recording them as a macro) to accomplish tasks. I wrote several VB Scripts that wrote out comments in the code.
KDevelop is the only thing I have seen that's close to Visual Studio. I have C++ Builder 3.0 Professional at home, but I still like the design and easy of use of Visual Studio. The C++ Builder interface is missing some things--like scripting.
Apperently KDevelop is just about as good. When I was looking into it, and they have scripting in it. I loved scripting in Visual studio.
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>Intel 386 family
>Windows NT 3.x, i?86-*-win32
Does this mean that they are not going to support win32 any more. I still use mingw (Windows Port of gcc) as my primary compiler because it's free, and I don't have money to replace my PII 350 Windows 98 system.
I would have to agree with you. I haven't watched most movies for years because there wasn't much of a plot, and they gave away most it in the trailers and commercials! I guess that just means I will save a lot of money.
I wonder what a movie costs in Britian? It can't be that much if they are all going to crappy 8% plot movies.
I know I'll take a karma hit for this, but so be it.
Yet another reason to live in a fiscally conservative state such as NH. No sales tax or income tax!!! If you let the sociallists and liberals sprend money with control, supervision to insure the money is not wasted, and justification, then you end up with a big budget deficit--such as California's $35 billion.
Taxation is never an answer to budget deficit. You are only putting off dealing with the real problem of spending the money that isn't their. States rarely lower taxes. They only increase taxes, and the next time a budget deficit comes around they raise taxes onces again. You need to cut spending when you have a deficit. If you don't have the money to spend, you shouldn't be spending if on social programs that are not really necessary.
Well, I would have to say it would be more than one person. Linus only speaks up on certain things, and more often than not, he keeps his mouth shut. RMS should sometimes keep his mouth shut, but he speaks up for a lot of good things. Then there is a lot of other people who speak up for various other aspects of OS.
Sometime last year, or the year before, I watch a show on TV (I think it was NOVA), and they found out that there is a black hole at the center of every Galaxy including ours. I believe that the "missing" mass has just been swallowed up by a black hole. We need to find a good way to measure the mass, density, and weight, of these Black Holes. I think we will then find most of the missing mass.
That's the tip of the iceberg. Once a tax is implemented, it NEVER goes away--or maybe I should say RARELY goes away. Taxes only go up! Just ask someone from a state that has a liberal spending habit which is now seeing budgets in the red by a LARGE amount. I garentee that someone in that state is talking about raising taxes. How do we know it'll stay at 1 cent/letter? If it's managed, or done at, the State level, what happens when the email crosses borders? I think the money won't get to the internet backbone if it's done at the state level because State's are always robbing Peter to pay Paul (reallocating money from one source to cover something else entirely different).
Look at the postage rate. It's gone up a lot recently--mainly to pay for the raises of the top positions in the US Postal service. (Yes, I know it's lower than other places in the world, but that doesn't matter. The rate is compared to what it used to be here, and why the increase was made.)
I will give a more concrete example from my home state of New Hampshire. Although this is not strictly about taxes, it brings up another issue about taxes. For years, New Hampshire used to advertise that the money from scratch tickets went to paying for education in the state, but it wasn't exactly true. The money went into the pot with all other income, and the amount for education was dependant upon how much the legislator decided to spend on education. How do we know the money will be spent on the the internals of the internet? How will the money get distributed, and who will get the money?
There is also the Microsft factor. What happens when another virus attacks and starts sending massive emails? There hasn't been a real virus in a while, but it will happen again. The cost could get enormous depending on the virus, and the responce time of the company whose product was targeted (like Microsoft for Outlook). Will the company be held responceably?
What about annonymous remailer options, and other methods used to send anonymous email? How will those get tracked and charged?
What if other things are taxed ont he internet? How will the those of us looking for a job be effected? A vast majority of the employed posts are on the internet, and they want resumes sent via email. Taxes on the internet, that will only go up, will make it harder for modern job seekers.
I think spammers will find new ways to send their emails so that they won't get charged, and there will probbably be loop holes that make the law useless.
I think these questions, and others not mentioned here REALLY need to be answered BEFORE we think about adding a tax to the internet. I don't think anything good will come from adding a tax to the internet.
No sales tax and no income tax. It's great to live here, and your close enough to drive to New York, Boston, Hartford, and soem say the skiing in this area is great, but I don't ski. Living in New Hampshire is the best.
How is this funny or insightful (what it was before). This is a TROLL and nothing more. This is about as good as the Cow Hampshire comment.
New Hampshire's current Governor is the founder of Cabletron (a high tech company), and southern New Hampshire has a lot of high technology companies (especially Portsmouth and Nashua New Hampshire).
Your TROLL assumes that the people of New Hampshire don't know what they are doing, and that may be true of some people, but not all of them. It's the same as in any other state in the US or place in the world.
It's not surprising considering our current Governer is the founder of Cabletron (a technology company). Southern New Hampshire (especially Portsmouth and Nashua) is rich with Technology Companies--along with northern Mass.
I am glad I still live here in New Hampshire. Close enough to almost everything that matters on the East Coast. I wonder if more poeple will start war driving here in New Hampshire. Last time I check (which was a while ago) there wasn't any spots listed in New Hampshire. Either there's not enough wireless technology here or we know to secure our wireless networks.
Actually, it more likely that someone from Tesltra sent spam mail to SEVERAL of AOL's users and those users REPORTED THE EMAIL(S) as spam and had them blocked. AOL has given it's users easier ways to report and block spam.
If AOL is blocking email from them, it's probably because someone their is sending spam. Perhaps even the original submitter was an Australian spammer. Did anybody consider that some of these people who submitted these stories may be sending unsolocited emails?
Why is it that creationists are so looked down upon, but other religions that, for example, believe that the world is sitting on an elephant that is sitting on a turtle are okay? Is it because it is expected that white people in North America should know better, but non-whites are free to believe whatever they want?!? That to me seems at the very least bigotted.
You are so true. It might be that creationists may be looked down upon by evolutionist because the evolutionist resent the fact that what they think is true and fact really isn't really any more true and fact than creationism when truly held under the microscope of scientific theory--that is why evolution is still called the Theory of Evolution and not the Law of Evolution.
Another possibility would be the general persecution of Christians in general (most creationist are Christians). You can display any other religion in public places and buildings except anything Christian. If something Christian is displayed, then the ACLU steps in and sues the city, state, etc. You can get away with displaying Satanist items (from the church of satan) and just about any other religion, but you can't display anything Christian.
The same goes for schools. You can teach just about anything, but if you answer a direct question about Christianity, you get sued. Next time your watching to the news, pay attention to who gets sued over displaying of religous items or ideas--it's only Christians.
I think the dislike of creationists stems from the greater dislike of Christians in todays world society-especially in America. I also think scientists get a little mad when their ideas which they consider to be fact (even though it may not be) are lumped together with ideas such as creationism.