Putting the year first in a date is a waste of reading time because you always know what year it is.
What about dates that refer to the distant past or the distant future, and so span more than one year.
The real advantage of year/month/date (or day/month/year) is sorting - since this form will sort correctly as text (under most circumstances), where as sorting month/day/year as text doesn't help you much at all.
The other advantage of using day/month/year of course is that THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES IT THAT WAY and that's enough of an advantage by itself to warrant the US switching to that style.
test is to prove that you have a nuke. Testing publicly before you actually had more than a few dozen seems silly. Nobody in their right minds would threaten to use a Nuke, particularly if they only had one or two. Sure they might cause a localised disaster here - how much damage can one nuke cause to the US - but the response would turn the whole country into a sheet of glass.
Who bets this was a well calculated plan by some sensible N.K. scientists to demonstrate that in fact they have nothing for us to fear. Of course idiot Kim wouldn't know what a real nuke is capable of, probably felt the earth shake and thought to himself, "cool, now I have a big penis too.". Also a calculated response from some sensible N.K. scientists.
Why should Spain pay for part of the clean-up?
How about because the actions were being performed by NATO forces and the incident occured over a NATO country.
Spain benefited from the presence of NATO, so it is just that they absorb some of the cost of NATO actions.
... anyone would bother with one of these when they can buy a top-end mobile phone with a 2+ GB memory card and digital radio for damned near the same price. Give it a year and memory cards will be in the 10+ Gb range.
How do they convince all the ISP in between to not log the packets ?
What, you mean someone cracked my 128 bit encryption ??? - never in a million million million years............ oh, you broke, not cracked, arrrrggggghhhh
Sorry, this is a pipe dream - or should I say - VaporWare !
at least one of the farging photos - albeit a bit touched up - here it is http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/envisat/ASAR-A MSR_2006_H.jpg
The non-red area near the pole (indicated by the black circle in the middle of the photo) is the concern, since it represents pack ice (and water) rather than solid ice
Yes, but this sort of oversimplification is typically only used by the ignorant, or to mislead
Neither is the case here.
What is important is not the number of differences, but rather what the genes in question control
You mean like hair color, eye color, skin color, and other really important things like that or do you stil believe that Negroids have less intellectual capability due to smaller average brain size, and can jump higher because they have an extra muscle in their legs?
If you look at genetic information from any given individual, there are clear patterns that will indicate with virtual certainty the racial makeup of that individual
No shit, because they point to attributes like black nappy hair, dark skin, thick lips, etc.. You know, all those really significant attributes that make a person
You have completely missed the point. Race is an 'artificial' classification of a species. As a method of classifying people it is less informative than breeds of dog are in classifying dog traits.
The average difference across races is less than the average difference amongst individual races.
For example:
actual numbers are fabricated
If the genetic correlation between 'negroids' (or whatever the current term for that race is) and 'orientals' (or east asians or whatever they are now reffered to as) is something like 99.5%, the correlation between two randomly selected people of any 'race' would be 99.2%
This is a fact, and has been published in many books on genetics - sorry no source close to hand.
...no scientific discovery will hurt the ID movement, since it has precisely nothing to do with science...
You obviously haven't been talking to the extremeley conservative Senator Rick Santorum, he thinks it does; and he is hell (pardon) bent on getting it taught as such !
... it was yet another layer between the developer and the socket.
RPC solved the problems of platform independance and marshalling quite well enough; although, I agree it was a bit messy to read.
Any experienced software developer will tell you that too much abstraction introduces its own problems, and typically hides, rather than solves, the original ones.
The term "Intellectual Property" is a cudgel designed to confuse those who do not understand aspects of law that deal with copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. All four of these areas arose out of different situations, deal with different issues, and have nothing to do with "property".
When paraphrasing, you should still site the source, otherwise this is plagarism. You have stolen someone elses idea and passed it off as your own. This is a clear illustration of exactly what Intellectual Property *is*
I told them that their system was too old to support, and that if they wanted me to help them with it in the future I would have to upgrade it to Linux (I used Fedora Core 4).
Worked a treat. I am root. They are not! I haven't had a call in over two months.
I was at their house the other day, the kids were using GAIM and playing Tux Racer. The lady of the house showed me her photos which she downloaded from her camera without me showing her how. My buddy had set up 'short-cuts' on the desktop for his e-bay account, his on-line banking, and autotrader without me showing him how that was done.
or Virtualization System; please tell me the difference.
After all if an OS can run 'under' a Virtual Server, then surely the Virtual Server is the OS, and the OS is just a collection of applications which work together to improve the experience of running other applications.....ad nauseam
Mating across the species boundary - the axiom at the heart of the concept of species - is clearly possible, just look at Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The whole Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species thing is outdated anyway. There concept of a 'Tree of Life' is awkward at best. All living things are in the throws of evolving and the tree concept doesn't reflect this at all.
It is so refreshing to see people discussing...
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Islam like it really is, a backwards, devisive, intollerant, oppresive religion. How anyone can associate that any great acheivements (which, I think have been pretty well rubbished here anyway) is beyond me, unless of course this is simply more muslim propoganda.
From the look of those things, you'd have to pre-heat them for about 10 minutes before you poured your coffee into them. That is, of course, if your arms are strong enough to lift the damned things !
Most lit, yes, of course, you would expect the most industrialised nation to have the most lights.
Most ignorant, please explain. How do you measure ignorance, and ignorant of what ?
I think it would very simple to make a case that the US is the most enlightened, which is not the same as most lit, but is essentially the same as least ignorant.
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Putting the year first in a date is a waste of reading time because you always know what year it is.
What about dates that refer to the distant past or the distant future, and so span more than one year.
The real advantage of year/month/date (or day/month/year) is sorting - since this form will sort correctly as text (under most circumstances), where as sorting month/day/year as text doesn't help you much at all. The other advantage of using day/month/year of course is that THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES IT THAT WAY and that's enough of an advantage by itself to warrant the US switching to that style.
test is to prove that you have a nuke. Testing publicly before you actually had more than a few dozen seems silly. Nobody in their right minds would threaten to use a Nuke, particularly if they only had one or two. Sure they might cause a localised disaster here - how much damage can one nuke cause to the US - but the response would turn the whole country into a sheet of glass.
Who bets this was a well calculated plan by some sensible N.K. scientists to demonstrate that in fact they have nothing for us to fear.
Of course idiot Kim wouldn't know what a real nuke is capable of, probably felt the earth shake and thought to himself, "cool, now I have a big penis too.". Also a calculated response from some sensible N.K. scientists.
*irony* Picky, picky, picky. */irony*
That will -maybe- teach me to post without checking my facts !
Why should Spain pay for part of the clean-up?
How about because the actions were being performed by NATO forces and the incident occured over a NATO country.
Spain benefited from the presence of NATO, so it is just that they absorb some of the cost of NATO actions.
... anyone would bother with one of these when they can buy a top-end mobile phone with a 2+ GB memory card and digital radio for damned near the same price. Give it a year and memory cards will be in the 10+ Gb range.
How do they convince all the ISP in between to not log the packets ?
What, you mean someone cracked my 128 bit encryption ??? - never in a million million million years............ oh, you broke, not cracked, arrrrggggghhhh
Sorry, this is a pipe dream - or should I say - VaporWare !
at least one of the farging photos - albeit a bit touched up - here it isA MSR_2006_H.jpg
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/envisat/ASAR-
The non-red area near the pole (indicated by the black circle in the middle of the photo) is the concern, since it represents pack ice (and water) rather than solid ice
Neither is the case here.
What is important is not the number of differences, but rather what the genes in question control
You mean like hair color, eye color, skin color, and other really important things like that or do you stil believe that Negroids have less intellectual capability due to smaller average brain size, and can jump higher because they have an extra muscle in their legs?
If you look at genetic information from any given individual, there are clear patterns that will indicate with virtual certainty the racial makeup of that individual
No shit, because they point to attributes like black nappy hair, dark skin, thick lips, etc.. You know, all those really significant attributes that make a person
You have completely missed the point. Race is an 'artificial' classification of a species. As a method of classifying people it is less informative than breeds of dog are in classifying dog traits.
The average difference across races is less than the average difference amongst individual races.
For example:
actual numbers are fabricated
If the genetic correlation between 'negroids' (or whatever the current term for that race is) and 'orientals' (or east asians or whatever they are now reffered to as) is something like 99.5%, the correlation between two randomly selected people of any 'race' would be 99.2%
This is a fact, and has been published in many books on genetics - sorry no source close to hand.
You obviously haven't been talking to the extremeley conservative Senator Rick Santorum, he thinks it does; and he is hell (pardon) bent on getting it taught as such !
Really ?
Gosh, all those years of using it, and I never even realised !
RPC solved the problems of platform independance and marshalling quite well enough; although, I agree it was a bit messy to read.
Any experienced software developer will tell you that too much abstraction introduces its own problems, and typically hides, rather than solves, the original ones.
What's so hard about 'htonl' and 'htons' anyway ?
When paraphrasing, you should still site the source, otherwise this is plagarism. You have stolen someone elses idea and passed it off as your own. This is a clear illustration of exactly what Intellectual Property *is*
Seriously, when have you ever seen Govt. regulations improving cost to benefit ratios ?
Worked a treat. I am root. They are not! I haven't had a call in over two months.
I was at their house the other day, the kids were using GAIM and playing Tux Racer. The lady of the house showed me her photos which she downloaded from her camera without me showing her how. My buddy had set up 'short-cuts' on the desktop for his e-bay account, his on-line banking, and autotrader without me showing him how that was done.
My advice, just do it. they'll love you for it.
Come on people, I just can't see it. Name a place where you would like to have a cup of coffee, where you don't have some form of heat.
After all if an OS can run 'under' a Virtual Server, then surely the Virtual Server is the OS, and the OS is just a collection of applications which work together to improve the experience of running other applications.....ad nauseam
Mating across the species boundary - the axiom at the heart of the concept of species - is clearly possible, just look at Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The whole Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species thing is outdated anyway. There concept of a 'Tree of Life' is awkward at best. All living things are in the throws of evolving and the tree concept doesn't reflect this at all.
Islam like it really is, a backwards, devisive, intollerant, oppresive religion. How anyone can associate that any great acheivements (which, I think have been pretty well rubbished here anyway) is beyond me, unless of course this is simply more muslim propoganda.
From the look of those things, you'd have to pre-heat them for about 10 minutes before you poured your coffee into them. That is, of course, if your arms are strong enough to lift the damned things !
Cool, you got my morning chuckle out of the way. Thanks !
I will not be told when and where I may use the name of some 7th century bi-sexual paedophile.
Note, I have not used any names, if you are offended, it is because you know it is historically accurate, and the truth hurts.
My ex-girlfriends angelfire personal homepage has a Google search in it, why can't yours?
I stopped cold, and thought, wow, a geek with a girlfriend !
Needless to say, I didn't read the rest !
THANKS !
Most ignorant, please explain. How do you measure ignorance, and ignorant of what ?
I think it would very simple to make a case that the US is the most enlightened, which is not the same as most lit, but is essentially the same as least ignorant.