... navigating a web page with a keyboard? *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *return* Yay! I followed a link.
Seriously, mice and keyboards are for different tasks. This is kind of like saying, "gardening is way easier with a shovel than with a pair of tweasers."
The recall was the school's idea, not TI's. I'm sure TI would be more than happy to let the schools keep them rather than eat this $1M mistake. The school wants them replaced so the students can learn to do the conversion on their own. I'm sure the kids have no say in the matter.
If this paper were to show that people of European descent were more intelligent than, say, people of African descent, this paper would never get published. Jews would cry "racism!" and would attribute any descrepancies in IQ to social factors (the result of racist whites, of course.) But, of course, Jews are never racist, are they? When are white people going to wake up and see things for what they are?
" In true Marxist Communism, there is no government[...]"
I believe you're thinking of anarchism. I haven't read the writings of Marx, but I understand that communism can never come about without total state control.
If you read the submitters "summary", you'll see that it's nearly identical to the first paragraph of the CS Monitor article. The only changes are phrases like "(myself included)" and ", so to speak," being removed from the "summary". This is plagiarism, unless "Zonk" is the same person as Michelle Thaller of the CS Monitor. If you think plagiarism is too strong a word, then you obviously don't know what it means.
Second, as others have pointed out, this is not news. This was previously reported on slashdot, and as far as I can tell, there have been no new developments since then.
That's some cheap electricity. I pay > $600/y for electric in my apartment. They must have their own power plant (no I didn't RTFuckingA, thank you very much.) I wonder how much of that waste heat they use for heating in the winter.;)
That means the Beatles' "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me," scheduled to to go into the public domain in 2013, would earn royalties for record companies until 2063. (Emphasis added.)
In many cases, it would also earn money for the families of the artists. If you produced some hugely popular music like The Beatles, wouldn't you want your children to benefit financially from it? Just a thought.
I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. From the summary:
"The Inquirer has the story that individual owners of websites and blogs must register[...]"
They're not requiring people to register before viewing the content of a website, they're requiring people to register before they can make content available to everyone. It's a very different situation.
No, it has to do with complete control of everyone. If the Internet allows people to criticize their communist government, then the Internet is a threat. Censorship is a natural product of Marxism.
Well, you can use a slow computer for browsing the web and sending email, but it is noticably slower at times. The ideal thing would be for a processor to shut itself down when it's not being used. And that's just what modern CPUs are designed to do. When you need the processor, it wakes up and does what it needs to fast, and then goes back to sleep. I remember reading that WinNT did this, but the Windows 95 line was slower on the uptake.
Well, you could use a different browser during development to avoid all of your resources being sucked up by IE, and then check for compatibility later.
You think replacing something that costs as much as an iPod and only plays music every year or so is OK? I bought a portable CD player, oh, about 10 years ago. It still works fine.
Because different headphones draw drain different levels of power. Also, if you had no headphones attached, the iPod would last longer than with headphones. It's probably a small difference, but they just wanted to be as precise as possible.
Well, you're right about that. I didn't notice that first sentence and the single quotes. However, several times I have seen the first paragraph of an article copied without anything added to it by the submitter, and it still begins with "John Doe writes". The last time I pointed this out, I was modded "Troll", as if I posted it just to provoke a reaction.
"Doggie Fizzle writes[...]" No, Jason Kohrs wrote it. "Doggie Fizzle" copied and pasted it. I think the/. editors need to change their format a bit so as not to mislead readers about who writes these "summaries".
(And thanks in advance for moderating me "Troll" or "Offtopic" for pointing this out.)
"The pacemakers are recovered to be refurbished and reused. Plutonium is very expensive[...]"
And here you've just stated the problem with nuclear batteries: they're so expensive that people will cut open dead people in order to reuse them. Just think about that. They don't pry gold fillings out of people's teeth after they die. They don't dig people up to retrieve expensive jewelry. But they will cut open your chest cavity to get a tiny, low-power battery out. That's the reason you don't have one of these in your laptop right now. You can blame ignorant people who are afraid of anything "nucular". You can blame the evil battery industry lobbyists. But the fact is they're just too expensive.
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On a good day, with a following wind, Niagara might be able to do 8 integer instructions per second....
Holy crap! I can do math that fast on a calculator.
I'm a robot, you insensitive clod!
Woah, there! I was with you until that last word. "Colour"? We don't tolerate people who spell like that where I work.
Yes, this was (an attempt at) a joke.
I have no idea what this thread is about because I browse at +5.
That's not an urban legend. It really happened to my friend's cousin.
... navigating a web page with a keyboard? *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *tab* *return* Yay! I followed a link.
Seriously, mice and keyboards are for different tasks. This is kind of like saying, "gardening is way easier with a shovel than with a pair of tweasers."
The recall was the school's idea, not TI's. I'm sure TI would be more than happy to let the schools keep them rather than eat this $1M mistake. The school wants them replaced so the students can learn to do the conversion on their own. I'm sure the kids have no say in the matter.
Did you ask google for permission before posting that link? Hmmm?
If this paper were to show that people of European descent were more intelligent than, say, people of African descent, this paper would never get published. Jews would cry "racism!" and would attribute any descrepancies in IQ to social factors (the result of racist whites, of course.) But, of course, Jews are never racist, are they? When are white people going to wake up and see things for what they are?
Oh, well, I didn't need my karma anyway.
" In true Marxist Communism, there is no government[...]"
I believe you're thinking of anarchism. I haven't read the writings of Marx, but I understand that communism can never come about without total state control.
If you read the submitters "summary", you'll see that it's nearly identical to the first paragraph of the CS Monitor article. The only changes are phrases like "(myself included)" and ", so to speak," being removed from the "summary". This is plagiarism, unless "Zonk" is the same person as Michelle Thaller of the CS Monitor. If you think plagiarism is too strong a word, then you obviously don't know what it means.
Second, as others have pointed out, this is not news. This was previously reported on slashdot, and as far as I can tell, there have been no new developments since then.
That's some cheap electricity. I pay > $600/y for electric in my apartment. They must have their own power plant (no I didn't RTFuckingA, thank you very much.) I wonder how much of that waste heat they use for heating in the winter. ;)
That means the Beatles' "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me," scheduled to to go into the public domain in 2013, would earn royalties for record companies until 2063. (Emphasis added.)
In many cases, it would also earn money for the families of the artists. If you produced some hugely popular music like The Beatles, wouldn't you want your children to benefit financially from it? Just a thought.
I'm not sure if you're trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. From the summary:
"The Inquirer has the story that individual owners of websites and blogs must register[...]"
They're not requiring people to register before viewing the content of a website, they're requiring people to register before they can make content available to everyone. It's a very different situation.
No, it has to do with complete control of everyone. If the Internet allows people to criticize their communist government, then the Internet is a threat. Censorship is a natural product of Marxism.
Well, you can use a slow computer for browsing the web and sending email, but it is noticably slower at times. The ideal thing would be for a processor to shut itself down when it's not being used. And that's just what modern CPUs are designed to do. When you need the processor, it wakes up and does what it needs to fast, and then goes back to sleep. I remember reading that WinNT did this, but the Windows 95 line was slower on the uptake.
Do you actually expect them to pay!
Well, you could use a different browser during development to avoid all of your resources being sucked up by IE, and then check for compatibility later.
You think replacing something that costs as much as an iPod and only plays music every year or so is OK? I bought a portable CD player, oh, about 10 years ago. It still works fine.
Because different headphones draw drain different levels of power. Also, if you had no headphones attached, the iPod would last longer than with headphones. It's probably a small difference, but they just wanted to be as precise as possible.
Perhaps they're offended because the word "welch" comes from the word "Welsh", which, by the way, meant "foreigner" in old English.
"In any event, Germany had no means of effectively delivering such a weapon. They lacked the heavy aircraft which the USA used."
Wait a minute -- supposing two planes carried it together?
Well, you're right about that. I didn't notice that first sentence and the single quotes. However, several times I have seen the first paragraph of an article copied without anything added to it by the submitter, and it still begins with "John Doe writes". The last time I pointed this out, I was modded "Troll", as if I posted it just to provoke a reaction.
"Doggie Fizzle writes[...]" No, Jason Kohrs wrote it. "Doggie Fizzle" copied and pasted it. I think the /. editors need to change their format a bit so as not to mislead readers about who writes these "summaries".
(And thanks in advance for moderating me "Troll" or "Offtopic" for pointing this out.)
"The pacemakers are recovered to be refurbished and reused. Plutonium is very expensive[...]"
And here you've just stated the problem with nuclear batteries: they're so expensive that people will cut open dead people in order to reuse them. Just think about that. They don't pry gold fillings out of people's teeth after they die. They don't dig people up to retrieve expensive jewelry. But they will cut open your chest cavity to get a tiny, low-power battery out. That's the reason you don't have one of these in your laptop right now. You can blame ignorant people who are afraid of anything "nucular". You can blame the evil battery industry lobbyists. But the fact is they're just too expensive.