When I was an undergrad, most exams in advanced science and engineering classes allowed you to bring ANYTHING as long as it didn't involve communication with people outside the room.
What my teachers told me was that I could anything as long as it did not dim the lights when plugged in. Not university, I never went.:(
While you are correct, your analysis is too simplified. ISIL does not exist as a backlash against modern society. It exists as a vehicle to gain power. It is currently popular due to sectarian policies and funded through wishful thinking from outsiders. ISIL aka IS aka Da'esh, will soon become self-sustaining, at which point, lots of people will have real problems on their hands.
and those on the East and Gulf coasts, like New York and Washington, D.C. would receive millimeters or less (fractions of an inch).
I find that difficult to believe. Mount Saint Helens dropped several millimeters of ash in Denver. A super volcano should be dropping more than that MUCH further away.
Nobody in eastern Ukraine considers themselves Ukrainian, including my Family who has lived there for generations. Eastern Ukraine has always been and will continue to be Russian.
Yes, but the Ukraine government is in charge of the lands that your family lives on. How about actually moving to Russian controlled lands if you want to ally yourself to Russia instead of risking the deaths of tens to hundreds of thousands of people because YOU are dissatisfied with the government that you live under?
You do realize that not everyone is Eastern Ukraine is so eager to live under Russian rule right? Why are you so eager to sacrifice their lives instead of just moving to Russia?
LOL. You assume that I am a young illegal drug user. Again, you are naive. I am a 47 year old male who makes more than $100k year and I get drug tested regularly.
Again, if someone wants to do drugs, society is better off not interfering as the interference causes more problems than it solves.
For some weird reason, you and people like you seem to persist in thinking that outlawing something prevents that something from happening. I think the evidence is in and is very clear: Making drugs illegal does NOT prevent drugs from being used and it does not even significantly reduce the incidence of the usage of drugs (or alcohol, but same difference).
If you make drugs, alcohol, prostitution, etc illegal, you will NOT stop those things from happening, which I am assuming is the end goal of making it illegal. Worse, making those things illegal causes a host of other issues including a much higher incidence of death... but yeah. Keep on keeping on. It is all fun and games until it is your own daughter or son caught up in that shit. Reality may visit you then. Hopefully you will get a more practical viewpoint then... but I am not holding my breath. It is more important to be morally right than to actually care about people.
I did use some profanity in my previous post but I consider that casual language. There is no combat here.
I lived and worked in California for over 7 years. I honestly saw no sexism there. San Diego to be exact. I worked in 4 different jobs there, one as a consultant where I met lots of people. Many of them very successful and wealthy women. Lawyers, judges, doctors, business real estate owners, etc.
None of the places I worked at in California would have tolerated sexism or racism of any sort. I worked alongside more males than females but all of the females were treated the same as the males. If they could contribute, they were fully accepted. If not, not so much... but the same standard applied to males.
In Colorado, none of the people I know are racist or sexist (I did know a person or two who was racist in San Diego). None of the places I have worked at or currently work at would tolerate racism or sexism at all. I am sure there are some racist and sexist people there and everywhere but it sure seems to not be very prevalent at all and nobody that I know would tolerate such absurdities.
In summary, there are plenty of reasons to dislike or disrespect people. Why add to the mix with silly stuff like race or gender?
Quick anecdote, my daughter took her car to the dealer for service and was charged $3k for services that were not needed. Was it sexism or preying on naivete? Grrrr. Regardless, it was wrong.
I predict that a current generation mainline i7 and i5 will be sufficient for any "desktop" task more or less for ever (or until we move away from a physical interface like keyboard / mouse and touchscreens).
Do not confuse the current state of stagnation with what will actually happen. You could have said the same thing about web browsers back in the IE6 days: It does everything that is needed and there is no more advancement in sight.
Things WILL change. More processing power will be needed. Current paradigms (not buzzword bingo paradigms) will become outmoded. New ways of programming and solving problems will come to pass. Tomorrow? No. The market has been captured and is being thoroughly raped. It can not stay this way forever though.
Tell them that it's their first instinct because they don't want to believe that they could be part of the problem, however slightly.
You must travel in some fucked up social circles. I do not see this type of behavior at all. Maybe Colorado is just full of nicer people? You people seem to live in some seriously fucked up sections of the planet.
What I see around me is that people act as people without regard to their gender. Yes, women generally act differently than men and Mexicans generally act differently than Koreans. Not generally a problem.
It just blows me away that there is all this crazy shit going on elsewhere and everyone assuming it is the same way everywhere else. It is not. Yes, there are always some people who do fucked up things. You can not get rid of those people because new ones keep being born.
To conclude, women are not being held down by men everywhere and it is absurd for you to assume that they are. Move to Colorado. It seems nicer out here.
I think you are not realizing exactly how long ago this was. Debian existed, yes. Debian had no safety rails at the time. No distributions did. This was when Slackware was still below version 2. I was upgrading (manually) to version 2.3 iirc. RPM for Redhat was still in its infancy as well.
Hm. I am not entirely certain that counts... but okay. It is more legitimate of a claim than any other assuming they can indeed prove an unbroken lineage.
Meh. You are just a fraction of a percent. A rounding error. In this new world of global dominance and market share, fractions of a percent do not count. That is what the MBA folks say anyways.:)
The climate is currently taking a 'hiatus' from warming due to the alleged storage of heat in the deep ocean.
I am not part of this Global Warming thing; either for or against. I believe in trying not to affect the environment as much as possible and I am aware of all of the yelling and screaming; however, heating the deep parts of the ocean scare me like building an atom bomb in my basement scares me.
Do you recall the huge tsunami that hit Indonesia, Thailand, etc? IIRC it was back in 2007 or so. That was nothing compared to what heating the depths of the ocean will do. The ocean is HUGE and the thermal inertia is just O.M.F.G. huge. Storing that much energy on the planet can only be a VERY bad thing. I have no idea what will happen because of that amount of energy being stored but it will not be good if it is not released again VERY slowly and carefully.
As long as the watermark does not interfere with the quality, I am 100% for watermarks. I fully and emphatically support the right of a creator to be acknowledged throughout all of time to be the creator and to possibly profit off of the piece that was created. The profit part implies some sort of copyright laws but it should be noted that I strongly and emphatically despise current copyright law.
In short, anything that does not affect the use by the person paying for the copyrighted work is fair game.
As for your "recorded half-way through" comment, it would be clear that the video didn't start at the beginning and that the cops arrived late at the scene. If a jury can't understand that, you're fucked anyway.
We are building turnkey police state infrastructure.
The last of my mod points expired yesterday. What a shame because this right here is decidedly very insightful and bears repeating. Sure, a lot of people feel safe and secure and think this will only be a good thing... until they find out that any good from it is an unintentional side effect. By then, it will be too late.
In short, you are a paranoid nutter... but you are right.
Hm. It is rare to see a +6 type of comment twice in a year but you nailed it. Hard. Google could indeed deliver the coup de grace to Microsoft today. Almost makes you wonder why they have refrained from doing so.
If you take a step back and look at the latest phones and tablets, the majority of them have tile interfaces in some form or another. So, it looks like some form of tiles will be here to stay.
Erm, a desktop is NOT used for the same things phones and tablets are used for. What makes you think that the interface should be anywhere near similar for all use cases? Does Maya have the same interface as Counter Strike? Does Eclipse have the same interface as Civilization V? Does Maya have the same interface as Eclipse?
Sure, they all use a mouse and keyboard, but they use them radically differently. How the hell is touch interface supposed to work with ANY of those programs that I listed? The only one that seems even vaguely capable of being touch related is Civilization V followed not closely at all by Maya.
Touch interfaces can be an extremely powerful and intuitive paradigm, but it is being done 100% wrong at the expense of the usefulness of the other interface devices such as a keyboard and possibly mouse.
Tiles are purely a menuing system. That is all. There are more efficient menus out there than touch enabled tiles.
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When I was an undergrad, most exams in advanced science and engineering classes allowed you to bring ANYTHING as long as it didn't involve communication with people outside the room.
What my teachers told me was that I could anything as long as it did not dim the lights when plugged in. Not university, I never went. :(
... they seem scattered and their thought processes tend to run wild;...
Ugh. I hate myself for saying this: Correlation does not imply causation.
What I mean is maybe the mental issues exist regardless and may be the cause of the marijuana use.
While you are correct, your analysis is too simplified. ISIL does not exist as a backlash against modern society. It exists as a vehicle to gain power. It is currently popular due to sectarian policies and funded through wishful thinking from outsiders. ISIL aka IS aka Da'esh, will soon become self-sustaining, at which point, lots of people will have real problems on their hands.
and those on the East and Gulf coasts, like New York and Washington, D.C. would receive millimeters or less (fractions of an inch).
I find that difficult to believe. Mount Saint Helens dropped several millimeters of ash in Denver. A super volcano should be dropping more than that MUCH further away.
Some archive apps like WinRAR can extract files from self-extracting EXE files.
7zip. Hands down.
7zip. Works on Linux, integrates beautifully in Explorer in Windows. There must be a Macports version of it too but I am not certain of that.
7zip.
Nobody in eastern Ukraine considers themselves Ukrainian, including my Family who has lived there for generations. Eastern Ukraine has always been and will continue to be Russian.
Yes, but the Ukraine government is in charge of the lands that your family lives on. How about actually moving to Russian controlled lands if you want to ally yourself to Russia instead of risking the deaths of tens to hundreds of thousands of people because YOU are dissatisfied with the government that you live under?
You do realize that not everyone is Eastern Ukraine is so eager to live under Russian rule right? Why are you so eager to sacrifice their lives instead of just moving to Russia?
LOL. You assume that I am a young illegal drug user. Again, you are naive. I am a 47 year old male who makes more than $100k year and I get drug tested regularly.
Again, if someone wants to do drugs, society is better off not interfering as the interference causes more problems than it solves.
For some weird reason, you and people like you seem to persist in thinking that outlawing something prevents that something from happening. I think the evidence is in and is very clear: Making drugs illegal does NOT prevent drugs from being used and it does not even significantly reduce the incidence of the usage of drugs (or alcohol, but same difference).
If you make drugs, alcohol, prostitution, etc illegal, you will NOT stop those things from happening, which I am assuming is the end goal of making it illegal. Worse, making those things illegal causes a host of other issues including a much higher incidence of death... but yeah. Keep on keeping on. It is all fun and games until it is your own daughter or son caught up in that shit. Reality may visit you then. Hopefully you will get a more practical viewpoint then... but I am not holding my breath. It is more important to be morally right than to actually care about people.
I did use some profanity in my previous post but I consider that casual language. There is no combat here.
I lived and worked in California for over 7 years. I honestly saw no sexism there. San Diego to be exact. I worked in 4 different jobs there, one as a consultant where I met lots of people. Many of them very successful and wealthy women. Lawyers, judges, doctors, business real estate owners, etc.
None of the places I worked at in California would have tolerated sexism or racism of any sort. I worked alongside more males than females but all of the females were treated the same as the males. If they could contribute, they were fully accepted. If not, not so much... but the same standard applied to males.
In Colorado, none of the people I know are racist or sexist (I did know a person or two who was racist in San Diego). None of the places I have worked at or currently work at would tolerate racism or sexism at all. I am sure there are some racist and sexist people there and everywhere but it sure seems to not be very prevalent at all and nobody that I know would tolerate such absurdities.
In summary, there are plenty of reasons to dislike or disrespect people. Why add to the mix with silly stuff like race or gender?
Quick anecdote, my daughter took her car to the dealer for service and was charged $3k for services that were not needed. Was it sexism or preying on naivete? Grrrr. Regardless, it was wrong.
I predict that a current generation mainline i7 and i5 will be sufficient for any "desktop" task more or less for ever (or until we move away from a physical interface like keyboard / mouse and touchscreens).
Do not confuse the current state of stagnation with what will actually happen. You could have said the same thing about web browsers back in the IE6 days: It does everything that is needed and there is no more advancement in sight.
Things WILL change. More processing power will be needed. Current paradigms (not buzzword bingo paradigms) will become outmoded. New ways of programming and solving problems will come to pass. Tomorrow? No. The market has been captured and is being thoroughly raped. It can not stay this way forever though.
Question for the reader: Am I joking, trolling, or serious?
Yes.
If somebody here has had FBI help for small-dollar crimes where that was their only option, then I'd love to hear counterexamples.
Quite a few years ago, I found out that the FBI will not move if the dollar value is below $5,000. I am sure that point has gone up, not down.
Tell them that it's their first instinct because they don't want to believe that they could be part of the problem, however slightly.
You must travel in some fucked up social circles. I do not see this type of behavior at all. Maybe Colorado is just full of nicer people? You people seem to live in some seriously fucked up sections of the planet.
What I see around me is that people act as people without regard to their gender. Yes, women generally act differently than men and Mexicans generally act differently than Koreans. Not generally a problem.
It just blows me away that there is all this crazy shit going on elsewhere and everyone assuming it is the same way everywhere else. It is not. Yes, there are always some people who do fucked up things. You can not get rid of those people because new ones keep being born.
To conclude, women are not being held down by men everywhere and it is absurd for you to assume that they are. Move to Colorado. It seems nicer out here.
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No one is forcing them to do drugs.
Indeed. But YOU and people like you are forcing the money they spend on drugs into criminal enterprises. Which was entirely the point.
I can already hear you now: "But, but if they did not DO the drugs in the first place, it would not be a problem."
Carry on with your naivete kind sir. Carry on.
I think you are not realizing exactly how long ago this was. Debian existed, yes. Debian had no safety rails at the time. No distributions did. This was when Slackware was still below version 2. I was upgrading (manually) to version 2.3 iirc. RPM for Redhat was still in its infancy as well.
Heh. Indeed. It is literally one of the reasons I became a diehard Linux fan. I could never have recovered like that in Windows.
Hm. I am not entirely certain that counts... but okay. It is more legitimate of a claim than any other assuming they can indeed prove an unbroken lineage.
I was scheduled to work from home today
Meh. You are just a fraction of a percent. A rounding error. In this new world of global dominance and market share, fractions of a percent do not count. That is what the MBA folks say anyways. :)
The climate is currently taking a 'hiatus' from warming due to the alleged storage of heat in the deep ocean.
I am not part of this Global Warming thing; either for or against. I believe in trying not to affect the environment as much as possible and I am aware of all of the yelling and screaming; however, heating the deep parts of the ocean scare me like building an atom bomb in my basement scares me.
Do you recall the huge tsunami that hit Indonesia, Thailand, etc? IIRC it was back in 2007 or so. That was nothing compared to what heating the depths of the ocean will do. The ocean is HUGE and the thermal inertia is just O.M.F.G. huge. Storing that much energy on the planet can only be a VERY bad thing. I have no idea what will happen because of that amount of energy being stored but it will not be good if it is not released again VERY slowly and carefully.
I remind him that Jesus founded the Catholic Church as His Church and thus it and the Pope speak for God; and it says so in the Bible
Say what? I have read through several versions of the christian bible and at no point do I recall Jesus founding the Catholic Church.
In Wikipedia terms: Citation Needed.
As long as the watermark does not interfere with the quality, I am 100% for watermarks. I fully and emphatically support the right of a creator to be acknowledged throughout all of time to be the creator and to possibly profit off of the piece that was created. The profit part implies some sort of copyright laws but it should be noted that I strongly and emphatically despise current copyright law.
In short, anything that does not affect the use by the person paying for the copyrighted work is fair game.
As for your "recorded half-way through" comment, it would be clear that the video didn't start at the beginning and that the cops arrived late at the scene. If a jury can't understand that, you're fucked anyway.
So you really are fucked anyway. Heh.
We are building turnkey police state infrastructure.
The last of my mod points expired yesterday. What a shame because this right here is decidedly very insightful and bears repeating. Sure, a lot of people feel safe and secure and think this will only be a good thing... until they find out that any good from it is an unintentional side effect. By then, it will be too late.
In short, you are a paranoid nutter... but you are right.
Hm. It is rare to see a +6 type of comment twice in a year but you nailed it. Hard. Google could indeed deliver the coup de grace to Microsoft today. Almost makes you wonder why they have refrained from doing so.
If you take a step back and look at the latest phones and tablets, the majority of them have tile interfaces in some form or another. So, it looks like some form of tiles will be here to stay.
Erm, a desktop is NOT used for the same things phones and tablets are used for. What makes you think that the interface should be anywhere near similar for all use cases? Does Maya have the same interface as Counter Strike? Does Eclipse have the same interface as Civilization V? Does Maya have the same interface as Eclipse?
Sure, they all use a mouse and keyboard, but they use them radically differently. How the hell is touch interface supposed to work with ANY of those programs that I listed? The only one that seems even vaguely capable of being touch related is Civilization V followed not closely at all by Maya.
Touch interfaces can be an extremely powerful and intuitive paradigm, but it is being done 100% wrong at the expense of the usefulness of the other interface devices such as a keyboard and possibly mouse.
Tiles are purely a menuing system. That is all. There are more efficient menus out there than touch enabled tiles.