Hrmm.. Now, I understand the general point people here are trying to make about Mensans being the smart losers who need a support group and, for some members, this may be true. I happen to be a member of Mensa and find these broad statements a little inapplicable to me. I am a member of Mensa who doesn't go to meetings, reads the newletters and magazines, enjoys the word puzzles and has people skills good enough to get aling with most anyone. So just do me a favor and acknowledge the fact that statements such as yours, though aplicable to some, does not apply to all of the oprganization's members.
Thank you and, uhh, have a nice day! Ignore my typos.
Doesn't IE have a protected little place in memory that is dedicated to IE? I think I read that somewhere. If such is the case, that would explain why IE comes "out of swap" so quickly. It doesn't have to! But I might be wrong. Thus, your argument is fallatious.
Oh yeah.. now I remember.. IE is integrated with the OS so tightly that you're always using parts of IE just to browse through your damn hard drive.
I would think that they do/did consider themselves lucky. What is more exciting? Dying embarking on/returning from a mission to a completely foreign place experiencing something only a fraction of a fraction of people will ever experience or dying because a drunk driver hit you while crossing the street to get to the parking garage after 9 hours of sitting at a computer terminal?
You bet your ass the two dead crews would consider themselves lucky. They died doing something they loved.
There goes my hopes of being the first man on Mars! I honestly think it'll be 50 years before we put a man on the red planet.. which really blows. Well, NASA won't make it happen until we axe the whole organization and rebuild it with young whipper-snappers ala the '60s. Hopefully Zubrin can convince a commercial outfit to go there.. perhaps Scaled Composites?
Dude.. We've been to the moon and have sent probes outside of our paltry little solar system. I'd say his reception was about right. The Frenchies only welcoemd Lindbergh as they did because he was the first to go solo across the Atlantic, a MAJOR feat at the time. Going around the world on one tank of gas isn't that incredible when compared to other recent achievements such as SpaceShip One and our Martian rovers.
I don't have ADD as I can concentrate just fine during the day. I have no trouble getting shit done at work, school or anywhere else for that matter. I just can't get off the damn computer at night.:) That's all. No ADD here. Sleep just doesn't entertain me at night like ET or Quake or/.
There is something to be said for the command line. I don't have a window manager on my Debian box and I always seem to get done what needs to be done. With Windows, I find myself up until 2am browsing the Internet for random shit. All because its available. I guess that makes me an Internet junkie.. I really should fix that. Anyway.. CLIs make me most productive 'cause of the lack of distraction.
Or maybe feel heat from Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger. I don't use the programs but have been impressed by the features and quality they offer when I see friends using them. Too bad YM also installs all that other shite that comes with it such as the Yahoo! Tollbar.
Hows about attaching it to the air vent inside your car? Mount your cellphone to it and you have a portable cellphone charger without the need to hang your $100 phone out the window.
For those not in the know.. This a quote by Ralph Wiggum, son to Chief Wiggum of the Springfield police department. Lisa failed PE and Ralph failed English.. which we all know is unpossible.
Seriously.. RADAR, nuclear power, jet aircraft, super glue, alarm clocks, spread spectrum communications.. the list is long and illustrious.
War is one of the only thigns that gives private companies a reason to truly innovate. its sad that killing another man and defending ourselves is our biggest impetus to advance, but such is the case.
I work for a communications research team that is working hand-in-hand with a major metropolitan police department. We are currently developing tools that do just this.. alert authorities of suspicious activity. The idea is similar to you allowing an alarm company (Brinks and those other companies with monitoring services..) to notifiy the police when your alarm system notifies them that a break-in has occured. The idea is precisely the same. So don't be so freakin' alarmed.
It's like taking a satellite image of a major interstate junction and seeing that a traffic jam has occured. You don't know why its happening so you dispatch a cruiser to the site to investigate. No different..
It seems to me that they haven't linked Maps with local yet. Google Local still has comparatively crappy maps and I didn't find a link to the address over at maps.google.com. Yes.. I know its still a beta and eagerly await the merging of the two.
It's all a matter of size. Stars have enough mass to begin fusion. Planets have enough mass to become 'round' and orbit a star. Asteroids orbit stars but aren't 'round'. Moons orbit planets and are 'round'. Blah blah blah. So on and so forth. It's bloody easy. Man.. I should be an astrophysicist!
Ah yes.. The classic extortion scheme! I fuckin' hate people. Seriously.. The world is fuckin' crazy. Where is God and his mass extinction floods when you need Him?
Don't even give them your name and address. I've got a loyalty card from one of the major supermarkets here in the southwestern US. They ofered me the form and the card at the same time. I told them I didn't have time to fill it out now, so they told me to just return the form next time I was in. So I walked out the door and threw the form in the trash. The next time I was there, they swiped my card and I got all the discounts.
Bah.. I was a bit interested in the article, but then I realized how long it was and decided it wasn't worth my time. So here I am having only half read the article. I find the comments more entertaining anyway!
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It has already been /.ed. I hope the fire department is on their way!
Hrmm.. Now, I understand the general point people here are trying to make about Mensans being the smart losers who need a support group and, for some members, this may be true. I happen to be a member of Mensa and find these broad statements a little inapplicable to me. I am a member of Mensa who doesn't go to meetings, reads the newletters and magazines, enjoys the word puzzles and has people skills good enough to get aling with most anyone. So just do me a favor and acknowledge the fact that statements such as yours, though aplicable to some, does not apply to all of the oprganization's members.
Thank you and, uhh, have a nice day! Ignore my typos.
Doesn't IE have a protected little place in memory that is dedicated to IE? I think I read that somewhere. If such is the case, that would explain why IE comes "out of swap" so quickly. It doesn't have to! But I might be wrong. Thus, your argument is fallatious.
Oh yeah.. now I remember.. IE is integrated with the OS so tightly that you're always using parts of IE just to browse through your damn hard drive.
I wish you had your camera, too! What an awesome view that would have been. i would have been pissed if I were seated on the wrong side of the plane.
I would think that they do/did consider themselves lucky. What is more exciting? Dying embarking on/returning from a mission to a completely foreign place experiencing something only a fraction of a fraction of people will ever experience or dying because a drunk driver hit you while crossing the street to get to the parking garage after 9 hours of sitting at a computer terminal?
You bet your ass the two dead crews would consider themselves lucky. They died doing something they loved.
There goes my hopes of being the first man on Mars! I honestly think it'll be 50 years before we put a man on the red planet.. which really blows. Well, NASA won't make it happen until we axe the whole organization and rebuild it with young whipper-snappers ala the '60s. Hopefully Zubrin can convince a commercial outfit to go there.. perhaps Scaled Composites?
OMG I wish I had mod points for ya'!! I laughed my ass off!
I thought we all knew that.
Dude.. We've been to the moon and have sent probes outside of our paltry little solar system. I'd say his reception was about right. The Frenchies only welcoemd Lindbergh as they did because he was the first to go solo across the Atlantic, a MAJOR feat at the time. Going around the world on one tank of gas isn't that incredible when compared to other recent achievements such as SpaceShip One and our Martian rovers.
I don't have ADD as I can concentrate just fine during the day. I have no trouble getting shit done at work, school or anywhere else for that matter. I just can't get off the damn computer at night. :) That's all. No ADD here. Sleep just doesn't entertain me at night like ET or Quake or /.
There is something to be said for the command line. I don't have a window manager on my Debian box and I always seem to get done what needs to be done. With Windows, I find myself up until 2am browsing the Internet for random shit. All because its available. I guess that makes me an Internet junkie.. I really should fix that. Anyway.. CLIs make me most productive 'cause of the lack of distraction.
Or maybe feel heat from Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger. I don't use the programs but have been impressed by the features and quality they offer when I see friends using them. Too bad YM also installs all that other shite that comes with it such as the Yahoo! Tollbar.
That and fr1st ps0t??
Hows about attaching it to the air vent inside your car? Mount your cellphone to it and you have a portable cellphone charger without the need to hang your $100 phone out the window.
I second this.. only my penis is decidedly HUGE!
Dear God, PLEASE! I despise having to hack my CSS and use GIFs on client websites. I really do hate it.. HATE, I SAY!
For those not in the know.. This a quote by Ralph Wiggum, son to Chief Wiggum of the Springfield police department. Lisa failed PE and Ralph failed English.. which we all know is unpossible.
Hahah.. What a laughable comment..
Seriously.. RADAR, nuclear power, jet aircraft, super glue, alarm clocks, spread spectrum communications.. the list is long and illustrious.
War is one of the only thigns that gives private companies a reason to truly innovate. its sad that killing another man and defending ourselves is our biggest impetus to advance, but such is the case.
I work for a communications research team that is working hand-in-hand with a major metropolitan police department. We are currently developing tools that do just this.. alert authorities of suspicious activity. The idea is similar to you allowing an alarm company (Brinks and those other companies with monitoring services..) to notifiy the police when your alarm system notifies them that a break-in has occured. The idea is precisely the same. So don't be so freakin' alarmed.
It's like taking a satellite image of a major interstate junction and seeing that a traffic jam has occured. You don't know why its happening so you dispatch a cruiser to the site to investigate. No different..
It seems to me that they haven't linked Maps with local yet. Google Local still has comparatively crappy maps and I didn't find a link to the address over at maps.google.com. Yes.. I know its still a beta and eagerly await the merging of the two.
It's all a matter of size. Stars have enough mass to begin fusion. Planets have enough mass to become 'round' and orbit a star. Asteroids orbit stars but aren't 'round'. Moons orbit planets and are 'round'. Blah blah blah. So on and so forth. It's bloody easy. Man.. I should be an astrophysicist!
Ah yes.. The classic extortion scheme! I fuckin' hate people. Seriously.. The world is fuckin' crazy. Where is God and his mass extinction floods when you need Him?
Don't even give them your name and address. I've got a loyalty card from one of the major supermarkets here in the southwestern US. They ofered me the form and the card at the same time. I told them I didn't have time to fill it out now, so they told me to just return the form next time I was in. So I walked out the door and threw the form in the trash. The next time I was there, they swiped my card and I got all the discounts.
And they don't even know that I exist.
Fixes the /. rendering bug? I just downloaded the latest M3 build only to have the same rendering problem. :/
Bah.. I was a bit interested in the article, but then I realized how long it was and decided it wasn't worth my time. So here I am having only half read the article. I find the comments more entertaining anyway!