I read somewhere (citation not required, this/. after all) that 20% of all the people that ever lived are actually still alive today. If that's remotely true, the earth must be, or soon will be, looking very much like a petri dish. So not too long now then.
The funny thing about this is that those roots are actually the same. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all trace back to Abraham/Ibrahim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham)
I never said that's how the system works. I only said that's how I believe (was taught) the system should work. If people are happy to support representatives that only have personal gain in mind then so be it. At the end of the day, the people get what the majority of them selected, and for most of them, it is exactly what they deserve. My opinion should not, and I hope does not, count one bit more than yours. We are both free however to express our opinions and our views, if we so wish, and try to change the other's mind.
As for the original meaning of the word, I don't think it has changed at all. Assuming an 100 million voter country, since it isn't very practical to have 100 million people trying to agree on an issue, we elect a number of people to represent us, not make the decisions for us. When we cast our vote we do in effect agree with the term plan of the person we vote for and authorise them to go ahead with that plan, which they presented to us during their campaign. At that time, me and you, each have made 100 millionth of the decisions the elected government will make. So democracy, in it's original meaning, is very much alive.
The problem these days is not the system, it's the voters who do not understand that what their government is doing exactly what they authorised them to do, and do not realise the amount of power they excercise on the system when they cast their vote.
The biggest problem with the democratic system is that after a while the voters start to think that they should be running things.
I hope you are trying to be funny, otherwise it's just sad. To start with, democracy, from the greek 'dimos' meaning 'the people' and kratos meaning 'rule' is exactly what you describe. The people do (or at least they are supposed to) rule through their elected representatives. The representatives they voted for because they best match their beliefs and oppinions.
For the system to work though, you have to have informed and educated citizens who are able to judge for themselves and cast their own vote without the help of "The Sun" and "The Mirror" in the UK and whatever their equivalent is in the US.
It is the duty and responsibility of those elected, for the good of the country on many levels, to ensure that the ability of the citizens to make a wise choise when it comes to an election improves all the time. These days though, that responsibility contradicts the interests of the vast majority of politicians who very much prefer easy-to-guide citizens. In fact, the situation is not much different from the situation in ex-eastern block countries that my teachers used to criticize. We will be lucky if the people "wake up" while they still have the power of the vote, otherwise I can see history repeating itself.
Not create programs that rely on a particular operating system, but instead create programs that can be run on any OS?
-Hello boss, you know that deadline... Well, we'll have to push it back 6 months because our windows application needs to be able to run on every platform under the sun according to the/. crowd. Why are you laughing boss?
Wake up people, not all developers decide what they are developing and what platform it's supposed to run on. Seriously, how many of you work for a company that would make a decission like that.
The escape velocity is the velocity which an object needs to have at ground level travelling upwards. Assuming that no other forces (engines, air resistance, space dust etc) are applied to that object but the gravitational pull of the earth, the escape velocity only guarantees that the object won't fall back down to earth. In fact, the eventual relative to earth speed of that object would be zero.
The easiest way to visualise it is to imagine a bullet fired from the surface on a vertical trajectory. If that bullet travels at escape velocity the moment it leaves the gun and travels in vacuum (no air resistance) it will reach a height where it is no longer affected by the earth's gravity just as it runs out of speed.
Escape velocity is a nice concept but is based on a number of assumptions. Assume gravity from a single point (not true unless you define your point as big as the earth), assume no friction (kind of hard to achieve unless you install a deflector dish on the bullet), the mass of the bullet is on a sigle point etc etc...
The rockets we put in space today have absolutelly nothing to do with the escape velocity of the earth. The whole concept is based on the excertion of a force grater than the earth's gravity for an extended period of time (rockets) as well as trajectories way off from the vertical, usually spiraling out.
Make sure you have a hairdryer handy. An upside down compressed air can (most of them anyway) spurts out liquid which evaporates really fast but condensation creeps in just as fast. Even if condensation doesn't form, PCBs don't like being frozen very quickly especially only from one side.
From the Symantec page, simple instructions to remove the virus:
The following instructions pertain to all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.
1. Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).
2. Update the virus definitions.
3. Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected.
thanks Symantec, nothing like a clean WinXP on my PSP again:)
The magnetic field around one [magnetar] is about 1,000 trillion gauss, strong enough to strip information from a credit card at a distance halfway to the Moon
I admit that 1,000 trillion gauss is not an easy number to grasp but why would someone want to present it like this? It's not as if everybody knows the strength of a magnetic field required to wipe a credit card at a distance of 1 meter....
It is clearly an attempt to confuse the poor dealers. They've all grown up using the imperial system and know their ounces, halves, quarters and eighths quite well.
Now imagine them trying to do business using metric units...
He can't do that, anymore than someone who blasts music from his property over a loudspeaker system can charge passersby for the music they are listening to.
That's pretty much what the BBC is doing in the UK. They broadcast their signal over the roof of my house but I'm still required to pay for a TV licence if I have a TV.
Evolution indeed. As Darwin would say, once there was a virus, then it started reproducing, evolving, mutating, whatever you want to call it. The result? A number of viruses here, a number of virii there...
That's the output of the windows event log. I'm not sure if the reporting level can be adjusted and unfortunatelly I didn't have the chance to investigate further. All 3 cards I had to replace were on production servers which I needed up and running ASAP. They all failed between mid November and end of December 2003 and since my experience with 3com products has not been the best, I was sort of glad to put them in the bin assuming they failed just like a number of other 3com devices in the company recently.
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I read somewhere (citation not required, this /. after all) that 20% of all the people that ever lived are actually still alive today. If that's remotely true, the earth must be, or soon will be, looking very much like a petri dish. So not too long now then.
Does this mean that excel 2007 can handle 100000 rows now?
And he hasn't seen this yet either http://www.lexus.com/models/RXh/
We may be marked as a "potential revisit"
I believe the correct term is "Mostly Harmless"
Has Netcraft confirmed ?
The funny thing about this is that those roots are actually the same. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all trace back to Abraham/Ibrahim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham)
I never said that's how the system works. I only said that's how I believe (was taught) the system should work. If people are happy to support representatives that only have personal gain in mind then so be it. At the end of the day, the people get what the majority of them selected, and for most of them, it is exactly what they deserve. My opinion should not, and I hope does not, count one bit more than yours. We are both free however to express our opinions and our views, if we so wish, and try to change the other's mind.
As for the original meaning of the word, I don't think it has changed at all. Assuming an 100 million voter country, since it isn't very practical to have 100 million people trying to agree on an issue, we elect a number of people to represent us, not make the decisions for us. When we cast our vote we do in effect agree with the term plan of the person we vote for and authorise them to go ahead with that plan, which they presented to us during their campaign. At that time, me and you, each have made 100 millionth of the decisions the elected government will make. So democracy, in it's original meaning, is very much alive.
The problem these days is not the system, it's the voters who do not understand that what their government is doing exactly what they authorised them to do, and do not realise the amount of power they excercise on the system when they cast their vote.
I hope you are trying to be funny, otherwise it's just sad. To start with, democracy, from the greek 'dimos' meaning 'the people' and kratos meaning 'rule' is exactly what you describe. The people do (or at least they are supposed to) rule through their elected representatives. The representatives they voted for because they best match their beliefs and oppinions.
For the system to work though, you have to have informed and educated citizens who are able to judge for themselves and cast their own vote without the help of "The Sun" and "The Mirror" in the UK and whatever their equivalent is in the US.
It is the duty and responsibility of those elected, for the good of the country on many levels, to ensure that the ability of the citizens to make a wise choise when it comes to an election improves all the time. These days though, that responsibility contradicts the interests of the vast majority of politicians who very much prefer easy-to-guide citizens. In fact, the situation is not much different from the situation in ex-eastern block countries that my teachers used to criticize. We will be lucky if the people "wake up" while they still have the power of the vote, otherwise I can see history repeating itself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to have solved the /. puzzle:
4: Profit
what's a developer to do?
/. crowd. Why are you laughing boss?
Not create programs that rely on a particular operating system, but instead create programs that can be run on any OS?
-Hello boss, you know that deadline... Well, we'll have to push it back 6 months because our windows application needs to be able to run on every platform under the sun according to the
Wake up people, not all developers decide what they are developing and what platform it's supposed to run on. Seriously, how many of you work for a company that would make a decission like that.
You can also buy DDR t-shirts in most tourist shops in the former DDR.
Does anyone know if I'll be able to use sun ray clients with this? This could be the best news ever.
Long term agamy would do as well. I always knew /. was one of the safest websites to visit.
The escape velocity is the velocity which an object needs to have at ground level travelling upwards. Assuming that no other forces (engines, air resistance, space dust etc) are applied to that object but the gravitational pull of the earth, the escape velocity only guarantees that the object won't fall back down to earth. In fact, the eventual relative to earth speed of that object would be zero.
The easiest way to visualise it is to imagine a bullet fired from the surface on a vertical trajectory. If that bullet travels at escape velocity the moment it leaves the gun and travels in vacuum (no air resistance) it will reach a height where it is no longer affected by the earth's gravity just as it runs out of speed.
Escape velocity is a nice concept but is based on a number of assumptions. Assume gravity from a single point (not true unless you define your point as big as the earth), assume no friction (kind of hard to achieve unless you install a deflector dish on the bullet), the mass of the bullet is on a sigle point etc etc...
The rockets we put in space today have absolutelly nothing to do with the escape velocity of the earth. The whole concept is based on the excertion of a force grater than the earth's gravity for an extended period of time (rockets) as well as trajectories way off from the vertical, usually spiraling out.
Make sure you have a hairdryer handy. An upside down compressed air can (most of them anyway) spurts out liquid which evaporates really fast but condensation creeps in just as fast. Even if condensation doesn't form, PCBs don't like being frozen very quickly especially only from one side.
I have to admit, when it comes to the
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model, M$ are the market leader by a long way.
From the Symantec page, simple instructions to remove the virus:
:)
The following instructions pertain to all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.
1. Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).
2. Update the virus definitions.
3. Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected.
thanks Symantec, nothing like a clean WinXP on my PSP again
From TFA:
The magnetic field around one [magnetar] is about 1,000 trillion gauss, strong enough to strip information from a credit card at a distance halfway to the Moon
I admit that 1,000 trillion gauss is not an easy number to grasp but why would someone want to present it like this? It's not as if everybody knows the strength of a magnetic field required to wipe a credit card at a distance of 1 meter....
That's only because chicks don't know you are driving a veeeery expensive FIAT.
To be serious though, in terms of usability and reliability (poster's original point), the Honda still wins hands down.
It is clearly an attempt to confuse the poor dealers. They've all grown up using the imperial system and know their ounces, halves, quarters and eighths quite well.
Now imagine them trying to do business using metric units...
- Here's your 28.3495231 grams
- WTF???
That's pretty much what the BBC is doing in the UK. They broadcast their signal over the roof of my house but I'm still required to pay for a TV licence if I have a TV.
...in Soviet Russia, a Satan missile deliberately calles you!
Evolution indeed. As Darwin would say, once there was a virus, then it started reproducing, evolving, mutating, whatever you want to call it. The result? A number of viruses here, a number of virii there...
If the site is running on that machine, that beer will be boiling by now... Too bad it's gone down already.
That's the output of the windows event log. I'm not sure if the reporting level can be adjusted and unfortunatelly I didn't have the chance to investigate further. All 3 cards I had to replace were on production servers which I needed up and running ASAP. They all failed between mid November and end of December 2003 and since my experience with 3com products has not been the best, I was sort of glad to put them in the bin assuming they failed just like a number of other 3com devices in the company recently.