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A Flu Pandemic?
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You can't get immunized against the flu because no one knows what it will look like... Well, let's do a backtrack search of all possible mutations, get the 1000 most likely to happen and that could produce a pandemy, make a vaccine for each one of them, have this cocktail.
SO how long before they send lichen to mars...
ok the fa says they do not metabolize and "suspend" in space... but maybe if ton of lichens
were sent to mars, maybe some tiny fraction of it would start surviving and developping...
Ok I'll tell it once more. The centralized DNS systems stinks, there is a far better way to administrate it.
Anyone with a public signature key could sign pairs of ServerName/IP and share them. Actually a peer to peer network could exchange such "trusted" pairs easily. This means anyone could become a central authority for DNS... now I don't have to trust anyone. I would probably decide to trust DNS pairs signed by Gnu, Microsoft and IBM, but I could have other choices. Providers could even decide only to sign non-porn domains for child protection etc.
Why do these online stores think they have to have a single price policy! Not all movies are worth the same, this is stupid... it only helps retarded consumers who can't understand anything else.
They want to sell movie ! Ok, then price everything at 8$ as a start and tweak the prices independently to maximize your profits, you'll also maximize the global happiness.
And why would they use weak encryption?
And why wouldn't they use deniable encryption schemes with hidden encrypted partition... You can't possibly PROVE there's something encrypted there. And even if you do, there can be so many nested hidden encrypted partitions... And what about steganography... I'm sure it can be done at the file system level, setting permissions on file, tweaking file names etc.
Well ok, terrorists are not perfect, they might not know about all this, but still... one day they will.
"Web applications provider NetApplications reported that the open source browser's share of the market dropped by 0.7 percentage points from August to September."
Sure... it's the new school year, new computers ship with IE installed, I am not surprised at all.
Of course when people are not available to play 24/24 they don't want to be idle, they want to progress in the game. Forbidding botting is absurd. They should instead INCLUDE botting in the game by providing scripting facilities to players when they are away. Of course you'll tell me, not everyone knows how to write script... that is true. But many scripts could be exchanged between players, software that produce script with a wizard could appear etc.
They should embrace it, not fight it.
This was my guess too, but I think it explains only part of the truth... for example when displaying xy scatters where each point are clearly visible, excel still does it instantly while OOo takes an eternity.. I think it has to do whith the way it handles graphic display, cause other calculations are not that slower...
This has always been half and hour at least under every distribution I'v tried, debian, gentoo, kubuntu, fedora on various recent machines...
I don't know how you managed to get 2 minutes
Actually I thought it was a bug at first... appears some bug reports have been filed for this... but in fact it's just the implementation that's like that... maybe to few people care about 1000+ datapoints graphs for OOo but this is still very weird.
I can't figure what's taking so long.
Full Metal jacket... well I loved the first part... Oh wait, that's the one Kubrick added after because the movie was too short and was disatisfied with.
But when it comes to scenario he SUCKS - BIG TIME
Sorry, but IMHO he messed up 2001, it's a huge panaroma of beautiful symbolic images but I am under the impression he simply did not get the book.
The same is true for the Shining, great movie, beautiful, whatever you want... He changed the scenario, turning a "living house" type of horror novel into one's man mental breakdown, fine with me, and then he screws up the whole movie letting a ghost open a door.
A.I? Now Spielberg might have save parts of it but the influence of Kubrick is still very palpable in the mediocrity of the scenario... my my my...
Honestly, I want to love Openoffice and to advocate it... I have worked in finance on excel, dealing with huge huge spreadsheets and many graphs...
Have you tried to plot a 10 000 points graph in OOo Calc vs excel... in excel it is done in less than a second... In OOo the application will freeze for half and hour before slowly starting to display the graph. Cherry on the cake it will conviniently try to write "ROW" under each point in a huge ugly font.
After that, changing the data means of course waiting half an hour again because the chart is updating.
OOo calc simply doesn't do the job, how hard I wish it would.
I was programming small graphical games at 9 with GWBasic! If they want to prepare to a first programming experience, they should target a 5-7 yold audience, with something maybe easier.
To many many many users, this interface is "better" because they're just used to it. Stupid? Yes. Just remember most people are extremely confused if you switch their windows bar to the top of the screen, they will panick and get lost. That's how it is. You can switch them to Dvorak too, it's better.
The Good Thing it to have the choice between a powerfull interface and a conservative one. If this can bring TheGimp into mainstream use, this is good.
My girlfriend is a redhead and extremely sensitive to U.V. She travelled a lot and told me she never experienced stronger UV than in Antartic - even in places with similar conditions (all white)
Darwinian selection will enventually work its magic through the different standards.
P.S
Don't answer me betamax, betamax didn't survive because the tape length wasn't suited for pr0n, so it's natural VHS took over.
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You can't get immunized against the flu because no one knows what it will look like... Well, let's do a backtrack search of all possible mutations, get the 1000 most likely to happen and that could produce a pandemy, make a vaccine for each one of them, have this cocktail.
SO how long before they send lichen to mars... ok the fa says they do not metabolize and "suspend" in space... but maybe if ton of lichens were sent to mars, maybe some tiny fraction of it would start surviving and developping...
Ok I'll tell it once more. The centralized DNS systems stinks, there is a far better way to administrate it. Anyone with a public signature key could sign pairs of ServerName/IP and share them. Actually a peer to peer network could exchange such "trusted" pairs easily. This means anyone could become a central authority for DNS... now I don't have to trust anyone. I would probably decide to trust DNS pairs signed by Gnu, Microsoft and IBM, but I could have other choices. Providers could even decide only to sign non-porn domains for child protection etc.
Let me guess, you are not studying CS
Sounds like a very nice system for stalking girls... Oh wait, MIT
Why do these online stores think they have to have a single price policy! Not all movies are worth the same, this is stupid... it only helps retarded consumers who can't understand anything else. They want to sell movie ! Ok, then price everything at 8$ as a start and tweak the prices independently to maximize your profits, you'll also maximize the global happiness.
And why would they use weak encryption? And why wouldn't they use deniable encryption schemes with hidden encrypted partition... You can't possibly PROVE there's something encrypted there. And even if you do, there can be so many nested hidden encrypted partitions... And what about steganography... I'm sure it can be done at the file system level, setting permissions on file, tweaking file names etc. Well ok, terrorists are not perfect, they might not know about all this, but still... one day they will.
"Web applications provider NetApplications reported that the open source browser's share of the market dropped by 0.7 percentage points from August to September."
Sure... it's the new school year, new computers ship with IE installed, I am not surprised at all.
Of course when people are not available to play 24/24 they don't want to be idle, they want to progress in the game. Forbidding botting is absurd. They should instead INCLUDE botting in the game by providing scripting facilities to players when they are away. Of course you'll tell me, not everyone knows how to write script... that is true. But many scripts could be exchanged between players, software that produce script with a wizard could appear etc. They should embrace it, not fight it.
It's really nice, but I miss the trident, symbolizing the forking process... don't see how it could have been integrated though
This was my guess too, but I think it explains only part of the truth... for example when displaying xy scatters where each point are clearly visible, excel still does it instantly while OOo takes an eternity.. I think it has to do whith the way it handles graphic display, cause other calculations are not that slower...
This has always been half and hour at least under every distribution I'v tried, debian, gentoo, kubuntu, fedora on various recent machines... I don't know how you managed to get 2 minutes
Actually I thought it was a bug at first... appears some bug reports have been filed for this... but in fact it's just the implementation that's like that... maybe to few people care about 1000+ datapoints graphs for OOo but this is still very weird. I can't figure what's taking so long.
Humm you do know the screenplay was based on previous short stories by Clarke ?
Full Metal jacket... well I loved the first part... Oh wait, that's the one Kubrick added after because the movie was too short and was disatisfied with.
But when it comes to scenario he SUCKS - BIG TIME Sorry, but IMHO he messed up 2001, it's a huge panaroma of beautiful symbolic images but I am under the impression he simply did not get the book. The same is true for the Shining, great movie, beautiful, whatever you want... He changed the scenario, turning a "living house" type of horror novel into one's man mental breakdown, fine with me, and then he screws up the whole movie letting a ghost open a door. A.I? Now Spielberg might have save parts of it but the influence of Kubrick is still very palpable in the mediocrity of the scenario... my my my...
Honestly, I want to love Openoffice and to advocate it... I have worked in finance on excel, dealing with huge huge spreadsheets and many graphs... Have you tried to plot a 10 000 points graph in OOo Calc vs excel... in excel it is done in less than a second... In OOo the application will freeze for half and hour before slowly starting to display the graph. Cherry on the cake it will conviniently try to write "ROW" under each point in a huge ugly font. After that, changing the data means of course waiting half an hour again because the chart is updating. OOo calc simply doesn't do the job, how hard I wish it would.
I have lived in Paris and Manhattan. The cost of life is similar.
FYI France's mimimum wage is $1500/mo
Countries outside the US are not necesseraly third world countries or developping countries striving with gigantic inflation and low currency.
I was programming small graphical games at 9 with GWBasic!
If they want to prepare to a first programming experience, they should target a 5-7 yold audience, with something maybe easier.
To many many many users, this interface is "better" because they're just used to it. Stupid? Yes. Just remember most people are extremely confused if you switch their windows bar to the top of the screen, they will panick and get lost. That's how it is. You can switch them to Dvorak too, it's better. The Good Thing it to have the choice between a powerfull interface and a conservative one. If this can bring TheGimp into mainstream use, this is good.
Thank you! someone got it
...our new mind controlling parasites How long until they form a political party?
My girlfriend is a redhead and extremely sensitive to U.V. She travelled a lot and told me she never experienced stronger UV than in Antartic - even in places with similar conditions (all white)
Darwinian selection will enventually work its magic through the different standards. P.S Don't answer me betamax, betamax didn't survive because the tape length wasn't suited for pr0n, so it's natural VHS took over.