For years windows guys have been telling me how backwards us *nix types were for reliance on the keyboard. Now suddenly to try pump Wndows 8, the keyboard is a great thing.
WTF? Windows 95 was an unstable pile of shit, bits of Windows for Workgroups glued on to a terrible Win32 implementation. It was a rickety disaster released at least a year too soon out of fear that OS/2 Warp might gain enough adoption to fuck up the precious OEM model necessary to Redmond's survival.
Even Windows 98 was semi dubious until SE2, and modules like Winsock were rewritten so they didn't barf with obscene regularity.
The Republicans are taking care of Norquist's puppets. The rank and file realize the Tea Party isn't just a cancer on the GOP, it's a potentially fatal one. They realize all to clearly that the only thing that prevented a total loss in Washington was gerrymandering, and with the major demographic shifts occurring even in supposedly rock solid red states, they don't have that long to get their shit together. Norquist will soon be forgotten, Tea Party Representatives will either be detoxed or marginalized.
It may be too soon for GOP hopes for the 2014 midterms, but Norquist-style stupidity has to been by 2016.
And then when the first big hurricane, tornado or tsunami of Paul's presidency kills tens of thousands because NOAA has been wipes out, I'm sure you will feel proud of having put an ideological fruitcake in the White House.
Yup. Mine came with Windows 7 Starter. Had plenty of spare Windows XP Pro licenses kicking around, so through one of those on it. It's got a 1 gb of RAM and a reasonably okay hard drive, so XP runs very well. I suppose if I wanted to, I could throw Ubuntu or Debian on it, and probably get even a few additional horsepower, but I do have a need to run MS-Office, and it's a member of my AD network, so it's just easier to go XP.
I bought a used Acer Aspire 1 earlier this year on Ebay, and it's a great little machine. Not terribly fast, but for what I need; taking notes, reading documents, email and the like it does the job nicely. I bought a low-end Bluetooth keyboard for when I need to do a bit more typing or coding. Probably the best $150 I've ever spent.
There's no way to know because he's dead, but there's certainly a body of evidence suggesting neurological differences between genius level mathemetic prodigies to suggest that a poor young man from an Indian village who literally taught himself 100 years worth of mathematics was in possession of cognitive abilities beyond the average person's.
The amount of grey matter is an obscenely crude way to measure intelligence. What I find interesting is your need to make the man average and ordinary. Does the possibility that some have greater cognitive capacity than others bother you?
I suspect that you're quite wrong. The man was a mathematical prodigy. I don't think it was a matter of choice at all, but rather some sort of unique wiring
In other words we will take no responsibility, do nothing to militate and will wantonly chew up resources.
We have a chance here to move away from an oil based economy with two bonuses; first we stop vomiting massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and secondly we don't burn away long chain hydrocarbons which are far more valuable than as energy.
Amazing. I have now seen the AGW skeptic equivalent of "there are no fossils of fish turning into humans."
Most data has gaps of some kind. That's why you use statistical analysis and correction. Once again the need to deny AGW means having to deny methodologies used in vast and diverse areas of science.
I remember my brother and I getting a Lego castle (this was in the early 1980s). The first time we built it was "by the book". We got bored with that, started expanding it with our other sets. The pieces all got mixed up, box thrown out and instructions lost. I remember building a spaceship with those wall pieces.
But it isn't enough by orders of a magnitude. It's rather like saying "the only thing standing between me and lethal staph infection is this wheel of Danish blue cheese."
If the US government becomes a tyranny you're fucked, and even if you kill off a few cops with your assault rifles, sooner or later they'll just blow you to Kingdom Come. You're so far from parity even from a moderate sized city's police forc that what you wrote is laughably idiotic.
The Second Amendment was a lovely idea for securing liberty in 18th century, but as I said, by 1864-65, not even the Confederacy with its West Point graduates, seasoned generals from the Mexican-American War, and no lack of men willing to lay down their lives could keep Federal forces from crushing them.
Of the US did become a police state, so you seriously think even the combined strength of all the gun owners in America would be able to prevent it?
The 2nd Amendmeny was written when parity or near parity of force could be reached relatively easily because wars were fought with single shot firearms and cannon. But it want even a century after the Bill of Rights were written that the combined strength of the Confederate States was insufficient to defy Federal might for more than a few years.
Any gun owner who thinks the only thing standing between then and tyranny is their weapons is by definition either an idiot or insane.
To some extent I can buy the self defense argument, though the first victim of this latest mass shooting was a Prepper. Sadly the NRA is incapable of seeing the irony in that.
Yes mass shootings happen, even where there is gun control. But the rate of gun deaths in the US is so out of lunch with other Western countries that there has to be some explanation beyond insane people alone. I think no small part of the problem is found in your post; a sort of gun fetishism bordering on worship, to the point of where any gun debate is seen by a sizeable portion of the population as heresy.
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Said information is publicly available. If the second amendment protects gun owners, the first amendment protects this newspaper.
Or for angry gun owners to make threats to said newspaper.
I was going to point out that you missed the deeper, sadder irony, but then read your sig and decided that would likely be a waste of time.
The sensible thing to do is to build the craft in space. Then the mass of the vehicle really isn't that much of an overarching concern.
For years windows guys have been telling me how backwards us *nix types were for reliance on the keyboard. Now suddenly to try pump Wndows 8, the keyboard is a great thing.
WTF? Windows 95 was an unstable pile of shit, bits of Windows for Workgroups glued on to a terrible Win32 implementation. It was a rickety disaster released at least a year too soon out of fear that OS/2 Warp might gain enough adoption to fuck up the precious OEM model necessary to Redmond's survival.
Even Windows 98 was semi dubious until SE2, and modules like Winsock were rewritten so they didn't barf with obscene regularity.
It's kind of sad how some guys fall so hard for inflatable vaginas.
The Republicans are taking care of Norquist's puppets. The rank and file realize the Tea Party isn't just a cancer on the GOP, it's a potentially fatal one. They realize all to clearly that the only thing that prevented a total loss in Washington was gerrymandering, and with the major demographic shifts occurring even in supposedly rock solid red states, they don't have that long to get their shit together. Norquist will soon be forgotten, Tea Party Representatives will either be detoxed or marginalized.
It may be too soon for GOP hopes for the 2014 midterms, but Norquist-style stupidity has to been by 2016.
And then when the first big hurricane, tornado or tsunami of Paul's presidency kills tens of thousands because NOAA has been wipes out, I'm sure you will feel proud of having put an ideological fruitcake in the White House.
1998 called and want their attack vector back.
Yup. Mine came with Windows 7 Starter. Had plenty of spare Windows XP Pro licenses kicking around, so through one of those on it. It's got a 1 gb of RAM and a reasonably okay hard drive, so XP runs very well. I suppose if I wanted to, I could throw Ubuntu or Debian on it, and probably get even a few additional horsepower, but I do have a need to run MS-Office, and it's a member of my AD network, so it's just easier to go XP.
I bought a used Acer Aspire 1 earlier this year on Ebay, and it's a great little machine. Not terribly fast, but for what I need; taking notes, reading documents, email and the like it does the job nicely. I bought a low-end Bluetooth keyboard for when I need to do a bit more typing or coding. Probably the best $150 I've ever spent.
When were the Libertarians ever not part of the Republican Party. They have long been American Conservatism's useful idiots.
Marxist AGW scientists?
#include <irony.h>
The brain of the man very likely was different than 99% of the rest of humans.
There's no way to know because he's dead, but there's certainly a body of evidence suggesting neurological differences between genius level mathemetic prodigies to suggest that a poor young man from an Indian village who literally taught himself 100 years worth of mathematics was in possession of cognitive abilities beyond the average person's.
The amount of grey matter is an obscenely crude way to measure intelligence. What I find interesting is your need to make the man average and ordinary. Does the possibility that some have greater cognitive capacity than others bother you?
I suspect that you're quite wrong. The man was a mathematical prodigy. I don't think it was a matter of choice at all, but rather some sort of unique wiring
Hey look! Someone has a "solution" to our economic problems that involves forced sterilization. How novel and original.
Come out my testicles or my kids' gonads with your reversible sterilization tweezers and I'll give you an irreversible brain injury.
I hope your family is planning on getting rid of their firearms soon.
In other words we will take no responsibility, do nothing to militate and will wantonly chew up resources.
We have a chance here to move away from an oil based economy with two bonuses; first we stop vomiting massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and secondly we don't burn away long chain hydrocarbons which are far more valuable than as energy.
Amazing. I have now seen the AGW skeptic equivalent of "there are no fossils of fish turning into humans."
Most data has gaps of some kind. That's why you use statistical analysis and correction. Once again the need to deny AGW means having to deny methodologies used in vast and diverse areas of science.
I remember my brother and I getting a Lego castle (this was in the early 1980s). The first time we built it was "by the book". We got bored with that, started expanding it with our other sets. The pieces all got mixed up, box thrown out and instructions lost. I remember building a spaceship with those wall pieces.
That doesn't even make sense. What is it you're trying to say?
But it isn't enough by orders of a magnitude. It's rather like saying "the only thing standing between me and lethal staph infection is this wheel of Danish blue cheese."
If the US government becomes a tyranny you're fucked, and even if you kill off a few cops with your assault rifles, sooner or later they'll just blow you to Kingdom Come. You're so far from parity even from a moderate sized city's police forc that what you wrote is laughably idiotic.
The Second Amendment was a lovely idea for securing liberty in 18th century, but as I said, by 1864-65, not even the Confederacy with its West Point graduates, seasoned generals from the Mexican-American War, and no lack of men willing to lay down their lives could keep Federal forces from crushing them.
Just be glad the US isn't actually a tyranny.
Of the US did become a police state, so you seriously think even the combined strength of all the gun owners in America would be able to prevent it?
The 2nd Amendmeny was written when parity or near parity of force could be reached relatively easily because wars were fought with single shot firearms and cannon. But it want even a century after the Bill of Rights were written that the combined strength of the Confederate States was insufficient to defy Federal might for more than a few years.
Any gun owner who thinks the only thing standing between then and tyranny is their weapons is by definition either an idiot or insane.
To some extent I can buy the self defense argument, though the first victim of this latest mass shooting was a Prepper. Sadly the NRA is incapable of seeing the irony in that.
Yes mass shootings happen, even where there is gun control. But the rate of gun deaths in the US is so out of lunch with other Western countries that there has to be some explanation beyond insane people alone. I think no small part of the problem is found in your post; a sort of gun fetishism bordering on worship, to the point of where any gun debate is seen by a sizeable portion of the population as heresy.
On this side of the world people don't want to so anything about AGW because we might have to carpool or put up with wind turbines.
Every culture seems to have its idiotic antiscientitic hang ups.