Since you put it this way, I am thinking of switching sides and helping to distribute this virus. Can we have it be on an 8 year life term...so when those 13 year olds turn 21 the virus disables itself?
This is a small app and she will talk with you - pretty well. So the fact these guys use something similar (it might even be this app) is no big surprise.
That's why I use Trillian..I still haven't figured out how come it won't let me download files, or even get pictures from other people or even do any kind of direct connect:D
I can understand the lawsuits against MS for anti-competative acts such as forcing a computer producer to only use MS products...or to not allow a company access to the necessary data so they can make a competative product for windows. (i.e. a competative browser).
Maybe China should fine MS for bundeling "ipconfig" with windows. Better yet, they should fine MS for bundeling "notepad" with windows. This sueing for bundling crap is retarded. All that will happen is companies selling stripped down software, for the same price as non-stripped software and then the customer has to buy the add-ons. So now if I want notepad with my windows (which I do), I have to pay an additional $49.99
These guys need to stop being stupid. The competitors need to just make a product that is better then the bundeled software.
And 32 million? is the emperor of china trying to get a bigger bonus this year? At how much MS makes in two weeks (last i heard it was 250 million every two weeks) - this is not much of a slap in the face. Can MS fine China for all the hacking that goes on in there?
Happy now? I think it's very comforting. We may be long extinct, our world evaporated, our sun shrunken and fading, but whatever unimaginable alien intelligence finds our capsules will at least know that, for a while, we were here and we rocked.
now that put a smile on my face. Thank you
That reminds me of the ST:TNG episode where they find a probe and Picard (at least in his mind) spends a lifetime in the civilization. It was one of the more memorable episodes.
I got to agree with the other replier. 500 million years is a long time. It's likely that various things will remain in fossilized form. But I'd say that any overt trace of humanity (especially "scarring") will probably disappear on the order of millenia, not millions of years. After the die-off at the end of the Cretacean, it took a few million years for mammals to completely replace the dinosaurs. Even the asteroid strike that hit the Yucatan peninsula has been almost completely obliterated. And it was far larger than any human-based activity.
While 500 million years may be enough to hide our traces (or completely destroy them) I do not think a millenia will do so. Look at the great pyramids. They have been around for a while and they are in pretty decent condition...we are talking about a construction made of early forms of cement - which was made from straw and mud if I am not mistaken. Super-sky scrapers made of steel and glass - two substances which don't exactly decompose, will last for a while. A city like NY will become the Atlantis. Take places that are less likely to suffer from flooding (Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Chicago) - they will be here for a long time. I am, by no means, an expert so I am not sure how long - but a millions of years does not sound to far fetched.
That will last a while, but the meteorites will eventually powder it, and the dying Sun will consume Earth and Moon alike. Will anything of ours last longer still? Thus far, I can think of four candidates. Pioneer 10 and 11, and Voyager 1 and 2. Maybe they'll be found. Maybe someone will come across them and know we were once here, long after the Sun is a dying ember of degenerate carbon. But I doubt it. Space is a big place in which to look for a few tiny, silent, eons-dead robots.
While I like the Carlin quote, really, he is wrong about us not leaving signs on earth. We have scarred it. Most of the events you described are natural events the earth uses to take care of itself. While comets, asterids, and meteors are the outside factors which are RARE. Sunspots/flares are barely even worth mentioning other then what solar radiation does to the evolution of life.
In 500m years whatever's around is going to notice the things we have done. From completely and utterly defacing land for drilling oil, diamonds, coal. To our sky rises which have so much mass, and are composed with materials that like to stick around. NY city will be unburied and it will be easily preserved. We find fossils of dinosaurs, and they have not done anything remotely as what we have. In fact in the past 100 years we have done more then dinosaurs have done in their entire run of the planet (they just kinda walked around and ate a lot - they weren't building cities)
Since when is an extrovert necessarily a " fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning." Being an extrovert just means you are out going. Introvert just means you are not outgoing. An introvert could be a fast talker who makes snap decisions and throws wit.
You know we are just going to get annoying pop-ups with little blue naked women on our screen saying "Buy cyalis now or suffer our death rays!"
Come on this guy's a wacko. First they need to decode our language, then they can start decoding our software. Good grief! It's like the notion aliens out there are going to have a face, eyes, hands, legs and wow look remarkably humanoid.
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They measured the penetration. What they found, however, the big boy guns round would shatter upon contact in the water. It would never even make it to the target. The found if someone was shooting at someone else in the water at an angle, the person being shot at only needed to be about four feet under water. If the shot was fired at a direct 90 degree angle (straight on top of the target) then the swimmer had to go much deeper.
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There was an episode where they shot various guns into a pool of water to see at what depth it would pierce skin (they used a gel substance). They were kind of surprised that the high powered rifle (i forget it's name, but it is the most powerful rifle out there) didn't penetrate skin while some of the low powered hand guns did.
I didn't say I would rather they write my software. What I would rather see happen is the people who LIVE here writing my software, pumping my gas and serving my food. Foreigner or not - at least they live here and (hopefully) pay taxes. This outsourcing makes the big-boys rich, and the rest of us poor and the problem is - without money, we have no buying power....Without buying power well the big boys go out of business and then the system falls apart.
stigma sometimes attached to farming jobs out to foreign countries
What stigma are you talking about? The accents a foreigner has? His lack of grasping the subtleties and well the dialect of our american-english language? Or the fact we are pissed our SERVICE jobs are exported. First they sent our manufacturing jobs and said "hey manufacturing is out, service is the way to go." So all these people who had a semblance of a chance shifted their careers to service and now they are shipping our service jobs out too. The only that will be left is your gas attendent, waitress, doctor and stripper. Sorry I didn't graduate college so I could be a gas attendant, waitress or stripper....and I definitly don't have the money to invest in medical school.
Yea I agree. I think what happens. A person gets fired, they hire someone new. The new person is like "oh-vey", spends his first couple of weeks trying to figure things out and writes new code. The company gets inconvenienced for a little while, and if you are lucky, someone says "maybe we shouldn't have fired that last coder"...or they probably say "what a jack-ass he was for making this assbackward code. good riddence."
Sending a bunch of male programmers advertisements for breast enlargement isn't terribly useful. Sending a bunch of male programmers advertisements for a four hour extended version of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan is useful
I encourage at least half the girls i am currently dating to get breast enlargement. I could care less about ST: WoK
Jesus christ. Every other day some other yahoo (no pun intended) with how IPv6 will change our world - be it good or bad. Will they shut these zero originality, boring ass clowns up? This is not being a troll, this is for real. It's about as bad as my freshman year in college, where 40% of orientation comprised of required day classes about political correctness.
God, just get IPv6 implemented...if you want to talk about it, stop trying to be- well you know - sounding like you came up with a new idea and actually come up with a new idea.
Dell's high end come with 1024k ram.
For example, Dell's Poweredge 1855 blade server doesn't even have a 512 option Here
Dell's lowest server (PowerEdge 850) which uses Intel Celeron processor sports 512. While the server that is one step (poweredge 850 enhanced) up comes with two 512 ram sticks. Here also
Dell's lowest tower server, PowerEdge SC430 which is considered entry level for first time buyers up to 10 employee's comes with 512
am glad that this is the first positive sign that MS is taking Mozilla seriously.
I think there have been other first positive signs that MS is taking Mozilla seriously...like you know, when MS did research reports to see if FF is a credible threat.
You're talking about a Commonwealth that has a budget surplus right now, and one forecast for next year as well. Bottom dollar considerations do not apply as greatly as you would expect.
Ahh the words of a democrat, we have extra money so let's spend it. I am a democrat myself, but I would like the gov't to you know give some of the money back once in a while.
In gov't, everything is about the bottom dollar. Otherwise, do you think NASA would have such a hard time getting money?
you want enhancements, you add them yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. And we're not talking about "ridiculous prices" here - just the salaries of a few developers.
Or, you can look at it from the perspective of a large organization (Mass. gov't would qualify) "We want our features working and we want it working out of the box. We don't want to have to go through the problems of hiring a few developers, and a SLEW of testers." In all honesty, that is what they will say - right or wrong, and personally I don't think it is that wrong.
The Massachussetts government probably spends more than that just on office supplies.
Well that's a bad argument to use for this case. One expense should never justify another expense, unless they affect each other (i.e. will not buying office supplies reduce the cost of developing new code).
The second is a corporation using bots in an official capacity
Any organization using bots is official capacity for them. Some may be more sleazy organizations, but in the end they are all the same...a company to make money.
I think that defeats part of the argument for a gov't to switch to open source. You know, the cost saving benefit. Mass would have to hire a bunch of good programmers, end up paying them a ridiculous price to do work that in spirit should be done for free out of someone's own good will. Then MS comes around and says "see OSS doesn't work. Because when you want something done quick, you gotta pay someone to do the job...well we have been doing the job for a while, so pay us and we will do it quick." yadda yadda yadda
Given that once you get onto the Internet there is no charge to surf websites (unless it is a pay site) why does it matter (for this case) who controls the domain names? I mean if the UN is going to control it (something the US pays most of the money, but has least of the votes into) does that mean some poor farm family in the rural area's of China will suddenly be able to get a computer and inet access? The UN doesn't need this control right about now...they already have plenty of problems trying to control, well you know, despots.
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Since you put it this way, I am thinking of switching sides and helping to distribute this virus. Can we have it be on an 8 year life term...so when those 13 year olds turn 21 the virus disables itself?
A.L.I.C.E.
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This is a small app and she will talk with you - pretty well. So the fact these guys use something similar (it might even be this app) is no big surprise.
That's why I use Trillian..I still haven't figured out how come it won't let me download files, or even get pictures from other people or even do any kind of direct connect
I can understand the lawsuits against MS for anti-competative acts such as forcing a computer producer to only use MS products...or to not allow a company access to the necessary data so they can make a competative product for windows. (i.e. a competative browser).
Maybe China should fine MS for bundeling "ipconfig" with windows. Better yet, they should fine MS for bundeling "notepad" with windows. This sueing for bundling crap is retarded. All that will happen is companies selling stripped down software, for the same price as non-stripped software and then the customer has to buy the add-ons. So now if I want notepad with my windows (which I do), I have to pay an additional $49.99
These guys need to stop being stupid. The competitors need to just make a product that is better then the bundeled software.
And 32 million? is the emperor of china trying to get a bigger bonus this year? At how much MS makes in two weeks (last i heard it was 250 million every two weeks) - this is not much of a slap in the face. Can MS fine China for all the hacking that goes on in there?
Happy now? I think it's very comforting. We may be long extinct, our world evaporated, our sun shrunken and fading, but whatever unimaginable alien intelligence finds our capsules will at least know that, for a while, we were here and we rocked.
now that put a smile on my face. Thank you
That reminds me of the ST:TNG episode where they find a probe and Picard (at least in his mind) spends a lifetime in the civilization. It was one of the more memorable episodes.
I got to agree with the other replier. 500 million years is a long time. It's likely that various things will remain in fossilized form. But I'd say that any overt trace of humanity (especially "scarring") will probably disappear on the order of millenia, not millions of years. After the die-off at the end of the Cretacean, it took a few million years for mammals to completely replace the dinosaurs. Even the asteroid strike that hit the Yucatan peninsula has been almost completely obliterated. And it was far larger than any human-based activity.
While 500 million years may be enough to hide our traces (or completely destroy them) I do not think a millenia will do so. Look at the great pyramids. They have been around for a while and they are in pretty decent condition...we are talking about a construction made of early forms of cement - which was made from straw and mud if I am not mistaken. Super-sky scrapers made of steel and glass - two substances which don't exactly decompose, will last for a while. A city like NY will become the Atlantis. Take places that are less likely to suffer from flooding (Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Chicago) - they will be here for a long time. I am, by no means, an expert so I am not sure how long - but a millions of years does not sound to far fetched.
That will last a while, but the meteorites will eventually powder it, and the dying Sun will consume Earth and Moon alike. Will anything of ours last longer still? Thus far, I can think of four candidates. Pioneer 10 and 11, and Voyager 1 and 2. Maybe they'll be found. Maybe someone will come across them and know we were once here, long after the Sun is a dying ember of degenerate carbon. But I doubt it. Space is a big place in which to look for a few tiny, silent, eons-dead robots.
:)
Ok, see now, your just depressing me
While I like the Carlin quote, really, he is wrong about us not leaving signs on earth. We have scarred it. Most of the events you described are natural events the earth uses to take care of itself. While comets, asterids, and meteors are the outside factors which are RARE. Sunspots/flares are barely even worth mentioning other then what solar radiation does to the evolution of life.
In 500m years whatever's around is going to notice the things we have done. From completely and utterly defacing land for drilling oil, diamonds, coal. To our sky rises which have so much mass, and are composed with materials that like to stick around. NY city will be unburied and it will be easily preserved. We find fossils of dinosaurs, and they have not done anything remotely as what we have. In fact in the past 100 years we have done more then dinosaurs have done in their entire run of the planet (they just kinda walked around and ate a lot - they weren't building cities)
Since when is an extrovert necessarily a " fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning." Being an extrovert just means you are out going. Introvert just means you are not outgoing. An introvert could be a fast talker who makes snap decisions and throws wit.
You know we are just going to get annoying pop-ups with little blue naked women on our screen saying "Buy cyalis now or suffer our death rays!"
Come on this guy's a wacko. First they need to decode our language, then they can start decoding our software. Good grief! It's like the notion aliens out there are going to have a face, eyes, hands, legs and wow look remarkably humanoid.
They measured the penetration. What they found, however, the big boy guns round would shatter upon contact in the water. It would never even make it to the target. The found if someone was shooting at someone else in the water at an angle, the person being shot at only needed to be about four feet under water. If the shot was fired at a direct 90 degree angle (straight on top of the target) then the swimmer had to go much deeper.
There was an episode where they shot various guns into a pool of water to see at what depth it would pierce skin (they used a gel substance). They were kind of surprised that the high powered rifle (i forget it's name, but it is the most powerful rifle out there) didn't penetrate skin while some of the low powered hand guns did.
I didn't say I would rather they write my software. What I would rather see happen is the people who LIVE here writing my software, pumping my gas and serving my food. Foreigner or not - at least they live here and (hopefully) pay taxes. This outsourcing makes the big-boys rich, and the rest of us poor and the problem is - without money, we have no buying power....Without buying power well the big boys go out of business and then the system falls apart.
stigma sometimes attached to farming jobs out to foreign countries
What stigma are you talking about? The accents a foreigner has? His lack of grasping the subtleties and well the dialect of our american-english language? Or the fact we are pissed our SERVICE jobs are exported. First they sent our manufacturing jobs and said "hey manufacturing is out, service is the way to go." So all these people who had a semblance of a chance shifted their careers to service and now they are shipping our service jobs out too. The only that will be left is your gas attendent, waitress, doctor and stripper. Sorry I didn't graduate college so I could be a gas attendant, waitress or stripper....and I definitly don't have the money to invest in medical school.
Yea I agree. I think what happens. A person gets fired, they hire someone new. The new person is like "oh-vey", spends his first couple of weeks trying to figure things out and writes new code. The company gets inconvenienced for a little while, and if you are lucky, someone says "maybe we shouldn't have fired that last coder"...or they probably say "what a jack-ass he was for making this assbackward code. good riddence."
The actual quote was "English is easy. Math are hard."
Or to add my spin to it:
"Avi is easy. His cock are hard."
Sending a bunch of male programmers advertisements for breast enlargement isn't terribly useful. Sending a bunch of male programmers advertisements for a four hour extended version of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan is useful
I encourage at least half the girls i am currently dating to get breast enlargement. I could care less about ST: WoK
Jesus christ. Every other day some other yahoo (no pun intended) with how IPv6 will change our world - be it good or bad. Will they shut these zero originality, boring ass clowns up? This is not being a troll, this is for real. It's about as bad as my freshman year in college, where 40% of orientation comprised of required day classes about political correctness.
God, just get IPv6 implemented...if you want to talk about it, stop trying to be- well you know - sounding like you came up with a new idea and actually come up with a new idea.
Dell's current high end machines come with 512,
Dell's high end come with 1024k ram.
For example, Dell's Poweredge 1855 blade server doesn't even have a 512 option Here
Dell's lowest server (PowerEdge 850) which uses Intel Celeron processor sports 512. While the server that is one step (poweredge 850 enhanced) up comes with two 512 ram sticks. Here also
Dell's lowest tower server, PowerEdge SC430 which is considered entry level for first time buyers up to 10 employee's comes with 512
am glad that this is the first positive sign that MS is taking Mozilla seriously.
I think there have been other first positive signs that MS is taking Mozilla seriously...like you know, when MS did research reports to see if FF is a credible threat.
Where is this magical software that "just works out of the box"?
In a microsoft box labeled Office. It even has accessibility features, which is *primarily* what this conversation is about.
You're talking about a Commonwealth that has a budget surplus right now, and one forecast for next year as well. Bottom dollar considerations do not apply as greatly as you would expect.
Ahh the words of a democrat, we have extra money so let's spend it. I am a democrat myself, but I would like the gov't to you know give some of the money back once in a while.
This was never about saving money
In gov't, everything is about the bottom dollar. Otherwise, do you think NASA would have such a hard time getting money?
you want enhancements, you add them yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. And we're not talking about "ridiculous prices" here - just the salaries of a few developers.
Or, you can look at it from the perspective of a large organization (Mass. gov't would qualify) "We want our features working and we want it working out of the box. We don't want to have to go through the problems of hiring a few developers, and a SLEW of testers." In all honesty, that is what they will say - right or wrong, and personally I don't think it is that wrong.
The Massachussetts government probably spends more than that just on office supplies.
Well that's a bad argument to use for this case. One expense should never justify another expense, unless they affect each other (i.e. will not buying office supplies reduce the cost of developing new code).
The second is a corporation using bots in an official capacity
Any organization using bots is official capacity for them. Some may be more sleazy organizations, but in the end they are all the same...a company to make money.
I think that defeats part of the argument for a gov't to switch to open source. You know, the cost saving benefit. Mass would have to hire a bunch of good programmers, end up paying them a ridiculous price to do work that in spirit should be done for free out of someone's own good will. Then MS comes around and says "see OSS doesn't work. Because when you want something done quick, you gotta pay someone to do the job...well we have been doing the job for a while, so pay us and we will do it quick." yadda yadda yadda
Given that once you get onto the Internet there is no charge to surf websites (unless it is a pay site) why does it matter (for this case) who controls the domain names? I mean if the UN is going to control it (something the US pays most of the money, but has least of the votes into) does that mean some poor farm family in the rural area's of China will suddenly be able to get a computer and inet access? The UN doesn't need this control right about now...they already have plenty of problems trying to control, well you know, despots.