Wasn't it political pressure and a flawed concept of nuclear engineering that enabled the Chernobyl incident to happen? I know there was also the RBMK design flaw, but seriously...
Call me a luddite, but with everything modern society forces us to remember/memorize, memorizing jibberish on a test will suffer greatly by the increased load. Hence, monkeys with the reduced load on their memory will outperform their more intelligent cousins. Disclaimer: I *am* a College Student.
It's the cancer, blood poisoning, and nervous-system failure resulting from radiation exposure that's deadly. I mean, the only way I can think of offhand to kill someone with radiation is to microwave them.
Not only that, but there is clearly a morality issue here, as well. The Discovery Institute sounds like only one of a number of such right-wing "Christian" organizations, who try to lead people to "truth" and to "god". Now, I know not of the DI, but I have knowledge of several similar groups who claim Evolution, secularization of the public sphere, etc. are the root cause of urban/moral/societal decay. Most of these groups champion a return to biblical teachings as the route to a moral society.
Now, name for me what document these groups want prominently displayed in schools, courthouses, capitals, etc? The Ten Commandments.
For a group as "devoted" to the Bible as this, for them to lie and steal just goes to show you to watch out for con-men in a Shepard's guise.
Disclaimer: all material in quotes is because I find the right-wing distortions of said quoted items to be gross perversions of said subjects.
Yeah, but the seek time on the Executor is horrible!
Ever try to find one worker on the port side, when you are on the bridge? Not to mention the random A-Wing events causing the whole drive to crash!
Not only that, but it would be highly ineffective. Russia is a exceedingly VAST country, (12 timezones, 1/6 of the world's surface IIRC) and Stalin was once said after touring post-nuke Japan that the USSR could survive normally after four nukes.
Fact 5. The network was not experiencing issues, it was simply inadequate. Packet shaping the UDP is only a temporary fix, network use will only grow in the future. Face it, this is the same thing as the big Telcos eliminating Net Neutrality, just on a smaller scale and with less money-grubbing.
If Microsoft wasn't the one successful as a user's operating system, allowing them to connect with Google, etc...
Then someone else would have been successful on the desktop side of the equasion (Apple? IBM? DEC? Linux? Unix?) and users still would have accessed Google, giving them their current position. It matters not if it was Microsoft or not, as while their positions are mutually beneficial, they are not directly tied to one another.
* Create a new partition, with the barest minimum of space Vista needs. (2-3 GB I believe, though I refuse to touch Vista with a ten foot pole. Also, I can't read fine print from ten feet away.)
* Set Vista as the default in the bootloader unless you hit a button and select Linux.
* Back up your data!
* Take it in, and ask a different PFY about it.
* If the salesrep even mentions Linux in any way, boot the system and show them the Suck ("Wow") of Vista.
* Enjoy your fixed laptop.
True, it would allow the chip to function longer on descent. Building a vessel to hold it lightweight enough to launch, but heavy enough to survive the massive pressures of Venus' dense atmosphere is still the challenge.
Can you imagine a Venus lander 'floating' on a super-dense gas/liquid? It's Sci-Fi for the foreseeable future; and, likely forever. /OT: Notice to all operators and grammar nazis. This station is operated by a man with a headcold. All scientific and spelling errors are unfortunate.
Will buy if:
*Contains no advertising
*Contains little to no DRM
*Is Modular (Updating one device/service/etc doesn't require a whole reboot)
*Is more useful and less bloated than previous versions.
Will NOT buy if:
*Is only a graphics update, or
*Is anything like Vista
The company Monsanto is behind the 'terminator gene' and they really do call it that.
Even a glance at googling Monsanto is turning up some disturbing things (pollution/dumping chemicals, DRM for seeds, etc.)
If Microsoft put as much energy into making a good operating system as they did in planning how to "defeat" open source, they might have a halfway decent product. Sadly, they keep dicking around with crappy models and outdated notions.
If M$ released a product which was as interoperable as Linux, as customizable as Linux, as modular as Linux, and as user-supportive as Linux, there would be no pressing need for Linux. Imagine if M$ sold Windows in boxes at a retail store for one base price (for individuals and families,) where you could install updates/optimizations/customizations/etc without having to buy a new OS to get said features. M$ would indeed make more money selling a license in this manner due to sheer popularity. (For comparison, see http://kerneltrap.org/node/8197 where Linus talks of all the new architectures and stacks available on 2.6.22-RC1) Imagine if users of M$ products could get new, optimized stacks for free. Would that not make you love Windows?
Sadly, M$ is committed to charging more and providing less. That's why we have Linux.
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The acid test is currently broken.
Coincidence?
Proof: Here's a mirror of the Acid2 Test, FF passes. http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/002/
Wasn't it political pressure and a flawed concept of nuclear engineering that enabled the Chernobyl incident to happen? I know there was also the RBMK design flaw, but seriously...
those who don't learn from history...
Call me a luddite, but with everything modern society forces us to remember/memorize, memorizing jibberish on a test will suffer greatly by the increased load. Hence, monkeys with the reduced load on their memory will outperform their more intelligent cousins.
Disclaimer: I *am* a College Student.
It's the cancer, blood poisoning, and nervous-system failure resulting from radiation exposure that's deadly. I mean, the only way I can think of offhand to kill someone with radiation is to microwave them.
Not only that, but there is clearly a morality issue here, as well. The Discovery Institute sounds like only one of a number of such right-wing "Christian" organizations, who try to lead people to "truth" and to "god". Now, I know not of the DI, but I have knowledge of several similar groups who claim Evolution, secularization of the public sphere, etc. are the root cause of urban/moral/societal decay. Most of these groups champion a return to biblical teachings as the route to a moral society.
Now, name for me what document these groups want prominently displayed in schools, courthouses, capitals, etc?
The Ten Commandments.
For a group as "devoted" to the Bible as this, for them to lie and steal just goes to show you to watch out for con-men in a Shepard's guise.
Disclaimer: all material in quotes is because I find the right-wing distortions of said quoted items to be gross perversions of said subjects.
Yeah, but the seek time on the Executor is horrible! Ever try to find one worker on the port side, when you are on the bridge? Not to mention the random A-Wing events causing the whole drive to crash!
And honestly, I can't tell too much difference on Firefox. I haven't tried MSIE (ugh) but I might....
Not only that, but it would be highly ineffective. Russia is a exceedingly VAST country, (12 timezones, 1/6 of the world's surface IIRC) and Stalin was once said after touring post-nuke Japan that the USSR could survive normally after four nukes.
Fact 5. The network was not experiencing issues, it was simply inadequate. Packet shaping the UDP is only a temporary fix, network use will only grow in the future. Face it, this is the same thing as the big Telcos eliminating Net Neutrality, just on a smaller scale and with less money-grubbing.
If Microsoft wasn't the one successful as a user's operating system, allowing them to connect with Google, etc...
Then someone else would have been successful on the desktop side of the equasion (Apple? IBM? DEC? Linux? Unix?) and users still would have accessed Google, giving them their current position. It matters not if it was Microsoft or not, as while their positions are mutually beneficial, they are not directly tied to one another.
Perhaps not, but we all know copylaws apply.
Sean Patrick O'Toole, anyone? http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/alleged-piracy-kingpin-facing-extradition/2006/02/10/1139465836383.html
Bah. Venus? Somehow I got Venus and Jupiter mixed up. Mea culpa.
* Create a new partition, with the barest minimum of space Vista needs. (2-3 GB I believe, though I refuse to touch Vista with a ten foot pole. Also, I can't read fine print from ten feet away.)
* Set Vista as the default in the bootloader unless you hit a button and select Linux.
* Back up your data!
* Take it in, and ask a different PFY about it.
* If the salesrep even mentions Linux in any way, boot the system and show them the Suck ("Wow") of Vista.
* Enjoy your fixed laptop.
True, it would allow the chip to function longer on descent. Building a vessel to hold it lightweight enough to launch, but heavy enough to survive the massive pressures of Venus' dense atmosphere is still the challenge.
Can you imagine a Venus lander 'floating' on a super-dense gas/liquid? It's Sci-Fi for the foreseeable future; and, likely forever.
/OT: Notice to all operators and grammar nazis. This station is operated by a man with a headcold. All scientific and spelling errors are unfortunate.
Pardon, but the designation was Species 8472.
Live long and prosper.
Will buy if:
*Contains no advertising
*Contains little to no DRM
*Is Modular (Updating one device/service/etc doesn't require a whole reboot)
*Is more useful and less bloated than previous versions.
Will NOT buy if:
*Is only a graphics update, or
*Is anything like Vista
The company Monsanto is behind the 'terminator gene' and they really do call it that. Even a glance at googling Monsanto is turning up some disturbing things (pollution/dumping chemicals, DRM for seeds, etc.)
Lets hope Canada passes this.
(Anchor optional.)
If Microsoft put as much energy into making a good operating system as they did in planning how to "defeat" open source, they might have a halfway decent product. Sadly, they keep dicking around with crappy models and outdated notions. If M$ released a product which was as interoperable as Linux, as customizable as Linux, as modular as Linux, and as user-supportive as Linux, there would be no pressing need for Linux. Imagine if M$ sold Windows in boxes at a retail store for one base price (for individuals and families,) where you could install updates/optimizations/customizations/etc without having to buy a new OS to get said features. M$ would indeed make more money selling a license in this manner due to sheer popularity. (For comparison, see http://kerneltrap.org/node/8197 where Linus talks of all the new architectures and stacks available on 2.6.22-RC1) Imagine if users of M$ products could get new, optimized stacks for free. Would that not make you love Windows? Sadly, M$ is committed to charging more and providing less. That's why we have Linux.
the increased popularity of scantily-clad women running around in bikini tops and shorts, due to the heat.
My apologies, I didn't even see yours before posting. Mea culpa.
Why did the server even accept the connection from the Iranian ISP? Can't be that hard to block out connections from rouge countries.
On his scale, this one goes up to 11.
"Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items" ...I'll just be happy if they remove the blink tag.