We believe in authority up here more than in America it seems.
That is rather frightening really or naïve, believing that others somehow want what is best for you by the simple fact that they managed to cheat and lie their way to the top. Then again humans seem to love to give criminals big guns and then wonder why they got shot in the head.
It's unlikely to be abused, especially if there is some transparency.
Of course it will get abused sooner or later, everything is once someone with a potential gain finds a way to do it.
It's very American to automatically respond to this kind of thing as though it was a threat.
No, it's the safe way of doing things. See unlike say Great Britain we feel that losing all our freedoms gradually by "small but increasing steps" is not a good things.
Stop acting like a teenager.
No, unlike you we understand human nature and the nature of those in power. Only the naïve and stupid think that things will not be abused or that those in power should be blindly trusted at all.
My school did that at one point, rather nice of them. Meant the librarians didn't pay as much attention as we all surfed to "not-allowed" websites than they would have otherwise (since of course what we were doing wasn't "possible."). I think they started paying attention when every computer was running Quake 2 and half the kids were skipping classes to play.
Then again we were all creative kids. The master linux password file got stolen constantly, half of it got cracked after a while (including the principal's account which someone had fun with) The master student database got jacked a few times, not sure if anyone bothered to really decipher the format (fun to know everyone's classes). One student got suspended for trying to hack into the grade system but he was an idiot for not understanding the security measures (he also for some reason had school blueprints in his locker which got stolen from his, he was also an idiot for using luggage locks on his locker). Hardware security devices got disabled. Fake class lists were made so students could make security guards think they did not have a class at the time. I mean it got bad once the vandalism started although it was funny when after 4 months the school realized one of their systems no longer had a cpu in it (the head network admin wrote such a nice letter calling for help in tracking the culprit, complete with blanked out cursing at the end).
I sometimes I wonder if the admins even knew exactly how much of their security had been ripped apart. They only caught people who did blatantly stupid or obvious things (cracking *nux password file on the school server under their own account), and none seemed to be really punished.
I guess my advice is: If you ever get the chance to work at a magnet or other similar school don't accept it, smart but overworked and unstable teenagers are not nice to those in authority.
I'm aware of the complexity of Buddhism (not all of it but enough to know there are way too many variants for me to know), and was afraid when I posted that someone would complain (I probably would do likewise). It's simply the only religion I could come up with off the top of my head that I knew at least one variant off didn't shove none believers into hell.
Also if I remember some variants of Buddhism also have the concept of hell (and Heaven in a non-Nirvana sense) although they're both better defined and more temporary than Christianity (ie: you do X you wind up in this type of hell for Y years).
each religion claims that their's is the only correct one and the non-believers will go to hell
Not really, many probably exists that don't (I think Buddhism sends you up the eternal ladder of reincarnation if you're a good person, by it's standards, but not a Buddhist) or don't even have a hell. The point was that at least one other religion damns you to hell.
Well first of all in women one of the X chromosomes shuts down so at a gene level man and women have the same number of usable X chromosomes. Furthermore the Y is only.38% of the genome AND has a very low number of genes (even for it's size). Also chimps can be both male and female, the 2% comparison is probably using a full genome (X + Y + rest) so comparing a human male to a female chimp would have a larger margin.
I'd like to also add that it's the next most likely planet to which we send a manned mission, for the above reasons and it's the most likely planet for possible future colonization. All things considered it's probably the best candidate for exploration right now, close and somewhat similar but quite different from Earth as well.
The thing with those other password managers is that they keep the info encrypted, at least if they're sane and good. So the only way someone would get the passwords is if they either got your master password for the program or had compromised your system when you were looking up a password. If it's the later then you're screwed anyway.
Honestly a print out (with the actual passwords stored in an encrypted file that is only accessed when a new password is added or a new printout is needed) is probably more secure for most people, someone would need to break into your house (and notice the piece of otherwise normal looking paper) to get all your passwords.
From the wikipedia article someone linked (which lists a reputable looking source) Germany is slightly less safe than the us per billion vehicle km traveled (9.7 vs. 9.4). Specifically this is due to a higher fatality rate on Non-Motorways (12.4 vs. 10.7). Of course the two countries are so different (land area, climate, density and other such things) than any such broad comparisons make little, possible if you compared same sized cities it may be better.
Instead of building just a few lasers to beam the energy, lets make a whole bunch of them and use the latest electrically powered pulse laser technology being developed for the joint strike fighter.
And how horrendously expensive will those be? How short will their life be? How much maintence will they need? What conditions will they need to function properly? Lasers are decently fragile and expensive, the more powerful the worse the problem. Not to mention the possible problems of powerful lasers such as accidentally scattering and blinding a quarter of the people for 60 miles.
Our spacecraft is just a payload module with stabiliers BOLTED to a block of inert material. A very short and simple linear accelerator kicks the spacecraft about half a mile into the air, high enough for all the lasers spread across the industrial plant infrastructure to 'see' it.
So you need to have safety systems to bring the plane down from that half mile if the lasers don't see it. Very good aiming systems for the lasers so they don't accidentally cook the ship. A very good stabilizing system for the craft so the lasers don't miss and accidentally send the ship of course. The inert block will of course burn off so you will need to design it so it doesn't suddenly fall off and result in your payload getting cooked.
Pulses of light vaporize the fuel in a sequence such that the shock wave of superheated vaporized gas is planar : basically a rocket engine without needing:
So are you going to laser it all the way to Geosynchronous orbit or are you going to magically give it a sideways push so it can stay in LEO?
The laser launch system would be designed for almost continuous duty, launching one capsule after another all day long.
That is impossible, anything this complex will require so much upkeep it's not even funny.
Spacecraft would be MUCH simpler, and with a lower cost of launch could be made MUCH more cheaply as well.
After all, why bother with all the checks and cleanrooms if you can send 10-20 Mars probes for the price of what 1 costs today?
Since 19 of those 20 probes will fail and the last one will barely get any data before failing, space is a very hostile environment.
Seems like a no-brainer approach.
In other words you're an idiot and are incapable of understand the inherent complexity of your idea.
Uh, RTFA? WinDVD 8 seems to play HD-DVDs just fine.
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With independent free market grading companies, you don't have to worry about your teachers -- as long as your student is passing independent testing, you know they're doing great.
No, you'd know that they're being taught how to pass some third party standard which is probably going to make them corporate drones. The companies in turn don't give a damn since they're importing all their actual non-drone workers from asia and using visas to keep them in line.
Go to your township tomorrow, get a budget of the local education system, and divide it by teachers. Guess what? You'll probably come up with a 70% loss rate -- where'd the money go? To the bureaucrats!
Since we all know that facilities, supplies, non-teacher workers (janitors, security guards, etc.), field trips, after school programs don't cost anything.
they might also pick a school that sticks with the same basic education text books for a few years rather than replacing them every year with little-to-no difference.
Have you even GONE to a public school in the US or do you just pull all of this out of your ass? I mean, hell in my elementary school we used books from the 70s and 80s due to budget reasons, they only got new ones when the old ones became so inconsistent or plain old as to be unusable.
If your self control is so nonexistent or your kid so spoiled (and you so whipped by them in turn) that you can't wait another month then it's your damn fault and no one else's. No one is making people buy these on ebay or making them buy them on release day. Hell, at least the scalpers and ebayers are showing intelligence and initialize so good for them.
That's only if you (wrongly) assume that the security comes from NAT in the first place. It doesn't, hence it makes perfect sense.
1. NAT+packet filter: NAT prevents many things from working, filter protects user.
2. packet filter: many things work, user is still protected.
NAT forces a 100%, unless specifically changed, inbound packet filter. Without NAT users would use no packet filtering at all, just look at what most users who directly connect to their ISPs modems do. Only now with things like built in firewalls and universal PnP on windows is the situation likely to not implode.
Maybe you don't understand NAT enough to see that it absolutely makes no difference security-wise. NAT's "security" really comes from packet filters which can work without NAT just as well.
The whole fucking point is that without NAT home users would NOT use any packet filtering, or at best some half assed automatic one which doesn't do anything.
Interesting, makes me wonder why that is. Do people just not take the extra time to increase their skills? Do they expect to somehow magically become a better programmer without actively learning new/proper things? Are most people just too stupid to be a real programmer? Are most programming jobs of such shit quality that people aren't actually required to use such skill on the job so they thus can't easily get experience in them?
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Secondly, there are already some great meds around for extend life span of people infected with the HI virus by 20+ years as long as people infected are adherrent to their drugs and live healthly lifestyle. Of course when you live in poverty and without access to decent healthcare this is damn hard - hence the problems in resource poor communities.
Also even if people have access to the drugs it doesn't mean they will take them as needed, it isn't exactly natural to remember to take x number of pills every y hours. Humans have an amazing ability to not act diligently even when faced with a not so pleasant death otherwise. I was at a talk last year where they showed this rather interesting graph of when people open their pill boxes (ie: they had sensors, etc. for the study). Basically a decent number of people with fatal disease were negligent in taking their drugs initially but as their condition progressed/got worse started becoming a lot more vigilant in taking their meds. It's probably worse with young, previously healthy, people who just aren't used to taking meds regularly or simply don't pay attention to taking them on time.
If you find an idea is wrong, just say so, and contradict it. By ignoring it, you are just ignoring it. By contradicting it, you can help the theory's authors, everyone who read the theory, and everyone who might use it, for any reason, including to do something better.
Wikipedia is not the place for this as they explicitly state, there are scientific publications and other websites for such things. Experts in fields have a lot better things to do than argue with some moron about why their crack pot theory makes no sense when said morons knows nothing and ignores all comments. All it does is drive knowledgeable people away, and wikipedia does that enough as it is for other reasons.
Sure, WP talk pages are not enough for this kind of discussions (not that they are enough for any kind of discussions, beside short comments), but it just mean they should be enhanced, not that article should be censored, because people don't want to have anything to do with ideas they don't like.
No it doesn't, because you cannot comprehend the gps comment doesn't make them wrong. Wikipedia is not the place for this, they have a specific goal which is no to be the end all of the internet's information and discussion. Msot people would prefer that Wikipedia focus on what they're doing now that half assadly expand into some area.
It you don't want of this, then I surely would not call WP a "free encyclopedia". It is nothing much than a limited repository of selected knowledge. If this is what WP people want, I don't care. It's just nothing special. Far better could be done (and I hope it will be done, in the future -I, at least, will write about such ideas, if I'm not implementing them).
An encyclopedia does not store all the world's knowledge, it is simply a reference for some subset that is considered of value. That subset is then presented in a certain fashion which due to the work involved prevents all knowledge from being included. Just because you have no idea what the word "free" or "encyclopedia" means doesn't mean anything except that you're an idiot.
I suggest Wikipedia or anything written by Richard Dawkins would reveal that evolution (in the Darwinian sense) is not easily distilled into a bumper sticker, slogan, or single image.
I don't see why that, note that I am quite familiar with genetics and so on, invalidates my example which was only given in response to the pervious posters example. All I said was that if one group has a lower survival rate then over time they will no longer be there thus the reason for no intermediates or ancestor species. It's meant to be a horribly simplified version although I don't see why it fails to convey the essence. I don't particularly feel like describing all of evolutionary genetic to someone in a Slashdot post you know.
I would also be interested in having you expand on "nor does A evolve into B by pure chance." I thought that IS natural selection, long term.
As the other poster said it's not which is the point, note the "selection" part. Something is selected for (or against), be it a gene or whatever, and over time its prevalence increases. Even short term (only a few generations) mutations aren't purely random as they need to be non-lethal to the cell and (possible) offspring.
Is that with or without all the money they get for installing crap-ware with the computer (yeah, they get paid to put all that trial and pure shit ware on the computers)? That's also not something that could be done with Linux, at least as much yet due to lack of partners, so they'd lose money as a result.
The driving force behind evolution is natural selection, no one explicitly decides that species A will become B nor does A evolve into B by pure chance. If for twenty thousand years you killed off every kid who had white skin you would not have any more white people (save for freak mutations not probably even light skinned probably) that is evolution in essence.
I was simply noting the usual way things work, more for other readers than you.
Someone else mentioned temp work and you may be able to hunt something down through connections.
Imho it doesn't matter what you know half the time but who you know so find ways to get to know such people and impress them. In essence make friends; go to community, culture, volunteer or religious group meetings where people "hang out" (this is according to my father how you make friends in the US).
Volunteer work is another possibility which can get you both connections and a permanent job (either there or somewhere else through said connections). Resumes probably do much better if they come from a manager/boss directly (ie: you know the manager and sent them your resume directly) than if they come from the regular process, the former is the "safe" bet for the guy hiring.
How many malfunctions (e.g. explosions after crew entry but before liftoff) have happened in the past where this would be useful?
The Soyuz T-10-1 rocket blew up on the launch pad, they used the built in ejection system to launch the capsule to safety.
Seems to me that such an ejection system is safer (ie: you stay in the well protected capsule) and pretty much makes a roller coaster redundant, the later would only be of use if the crew is on the tower but not in the capsule yet. And I'm not aware of any accidents during which that has happened, I mean how long are they even in such a position?
Keep in mind thye average user will probably also have an mp3 player and a thumb drive connected as well as a cd/dvd burner. What if the user has multiple hard drive, potentially from an upgrade (not that uncommon) or maybe from their old machine (ie: salvaged during an upgrade by whomever did the upgrade for them). If you just use/home the user will be quite confused as to why all that new space they jsut bought isn't showing up. And/home/username is just as unintuitive, most will dump stuff onto their desktop or whatever folders are linked from their desktop.
ha ha ha, me a fanatical FF fanboy regarding memory leaks? Christ, that's a new on for my list of what people call me. Hell I've been in so many darn flame wars telling people it's a problem not a "feature" it's not even funny. Just a note, the fanboys are the ones who don't admit it's a problem at all and scream "feature" or "FF has no memory leaks so this problem must not exist" endlessly.
It apparently is some weird thing where FF still is still "using" the memory in some sense of the word (ie: the program knows it has that memory allocated). Calling it a "memory leak" just makes fanboys scream at you that it's not, then everyone ignores the problem since it's not a "memory leak" per say so your complaint is invalid. We need a new name for it or something, would make things much easier.
It's also much better in 2.0 so that point is actually a reason TO upgrade.
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We believe in authority up here more than in America it seems.
That is rather frightening really or naïve, believing that others somehow want what is best for you by the simple fact that they managed to cheat and lie their way to the top. Then again humans seem to love to give criminals big guns and then wonder why they got shot in the head.
It's unlikely to be abused, especially if there is some transparency.
Of course it will get abused sooner or later, everything is once someone with a potential gain finds a way to do it.
It's very American to automatically respond to this kind of thing as though it was a threat.
No, it's the safe way of doing things. See unlike say Great Britain we feel that losing all our freedoms gradually by "small but increasing steps" is not a good things.
Stop acting like a teenager.
No, unlike you we understand human nature and the nature of those in power. Only the naïve and stupid think that things will not be abused or that those in power should be blindly trusted at all.
I run a filter at the school I work at.
My school did that at one point, rather nice of them. Meant the librarians didn't pay as much attention as we all surfed to "not-allowed" websites than they would have otherwise (since of course what we were doing wasn't "possible."). I think they started paying attention when every computer was running Quake 2 and half the kids were skipping classes to play.
Then again we were all creative kids. The master linux password file got stolen constantly, half of it got cracked after a while (including the principal's account which someone had fun with) The master student database got jacked a few times, not sure if anyone bothered to really decipher the format (fun to know everyone's classes). One student got suspended for trying to hack into the grade system but he was an idiot for not understanding the security measures (he also for some reason had school blueprints in his locker which got stolen from his, he was also an idiot for using luggage locks on his locker). Hardware security devices got disabled. Fake class lists were made so students could make security guards think they did not have a class at the time. I mean it got bad once the vandalism started although it was funny when after 4 months the school realized one of their systems no longer had a cpu in it (the head network admin wrote such a nice letter calling for help in tracking the culprit, complete with blanked out cursing at the end).
I sometimes I wonder if the admins even knew exactly how much of their security had been ripped apart. They only caught people who did blatantly stupid or obvious things (cracking *nux password file on the school server under their own account), and none seemed to be really punished.
I guess my advice is: If you ever get the chance to work at a magnet or other similar school don't accept it, smart but overworked and unstable teenagers are not nice to those in authority.
I'm aware of the complexity of Buddhism (not all of it but enough to know there are way too many variants for me to know), and was afraid when I posted that someone would complain (I probably would do likewise). It's simply the only religion I could come up with off the top of my head that I knew at least one variant off didn't shove none believers into hell.
Also if I remember some variants of Buddhism also have the concept of hell (and Heaven in a non-Nirvana sense) although they're both better defined and more temporary than Christianity (ie: you do X you wind up in this type of hell for Y years).
each religion claims that their's is the only correct one and the non-believers will go to hell
Not really, many probably exists that don't (I think Buddhism sends you up the eternal ladder of reincarnation if you're a good person, by it's standards, but not a Buddhist) or don't even have a hell. The point was that at least one other religion damns you to hell.
Well first of all in women one of the X chromosomes shuts down so at a gene level man and women have the same number of usable X chromosomes. Furthermore the Y is only .38% of the genome AND has a very low number of genes (even for it's size). Also chimps can be both male and female, the 2% comparison is probably using a full genome (X + Y + rest) so comparing a human male to a female chimp would have a larger margin.
I'd like to also add that it's the next most likely planet to which we send a manned mission, for the above reasons and it's the most likely planet for possible future colonization. All things considered it's probably the best candidate for exploration right now, close and somewhat similar but quite different from Earth as well.
The thing with those other password managers is that they keep the info encrypted, at least if they're sane and good. So the only way someone would get the passwords is if they either got your master password for the program or had compromised your system when you were looking up a password. If it's the later then you're screwed anyway.
Honestly a print out (with the actual passwords stored in an encrypted file that is only accessed when a new password is added or a new printout is needed) is probably more secure for most people, someone would need to break into your house (and notice the piece of otherwise normal looking paper) to get all your passwords.
From the wikipedia article someone linked (which lists a reputable looking source) Germany is slightly less safe than the us per billion vehicle km traveled (9.7 vs. 9.4). Specifically this is due to a higher fatality rate on Non-Motorways (12.4 vs. 10.7). Of course the two countries are so different (land area, climate, density and other such things) than any such broad comparisons make little, possible if you compared same sized cities it may be better.
Instead of building just a few lasers to beam the energy, lets make a whole bunch of them and use the latest electrically powered pulse laser technology being developed for the joint strike fighter.
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And how horrendously expensive will those be? How short will their life be? How much maintence will they need? What conditions will they need to function properly? Lasers are decently fragile and expensive, the more powerful the worse the problem. Not to mention the possible problems of powerful lasers such as accidentally scattering and blinding a quarter of the people for 60 miles.
Our spacecraft is just a payload module with stabiliers BOLTED to a block of inert material. A very short and simple linear accelerator kicks the spacecraft about half a mile into the air, high enough for all the lasers spread across the industrial plant infrastructure to 'see' it.
So you need to have safety systems to bring the plane down from that half mile if the lasers don't see it. Very good aiming systems for the lasers so they don't accidentally cook the ship. A very good stabilizing system for the craft so the lasers don't miss and accidentally send the ship of course. The inert block will of course burn off so you will need to design it so it doesn't suddenly fall off and result in your payload getting cooked.
Pulses of light vaporize the fuel in a sequence such that the shock wave of superheated vaporized gas is planar : basically a rocket engine without needing
So are you going to laser it all the way to Geosynchronous orbit or are you going to magically give it a sideways push so it can stay in LEO?
The laser launch system would be designed for almost continuous duty, launching one capsule after another all day long.
That is impossible, anything this complex will require so much upkeep it's not even funny.
Spacecraft would be MUCH simpler, and with a lower cost of launch could be made MUCH more cheaply as well.
After all, why bother with all the checks and cleanrooms if you can send 10-20 Mars probes for the price of what 1 costs today?
Since 19 of those 20 probes will fail and the last one will barely get any data before failing, space is a very hostile environment.
Seems like a no-brainer approach.
In other words you're an idiot and are incapable of understand the inherent complexity of your idea.
Uh, RTFA? WinDVD 8 seems to play HD-DVDs just fine.
With independent free market grading companies, you don't have to worry about your teachers -- as long as your student is passing independent testing, you know they're doing great.
No, you'd know that they're being taught how to pass some third party standard which is probably going to make them corporate drones. The companies in turn don't give a damn since they're importing all their actual non-drone workers from asia and using visas to keep them in line.
Go to your township tomorrow, get a budget of the local education system, and divide it by teachers. Guess what? You'll probably come up with a 70% loss rate -- where'd the money go? To the bureaucrats!
Since we all know that facilities, supplies, non-teacher workers (janitors, security guards, etc.), field trips, after school programs don't cost anything.
they might also pick a school that sticks with the same basic education text books for a few years rather than replacing them every year with little-to-no difference.
Have you even GONE to a public school in the US or do you just pull all of this out of your ass? I mean, hell in my elementary school we used books from the 70s and 80s due to budget reasons, they only got new ones when the old ones became so inconsistent or plain old as to be unusable.
If your self control is so nonexistent or your kid so spoiled (and you so whipped by them in turn) that you can't wait another month then it's your damn fault and no one else's. No one is making people buy these on ebay or making them buy them on release day. Hell, at least the scalpers and ebayers are showing intelligence and initialize so good for them.
That's only if you (wrongly) assume that the security comes from NAT in the first place. It doesn't, hence it makes perfect sense.
1. NAT+packet filter: NAT prevents many things from working, filter protects user.
2. packet filter: many things work, user is still protected.
NAT forces a 100%, unless specifically changed, inbound packet filter. Without NAT users would use no packet filtering at all, just look at what most users who directly connect to their ISPs modems do. Only now with things like built in firewalls and universal PnP on windows is the situation likely to not implode.
Maybe you don't understand NAT enough to see that it absolutely makes no difference security-wise. NAT's "security" really comes from packet filters which can work without NAT just as well.
The whole fucking point is that without NAT home users would NOT use any packet filtering, or at best some half assed automatic one which doesn't do anything.
Interesting, makes me wonder why that is. Do people just not take the extra time to increase their skills? Do they expect to somehow magically become a better programmer without actively learning new/proper things? Are most people just too stupid to be a real programmer? Are most programming jobs of such shit quality that people aren't actually required to use such skill on the job so they thus can't easily get experience in them?
Secondly, there are already some great meds around for extend life span of people infected with the HI virus by 20+ years as long as people infected are adherrent to their drugs and live healthly lifestyle. Of course when you live in poverty and without access to decent healthcare this is damn hard - hence the problems in resource poor communities.
Also even if people have access to the drugs it doesn't mean they will take them as needed, it isn't exactly natural to remember to take x number of pills every y hours. Humans have an amazing ability to not act diligently even when faced with a not so pleasant death otherwise. I was at a talk last year where they showed this rather interesting graph of when people open their pill boxes (ie: they had sensors, etc. for the study). Basically a decent number of people with fatal disease were negligent in taking their drugs initially but as their condition progressed/got worse started becoming a lot more vigilant in taking their meds. It's probably worse with young, previously healthy, people who just aren't used to taking meds regularly or simply don't pay attention to taking them on time.
If you find an idea is wrong, just say so, and contradict it. By ignoring it, you are just ignoring it. By contradicting it, you can help the theory's authors, everyone who read the theory, and everyone who might use it, for any reason, including to do something better.
Wikipedia is not the place for this as they explicitly state, there are scientific publications and other websites for such things. Experts in fields have a lot better things to do than argue with some moron about why their crack pot theory makes no sense when said morons knows nothing and ignores all comments. All it does is drive knowledgeable people away, and wikipedia does that enough as it is for other reasons.
Sure, WP talk pages are not enough for this kind of discussions (not that they are enough for any kind of discussions, beside short comments), but it just mean they should be enhanced, not that article should be censored, because people don't want to have anything to do with ideas they don't like.
No it doesn't, because you cannot comprehend the gps comment doesn't make them wrong. Wikipedia is not the place for this, they have a specific goal which is no to be the end all of the internet's information and discussion. Msot people would prefer that Wikipedia focus on what they're doing now that half assadly expand into some area.
It you don't want of this, then I surely would not call WP a "free encyclopedia". It is nothing much than a limited repository of selected knowledge. If this is what WP people want, I don't care. It's just nothing special. Far better could be done (and I hope it will be done, in the future -I, at least, will write about such ideas, if I'm not implementing them).
An encyclopedia does not store all the world's knowledge, it is simply a reference for some subset that is considered of value. That subset is then presented in a certain fashion which due to the work involved prevents all knowledge from being included. Just because you have no idea what the word "free" or "encyclopedia" means doesn't mean anything except that you're an idiot.
I am, wasn't aware they used hanging as the method there. Learn something new everyday I guess.
I suggest Wikipedia or anything written by Richard Dawkins would reveal that evolution (in the Darwinian sense) is not easily distilled into a bumper sticker, slogan, or single image.
I don't see why that, note that I am quite familiar with genetics and so on, invalidates my example which was only given in response to the pervious posters example. All I said was that if one group has a lower survival rate then over time they will no longer be there thus the reason for no intermediates or ancestor species. It's meant to be a horribly simplified version although I don't see why it fails to convey the essence. I don't particularly feel like describing all of evolutionary genetic to someone in a Slashdot post you know.
I would also be interested in having you expand on "nor does A evolve into B by pure chance." I thought that IS natural selection, long term.
As the other poster said it's not which is the point, note the "selection" part. Something is selected for (or against), be it a gene or whatever, and over time its prevalence increases. Even short term (only a few generations) mutations aren't purely random as they need to be non-lethal to the cell and (possible) offspring.
Is that with or without all the money they get for installing crap-ware with the computer (yeah, they get paid to put all that trial and pure shit ware on the computers)? That's also not something that could be done with Linux, at least as much yet due to lack of partners, so they'd lose money as a result.
The driving force behind evolution is natural selection, no one explicitly decides that species A will become B nor does A evolve into B by pure chance. If for twenty thousand years you killed off every kid who had white skin you would not have any more white people (save for freak mutations not probably even light skinned probably) that is evolution in essence.
I was simply noting the usual way things work, more for other readers than you.
Someone else mentioned temp work and you may be able to hunt something down through connections.
Imho it doesn't matter what you know half the time but who you know so find ways to get to know such people and impress them. In essence make friends; go to community, culture, volunteer or religious group meetings where people "hang out" (this is according to my father how you make friends in the US).
Volunteer work is another possibility which can get you both connections and a permanent job (either there or somewhere else through said connections). Resumes probably do much better if they come from a manager/boss directly (ie: you know the manager and sent them your resume directly) than if they come from the regular process, the former is the "safe" bet for the guy hiring.
How many malfunctions (e.g. explosions after crew entry but before liftoff) have happened in the past where this would be useful?
The Soyuz T-10-1 rocket blew up on the launch pad, they used the built in ejection system to launch the capsule to safety.
Seems to me that such an ejection system is safer (ie: you stay in the well protected capsule) and pretty much makes a roller coaster redundant, the later would only be of use if the crew is on the tower but not in the capsule yet. And I'm not aware of any accidents during which that has happened, I mean how long are they even in such a position?
Normally you get this by internships during your undergrad and possibly by working for the school (if they have any programming jobs or such).
Keep in mind thye average user will probably also have an mp3 player and a thumb drive connected as well as a cd/dvd burner. What if the user has multiple hard drive, potentially from an upgrade (not that uncommon) or maybe from their old machine (ie: salvaged during an upgrade by whomever did the upgrade for them). If you just use /home the user will be quite confused as to why all that new space they jsut bought isn't showing up. And /home/username is just as unintuitive, most will dump stuff onto their desktop or whatever folders are linked from their desktop.
ha ha ha, me a fanatical FF fanboy regarding memory leaks? Christ, that's a new on for my list of what people call me. Hell I've been in so many darn flame wars telling people it's a problem not a "feature" it's not even funny. Just a note, the fanboys are the ones who don't admit it's a problem at all and scream "feature" or "FF has no memory leaks so this problem must not exist" endlessly.
It apparently is some weird thing where FF still is still "using" the memory in some sense of the word (ie: the program knows it has that memory allocated). Calling it a "memory leak" just makes fanboys scream at you that it's not, then everyone ignores the problem since it's not a "memory leak" per say so your complaint is invalid. We need a new name for it or something, would make things much easier.
It's also much better in 2.0 so that point is actually a reason TO upgrade.