In the future, Scott envisions routers afloat in deep space
Network management may be the biggest challenge. IP is already designed to deal with link failure and congestion. But, when the router out by Ganymede is down and won't come up you can't just dispatch a network engineer to zip out there with a laptop and console cable. (much as I'd like some aspects of that job;-)
alowing people to keep THEIR MONEY is called a giveaway
What makes it their money? Does it have their pictures or signatures on it? Did they print it themselves?
Voodoo economics has never worked. I think there is an optimal tax rate, but where it is looks to be a har question to answer. What really doesn't make sense is welfare for the finance industry. And, lowering the tax rate hasn't done much to address the gap between the rich and the poor, nor has it increase purchasing power either.
The documents shed new light on how senior FBI officials' determination to gain independence from judicial oversight slowed its own investigation, and led the bureau's director to offer inaccurate testimony to Congress.
Isn't lying to congress these days about as serious an offense as jaywalking?
IBM has created water-cooling systems akin to the radiators in cars to keep its processors from overheating. Not doing so, Meyerson quipped, "results in setting fire to the user, which is bad."
While its an interesting discovery, the term "lie detector" is a blatant badge of ignorance. The term is more than fraudulent for what amounts to a pure pseudo science. Why not just call them "truth detectors"? Wouldn't that make as much sense?
Believe it or not, there was once a day when Bill Gates and Microsoft were loved by millions across the globe. Long before the company was put on trial for its questionable business practices, it was heralded as the leader of the PC revolution and the one saving grace in an industry that was dominated by that "evil" IBM.
I'd have been impressed if the author had the guts to say when that might have been. I remember those days too. Gates wasn't that admired (not much amongst the geeks of the day at least). Those days didn't last long. I'm not saying he's wrong about apple and google, but I think his reminiscing is a tab skewed.
No scientific theory should be thought as a fact unless the theory has been fully proven and it is in general accepted by the scientific community.
I don't think any scientific theory is ever fact in the conventional sense of the word. All scientific theories are subject to question and future revision. Scientific observations are another matter, though, and when people like Richard Leaky refer to evolution as fact they're referring to the observations. In many ways its the opposite of religion. That's a difference that would be good for kids to understand. I agree - teaching kids to think critically for themselves is much better than dogma from either side of the fence.
Political battles over science education make no sense. Science classes need to teach current science, and if a political tussle results in legislation one way or another, later teaching of current scientific material becomes burdened by the state. This just seems to cement the point that there is now almost no boundary between politics and religion. I read somewhere that Sidhartha had written that blind faith is political, and while I haven't found a link ro source with that quote, it seems more true than ever.
If what they want is to put an end to their online existence. Giving CoS carte blanc to delete auctions is worse that putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Was Ebay, presumable savvy to how the Internet works, thinking nobody would notice this? What kind of drugs do you have to take to get that delusional?
This actually an interesting chance to see if the/. moderation system even remotely works.
1.) Posts a fairly neutral very short (although mildly snarky) question about whether or not a mainstream media story really qualifies as "news for nerds".
2) Moderated as a troll comment
3) In response to a reply noting the watering down of nerd-oriented material as a result of more frequent mainstream media posts, below can be seen the reply
Then fuck off.
4) "Is this 'nerd news'" = troll; "Fuck Off" != troll;
In this instance at least,/. "moderation" shows effective disfunctionality.
I think/. moderates the comments for reasons beyond just humorous color - I think they sincerely want to cut down on cruft. However, the moderation system itself shows up as cruft. There are probably better ways to improve the quality of discussions than what they're doing now.
Not all that many companies are migrating to Zimbra in the Real World.
So there's Godwin's law for how long a discussion goes before a nazi reference, is there one for how long a discussion can go before someone cracks open the phrase "real world"?
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Network management may be the biggest challenge. IP is already designed to deal with link failure and congestion. But, when the router out by Ganymede is down and won't come up you can't just dispatch a network engineer to zip out there with a laptop and console cable. (much as I'd like some aspects of that job ;-)
Shouldn't that be in the dictionary definition of irony?
I'm not especially fond of Yahoo, but it would be sad to see them go.
Won't zebra stripes make tables more vulnerable to attacks by hungry lions?
Voodoo economics has never worked. I think there is an optimal tax rate, but where it is looks to be a har question to answer. What really doesn't make sense is welfare for the finance industry. And, lowering the tax rate hasn't done much to address the gap between the rich and the poor, nor has it increase purchasing power either.
I for one welcome our debian ... nevermind.
He's never had a help desk job....
While its an interesting discovery, the term "lie detector" is a blatant badge of ignorance. The term is more than fraudulent for what amounts to a pure pseudo science. Why not just call them "truth detectors"? Wouldn't that make as much sense?
You're already dead. Please find a grave to lie in already.
This would make.
I'd have been impressed if the author had the guts to say when that might have been. I remember those days too. Gates wasn't that admired (not much amongst the geeks of the day at least). Those days didn't last long. I'm not saying he's wrong about apple and google, but I think his reminiscing is a tab skewed.
For anyone to 'work with MS' is just too much like the frog and the scorpion except MS typically has little to lose in any given arrangement.
I a;ways thought nature abhorred a vacuum. Perhaps nature just abhors nothing after all.
It needs more blood, though.
If it can be built into female androids, this would enable them to replicate the female ability to know when men are staring at their junk.
Political battles over science education make no sense. Science classes need to teach current science, and if a political tussle results in legislation one way or another, later teaching of current scientific material becomes burdened by the state. This just seems to cement the point that there is now almost no boundary between politics and religion. I read somewhere that Sidhartha had written that blind faith is political, and while I haven't found a link ro source with that quote, it seems more true than ever.
If what they want is to put an end to their online existence. Giving CoS carte blanc to delete auctions is worse that putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Was Ebay, presumable savvy to how the Internet works, thinking nobody would notice this? What kind of drugs do you have to take to get that delusional?
1.) Posts a fairly neutral very short (although mildly snarky) question about whether or not a mainstream media story really qualifies as "news for nerds".
2) Moderated as a troll comment
3) In response to a reply noting the watering down of nerd-oriented material as a result of more frequent mainstream media posts, below can be seen the reply
4) "Is this 'nerd news'" = troll; "Fuck Off" != troll;
In this instance at least,
I think
Comcast has been doing this for a while now.
This is?
He prefers the term 'control aficionado'
So there's Godwin's law for how long a discussion goes before a nazi reference, is there one for how long a discussion can go before someone cracks open the phrase "real world"?