You probably don't need a quantum computer to wait on I/O in your home PC.
Re:Idle's the right place for this...
on
Happy Towel Day
·
· Score: 0, Troll
Typical religious zealot hypocrisy.
I didn't start this little intolerance fest, YOU did. Perhaps YOU should start practicing some tolerance - you know, like you guys PREACH (but never actually practice).
Re:Idle's the right place for this...
on
Happy Towel Day
·
· Score: 0, Troll
You (and hargrand and Jarick C-Bol) are ignorant, superstitious fools, and I'm laughing at what morons you all are. You are pathetic, barely worthy of the derision you so eagerly invite.
Happy now? Give me your "turning the other cheek" theater again, dipshit.
Re:Idle's the right place for this...
on
Happy Towel Day
·
· Score: 1
...constructing straw-man arguments to illustrate the futility of stamp collecting...
ROFL at the irony. So the arguments to illustrate the non-existence of what you call "God" are straw-men? Again, ROFL at the irony.
Re:Idle's the right place for this...
on
Happy Towel Day
·
· Score: 4, Funny
especially since Richard Dawkins is mentioned.
Awwwww. Poor baby. Did he make fun of your imaginary friend?
The Uncertainty Principle only kicks in where the particle (wave packet) size and the wavelength of the observing "light" are approximately of the same order of magnitude. A "dust particle sized" (whatever that means) glass bead is much larger than the wavelength of visible light, else, you couldn't see it.
Because traditionally, the overlords were individuals, either aristocrats or wealthy capitalists, and they and their (usually private) armies of goons could be fought against on a case-by-case basis; the mine owner could be fought against without bringing the mill operator into it. Today, the overlords are corporations, not a (recent legal findings notwithstanding) person, with no location in space, no conscience, no morality; just a single stated purpose: greed (shareholder value). They're represented by (hell, ARE) the media and are protected by the laws they bought and usually wrote themselves. Today, the overlords are a monolithic block of corporations and lawyers and government. The government is simply the enforcement edge; just a newer, bigger army of goons.
I'm not shocked by the breach of posted privacy policies, but by:
Several large advertising companies... including Google Inc.'s DoubleClick and Yahoo Inc.'s Right Media, said they were unaware of the data being sent to them from the social-networking sites, and said they haven't made use of it
So Facebook and MySpace were just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, not making any extra money from Google & Yahoo?
I think you sort of missed my point. COM, ActiveX and.NET as examples of the insane, overbloated, byzantine, crufty, heinous APIs that we can expect, and VisualStudio and SQL Server management tools as examples of the lame, bloated, convoluted, script-free, REPEATABILITY-free, non-portable (even between like systems) developer/management tools we can expect. In other words, kool-aid lock-in at its finest.
Perhaps years of technologies like COM and ActiveX and.NET and tools ilike VisualStudio or the SQL Server management tools have shown us what to expect. And those are just some of the 20% of their technologies that have WON, not the 80% that dropped into oblivion within two years of being announced.
Here's what I expect: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all...
My favorite of all time is from an article about a program for creating random (but plausible) headlines, based on permutations of real headlines. I think it was in BYTE.
Furthermore, AFAIK, the effects of a nuclear bomb on underwater sea life are basically unknown. And instead of the nuclear fallout landing on the ground near the explosion, as it would in an above ground explosion, here the fallout would be free to travel in the ocean currents.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it in summer school.
Slashdot Mirror
You probably don't need a quantum computer to wait on I/O in your home PC.
Typical religious zealot hypocrisy. I didn't start this little intolerance fest, YOU did. Perhaps YOU should start practicing some tolerance - you know, like you guys PREACH (but never actually practice).
You (and hargrand and Jarick C-Bol) are ignorant, superstitious fools, and I'm laughing at what morons you all are. You are pathetic, barely worthy of the derision you so eagerly invite.
Happy now? Give me your "turning the other cheek" theater again, dipshit.
ROFL at the irony. So the arguments to illustrate the non-existence of what you call "God" are straw-men? Again, ROFL at the irony.
Awwwww. Poor baby. Did he make fun of your imaginary friend?
The Uncertainty Principle only kicks in where the particle (wave packet) size and the wavelength of the observing "light" are approximately of the same order of magnitude. A "dust particle sized" (whatever that means) glass bead is much larger than the wavelength of visible light, else, you couldn't see it.
Alan Turing was rubbish at water polo, but I hear he played a wicked game of Marco Polo.
We finally get to hear his side of the story of meeting Guinan and Data.
So that's four strikes, then.
Obviously you never knew the joys of writing C (not C++) for the Real Mode API.
Because traditionally, the overlords were individuals, either aristocrats or wealthy capitalists, and they and their (usually private) armies of goons could be fought against on a case-by-case basis; the mine owner could be fought against without bringing the mill operator into it. Today, the overlords are corporations, not a (recent legal findings notwithstanding) person, with no location in space, no conscience, no morality; just a single stated purpose: greed (shareholder value). They're represented by (hell, ARE) the media and are protected by the laws they bought and usually wrote themselves. Today, the overlords are a monolithic block of corporations and lawyers and government. The government is simply the enforcement edge; just a newer, bigger army of goons.
Why would you want to bring them back? Isn't Putin close enough? And besides, I thought the Bolsheviks killed the last one of them.
Yeah, I get that. Meanwhile, the user pages have already been spidered, so it's just a case of attaching one to the other.
So Facebook and MySpace were just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, not making any extra money from Google & Yahoo?
Nah, parent was just being a smartass; not that I'm wrong, mind you.
So that's 1 WAP and 3 CCD cameras on every lamp-post in London, then?
I think you sort of missed my point. COM, ActiveX and .NET as examples of the insane, overbloated, byzantine, crufty, heinous APIs that we can expect, and VisualStudio and SQL Server management tools as examples of the lame, bloated, convoluted, script-free, REPEATABILITY-free, non-portable (even between like systems) developer/management tools we can expect. In other words, kool-aid lock-in at its finest.
Perhaps years of technologies like COM and ActiveX and .NET and tools ilike VisualStudio or the SQL Server management tools have shown us what to expect. And those are just some of the 20% of their technologies that have WON, not the 80% that dropped into oblivion within two years of being announced.
Here's what I expect:
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all...
The Novell kernel is Approved By Microsoft(TM).
You say that like that's a bad thing.
My favorite of all time is from an article about a program for creating random (but plausible) headlines, based on permutations of real headlines. I think it was in BYTE.
Tornado kills five, self
Yawn. I had absolutely no premonition that anyone was going to reply with that.
Wow. You just did more to validate your username than BadAnalogyGuy ever has.
Excellent plan.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it in summer school.