But, Netzero, Juno and others got themselves a customer base from offering free then converted to pay. They turned many of those customers to pay customers. Same thing could be applied here.
It's like drung dealing. First you get them addicted then you start charging.
The DoD will fund a lot of different things. Many different scientific areas. Not just bombs and missles. They fund so many different areas because most of the Military isn't guns and missles. It's logistics. They fund materials, methods, health related things and more. They may get used by the DoD later but they can have many purposes. They are a great springboard for science.
I don't believe it's where the funding goes that's the big problem. I came from a school district that had pleanty of money for all areas. It just wasn't cool to be smart. The smart kids go teased and beat up. Who wants that.
There is also an increase in laziness in the US. Kids today don't want to work hard for anything. Just take the easy road. I know because they are my friends. They think I am nuts for reading and working hard at things.
So, in K-12 education it's not cool to be smart and you get torn into if you are added with the US laziness equals less qualified people to do the jobs
Example: in college engineering 4 of the top 5 students were foreign. Either Arabic or Asian.
So now windows based programs can crash on *nix too. If you recreating the APIs so it can run then your recreating those same things that can cause it to crash. People need to be migrated to good progs running native in a good enviornment.
Maybe all this warming of the earth will make it look like it does in Samari Jack. People look different in different areas. Technology is so far advanced. Animals can talk.
Because there's a good chance we're not only causing this change
Who says we are causing the Earth to heat up??? How do we know it wouldn't have heated up on it's own anyway??? If you study the history of the earth you will learn that the Earth is always changing. It has had hotter and colder times in history. It was fluxuating like this before cars, aersol cans, computers and many other modern inventions. To take a look at a small window of a few years to make a judgement is like a doctor looking in your ear for a knee pain and diagnosing you.
Right, we'll be out of oil in the next 20 years...
Don't worry about oil. There are already pleanty of replacements for it, but people don't want to use them right now. ALso, unlike most people hear it doesn't take 20 million years to get more oil.
The question is whether it's actually happening (the evidence says it is)
From basic historic knowledge should show that changes in the planet and climate have been happening as far back as we can tell. Why should news that it's still happening be a big deal. Nothing has changed.
Why is "this is a natural effect, so let's not worry about it" considered an insightful comment? Earthquakes are natural too, but I don't see people being modded Insightful for arguing that there's no point trying to design earthquake-safe buildings. Disease is natural, but I don't see people being modded Insightful for complaining about tax dollars being "wasted" on medical research.
Are we trying to stop earth quakes??? Maybe detect them better. This is analogos to saying lets mke better air conditioning units for when the world gets hot. Once again disease is to save those who are dying or hurting. Who says that the Earth heating up will kill us or harm us. Humans are very adaptive. We live in just about every climate on earth.
So, the Earth is getting warmer. Who says change is a bad thing??? Is it bad for the earth to be warmer than it is today??? I would guess not since it has been there before.
I would assume it's because we humans are resistant to change and like what we know. But we are highly adaptive so, I'm sure we will be fine.
Over the past there have been many different climates. It is said that flying dinosaurs couldn't have flown in todays enviornment. The air isn't dense enough or humid enough. It needed to be more tropical.
Even look at the earths poles. THere is evidence to show that the poles are reversed from a previous point in history.
THe point is the earth goes throgh changes in climate without any human intervention at all. The continents weren't the same way way back when. Why are we harping so much on this?
So, the memos point out things we already knew. At least they are smart enough to admit that they don't have a great product. If only they were smart enough to fix it and do right in the future.
This probubally won't be anything to do with TNG. They had pretty much said they were done with that cast and the movies. Plus the last one didn't do that great at the box office.
Before Kirk there were 2 wars they might cover. One with the Klingons and one with the Romulins. This could provide for some action
Another scenario they had talked about was doing a movie of the Excelusier and Chekov (yes I know I butchered the name)
A buddy of mine is a Windows Admin. HE eats, sleeps and breathes Windows. He even got on me for my BSD servers over Windows ones. Then someone talked him into a Mac. Within 24 hours he was a complete convert. He actually said and I quote "What the hell was I thinking!?!?!?!?!"
"you realize all that candy sweetness is there to keep you from noticing how it's mostly unix with a sham thrown over it."
Actually more FreeBSD that anything else with the best GUI out there thrown over it. Better than gnome, kde or windows. And yes I do use all the others on a regular to semiregular basis.
This could easily be an occasion where they raid a place to make an example. They get media coverage. They use this as a scare tactic to get other places to believe they will do it.
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But, Netzero, Juno and others got themselves a customer base from offering free then converted to pay. They turned many of those customers to pay customers. Same thing could be applied here.
It's like drung dealing. First you get them addicted then you start charging.
of all the things to grow are teeth. Why not something like hair. That's where the money is. Look at all the infomercials.
The DoD will fund a lot of different things. Many different scientific areas. Not just bombs and missles. They fund so many different areas because most of the Military isn't guns and missles. It's logistics. They fund materials, methods, health related things and more. They may get used by the DoD later but they can have many purposes. They are a great springboard for science.
I don't believe it's where the funding goes that's the big problem. I came from a school district that had pleanty of money for all areas. It just wasn't cool to be smart. The smart kids go teased and beat up. Who wants that.
There is also an increase in laziness in the US. Kids today don't want to work hard for anything. Just take the easy road. I know because they are my friends. They think I am nuts for reading and working hard at things.
So, in K-12 education it's not cool to be smart and you get torn into if you are added with the US laziness equals less qualified people to do the jobs
Example: in college engineering 4 of the top 5 students were foreign. Either Arabic or Asian.
Can't wait to dumb my PC and game on my linux box, that will be the greatest day, I wish games like WC3 came in Linux ;)
Have you tried wine???? One of my buddies got it working under wine. had to do a little work but he did it.
So now windows based programs can crash on *nix too. If you recreating the APIs so it can run then your recreating those same things that can cause it to crash. People need to be migrated to good progs running native in a good enviornment.
Maybe all this warming of the earth will make it look like it does in Samari Jack. People look different in different areas. Technology is so far advanced. Animals can talk.
Because there's a good chance we're not only causing this change
Who says we are causing the Earth to heat up??? How do we know it wouldn't have heated up on it's own anyway??? If you study the history of the earth you will learn that the Earth is always changing. It has had hotter and colder times in history. It was fluxuating like this before cars, aersol cans, computers and many other modern inventions. To take a look at a small window of a few years to make a judgement is like a doctor looking in your ear for a knee pain and diagnosing you.
Right, we'll be out of oil in the next 20 years...
Don't worry about oil. There are already pleanty of replacements for it, but people don't want to use them right now. ALso, unlike most people hear it doesn't take 20 million years to get more oil.
The question is whether it's actually happening (the evidence says it is)
From basic historic knowledge should show that changes in the planet and climate have been happening as far back as we can tell. Why should news that it's still happening be a big deal. Nothing has changed.
Why is "this is a natural effect, so let's not worry about it" considered an insightful comment? Earthquakes are natural too, but I don't see people being modded Insightful for arguing that there's no point trying to design earthquake-safe buildings. Disease is natural, but I don't see people being modded Insightful for complaining about tax dollars being "wasted" on medical research.
Are we trying to stop earth quakes??? Maybe detect them better. This is analogos to saying lets mke better air conditioning units for when the world gets hot. Once again disease is to save those who are dying or hurting. Who says that the Earth heating up will kill us or harm us. Humans are very adaptive. We live in just about every climate on earth.
Seems you are jumping to a few conclusions.
Perhaps we need a sample size of more than 20 years?
Who needs more than 20 years. I'm sure scientists will try to extrapolate the next 10,000 years based on these findings.
Gaia, here's some chicken soup for the planet's soul...
Doesn't she just call on Captain Planet to cure the earth.
So, the Earth is getting warmer. Who says change is a bad thing??? Is it bad for the earth to be warmer than it is today??? I would guess not since it has been there before.
I would assume it's because we humans are resistant to change and like what we know. But we are highly adaptive so, I'm sure we will be fine.
Over the past there have been many different climates. It is said that flying dinosaurs couldn't have flown in todays enviornment. The air isn't dense enough or humid enough. It needed to be more tropical.
Even look at the earths poles. THere is evidence to show that the poles are reversed from a previous point in history.
THe point is the earth goes throgh changes in climate without any human intervention at all. The continents weren't the same way way back when. Why are we harping so much on this?
Like I said, I'm not too interested in Atari hacking,
Who wants to hack an Atari. They are so hard to come buy that if you screw it up you'll be kicking yourself for months. Trust me, I know.
"super" exploits
What is a "super" exploit??? Not jsut an exploit but a "super" one. Are there any of these "super" exploits on any non-windows systems?
So, the memos point out things we already knew. At least they are smart enough to admit that they don't have a great product. If only they were smart enough to fix it and do right in the future.
"A megawatt laser system may already be in use in the military for purposes other than the destruction of ballistic missles."
So, what your saying is that the military may already have sharks with megawatt lasers on their heads.
I know gimp doesn't have gif native because of the license but does have JPEG. Does this mean that they are going to get targeted for using JPEG?
"Long live TNG on DVD."
Gotta love spike tv. They have TNG on every day.
This probubally won't be anything to do with TNG. They had pretty much said they were done with that cast and the movies. Plus the last one didn't do that great at the box office.
Before Kirk there were 2 wars they might cover. One with the Klingons and one with the Romulins. This could provide for some action
Another scenario they had talked about was doing a movie of the Excelusier and Chekov (yes I know I butchered the name)
"you'll change your mind once you use OSX."
A buddy of mine is a Windows Admin. HE eats, sleeps and breathes Windows. He even got on me for my BSD servers over Windows ones. Then someone talked him into a Mac. Within 24 hours he was a complete convert. He actually said and I quote "What the hell was I thinking!?!?!?!?!"
"you realize all that candy sweetness is there to keep you from noticing how it's mostly unix with a sham thrown over it."
Actually more FreeBSD that anything else with the best GUI out there thrown over it. Better than gnome, kde or windows. And yes I do use all the others on a regular to semiregular basis.
And unix style systems can be pretty damn sweet.
Ok, I didn't spell out my point well enough. I meant genetically linked families of both parents. They can't do that.
This could easily be an occasion where they raid a place to make an example. They get media coverage. They use this as a scare tactic to get other places to believe they will do it.