I think my favorite equation would have to be Bill Sneed's mathematical proof that one can be simultaneously singular and plural. (Shamelessly ripped off of OpinionJournal's "Best of the Web Today")
Let a=1
Let b=1
Therefore a=b
Multiplying both sides by a gives a^2=ab
Subtract 1 from the left and b (which equals 1) from the right: a2-1=ab-b
If you remember your quadratic equations, this factors to: (a+1)(a-1)=b(a-1)
Dividing both sides by a-1, we have a+1=b, or 1+1=1
Therefore 2=1
To be sure, this is a counterintuitive result, and math purists will no doubt find fault with it. Well, I just have three words to say to them: E pluribus unum. Got a problem with America, Math Boy?
"More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change. That's the one over 90% of people are going to keep using."
Then why is Mozilla more secure? Why have 10% of the people using IE switched to FireFox?
That is one of the coolest sites I have ever seen. It's prety much just a LinkBlog, but still. I would have never found out about osX on the Xbox if not for that site.
I san see it now. A massive outbreak of viruses. The AOL helplines flooded. It might go something like this:
AOL Tech Support: "Hello, AOL customer support. Please state your problem."
Paniced Customer: "My computer just turned itself off!"
AOL: "I'm sorry. but thats not technicly possible"
PC: "It did! Now it's turning back on again!"
AOL:"Does the screen say anything?"
PC: "Yes! It does!"
AOL: "What does it say?"
PC: "Use... Mozilla... You... Retard."
AOL: "Does it say anything else?"
PC: "Yes. It says: Reformatting... Harddrive... for... Linux... Install..."
How many people remember LG's CDROM drives and Mandrake Linux 9.2?
Apparently, someone got the great idea to make the cdrom drive update the firmware when ever it got a command to check the hardware type. CDROM drives are not supposed to have any command to check the hardware type, as this is a common function reserved for CD-R/DVD drives. Well, Mandrake Linux 9.2 was the unlucky operating system to first exploit this bug.
Eventuly, LG discovered they had angered the general Linux community and released a firmware update that fixed the problem. Unfortunetly, the firmware update refused to fix cdrom drives on some computers. It's a shame, really. I fried two perfectly good cdrom drives that way...
"If Iraq had posed a clear and present danger to the United States, and if Congress had declared war and thus empowered the president to act in the nation's defense, that would be one thing, although some of the corollaries to that action might still be problematic.
But Iraq didn't pose a clear and present danger to the United States. It didn't pose a danger to the United States at all. And the US has not, in fact, "liberated" the people of Iraq. They still have a dictator. For awhile, his name was Bremer. Now it's Allawi. And the US has the innocent blood of thousands of Iraqis and more than 1,000 of its own young men and women on its hands.
What? Congress declared war very soon after 9/11. How the heck does this guy think that "Iraq didn't pose a clear and present danger to the United States."
Iraq was the source of the terrorism. If they didn't decare war, what should they have done?
Dude, you seriously don't know what you are talking about. Don't automaticly assume that just because it's never happened to you that it's wrong.
XP *DOES* and *WILL* spontaneously reboot. I have had this problem before.
There is a built in option deep inside the os that will make it reboot if it encounters what it considers to be a serious error. This rarely ever occours, but when it does it's usaly not because of a serious error.
Back when I had a USB DSL modem, I had a horable time with these sudden restarts. It turned out that some USB devices can set off a false alarm with XP's internal error-recovery-reboot thing. Thus, every 30 minutes or so the computer would reboot. I finaly discovered that if I moved the modem's cord to my second set of USB ports on the back of the computer that the problems would cease. Truly strange.
However, this is a documented problem, you just have to search for the right things.
It's things like this that make me glad that I have a copy of Linux.
Knowing Micro$oft, this would be slow, hard to use and bloated. It would be awesome in something like open office, however, provided that they did it the right way.
LOL!!!
Read the discription once more. Then go to http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki
Microsoft apparently wants to dominate the overwhelmingly open source world of Wikis!
Microsoft, look out! Soon ye shall be crushed by the likes of Wikipedia.
Oh, my. No annoying popup ads encouraging me to "CLICK HERE FOR IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT SOMETHING YOU PROBALY DONT CARE ABOUT!" It is truly a shame when crackers stop targeting big companies such as Microsoft and go after a company dedicated to PopUp advertising.
Hmm... Perhaps someone saw the "Punch the monkey" ad one time too many?
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Dig up your basic logic and bio textbooks. This is not 'proof' of the evolution of the eye. This does not 'prove' that anything evolved.
The first stress test was awesome. I can't wait to see how this one works out.
Cool! Soon Google will start to provide a new service! GPS (Google Positioning Service)
Let a=1
Let b=1
Therefore a=b
Multiplying both sides by a gives a^2=ab
Subtract 1 from the left and b (which equals 1) from the right: a2-1=ab-b
If you remember your quadratic equations, this factors to: (a+1)(a-1)=b(a-1)
Dividing both sides by a-1, we have a+1=b, or 1+1=1
Therefore 2=1
To be sure, this is a counterintuitive result, and math purists will no doubt find fault with it. Well, I just have three words to say to them: E pluribus unum. Got a problem with America, Math Boy?
So, what Microsoft really wants is cheap hardware running Windows.
Then why is Mozilla more secure? Why have 10% of the people using IE switched to FireFox?
That is one of the coolest sites I have ever seen. It's prety much just a LinkBlog, but still. I would have never found out about osX on the Xbox if not for that site.
I san see it now. A massive outbreak of viruses. The AOL helplines flooded. It might go something like this: AOL Tech Support: "Hello, AOL customer support. Please state your problem." Paniced Customer: "My computer just turned itself off!" AOL: "I'm sorry. but thats not technicly possible" PC: "It did! Now it's turning back on again!" AOL:"Does the screen say anything?" PC: "Yes! It does!" AOL: "What does it say?" PC: "Use... Mozilla... You... Retard." AOL: "Does it say anything else?" PC: "Yes. It says: Reformatting... Harddrive... for... Linux... Install..."
Apparently, someone got the great idea to make the cdrom drive update the firmware when ever it got a command to check the hardware type. CDROM drives are not supposed to have any command to check the hardware type, as this is a common function reserved for CD-R/DVD drives. Well, Mandrake Linux 9.2 was the unlucky operating system to first exploit this bug.
Eventuly, LG discovered they had angered the general Linux community and released a firmware update that fixed the problem. Unfortunetly, the firmware update refused to fix cdrom drives on some computers. It's a shame, really. I fried two perfectly good cdrom drives that way...
But Iraq didn't pose a clear and present danger to the United States. It didn't pose a danger to the United States at all. And the US has not, in fact, "liberated" the people of Iraq. They still have a dictator. For awhile, his name was Bremer. Now it's Allawi. And the US has the innocent blood of thousands of Iraqis and more than 1,000 of its own young men and women on its hands.
What? Congress declared war very soon after 9/11. How the heck does this guy think that "Iraq didn't pose a clear and present danger to the United States."
Iraq was the source of the terrorism. If they didn't decare war, what should they have done?
Active X is *Not* JavaScript. It's more like an expansion to Javascript or Flash thats much more insecure and only works in IE
Dude, you seriously don't know what you are talking about. Don't automaticly assume that just because it's never happened to you that it's wrong. XP *DOES* and *WILL* spontaneously reboot. I have had this problem before. There is a built in option deep inside the os that will make it reboot if it encounters what it considers to be a serious error. This rarely ever occours, but when it does it's usaly not because of a serious error. Back when I had a USB DSL modem, I had a horable time with these sudden restarts. It turned out that some USB devices can set off a false alarm with XP's internal error-recovery-reboot thing. Thus, every 30 minutes or so the computer would reboot. I finaly discovered that if I moved the modem's cord to my second set of USB ports on the back of the computer that the problems would cease. Truly strange. However, this is a documented problem, you just have to search for the right things. It's things like this that make me glad that I have a copy of Linux.
Knowing Micro$oft, this would be slow, hard to use and bloated.
It would be awesome in something like open office, however, provided that they did it the right way.
Read the discription once more. Then go to http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki
Microsoft apparently wants to dominate the overwhelmingly open source world of Wikis!
Microsoft, look out! Soon ye shall be crushed by the likes of Wikipedia.
Oh, my. No annoying popup ads encouraging me to "CLICK HERE FOR IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT SOMETHING YOU PROBALY DONT CARE ABOUT!"
It is truly a shame when crackers stop targeting big companies such as Microsoft and go after a company dedicated to PopUp advertising.
Hmm... Perhaps someone saw the "Punch the monkey" ad one time too many?
Yeah, freeshell is very good. I use it. It works.