A few years ago, I ran into my old ninth grade history teacher, a curmudgeon and proud of it, but a great teacher. We chatted for quite a while and got onto the subject of his neighbors, many of whom were college professors that I knew from school. He mentioned Bill Thonson, the prof I had taken a photography class from, and a man I had always liked, had recently died. My old teacher spoke admiringly of Bill and said that he had "died with all of his vices intact." Something to live up to, I think, especially since Bill's list was impressive.
Is the number of Mac users who have switched to Windows, Linux, or BSD in the same time period. Since Intel or AMD based machines are considerable cheaper, there may be a significant number of Apple users who switch when it is time to replace. Or not, but the article certainly ignores that.
Also, for those rare types who read TFA, this is one of those nice sites that doesn't let you return to/. with your back button, at least in Firefox.
I really don't give a frosty crank about the system. It's the games that matter, and there's nothing out there right now that makes me want to go buy a 360 so I can play it. Right now, I'm far more inclined to put the substantial cost of the latest gen console toward a new HD TV.
There is a well documented link between the decline in the number of pirates in the world and global warming. While only The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has made this a central part of our faith, other denominations are sure to follow. In order to stop global warming, we need more pirates. Not all of us can get our hands on the requisite hardware for the true Jack Swallow life, but the digital equivalent will still count. Remember that GW Bush wants more faith based activities. So:
Your point is well taken, but you should know that "evolutionist" is generally used only by creationists and has a pejorative flavor to it. Most supporters of evolution prefer the term "biologist."
Jaws have teeth. Jaws are one of the easiest parts of a skeleton to age. Even if the teeth are missing, dental buds, or their lack, root canals, and other features make them highly indicative of the individual's age.
What matters is the amount you can discern at any given pupil dialation
Here, take this small, interesting, blue pill. Your eyes will become dialated, and you will be able to perceive all 64,000,000 colors eminating from the monitor at fantastic contrast ratios. Several hours later, when you can move again, you notice that the monitor is a vintage 1981 Sears black and white television.
Richards and Wood both look more like the sort that goes to bed in the crypt in the morning and get up thirsty after sundown. Watts is the only one who looks like he's seen the sun in the last twenty years. Still can play, though.
There is an announcement today that the new Rolling Stones Album (can't say CD anymore, can we) is being released in this format for about 2.5 times the cost of the CD. The chip will also contain a bunch of other content that can be unlocked in return for cash, gonads, or other body parts.
I can get a Sony Vaio TX with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 60 gig drive, and a real keyboard that weighs 2.75 pounds. No, it won't fit in my pocket, but it will fit in anything I carry around. It also has the two holy grails of/. It will run Linux, and it is liquid cooled.:-)
All of the arguments against the monorail line apply in spades to the cable cars in SF. (Note that SF is probably understood by 99% of/. readers ans accompanied by a mental image of said cable cars.) Interstingly, The City finds them to be an asset. The same aplies to Seattle. Yes, I am familiar with all of the battles over the cable cars, but that's over. Seattle has an image from the 1963 fair that includes the Space Needle and the monorail. If they ditch the monorail, they should scrap the Needle. Then they woudl be just like Tacoma.
A cocktail is a mixture or a liquor and a liquer, with possibly other additions. For example, gin or vodka and dry vermouth is a martini. Tequila and triple sec with lime juice is a margarita. Since distilled alcoholic beverages are not know before the eight or ninth centuries, whatever this was, it wasn't a cocktail. doesn't mean it couldn't knock you on your ass, however.
TFA rates SCO's hardware and software support as "fair" but rates their management as "good". My first thought was, "Good at what?"
"Extensions" to things like Samba and PERL bring the phrase "not compatible" to mind.
As far as I know, SCO has no idea that I exist. Why would I want to bring my name, company, and address to their attention. There seems to be a lot of potential intersection between the sets: "SCO Customers" and "Defendants".
>"Among the key features of Vista as it currently stands are: security enhancements,...and better home networking. (1) There will also be visual changes,... ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself.(2) On the business side, Microsoft said Vista will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted."(3)
Let's see now:
(1) My Mandrake 10.1 home network is definitely already better than XP in security and ease of networking.
(2) Got all this with KDE and nVidia drivers right now.
(3) What is this "reboot" of which you speak? At work, the linux boxen stay on forever. The windoze machines slow to a crawl after a while if they don't crash first.
>Why is it that every Linux distro looks the same?
They all start with pretty much the same sort of relatively neutral theme as the default regardless of whether they default to Gnome or KDE as the desktop. Not too many folks are going to want blinking magenta text on chartreuse background with borders in black and blood red and buttons that look like plucked eyeballs and nads. However, you can probably find a KDE theme that includes that. There are hundreds of them out there. See KDE Look or Freshmeat for examples.
From what I have seen, and it is a lot, private education and quasi-private education such as charter schools, do an apalling job of science and math education. Sure, exceptions can be cited, but the overall level is well below that of public schools. Teaching these subjects requires smart, motivated teachers with the time and resources to do the job. You are more likely to find these in a public school. We have a fine Catholic school system with a high school and two elementary schools in our area, but they don't teach AP anything. There is no math past Algebra II, no third year foreign language, and only one course each in chemistry, physics, and biology, all taught by the same guy.
A lot of the problem is cultural, in my opinion. It's not cool to be smart these days in the US. The President talks like a dumb fucker, and he and his fundamentalist buddies spend a lot of time, energy, and money bashing science. Funding for research is being cut left and right, so its no surprise that the center of science and technology is moving elsewhere. If you want to get your bad heart replaced with a cloned replacement, you're going to find yourself in Chiba, not Chicago.
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A few years ago, I ran into my old ninth grade history teacher, a curmudgeon and proud of it, but a great teacher. We chatted for quite a while and got onto the subject of his neighbors, many of whom were college professors that I knew from school. He mentioned Bill Thonson, the prof I had taken a photography class from, and a man I had always liked, had recently died. My old teacher spoke admiringly of Bill and said that he had "died with all of his vices intact." Something to live up to, I think, especially since Bill's list was impressive.
It should be Avahi cleesei. The genus name is always capitalized. Got the italics right, though.
Is the number of Mac users who have switched to Windows, Linux, or BSD in the same time period. Since Intel or AMD based machines are considerable cheaper, there may be a significant number of Apple users who switch when it is time to replace. Or not, but the article certainly ignores that.
/. with your back button, at least in Firefox.
Also, for those rare types who read TFA, this is one of those nice sites that doesn't let you return to
I really don't give a frosty crank about the system. It's the games that matter, and there's nothing out there right now that makes me want to go buy a 360 so I can play it. Right now, I'm far more inclined to put the substantial cost of the latest gen console toward a new HD TV.
> It's a joke, laugh. ;-)
I did. I was not really being serious myself, but perhaps we are all so humor impaired that leaving off a smiley gets you flamed.In the original, the ninth circle of hell is already frozen over with Satan up to his asshole in the ice.
>What term should FSM'ers use?
How about noodleists, or nudists, for short? I believe that Pastafarians is acceptable, but it doesn't have that -ist ending.Your point is well taken, but you should know that "evolutionist" is generally used only by creationists and has a pejorative flavor to it. Most supporters of evolution prefer the term "biologist."
I wake up with a massive hangover on 01/01/09 and my teevee gets 123 channels of Home Shopping Network.
Jaws have teeth. Jaws are one of the easiest parts of a skeleton to age. Even if the teeth are missing, dental buds, or their lack, root canals, and other features make them highly indicative of the individual's age.
Flying cars?
What matters is the amount you can discern at any given pupil dialation
Here, take this small, interesting, blue pill. Your eyes will become dialated, and you will be able to perceive all 64,000,000 colors eminating from the monitor at fantastic contrast ratios. Several hours later, when you can move again, you notice that the monitor is a vintage 1981 Sears black and white television.get out of bed in the morning
Richards and Wood both look more like the sort that goes to bed in the crypt in the morning and get up thirsty after sundown. Watts is the only one who looks like he's seen the sun in the last twenty years. Still can play, though.There is an announcement today that the new Rolling Stones Album (can't say CD anymore, can we) is being released in this format for about 2.5 times the cost of the CD. The chip will also contain a bunch of other content that can be unlocked in return for cash, gonads, or other body parts.
I can get a Sony Vaio TX with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a 60 gig drive, and a real keyboard that weighs 2.75 pounds. No, it won't fit in my pocket, but it will fit in anything I carry around. It also has the two holy grails of /. It will run Linux, and it is liquid cooled. :-)
No, I don't own one, and I don't work for Sony.
All of the arguments against the monorail line apply in spades to the cable cars in SF. (Note that SF is probably understood by 99% of /. readers ans accompanied by a mental image of said cable cars.) Interstingly, The City finds them to be an asset. The same aplies to Seattle. Yes, I am familiar with all of the battles over the cable cars, but that's over. Seattle has an image from the 1963 fair that includes the Space Needle and the monorail. If they ditch the monorail, they should scrap the Needle. Then they woudl be just like Tacoma.
A cocktail is a mixture or a liquor and a liquer, with possibly other additions. For example, gin or vodka and dry vermouth is a martini. Tequila and triple sec with lime juice is a margarita. Since distilled alcoholic beverages are not know before the eight or ninth centuries, whatever this was, it wasn't a cocktail. doesn't mean it couldn't knock you on your ass, however.
Maybe it will run "Bob".
Wasn't that Jose Jimenez? Certainly the astronaut with the most appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
>"Among the key features of Vista as it currently stands are: security enhancements, ...and better home networking. (1) There will also be visual changes, ... ranging from shiny translucent windows to icons that are tiny representations of a document itself.(2) On the business side, Microsoft said Vista will be easier for businesses to deploy on multiple PCs and will also save costs by reducing the number of times computers will have to be rebooted."(3)
Let's see now:(1) My Mandrake 10.1 home network is definitely already better than XP in security and ease of networking.
(2) Got all this with KDE and nVidia drivers right now.
(3) What is this "reboot" of which you speak? At work, the linux boxen stay on forever. The windoze machines slow to a crawl after a while if they don't crash first.
>Why is it that every Linux distro looks the same?
They all start with pretty much the same sort of relatively neutral theme as the default regardless of whether they default to Gnome or KDE as the desktop. Not too many folks are going to want blinking magenta text on chartreuse background with borders in black and blood red and buttons that look like plucked eyeballs and nads. However, you can probably find a KDE theme that includes that. There are hundreds of them out there. See KDE Look or Freshmeat for examples.From what I have seen, and it is a lot, private education and quasi-private education such as charter schools, do an apalling job of science and math education. Sure, exceptions can be cited, but the overall level is well below that of public schools. Teaching these subjects requires smart, motivated teachers with the time and resources to do the job. You are more likely to find these in a public school. We have a fine Catholic school system with a high school and two elementary schools in our area, but they don't teach AP anything. There is no math past Algebra II, no third year foreign language, and only one course each in chemistry, physics, and biology, all taught by the same guy.
A lot of the problem is cultural, in my opinion. It's not cool to be smart these days in the US. The President talks like a dumb fucker, and he and his fundamentalist buddies spend a lot of time, energy, and money bashing science. Funding for research is being cut left and right, so its no surprise that the center of science and technology is moving elsewhere. If you want to get your bad heart replaced with a cloned replacement, you're going to find yourself in Chiba, not Chicago.
I hate to point this out, but the article did say that it was an MP3 player. :-) My turntable won't play compact discs, either.