Well, I wouldn't say everyone. I happen to like Kazaa's interface, and I go where all the people are. It honestly matters little how good a P2P program is if you are the only one using it. Kazaa is still quite popular, and Kazaa Lite is still around in some fashion. As long as that's true, I am not jumping ship.
Is this a new space race I smell? Things like this can ONLY be healthy for the space program. American pride will now be greatly hurt if Russia beats them to Mars. Personally, I feel like cooking some popcorn and taking a decade to eat it.
I can't help but wonder if they would allow a nuclear device to be put in it. I would imagine that a dedicated enough geek could make one hell of a fireworks display out of the moon. =P
That's the real beauty of CSS. I know that in Mozilla at least, if a coder takes the time to declare the style sheet properly, you can turn it completely off. In a completely CSS driven website, all you will see is the raw text.
Just put "Enlarge your Member" in the subject line. It NEVER gets marked as spam in my experience. I sell about 200 pounds of snake oil a day to AOL users.
Hey Grog, look at this one... he seemed to be firing lead pellets at the asteroid when it hit. I wonder what ever convinced these people that such a device could protect them?
That shows a basic misunderstanding of probability. If you toss a fair coin and get heads 50 times in a row, the probability of getting heads the next time is still 50%.
That's a basic misunderstanding if I've ever seen one. Each time something DOESNT happen, it increases the odds that it WILL happen next time, because nature will tend to balance toward equilibrium.
If you flip a coin 50 times in a row, and you get heads every time, I would first check and see if the coin was loaded. Then I would promptly bet you $50 that it would be tails the next time. I am a little drunk to be doing the math right now, but think of it this way. What you are suggesting is that it's equally likely to throw 50 heads in a row, than it is to throw 25 heads and 25 tails.
What does common sense tell you the result will be?
When, or if? It's probably true that a major impact is a near certainty. But what's the time frame for that kind of certainty? 1000 years? 10,000 years?
I think you forgot to mention that it could also be next year that the earth is hit with a celestial body. Nobody really knows.
But let's assume just for the time being that there's an asteroid due to hit the earth in 10 years that nobody's seen yet. In all likelihood, I think that someone would probably notice when it was a week, or maybe a couple of days away. If no country in the world has a plan to defeat such a threat in place, how much time would it take to come up with an idea, and implement it. Do you think that the object would hit the earth before anything was actually done about it?
Disease, famine, war or the like will probably kill lots of humans in the near future. But I would have to say that fighting those is like fighting smoke. It's coded into our genes that those things will kill us anyway. I say let's spend some time fighting things that we can actually stop. And let's remember that if a plague wipes out 90% of the humans on the planet, then there's a pretty good chance that the earth itself will be ok, along with its biological life. If an asteroid hits the earth, it's not JUST humans.
In a strictly pragmatic viewpoint, I would think that humans being wiped out from the earth would be a good thing, but it would be a small disaster if all life on the planet was destroyed along with us.
However, the builder's lawyer Thomas Clark said his client did not discriminate, but instead made a legitimate business decision.
"I think it's fairly clear and the courts have recognized that in business, people have the right make decisions based on economic factors," Clark said.
I found this most amusing. Basically, the lawyer for the people refusing to sell to the other lawyer agreed that it was a good idea not to trust lawyers.
You know... it's a really sad state of affairs when you have the lowest form of profession on the planet, and they know it well enough to actually be able to publicly say it with a straight face.
Yeah they have.... but you had to have read the news posts to see them. They are having technical difficulty with the site right now, and a couple of them were erased from the server. (Dungeon Siege The movie... and another that I can't quite remember)
That's because they (according to Tim) had a deal worked out before hand.
Personally, I think the whole thing is just one big crock, but at least they give me an excuse to cook some popcorn and watch some Jerry Springer style action.
Awww come on. You know that all us geeks are going to be emerging from our dank dungeons to go see this movie too. What's more, I am sure it will be a great movie. I honestly have no idea what is up with the stigma against remakes in today's world. If it's good, but pathetically horribly implemented by today's standards, then go ahead and remake it.
I don't really know as that this will make driving that much safer. If my radar detector is going nuts 24/7, then I very much doubt that I would feel all that safe about speeding. And if I turn it off completely, then that would increase the danger of getting a ticket even more. What's a guy to do?
I'm all for that. Surely we can provide servers or something of that sort. I mean, Slashdot readership is HUGE. I don't think that even the Chinese government could block enough of us if we all tried to help dispel the censorship.
I guess Britney is going to be out of a job now. We all know that any computer can sing better than her, and since neither of them play an instrument, I guess she's screwed.
Yes. That's what I meant. The actual section of the binary occupied by the code is actually quite small. But what I was referring to is that a 50% increase in file size is quite significant in my books.
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Well, I wouldn't say everyone. I happen to like Kazaa's interface, and I go where all the people are. It honestly matters little how good a P2P program is if you are the only one using it. Kazaa is still quite popular, and Kazaa Lite is still around in some fashion. As long as that's true, I am not jumping ship.
Is this a new space race I smell? Things like this can ONLY be healthy for the space program. American pride will now be greatly hurt if Russia beats them to Mars. Personally, I feel like cooking some popcorn and taking a decade to eat it.
I can't help but wonder if they would allow a nuclear device to be put in it. I would imagine that a dedicated enough geek could make one hell of a fireworks display out of the moon. =P
well, I am not so sure that there's enough water in the world to magnify CowboyNeal's... erm...
That's the real beauty of CSS. I know that in Mozilla at least, if a coder takes the time to declare the style sheet properly, you can turn it completely off. In a completely CSS driven website, all you will see is the raw text.
Just put "Enlarge your Member" in the subject line. It NEVER gets marked as spam in my experience. I sell about 200 pounds of snake oil a day to AOL users.
true, but statistically, my chances of losing would be about one in 1x10^15, assuming that the odds of throwing heads/tails was exactly 50/50.
Hey Grog, look at this one... he seemed to be firing lead pellets at the asteroid when it hit. I wonder what ever convinced these people that such a device could protect them?
That shows a basic misunderstanding of probability. If you toss a fair coin and get heads 50 times in a row, the probability of getting heads the next time is still 50%.
That's a basic misunderstanding if I've ever seen one. Each time something DOESNT happen, it increases the odds that it WILL happen next time, because nature will tend to balance toward equilibrium.
If you flip a coin 50 times in a row, and you get heads every time, I would first check and see if the coin was loaded. Then I would promptly bet you $50 that it would be tails the next time. I am a little drunk to be doing the math right now, but think of it this way. What you are suggesting is that it's equally likely to throw 50 heads in a row, than it is to throw 25 heads and 25 tails.
What does common sense tell you the result will be?
Not to mention that we also have enough trained operators to protect every outhouse and toolshed on the planet. ;)
When, or if? It's probably true that a major impact is a near certainty. But what's the time frame for that kind of certainty? 1000 years? 10,000 years? I think you forgot to mention that it could also be next year that the earth is hit with a celestial body. Nobody really knows.
But let's assume just for the time being that there's an asteroid due to hit the earth in 10 years that nobody's seen yet. In all likelihood, I think that someone would probably notice when it was a week, or maybe a couple of days away. If no country in the world has a plan to defeat such a threat in place, how much time would it take to come up with an idea, and implement it. Do you think that the object would hit the earth before anything was actually done about it?
Disease, famine, war or the like will probably kill lots of humans in the near future. But I would have to say that fighting those is like fighting smoke. It's coded into our genes that those things will kill us anyway. I say let's spend some time fighting things that we can actually stop. And let's remember that if a plague wipes out 90% of the humans on the planet, then there's a pretty good chance that the earth itself will be ok, along with its biological life. If an asteroid hits the earth, it's not JUST humans.
In a strictly pragmatic viewpoint, I would think that humans being wiped out from the earth would be a good thing, but it would be a small disaster if all life on the planet was destroyed along with us.
However, the builder's lawyer Thomas Clark said his client did not discriminate, but instead made a legitimate business decision.
"I think it's fairly clear and the courts have recognized that in business, people have the right make decisions based on economic factors," Clark said. I found this most amusing. Basically, the lawyer for the people refusing to sell to the other lawyer agreed that it was a good idea not to trust lawyers.
You know... it's a really sad state of affairs when you have the lowest form of profession on the planet, and they know it well enough to actually be able to publicly say it with a straight face.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I guess I forgot the tags.
Yeah they have.... but you had to have read the news posts to see them. They are having technical difficulty with the site right now, and a couple of them were erased from the server. (Dungeon Siege The movie... and another that I can't quite remember)
That's because they (according to Tim) had a deal worked out before hand.
Personally, I think the whole thing is just one big crock, but at least they give me an excuse to cook some popcorn and watch some Jerry Springer style action.
Ok, I have GOT do to do this now. That's just hilarious.
I should really learn how to do all this stuff someday. Any tips on how to go about it? ^_^
Awww come on. You know that all us geeks are going to be emerging from our dank dungeons to go see this movie too. What's more, I am sure it will be a great movie. I honestly have no idea what is up with the stigma against remakes in today's world. If it's good, but pathetically horribly implemented by today's standards, then go ahead and remake it.
How about Lurking on Slashdot on a Sunday afternoon?
Soo... umm.... just for the sake of advancing my own knowledge of course... whereabouts do you find these underage thai hookers?
I don't really know as that this will make driving that much safer. If my radar detector is going nuts 24/7, then I very much doubt that I would feel all that safe about speeding. And if I turn it off completely, then that would increase the danger of getting a ticket even more. What's a guy to do?
I'm all for that. Surely we can provide servers or something of that sort. I mean, Slashdot readership is HUGE. I don't think that even the Chinese government could block enough of us if we all tried to help dispel the censorship.
heh... I think you missed the decimal point there. ;-)
I guess Britney is going to be out of a job now. We all know that any computer can sing better than her, and since neither of them play an instrument, I guess she's screwed.
Not to mention that the computer is far sexier.
Yeah... I was wondering about that myself.
Yes. That's what I meant. The actual section of the binary occupied by the code is actually quite small. But what I was referring to is that a 50% increase in file size is quite significant in my books.