Because GWB is the worst thing to happen to this country in it's young life
I've just about had it with crap like this. What is the freaking basis for statements like this? Because I still haven't heard the first rational explanation for mindless, stupid, idiotic assertions like this. I wish everyone who made statements like this would GET A BRAIN! And then start using it!
Yes, sir, your uncle's second wife's stepsister's kindergarten teacher once bought a widget from us. That establishes a clear prior business relationship between you and us.
If you thought it was a naive thought, why did you reproduce it here? Naive doesn't begin to cover it. "We would all be best served by not turning the moon into a natural resource farm." And how does this serve us best? Because the moon is "pure" and we should not desecrate it?
In a similar vein, just think of all that beautiful pure oxygen you, sir, are constantly drawing into your lungs and turning into dirty rotten carbon dioxide! Shouldn't you, in the interests of not turning the earth into a natural resource farm, like, just stop breathing in our pure oxygen like it was yours and yours alone! That's a bogus thought, just like the thought of not using the moon's resources.
And then we come to the "problem" of changing the moon's mass! The moon is being bombarded with thousands of tons of meteorites every day, so its mass is constantly increasing. Our best efforts of stripping the moon of He-3 will not be able to make even a dent in the moon's mass.
And, yes, please, let's bring up science fiction as a warning about what kind of bad things could happen. Well, then, what about the Federation? We colonize space, including mining the moon and Mars, and for that we get this beautiful civilization described very clearly in all those Star Trek episodes: no poor; everyone works because they want to; and peace and justice for all. The only fly in the ointment is those darned Klingons!
Oh, come on. Really trying hard to separate Microsoft from any positives at all, aren't you?
Go ahead, try to find any authors who actually work for the publishers that publish their books! In any genre, not just IT. Authors are by and large independent contractors with respect to their publishers. And a fair number of MS Press authors work for non-Microsoft companies. So what? Microsoft recognized the value in the book, and that is a credit to them.
One must be careful not to confuse correlation with causation. Remember all those ancient peoples who danced and made threatening noises when the sun was obscured in a solar eclipse? Well, they thought that it was their actions that "saved" the sun from whatever was dimming it. Their actions appeared to be related to the effect of getting the sun back.
It may be that reduced or eliminated release of CFCs is part of the ozone hole size reduction. But because the largest source of ozone creation in the atmosphere is apparently cosmic radiation striking oxygen atoms in the high atmosphere, variations in solar output is likely to be the single greatest source of variation in the overall quantity of ozone. In other words, supply is just as important as consumption in this case.
Yeah, I had fun with it, too. I first wrote "ever recorded in history", then I thought to myself, "wait a minute, was Krakatoa bigger, or not?" Yeah, it probably was. Then I wondered if the explosion of the island of Thera/Sanotorini in the Aegean sea might have been even bigger --- although nobody actually seemed to have recorded that, as few records survive from that time. Hard to say. I finally settled on the phrase you liked so well. But it is very lame, as phrases go, isn't it? I should have left the "ever" off, at least.
Nah, it didn't blow yet, somebody just forgot to pay the danged energy bill and the lights got shut off! Otherwise known as sunset. It would take a darned big Klieg light to make it visible under those conditions, too.
Click on one of the bloody links and you might find out. It's in the US, in Washington state.
You might or might not remember that in 1980 it blew up and killed 67 people, destroyed a couple hundred square miles of forest, and in general caused quite a fuss. It was one of the most destructive volcanic events ever recorded in recent history, so naturally everybody's forgotten about it in favor of tripe like jpegs that capture your computer or some such rot.
A private venture might be slightly less concerned with the same levels of fuel efficiency
Oh, come on! You believe the myths that say public (read: government) ventures are more efficient or work better than private? A private venture with limited funding absolutely must get the most efficient use of resources or they are toast -- unless they have very deep pockets and are willing to squander. Which pretty much describes government projects. If you want bloat, look at NASA. If you want efficiency, look at smaller private operations like Scaled Composites.
That is a neat thing, to have an actual "official" spaceport, but it will be even more exciting when the FAA designates a "public" spaceport! But I am looking forward to spacecraft with "RyanAir" markings setting down at our local municipal air... ahem SPACEport!
"a priori" does not mean what you're using it for, here. It is a Latin term used in English to mean: "1. Proceeding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect: deductive. 2. Based on a hypothesis or theory rather than on experiment or experience. 3. Made before or without examination: not supported by factual study." The literal Latin means "from the previous (causes or hypothesis)." [from American Heritage Dictionary]
Better: "...a word that some kid made up to describe a big number that existed as prior art."
Just like the Anti-HIV Virus!
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There was something on/. the other day about a team of biologists who built a virus based on HIV, that goes out to destroy HIV ability to turn to AIDS. Apparently, the Dabber developer took a page from that book --- in a twisted sort of way.
Salaries vary very regionally, and also by industry sector. I can't comment on other sectors/regions, but the State government in Washington state pays entry-level programmers with bachelor degrees $2645 per month ($31,740 annually or $15.20 per hour) to start. That's for what is called ITAS 1 ("Information Technology Applications Specialist 1"). Here's the link to the page describing the position/job and salary information: http://hr.dop.wa.gov/statejobs/bulletins/CURRENT/3 8109rp.htm. Most state programming jobs in Washington are in the Olympia area, which is a pretty nice part of the state (IMHO). Don't know what current openings there are at the moment, however.
I truly don't know what waiters make (including tips), but I doubt that the pay goes up to $70K+ after several years of experience, like it can in programming. In Washington state employment, the top programming job classification is ITAS 6, which is paid $5813 per month, or $69,756 per year.
If you get into more specialized areas, such as a programmer working with things like PeopleSoft and SAP, the pay gets quite extravagant, I'm told.
Factoring in the trend in offshoring, however, and the picture may become bleaker for programming in general, although the government sector may be somewhat immune to that. At least I hope so.:-)
Yes, perhaps it sounds that way, but "hell of a lot" is to "more" as "best" is to "better" in this case. My home machine (Win98SE) gets its knickers in a serious wad several times a week in part-time use (I don't upgrade because it is very slow iron), but my work machine (Win2k) gets 8+ hours per day serious development work (VS.NET w/C# and VB6) in which I frequently have two or sometimes even three instances of VS.NET open at a time, as well as Outlook running 100% of the time and two or three instances of IE6 and MS Word and it chucks a hairball once or twice a month, max. My brother's Mac gets hosed more often.
Deep pockets. They can screw up quite some time on $40 billion and still remain afloat. And they don't seem to screw up enough to actually reduce their cashpile: it keeps growing.
The point is, they will eventually beat Linux because they can afford to keep plugging away at it forever, relatively speaking. Like a thousand monkeys pecking at keyboards, given enough time MS will produce a server and desktop OS that will be better in all respects than Linux, Unix, or any other 'nix. On SlashDot that's heresy, but it is true, IMHO.
Some like to say that MS is rich only because they spend a lot of money on marketing, but if their product didn't meet genuine needs well enough they would be toast. They are doing well enough, and will 40 gbucks they can afford to take time to do better. And they will. They don't need to throw a million programmers at it.
...pretty soon you're talking REAL money. --- Dirksen
Bill&Co. has something like $40 billion with a capital B in cash and liquid assets ready to put against the army of Linux programmers. Legend has it that the more programmers you throw at a late project will make the project even later, but what if you have more money to swim in than Scrooge McDuck ever imagined?
What does that matter? One of the chief properties of such a device is that it IS at the whim of the wind. Its record of where it went would be a record of how strong the wind was and in what direction it was blowing at any given time!
On the other hand, wind could end up pinning the thing to a large boulder or cliff face (then how would it get away?), and given that Mars has some really nifty DEEP canyons with sheer walls...
No accounting for taste, then. I just could not bear to watch anybody in a rubber suit step on miniature scenery and architecture. Please MAKE me watch Matthew Broderick's Godzilla.
How on earth do you get your eyes to bleed? You got horned lizard blood or something?
Oh, if only Isaac Asimov were still alive to see this! Here's the US military attempting to simulate the mass psychology of nations, as Asimov's character Hari Seldon did in the Foundation series.
The paranoid among us would start to worry real bad if they were trying to simulate the United States --- instead, here they are doing their initial simulation in an actual hotspot of genuine concern: the Middle East.
But maybe they should try to simulate the US, and make an accurate prediction as to US election results later this year! If one had a good model for prediction, one could make scads of cash at the bookmakers!
I agree with you; moderation in all things, even enviromentalism!
It is so nice to be able to see real trees, isn't it? I live in Washington state where trees are almost weeds (almost, but not quite). They're practically objects of religious veneration here, which I can understand, especially in the old growth stands.
The internet was down for days in areas close to the disaster during the 9/11 attacks in NYC. "[A]ntique" Ham radio provided important emergency communications while nobody was "online".
These are only two examples of emergency service that ham operators provide on a volunteer basis. There are hundreds if not thousands of volunteer emergency communications organizations standing by "just in case". Such organizations sometimes even operate emergency communications drills within police/sheriff dispatch centers, as well as operate such drills from rustic sites, just to test emergency capabilities. And have fun doing it, I might add, 'cuz it IS a hobby, after all.
Why is it when I post something that says the problem exists, but is exagerated, someone has to then restate my opinion as extremely as you just did? I say deforestation is exagerated, and supposedly you read what I wrote, but then you claim I said it's a myth!
I think this is called a "straw man argument". You can't argue the actual facts, so you invent false facts that you can easily knock down and claim victory.
Deforestation is not a myth, but the figures the environmentalists have quoted in the past were out and out fabrications, designed to deceive. Had deforestation actually been going on at the rates claimed, then Brazil would be a parking lot today.
Next, I suppose you'll claim that I wrote that Brazil would be better off as a parking lot.
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And I don't even LIKE Dubya.
Yes, sir, your uncle's second wife's stepsister's kindergarten teacher once bought a widget from us. That establishes a clear prior business relationship between you and us.
In a similar vein, just think of all that beautiful pure oxygen you, sir, are constantly drawing into your lungs and turning into dirty rotten carbon dioxide! Shouldn't you, in the interests of not turning the earth into a natural resource farm, like, just stop breathing in our pure oxygen like it was yours and yours alone! That's a bogus thought, just like the thought of not using the moon's resources.
And then we come to the "problem" of changing the moon's mass! The moon is being bombarded with thousands of tons of meteorites every day, so its mass is constantly increasing. Our best efforts of stripping the moon of He-3 will not be able to make even a dent in the moon's mass.
And, yes, please, let's bring up science fiction as a warning about what kind of bad things could happen. Well, then, what about the Federation? We colonize space, including mining the moon and Mars, and for that we get this beautiful civilization described very clearly in all those Star Trek episodes: no poor; everyone works because they want to; and peace and justice for all. The only fly in the ointment is those darned Klingons!
Oh, come on. Really trying hard to separate Microsoft from any positives at all, aren't you?
Go ahead, try to find any authors who actually work for the publishers that publish their books! In any genre, not just IT. Authors are by and large independent contractors with respect to their publishers. And a fair number of MS Press authors work for non-Microsoft companies. So what? Microsoft recognized the value in the book, and that is a credit to them.
Yeah, I had fun with it, too. I first wrote "ever recorded in history", then I thought to myself, "wait a minute, was Krakatoa bigger, or not?" Yeah, it probably was. Then I wondered if the explosion of the island of Thera/Sanotorini in the Aegean sea might have been even bigger --- although nobody actually seemed to have recorded that, as few records survive from that time. Hard to say. I finally settled on the phrase you liked so well. But it is very lame, as phrases go, isn't it? I should have left the "ever" off, at least.
Nah, it didn't blow yet, somebody just forgot to pay the danged energy bill and the lights got shut off! Otherwise known as sunset. It would take a darned big Klieg light to make it visible under those conditions, too.
You might or might not remember that in 1980 it blew up and killed 67 people, destroyed a couple hundred square miles of forest, and in general caused quite a fuss. It was one of the most destructive volcanic events ever recorded in recent history, so naturally everybody's forgotten about it in favor of tripe like jpegs that capture your computer or some such rot.
Nah. Too big. Also, too exclusive --- they're in a class of firm with too little good competition, so they probably feel no pressure to be better.
Just a guess --- based on what little has been reported. I could be totally off-base.
Ah, very good. I misunderstood you --- and definitely agree with your sentiments.
Oh, come on! You believe the myths that say public (read: government) ventures are more efficient or work better than private? A private venture with limited funding absolutely must get the most efficient use of resources or they are toast -- unless they have very deep pockets and are willing to squander. Which pretty much describes government projects. If you want bloat, look at NASA. If you want efficiency, look at smaller private operations like Scaled Composites.
That is a neat thing, to have an actual "official" spaceport, but it will be even more exciting when the FAA designates a "public" spaceport! But I am looking forward to spacecraft with "RyanAir" markings setting down at our local municipal air... ahem SPACEport!
"a priori" does not mean what you're using it for, here. It is a Latin term used in English to mean: "1. Proceeding from a known or assumed cause to a necessarily related effect: deductive. 2. Based on a hypothesis or theory rather than on experiment or experience. 3. Made before or without examination: not supported by factual study." The literal Latin means "from the previous (causes or hypothesis)." [from American Heritage Dictionary]
Better: "...a word that some kid made up to describe a big number that existed as prior art."
There was something on /. the other day about a team of biologists who built a virus based on HIV, that goes out to destroy HIV ability to turn to AIDS. Apparently, the Dabber developer took a page from that book --- in a twisted sort of way.
"I am the Eye in the Sky! Lookin' at you, I can read your mind!"
Salaries vary very regionally, and also by industry sector. I can't comment on other sectors/regions, but the State government in Washington state pays entry-level programmers with bachelor degrees $2645 per month ($31,740 annually or $15.20 per hour) to start. That's for what is called ITAS 1 ("Information Technology Applications Specialist 1"). Here's the link to the page describing the position/job and salary information: http://hr.dop.wa.gov/statejobs/bulletins/CURRENT/3 8109rp.htm. Most state programming jobs in Washington are in the Olympia area, which is a pretty nice part of the state (IMHO). Don't know what current openings there are at the moment, however.
I truly don't know what waiters make (including tips), but I doubt that the pay goes up to $70K+ after several years of experience, like it can in programming. In Washington state employment, the top programming job classification is ITAS 6, which is paid $5813 per month, or $69,756 per year.
If you get into more specialized areas, such as a programmer working with things like PeopleSoft and SAP, the pay gets quite extravagant, I'm told.
Factoring in the trend in offshoring, however, and the picture may become bleaker for programming in general, although the government sector may be somewhat immune to that. At least I hope so. :-)
IMHO Win2K is the OS of choice.
The point is, they will eventually beat Linux because they can afford to keep plugging away at it forever, relatively speaking. Like a thousand monkeys pecking at keyboards, given enough time MS will produce a server and desktop OS that will be better in all respects than Linux, Unix, or any other 'nix. On SlashDot that's heresy, but it is true, IMHO.
Some like to say that MS is rich only because they spend a lot of money on marketing, but if their product didn't meet genuine needs well enough they would be toast. They are doing well enough, and will 40 gbucks they can afford to take time to do better. And they will. They don't need to throw a million programmers at it.
Bill&Co. has something like $40 billion with a capital B in cash and liquid assets ready to put against the army of Linux programmers. Legend has it that the more programmers you throw at a late project will make the project even later, but what if you have more money to swim in than Scrooge McDuck ever imagined?
Bet on the money.
What does that matter? One of the chief properties of such a device is that it IS at the whim of the wind. Its record of where it went would be a record of how strong the wind was and in what direction it was blowing at any given time!
On the other hand, wind could end up pinning the thing to a large boulder or cliff face (then how would it get away?), and given that Mars has some really nifty DEEP canyons with sheer walls...
*SPLAT*
How on earth do you get your eyes to bleed? You got horned lizard blood or something?
The paranoid among us would start to worry real bad if they were trying to simulate the United States --- instead, here they are doing their initial simulation in an actual hotspot of genuine concern: the Middle East.
But maybe they should try to simulate the US, and make an accurate prediction as to US election results later this year! If one had a good model for prediction, one could make scads of cash at the bookmakers!
I agree with you; moderation in all things, even enviromentalism!
It is so nice to be able to see real trees, isn't it? I live in Washington state where trees are almost weeds (almost, but not quite). They're practically objects of religious veneration here, which I can understand, especially in the old growth stands.
Now, if only my karma would improve!
OK, you're excused --- 'cuz you're wrong.
The internet was down for days in areas close to the disaster during the 9/11 attacks in NYC. "[A]ntique" Ham radio provided important emergency communications while nobody was "online".
Also, as reported by the Assoicated Press, during the blackouts in the Northeast and Midwest last autumn, Ham radio once again rode to the rescue.
These are only two examples of emergency service that ham operators provide on a volunteer basis. There are hundreds if not thousands of volunteer emergency communications organizations standing by "just in case". Such organizations sometimes even operate emergency communications drills within police/sheriff dispatch centers, as well as operate such drills from rustic sites, just to test emergency capabilities. And have fun doing it, I might add, 'cuz it IS a hobby, after all.
Why is it when I post something that says the problem exists, but is exagerated, someone has to then restate my opinion as extremely as you just did? I say deforestation is exagerated, and supposedly you read what I wrote, but then you claim I said it's a myth!
I think this is called a "straw man argument". You can't argue the actual facts, so you invent false facts that you can easily knock down and claim victory.
Deforestation is not a myth, but the figures the environmentalists have quoted in the past were out and out fabrications, designed to deceive. Had deforestation actually been going on at the rates claimed, then Brazil would be a parking lot today.
Next, I suppose you'll claim that I wrote that Brazil would be better off as a parking lot.