Extremely pissed my ass. They'll run over to the VB.NET anyway, paying happily any exorbitant price MS might ask for it, regardless of how hard MS screws them.
> I fully expect R&D of today will within a decade become reality.
I've been listening to this for decades already, but haven't seen much happen. Kistler? Beal? Roton/DeltaClipper? All nice tries, especially the last one, which - in the end - all went the way of the dodo. SS1? Well, a notable first step, but not yet much more than that.
> I, for one, eagerly await that day.
I'm sad to say this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Come on, people, where do you get such ideas? Where from does this "They have 'faith' in whatever it is they believe and no new evidence will change that" come from? This is complete and utter rubbish! Please check up your facts a bit before you state your opinions in public.
Atheist's way of thinking is "there is not the slightest shred of evidence that there exists a deity of any kind, therefore there is absolutely no reason to even take the 'I don't know' position." I also didn't believe that the quicksort is faster than the bubblesort until I made some measurements of my own and saw the cost calculations for both algorithms.
What is your position on the existence of smurfs? How about 1 inch tall, invisible, pink unihorns, living under your bed? Little Mermaid? Monsters in the closet? It's exactly the same thing with god, only that in the case of god you seem inclined to say "well, who knows". For as long as you don't give the Little Mermaid or the monster in your closet the same treatment, you won't sound credible.
Now, if some day somebody comes up with hard scientific evidence that there is a god, and if that evidence lives through the thorough scientific review process, then of course I'll change my mind. I'd be a very stupid person not to. Until that day, the only position consistent with the scientific view of the world is the atheist's one. If you are not comfortable with that - fine with me, but then at least be a man and call yourself what you are, namely religious.
You are both wrong.
Atheism is absence of belief in a deity, which is very different from a belief in non-existence.
Agnostics ("you can't tell whether there is a god or not") are, basically, people with no balls to take a clear position.
Oh, I wish all religious people would posses the same ability to keep their personal beliefs for themselves, instead of shoving it down other people's throats, just as you demonstrated!
Sir, I applaud you!
You're correct on your comments about unsupported sound cards: buying one is plain stupid.
I was merely reacting to your (implied) black/white picture of cigarettes/alcohol/drugs/whatever. I am a *former* smoker, and I'm really happy I quit, but I still don't like millitant anti-smoke positions. Your post seemed to indicate such a position. Now I realize it wasn't your intention.
On the "giving up your freedom" part: just marry, and get yourself a few kids, and you'll see there will be next to 0 freedom left for you in this world. I know what I'm talking about, I have one 4 years old son, and the 3 months old twins. Nevertheless, I never regretted giving up my personal freedom, our kids are just great.:-) Nevertheless, they *are* WAY more likely to take your freedom away FOREVER than cigarettes, alcohol, heroin and cocaine together. And all unsupported sound cards in the world.;-)
Oh, come on. I was a smoker, I quit it 3 years ago and never looked back (after good 12 years of smoking, last 2-3 on the verge of being a chain smoker).
I know quite a few people who were seriously in drugs (hard stuff like heroin) and got rid of it too. The poor souls who die on it would most probably die of something else if they never touched drugs.
The "evil things" are not as evil as you seem to assume. There's a wide range of shades between black and white.
and take a look at it with IE. Of course, the picture has to be there. It can take up to 2-3 minutes until BSOD and reboot. Successfully tested on three different "XP Professional" computers with 512M RAM. Check this link for details.
While I don't think that the parent's experience is a typical one for the Windows world, your claims are even less convincing.
No, seriously. Not everybody who consumes alcohol is also addicted to it. The unfortunate people suffering from alcohol addiction usually don't get their addiction satisfied in expensive night clubs.
Also, what's wrong with looking to get laid? I suppose you should try and relax a bit, you'll find life much more enjoyable.;-)
What you just said is in not in the least the answer to his question.
The commands above just list the installed packages, which may or may not include the version number in their name. Usefull, no question about that, but something completely different from what the parent asked for.
You got it all wrong. What he was saying, is that the absence of the sea level rise is NOT an indicative that the polar ice isn't melting away.
Gosh, he even said we were observing some of the largest floating ice formations disintegrate. What do you think made them do so? Ice drilling polar bears?
It is naive to think the politics and the economics can be viewed separately.
You know, this is Europe, after all. We know to value our social system, our public health care, our low violent crime rates, and our rather good public education system. We sure know it's very expensive (we'd have to be complete idiots to think it somehow comes free of charge), but we find it worth the money (well, most of the time we do). Just like the majority in the USA seem to view throwing obscene amounts of money at the military as justified.
Libertarian as in "free market uber alles, down with the government, privatize everything now, the sole meaning of life is to make profit, to hell with public health care and education"? Definitely YES, it was a good thing this constitution was shot down.
Actually, it is not. More than anything, a "European Constitution" was rejected by the popular vote in.fr and.nl, in part because of some almost libertarian ideas expressed in that document, in part because they (fr and nl) are pissed off with their governments and were misusing the voting on a rather unrelated subject just to give their governments a slap on the wrist.
By looking at the first of the two aforementioned reasons, I'd say it's a *good* thing the constitution in its' current form was shot down, both for the citizens of Europe, as well as for the EU itself.
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Well, if MS *promissed* that, then I suppose we can all just relax...
I was not talking about "express edition" ("express" here being an euphemism for "castrated"), and you know it.
Extremely pissed my ass. They'll run over to the VB.NET anyway, paying happily any exorbitant price MS might ask for it, regardless of how hard MS screws them.
TFA was about sending people into space after all, wasn't it?
I think he was talking about manned space exploration, not satellite business.
> I fully expect R&D of today will within a decade become reality.
I've been listening to this for decades already, but haven't seen much happen. Kistler? Beal? Roton/DeltaClipper? All nice tries, especially the last one, which - in the end - all went the way of the dodo. SS1? Well, a notable first step, but not yet much more than that.
> I, for one, eagerly await that day.
I'm sad to say this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
I wouldn't call them idiots, for they most probably are going to get what they're after out of that suit, namely some quick buck.
I would call them filthy disgusting little maggots, which I think serves them much better.
Strong words for a lowly AC.
Please check my answer to the previous poster, he seemed to have the same misconception of the atheist's view of the world as you do.
If you were offended by the "no balls" sentence, please accept my apologies for the choice of words.
Come on, people, where do you get such ideas? Where from does this "They have 'faith' in whatever it is they believe and no new evidence will change that" come from? This is complete and utter rubbish! Please check up your facts a bit before you state your opinions in public.
Atheist's way of thinking is "there is not the slightest shred of evidence that there exists a deity of any kind, therefore there is absolutely no reason to even take the 'I don't know' position." I also didn't believe that the quicksort is faster than the bubblesort until I made some measurements of my own and saw the cost calculations for both algorithms.
What is your position on the existence of smurfs? How about 1 inch tall, invisible, pink unihorns, living under your bed? Little Mermaid? Monsters in the closet? It's exactly the same thing with god, only that in the case of god you seem inclined to say "well, who knows". For as long as you don't give the Little Mermaid or the monster in your closet the same treatment, you won't sound credible.
Now, if some day somebody comes up with hard scientific evidence that there is a god, and if that evidence lives through the thorough scientific review process, then of course I'll change my mind. I'd be a very stupid person not to. Until that day, the only position consistent with the scientific view of the world is the atheist's one. If you are not comfortable with that - fine with me, but then at least be a man and call yourself what you are, namely religious.
You are both wrong. Atheism is absence of belief in a deity, which is very different from a belief in non-existence. Agnostics ("you can't tell whether there is a god or not") are, basically, people with no balls to take a clear position.
"all faiths are equal" actually supports what GP said. :)
Funny, but also insightful.
Oh, I wish all religious people would posses the same ability to keep their personal beliefs for themselves, instead of shoving it down other people's throats, just as you demonstrated! Sir, I applaud you!
Don't worry, BillG already made sure you'll have to install it, by making windows update work exclusively with IE.
You're correct on your comments about unsupported sound cards: buying one is plain stupid.
:-) Nevertheless, they *are* WAY more likely to take your freedom away FOREVER than cigarettes, alcohol, heroin and cocaine together. And all unsupported sound cards in the world. ;-)
I was merely reacting to your (implied) black/white picture of cigarettes/alcohol/drugs/whatever. I am a *former* smoker, and I'm really happy I quit, but I still don't like millitant anti-smoke positions. Your post seemed to indicate such a position. Now I realize it wasn't your intention.
On the "giving up your freedom" part: just marry, and get yourself a few kids, and you'll see there will be next to 0 freedom left for you in this world. I know what I'm talking about, I have one 4 years old son, and the 3 months old twins. Nevertheless, I never regretted giving up my personal freedom, our kids are just great.
Oh, come on. I was a smoker, I quit it 3 years ago and never looked back (after good 12 years of smoking, last 2-3 on the verge of being a chain smoker).
I know quite a few people who were seriously in drugs (hard stuff like heroin) and got rid of it too. The poor souls who die on it would most probably die of something else if they never touched drugs.
The "evil things" are not as evil as you seem to assume. There's a wide range of shades between black and white.
1. If it is true that you have never ever had a single problem with an MS product, why you'd be hating it?
2. Nobody has ever had to recompile the kernel in order to change the screen resolution in X.
3. Wanna see XP BSOD? Try putting the following code on a web page:and take a look at it with IE. Of course, the picture has to be there. It can take up to 2-3 minutes until BSOD and reboot. Successfully tested on three different "XP Professional" computers with 512M RAM. Check this link for details.
While I don't think that the parent's experience is a typical one for the Windows world, your claims are even less convincing.
Mr. Limbaugh? Mr. RUSH Limbaugh?? You here, too?
;-)
No, seriously. Not everybody who consumes alcohol is also addicted to it. The unfortunate people suffering from alcohol addiction usually don't get their addiction satisfied in expensive night clubs.
Also, what's wrong with looking to get laid? I suppose you should try and relax a bit, you'll find life much more enjoyable.
I stand corrected with respect to the dpkg. What I said for rpm -qa still holds (regardless of what the guy who modded me down thinks of it).
Even for dpkg, it is still true, that the answer didn't have anything to do with the original complaint.
What you just said is in not in the least the answer to his question.
The commands above just list the installed packages, which may or may not include the version number in their name. Usefull, no question about that, but something completely different from what the parent asked for.
You got it all wrong. What he was saying, is that the absence of the sea level rise is NOT an indicative that the polar ice isn't melting away.
Gosh, he even said we were observing some of the largest floating ice formations disintegrate. What do you think made them do so? Ice drilling polar bears?
It is naive to think the politics and the economics can be viewed separately.
You know, this is Europe, after all. We know to value our social system, our public health care, our low violent crime rates, and our rather good public education system. We sure know it's very expensive (we'd have to be complete idiots to think it somehow comes free of charge), but we find it worth the money (well, most of the time we do). Just like the majority in the USA seem to view throwing obscene amounts of money at the military as justified.
Libertarian as in "free market uber alles, down with the government, privatize everything now, the sole meaning of life is to make profit, to hell with public health care and education"? Definitely YES, it was a good thing this constitution was shot down.
Actually, it is not. More than anything, a "European Constitution" was rejected by the popular vote in .fr and .nl, in part because of some almost libertarian ideas expressed in that document, in part because they (fr and nl) are pissed off with their governments and were misusing the voting on a rather unrelated subject just to give their governments a slap on the wrist.
By looking at the first of the two aforementioned reasons, I'd say it's a *good* thing the constitution in its' current form was shot down, both for the citizens of Europe, as well as for the EU itself.