Really? I would think the opposite. I'm pretty sure that in, say 1000 years, humans will either be extinct (my bet is on this one) or living amongst the stars on other planets. I may be a romantic but I'd put money on the second happening. Now, if someone said that in 30 years we'll be living on Mars, I'd laugh in their face.
Whoo Hoo! I got a troll moderation! Must have been one of the lefty tree huggers that didn't like what I said, so they decided to censor a dissenting voice. How typical.
I'm Joe American and I've never though nuclear power was unsafe or stupid, not even when I had to suffer through my own flirtation with liberalism in college (thankfully I came to my senses).
Nuke power is the most sane, environmentally safe method for us to meet our energy demands and we should be busy building plants now, not debating about it.
Trouble is, you gotta convince all of the treehuggers and pseudo enviros, best start at a Starbucks since that's where they all are -- with their disposable cups and all.
DFS doesn't actually allow you to pool your disparate storage. It acts as a generic namespace that allows you to have multiple replicas of the same data, and keep your users from actually knowing where the stuff is kept.
I kind of doubt any of us match the minds at MIT that are reviewing this, so your speculation is about as valuable as mud... the recipe seems to be, spout some wikipedia pseudo physics stuff so you sound intelligent and then get modded interesting by people not smart enough to google... clever, but hardly intelligent or interesting.
>>You're assuming that every single religion in the world has nonnegotiable goals that requires them to kill and coerce when negotiation fails, and that just isn't the case. Some don't even seek new followers
Nah, just Islam is incompatible with modern society, its a cult anyway, not a religion, and its whole purpose is to make you submit to its wims or die. There is no such thing as a moderate muslim.
you're not very bright if you use the words "restrictions" and "government" at the same time.... neither are you a conservative in the true sense of the word. Let's get this through to you... Government is bad, anarchy is bad, so we have a little government to counter total anarchy. Add too much government, and you have no freedom. National ID cards destroy freedom.
Apparently you're the kind of person who would have done nothing when the Nazis went to the ghettos and started their genocide, because they weren't coming for you. THis isn't about football or religion, but something worse. I'll leave it to you to try and figure what that is, although I kind of doubt you lack the mental equipment that sort of introspection will require.
>>Hasn't global warming sunk in yet? I know it's only been 2 years since it's been allowed to be freely discussed, but hey guys. wake up!
Sure, it has sunk in... some of us just don't care. Me, I'm all for it. Things have always changed, people have always migrated from place to place, and animal species (ours included) come and go. Global warming is a plus in my book, it'll increase the length of time I can ride my motorcycle every year.
A choice between Clinton or McCain is not a win-win. Both represent the status quo of the far right and far left of the two corporate parties that rule this nation. Neither will do anything to clean up government, improve our lives, or guarantee any of our freedoms.
I think the problem is in fact, working for companies ran by people with prestigious degrees in accounting and business, and who use big trendy words. If you work for a company like that, then the bottom line is all that will ever matter and you won't ever be anything but a cost center. You'll know you work somewhere like that if there's lots of team meetings, an emphasis on synergy and transition, lots of talk about retention strategies and a focus on titles. If however, you go work for a business, for or not-for profit, that provides a service that is not delivering technology, you might have a different experience.
At least that has been my experience. I've worked for small mom and pop joints, medium sized corporations, your standard fortune 100, and now at a not-for-profit shop. My experience has always been good with people focused on doing something besides selling something, and not always good with people focused on making a buck and having wall street happy each quarter.
>>I don't think one can be both religious and scientific. The reason is that science tells you to believe that which the evidence shows to be true, and religions give the answers up front and then tell you not to even do the experiments.
Why, because you can't? Perhaps the problem is that your view of religion is narrow and constrained by what you see from fundamentalism? Perhaps because your arogance tells you that yours and yours alone, is the correct way to view the universe?
I have no problems being religious and being scientific. The two endeavors address different things, one is "how" and the other is "why". "Why" will always be a philosophical discussion that science can't address. "How" on the other hand is something that science and only science can answer.
oh, and its also an ultra low emmissions motor, unlike what this creation will have.
More motorcycles, with better safety training, along with a strict, almost draconian enforcement of laws against cars will make the roads safer and conserve resources... while keeping from having to pave over more land for bigger roads.
My 600cc 4cyl bike puts out almost 100hp and gets on average almost 52mpg, unless of course, I'm riding hard and fast. Then it drops to around 40mpg. I'll take it any day over a tin can car like this. Also, if you've never been to India, consider that motorcycles routinely carry all sorts of cargo, and are not used like they are in the west.
I'd say that a better solution is most definately more enforcement of existing laws and MASS transit on rails. Even your most worthy Bostonian driver wouldn't stand a chance navigating Indian traffic.
I wish the enviros would just move to a deserted island and leave the rest of us alone. I'm all for reduce, reuse and recycle but I've no time for the eco-terrorists represented by the likes of Greenpeace and the anti-gm crowd. Pss off and take your snail darters with you.
Go ahead, mod me a troll.. that's what the lefties do when they don't like a competing idea, they declare it inflammatory and CENSOR it. How PC.
Come on, CoD4 doesn't warrant a high 5 for anything other than graphics. Perfect example is the scripted nature of the gameplay and the forced annoying review of the cut scenes.
A major failing of this game is the fact that you stand next to a typical post and beam fence and get blown to away but you can't climb over the same fence, even though you can enter a window whose sill is actually higher than the fence top rail, and which is in a building right next to the fence. Come on, how can I not crawl under or over this fence? Oh yeah, its because the game designers expect you to play their scenario script and not yours, which sucks.
In my opinion, that failing alone is why CoD4 is nothing short of the same flop as CoD2 or CoD3 with better graphics.
Its kind of difficult to give advice if you can't tell us why your lack of math skills is holding you back? Math is best learned in context, which is not at all how it is taught (or not) in America.
Honestly, I find Hawkings work interested but really, relevant, or more specifically, that it makes him any more valuable as a person? I don't think that 99% of the 6+ billion people in this world give a rats ass about his work or find him more valuable.
Why is this kind of behavior a suprise to anyone? It happens in every business, big or small, for profit and non-profit, and today, colleges are nothing more than big businesses driven by athletics. Its typical hypocricy, all the while the executives spout off about ethics they openly ignore them. The moral of this is to never believe a thing that rolls downhill, whether from executives, politicians, rock stars or otherwise; and instead to remember that the basic truth is that the importance of adherence to lofty ethics for the most part, is dependent upon who you are.
I read something a few years ago regarding a potential solution for catching spammers. It was based on the presumption that because spammers send millions, if not 100s of millions of messages at a time, that it would be computationally impossible for them to calculate the results of a math problem and then checksum the result/sign the result against the message and then send it and the problem as part of the header. Or something to that effect. The assumption was that the home or casual user send so little mail that it wouldn't introduce a delay into their mail sending flow to perform this operation. So when you receive the message, you then check the result sent against the result you calculated and if they match, give it a better score.
Of course, I don't doubt that I missed something in my recounting of it but it sounds on the surface like a better idea than the article describes.
Its not a money game. Students who come to the US are exposed to our society and get a different view of the way this country works (or doesn't) and learn a lot about the real people who live here versus what they see in their local state sponsored media outlets. That is the real value to Americans, because knowing each other engenders respect and that is the best foreign policy result you can get. Of course, this assumes that the student here comes from a society that respects the rule of law over the rule of religion.
>>I'm waiting for those famous Midwestern militias to get determined and start systematically tracking and disabling these cameras so that the rest of us can continue to go about our business w/o the prying eyes of the government
You can help out or suffer on your own... we're all moving to Montana and succeeding.
I'm waiting for the mindless cattle that blindly elect republicans and democrats to get determined and start thinking about the consequences of their vote. I'll probably die waiting, probably at the hands of the government the party members created.
I'm glad someone else said this.... Just because you pull a number out of your rear doesn't make it a fact. I'm with the person who suggests that most people who buy wine, in fact nearly anything, are in fact not running Linux... but Windows or Mac OS X, simply because they make up the bulk of computer users.
Historically who have the people turned against first in any revolution? Might be the government, might be the rich, but the cops, well, they are always the first targets...
I wouldn't trust a cop no matter who they are, on-duty or off-duty, friend or family member. They are tools of the state used for oppression. Law and Order must be second to freedom, if not, then you are not free.
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Really? I would think the opposite. I'm pretty sure that in, say 1000 years, humans will either be extinct (my bet is on this one) or living amongst the stars on other planets. I may be a romantic but I'd put money on the second happening. Now, if someone said that in 30 years we'll be living on Mars, I'd laugh in their face.
Whoo Hoo! I got a troll moderation! Must have been one of the lefty tree huggers that didn't like what I said, so they decided to censor a dissenting voice. How typical.
I'm Joe American and I've never though nuclear power was unsafe or stupid, not even when I had to suffer through my own flirtation with liberalism in college (thankfully I came to my senses).
Nuke power is the most sane, environmentally safe method for us to meet our energy demands and we should be busy building plants now, not debating about it.
Trouble is, you gotta convince all of the treehuggers and pseudo enviros, best start at a Starbucks since that's where they all are -- with their disposable cups and all.
DFS doesn't actually allow you to pool your disparate storage. It acts as a generic namespace that allows you to have multiple replicas of the same data, and keep your users from actually knowing where the stuff is kept.
I kind of doubt any of us match the minds at MIT that are reviewing this, so your speculation is about as valuable as mud... the recipe seems to be, spout some wikipedia pseudo physics stuff so you sound intelligent and then get modded interesting by people not smart enough to google... clever, but hardly intelligent or interesting.
>>You're assuming that every single religion in the world has nonnegotiable goals that requires them to kill and coerce when negotiation fails, and that just isn't the case. Some don't even seek new followers
Nah, just Islam is incompatible with modern society, its a cult anyway, not a religion, and its whole purpose is to make you submit to its wims or die. There is no such thing as a moderate muslim.
you're not very bright if you use the words "restrictions" and "government" at the same time.... neither are you a conservative in the true sense of the word. Let's get this through to you... Government is bad, anarchy is bad, so we have a little government to counter total anarchy. Add too much government, and you have no freedom. National ID cards destroy freedom.
Apparently you're the kind of person who would have done nothing when the Nazis went to the ghettos and started their genocide, because they weren't coming for you. THis isn't about football or religion, but something worse. I'll leave it to you to try and figure what that is, although I kind of doubt you lack the mental equipment that sort of introspection will require.
Sure, it has sunk in... some of us just don't care. Me, I'm all for it. Things have always changed, people have always migrated from place to place, and animal species (ours included) come and go. Global warming is a plus in my book, it'll increase the length of time I can ride my motorcycle every year.
A choice between Clinton or McCain is not a win-win. Both represent the status quo of the far right and far left of the two corporate parties that rule this nation. Neither will do anything to clean up government, improve our lives, or guarantee any of our freedoms.
I think the problem is in fact, working for companies ran by people with prestigious degrees in accounting and business, and who use big trendy words. If you work for a company like that, then the bottom line is all that will ever matter and you won't ever be anything but a cost center. You'll know you work somewhere like that if there's lots of team meetings, an emphasis on synergy and transition, lots of talk about retention strategies and a focus on titles. If however, you go work for a business, for or not-for profit, that provides a service that is not delivering technology, you might have a different experience.
At least that has been my experience. I've worked for small mom and pop joints, medium sized corporations, your standard fortune 100, and now at a not-for-profit shop. My experience has always been good with people focused on doing something besides selling something, and not always good with people focused on making a buck and having wall street happy each quarter.
>>I don't think one can be both religious and scientific. The reason is that science tells you to believe that which the evidence shows to be true, and religions give the answers up front and then tell you not to even do the experiments. Why, because you can't? Perhaps the problem is that your view of religion is narrow and constrained by what you see from fundamentalism? Perhaps because your arogance tells you that yours and yours alone, is the correct way to view the universe? I have no problems being religious and being scientific. The two endeavors address different things, one is "how" and the other is "why". "Why" will always be a philosophical discussion that science can't address. "How" on the other hand is something that science and only science can answer.
oh, and its also an ultra low emmissions motor, unlike what this creation will have.
More motorcycles, with better safety training, along with a strict, almost draconian enforcement of laws against cars will make the roads safer and conserve resources... while keeping from having to pave over more land for bigger roads.
My 600cc 4cyl bike puts out almost 100hp and gets on average almost 52mpg, unless of course, I'm riding hard and fast. Then it drops to around 40mpg. I'll take it any day over a tin can car like this. Also, if you've never been to India, consider that motorcycles routinely carry all sorts of cargo, and are not used like they are in the west.
I'd say that a better solution is most definately more enforcement of existing laws and MASS transit on rails. Even your most worthy Bostonian driver wouldn't stand a chance navigating Indian traffic.
I wish the enviros would just move to a deserted island and leave the rest of us alone. I'm all for reduce, reuse and recycle but I've no time for the eco-terrorists represented by the likes of Greenpeace and the anti-gm crowd. Pss off and take your snail darters with you. Go ahead, mod me a troll.. that's what the lefties do when they don't like a competing idea, they declare it inflammatory and CENSOR it. How PC.
A major failing of this game is the fact that you stand next to a typical post and beam fence and get blown to away but you can't climb over the same fence, even though you can enter a window whose sill is actually higher than the fence top rail, and which is in a building right next to the fence. Come on, how can I not crawl under or over this fence? Oh yeah, its because the game designers expect you to play their scenario script and not yours, which sucks.
In my opinion, that failing alone is why CoD4 is nothing short of the same flop as CoD2 or CoD3 with better graphics.
Its kind of difficult to give advice if you can't tell us why your lack of math skills is holding you back? Math is best learned in context, which is not at all how it is taught (or not) in America.
Honestly, I find Hawkings work interested but really, relevant, or more specifically, that it makes him any more valuable as a person? I don't think that 99% of the 6+ billion people in this world give a rats ass about his work or find him more valuable.
Why is this kind of behavior a suprise to anyone? It happens in every business, big or small, for profit and non-profit, and today, colleges are nothing more than big businesses driven by athletics. Its typical hypocricy, all the while the executives spout off about ethics they openly ignore them. The moral of this is to never believe a thing that rolls downhill, whether from executives, politicians, rock stars or otherwise; and instead to remember that the basic truth is that the importance of adherence to lofty ethics for the most part, is dependent upon who you are.
why do they suck, because they didn't buy this person's lame ass excuse?
I read something a few years ago regarding a potential solution for catching spammers. It was based on the presumption that because spammers send millions, if not 100s of millions of messages at a time, that it would be computationally impossible for them to calculate the results of a math problem and then checksum the result/sign the result against the message and then send it and the problem as part of the header. Or something to that effect. The assumption was that the home or casual user send so little mail that it wouldn't introduce a delay into their mail sending flow to perform this operation. So when you receive the message, you then check the result sent against the result you calculated and if they match, give it a better score.
Of course, I don't doubt that I missed something in my recounting of it but it sounds on the surface like a better idea than the article describes.
Its not a money game. Students who come to the US are exposed to our society and get a different view of the way this country works (or doesn't) and learn a lot about the real people who live here versus what they see in their local state sponsored media outlets. That is the real value to Americans, because knowing each other engenders respect and that is the best foreign policy result you can get. Of course, this assumes that the student here comes from a society that respects the rule of law over the rule of religion.
You can help out or suffer on your own... we're all moving to Montana and succeeding.
I'm waiting for the mindless cattle that blindly elect republicans and democrats to get determined and start thinking about the consequences of their vote. I'll probably die waiting, probably at the hands of the government the party members created.
I'm glad someone else said this.... Just because you pull a number out of your rear doesn't make it a fact. I'm with the person who suggests that most people who buy wine, in fact nearly anything, are in fact not running Linux... but Windows or Mac OS X, simply because they make up the bulk of computer users.
I wouldn't trust a cop no matter who they are, on-duty or off-duty, friend or family member. They are tools of the state used for oppression. Law and Order must be second to freedom, if not, then you are not free.