I'm not clear how replacing memory loss from Alzheimer's with memory loss from THC is a net win. Perhaps it doesn't really prevent memory loss, but rather mellows you out so much that you no longer care that you're being forgetful? Plus, doesn't this suffer the same fatal flaw that all Alzheimer's medications share, namely that the patient will keep forgetting to take their meds?
Or as I tell my wife, "Hey, if you wanted to listen to a disfunctional family with people arguing all the time, you could just have a conversation with me!"
I made the same mistake. I bought 3 OEM Celeron 300A CPUs, based on widely published claims they could be overclocked to 450MHz. Only one of them could successfully run at 450MHz, and that required cranking the CPU voltage way up (that machine is still running and still crashing all the time, but then it is still running Windows 98 SE.) I suspect the dealer had gone through the batch and picked out all the good ones for himself. At this point, overclocking seems silly when you can wait a few months and get a CPU that will run the same speed without overclocking!
While I happen to agree with your musical tastes (and GH Aerosmith isn't that bad) the real problem is that 90% of their pre-packaged content is going to be crap, but it's a _different_ 90% for each customer! It should be ALL downloaded content. Unfortunately, as a Wii owner, I'm stuck with paying $45 for a Guitar Hero or Rock Band disc with only 2 decent songs on it. I own both Guitar Hero and Rock Band for Wii, but if I had it to do over again, I would have bought an Xbox 360 just for these games so I wouldn't have to play the brain-dead versions of those games they ported to the Wii. There are a lot of games that are good on the Wii, but Rock Band and Guitar Hero are much, much better on the Xbox (and probably on the PS3 as well). Lack of downloadable content on the Wii is stupid and pointless since there are 2 USB ports one could plug a flash memory extension into, as well as an SD memory slot.
How about just installing wget by default, and letting users download the browser of their choice? It would be trivial to implement a GUI wrapper around wget to let you select from links to many different browsers. Bundling is bad, and pre-installing many different browsers is a waste of disk space unless there is an easy method to remove every browser except the one you want. (The problem with this is that you probably need at least 1 browser just to configure your internet connection. I only use IE as a tool for downloading firefox and for those sites stupid enough to use IE-specific javascript myself, so I don't really see what the problem is.)
In the Oregon state statutes, it is illegal to record conversations without the explicit consent of all parties. However, there is a specific exclusion for classroom settings, which I assume is there for precisely for the purpose of making the recording of lectures legal.
Xerox made computers with a GUI and mouse before Apple, but they cost a fortune, and were pieces of feces. The disk drive on the Interlisp D machine I used was powered by a rubber belt (like a vacuum cleaner). And just like a vacuum cleaner, it occasionally popped off or broke. Also, the entire file system was stored in Lisp nodes, so when you deleted a large directory, it stopped doing anything for over a minute while it garbage collected all the deleted files.
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Although their tactics are fairly similar, the RIAA has a lower percentage of Sicilians in it. Also, nobody will ever make a movie about the RIAA... good movies require a villain the average person can relate too. Also, I suspect the Mafia knows when they are violating the law, while the RIAA thinks they are staying within the letter of the law.
Gertner noted that the decision did not limit streaming to the Berkman Center's Web site, saying RIAA also is free to subscribe to the CVN recording and to make it available to the public at a Web site of its choosing, provided that the group observes conditions already set by the court, including streaming unedited material. Gertner's effectively saying "You can stream it yourselves too, assholes!" which pretty much negates all of the RIAA's objections to a biased venue for hosting the stream, doesn't it?
I was going to say the temperature gradient wouldn't make a difference, but it would if it was enough to cause a phase-change in the material. Gases would be more likely to be blown outward by the solar wind. The disk would be non-homogenous because there is a sun in the middle of it, not a point source of gravitational force!
In most states, doesn't that meet the legal definition of "extortion"? Sure, you can ask the judge for sanctions, but you can't threaten the opposing council with _anything_.
He also said in the book _The_Road_Ahead_: "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Yeah, we all know what he _meant_ to say, and I believe it was fixed in later editions, but I've still got a hardcover copy of the book with this quote in it.
From a technical standpoint, the SPAM problem is easy to solve: change the email protocol so that the originator of every message can be positively identified (e.g. assign every mail originator a public/private key pair). However, the same momentum/backwards compatibility issues that keep us from using IPV6 or IP multicast also keep us from changing the email protocol.
Personally I will neverhire an ex-Microsoftie; they don't have morals or ethics that are worth a damn, or they wouldn't have worked there in the first place. I beg to differ with you. While that may be true of their marketing people, I have known many very talented engineers and wonderful human beings who have gone on to work at Microsoft. So many that it continues to puzzle me why Microsoft, which such a huge talent pool to draw on, still continues to churn out crappy products. My best guesses are 1) Too frequent shifts of focus and priority, and 2) development driven by marketing demands, not by engineering or customer satisfaction. Microsoft, IBM, and Intel all share an uncanny ability to continuously re-invent themselves; despite inevitable downturns, I'm sure all three companies will be around for a long time.
Legally, yes. But there are millions people in the US who aren't following the current immigration laws, aren't there? I'm generally against protectionism, but in a recession, I don't think there should be ANY H1B visas issued. Companies should focus on training people already living close to the worksite to do the necessary jobs. I cannot believe that ALL of the people laid off in the last year are untrainable. But it is chauvinist to view this as a US-centric problem; currently people are losing jobs all over the world -- even in China.
He showed that the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary.
[checks calendar] No, it's not April yet... that settles it then -- we must be living on a giant potato chip! Precisely the type of universe one would expect a Flying Spaghetti Monster to design!
My guess would be methane hydrate trapped beneath the surface being released due to rise in temperature or drop in pressure brought about by the martian summer. Even without tectonic plates, you've still got expansion and contraction due to temperature differences that may be cracking rocks and developing new fissures. Of course, that would be somewhat of a random occurrence; if the methane is released consistently from the same places every summer, that would tend to prove me wrong. But then, I'm a software engineer, not a geologist.
The Abiotic Theory of the origin of petroleum argues that not all the petroleum reserves on earth may come from organic material, but rather from hydrocarbons buried by other means. In other words, it is possible to have buried hydrocarbons that are not "fossil fuels".
I also suspect that the people at NASA and most credible scientists believe that the chance of other life in our solar system is very small, but should be investigated anyway.
Or perhaps it is just that the people at NASA have figured out that holding up the _possibility_ of other life in our solar system is their surest bet for justifying their continued employment? It is obviously a geologic process, but planetary science is boring... "little green men", on the other hand, is a subject that really gets the ignorant taxpayers excited.
Now might be a really good time to invest in adult bookstores located right on your southern border!
Remember, every mind-bogglingly stupid, unenforceable law is also a business opportunity!
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I'm not clear how replacing memory loss from Alzheimer's with memory loss from THC is a net win. Perhaps it doesn't really prevent memory loss, but rather mellows you out so much that you no longer care that you're being forgetful? Plus, doesn't this suffer the same fatal flaw that all Alzheimer's medications share, namely that the patient will keep forgetting to take their meds?
Or as I tell my wife, "Hey, if you wanted to listen to a disfunctional family with people arguing all the time, you could just have a conversation with me!"
An MIT class that my wife could actually get a passing grade in!
I made the same mistake. I bought 3 OEM Celeron 300A CPUs, based on widely published claims they could be overclocked to 450MHz. Only one of them could successfully run at 450MHz, and that required cranking the CPU voltage way up (that machine is still running and still crashing all the time, but then it is still running Windows 98 SE.) I suspect the dealer had gone through the batch and picked out all the good ones for himself. At this point, overclocking seems silly when you can wait a few months and get a CPU that will run the same speed without overclocking!
While I happen to agree with your musical tastes (and GH Aerosmith isn't that bad) the real problem is that 90% of their pre-packaged content is going to be crap, but it's a _different_ 90% for each customer! It should be ALL downloaded content. Unfortunately, as a Wii owner, I'm stuck with paying $45 for a Guitar Hero or Rock Band disc with only 2 decent songs on it. I own both Guitar Hero and Rock Band for Wii, but if I had it to do over again, I would have bought an Xbox 360 just for these games so I wouldn't have to play the brain-dead versions of those games they ported to the Wii. There are a lot of games that are good on the Wii, but Rock Band and Guitar Hero are much, much better on the Xbox (and probably on the PS3 as well). Lack of downloadable content on the Wii is stupid and pointless since there are 2 USB ports one could plug a flash memory extension into, as well as an SD memory slot.
How about just installing wget by default, and letting users download the browser of their choice? It would be trivial to implement a GUI wrapper around wget to let you select from links to many different browsers. Bundling is bad, and pre-installing many different browsers is a waste of disk space unless there is an easy method to remove every browser except the one you want. (The problem with this is that you probably need at least 1 browser just to configure your internet connection. I only use IE as a tool for downloading firefox and for those sites stupid enough to use IE-specific javascript myself, so I don't really see what the problem is.)
When nuclear weapons are outlawed, only outlaws will have nuclear weapons!
You can have my nuclear bomb when you pry it out of my hot, glowing hands!
"Nuclear arms control" is being able to accurately hit your target!
I could do this all day...
We used to use our textbooks as makeshift sleds... I'd recommend NOT giving every student a laptop to take home!
In the Oregon state statutes, it is illegal to record conversations without the explicit consent of all parties. However, there is a specific exclusion for classroom settings, which I assume is there for precisely for the purpose of making the recording of lectures legal.
Xerox made computers with a GUI and mouse before Apple, but they cost a fortune, and were pieces of feces. The disk drive on the Interlisp D machine I used was powered by a rubber belt (like a vacuum cleaner). And just like a vacuum cleaner, it occasionally popped off or broke. Also, the entire file system was stored in Lisp nodes, so when you deleted a large directory, it stopped doing anything for over a minute while it garbage collected all the deleted files.
My grandmother's dead, you insensitive clod!
Although their tactics are fairly similar, the RIAA has a lower percentage of Sicilians in it. Also, nobody will ever make a movie about the RIAA... good movies require a villain the average person can relate too. Also, I suspect the Mafia knows when they are violating the law, while the RIAA thinks they are staying within the letter of the law.
Gertner noted that the decision did not limit streaming to the Berkman Center's Web site, saying RIAA also is free to subscribe to the CVN recording and to make it available to the public at a Web site of its choosing, provided that the group observes conditions already set by the court, including streaming unedited material. Gertner's effectively saying "You can stream it yourselves too, assholes!" which pretty much negates all of the RIAA's objections to a biased venue for hosting the stream, doesn't it?
I was going to say the temperature gradient wouldn't make a difference, but it would if it was enough to cause a phase-change in the material. Gases would be more likely to be blown outward by the solar wind. The disk would be non-homogenous because there is a sun in the middle of it, not a point source of gravitational force!
In most states, doesn't that meet the legal definition of "extortion"? Sure, you can ask the judge for sanctions, but you can't threaten the opposing council with _anything_.
He also said in the book _The_Road_Ahead_: "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Yeah, we all know what he _meant_ to say, and I believe it was fixed in later editions, but I've still got a hardcover copy of the book with this quote in it.
From a technical standpoint, the SPAM problem is easy to solve: change the email protocol so that the originator of every message can be positively identified (e.g. assign every mail originator a public/private key pair). However, the same momentum/backwards compatibility issues that keep us from using IPV6 or IP multicast also keep us from changing the email protocol.
Personally I will neverhire an ex-Microsoftie; they don't have morals or ethics that are worth a damn, or they wouldn't have worked there in the first place. I beg to differ with you. While that may be true of their marketing people, I have known many very talented engineers and wonderful human beings who have gone on to work at Microsoft. So many that it continues to puzzle me why Microsoft, which such a huge talent pool to draw on, still continues to churn out crappy products. My best guesses are 1) Too frequent shifts of focus and priority, and 2) development driven by marketing demands, not by engineering or customer satisfaction. Microsoft, IBM, and Intel all share an uncanny ability to continuously re-invent themselves; despite inevitable downturns, I'm sure all three companies will be around for a long time.
Legally, yes. But there are millions people in the US who aren't following the current immigration laws, aren't there? I'm generally against protectionism, but in a recession, I don't think there should be ANY H1B visas issued. Companies should focus on training people already living close to the worksite to do the necessary jobs. I cannot believe that ALL of the people laid off in the last year are untrainable. But it is chauvinist to view this as a US-centric problem; currently people are losing jobs all over the world -- even in China.
You can't really fault them for wanting to keep on eye on people like Geraldo Rivera, can you?
He showed that the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary.
[checks calendar] No, it's not April yet... that settles it then -- we must be living on a giant potato chip! Precisely the type of universe one would expect a Flying Spaghetti Monster to design!
My guess would be methane hydrate trapped beneath the surface being released due to rise in temperature or drop in pressure brought about by the martian summer. Even without tectonic plates, you've still got expansion and contraction due to temperature differences that may be cracking rocks and developing new fissures. Of course, that would be somewhat of a random occurrence; if the methane is released consistently from the same places every summer, that would tend to prove me wrong. But then, I'm a software engineer, not a geologist.
The Abiotic Theory of the origin of petroleum argues that not all the petroleum reserves on earth may come from organic material, but rather from hydrocarbons buried by other means. In other words, it is possible to have buried hydrocarbons that are not "fossil fuels".
Or perhaps it is just that the people at NASA have figured out that holding up the _possibility_ of other life in our solar system is their surest bet for justifying their continued employment? It is obviously a geologic process, but planetary science is boring... "little green men", on the other hand, is a subject that really gets the ignorant taxpayers excited.
Ok, so now tell me who the real target customer for this product is.
Didn't we just remove the Taliban from power in Afghanistan for pulling shit very similar to this?
Now might be a really good time to invest in adult bookstores located right on your southern border! Remember, every mind-bogglingly stupid, unenforceable law is also a business opportunity!