"That's no moon, that's Google's new data center!"
On the other hand, solar power would be cheap, efficient. cooling would be easy, just hide behind the solar array. Ping times to earth would suck though...
I believe the president when he says we went to war with iraq because they were pirating Microsoft software and that he can bring freedom and Microsoft domination to the country.
My board just locks up, black screen, under linux. Completely dead. Tried a bunch of kernels & distros. init 5 (GUI) and init 3 (text console). Completely unstable. Runs like a champ under NetBSD (not flamebait, but an indicator that the board and RAM are fine).
If the program you use edits (rewrites) the file directly, that's true, but some applications will write a new file and move it into place at the old name to provide protection against crashes. That would sever the hard link between the two names. Same with the other approach of moving aside the old file and writing the new version at the old name, then deleting the temporary backup. So, a lot of that depends on the application doing the "saving".
The should have released it 'on time' regardless if that made it feature-poor and buggy. These comentators don't understand Apple customers. Apple customers value quality. You try to sell them crap and they will eat you alive.
Apple's prime value is in the intangible goodwill of it's customers. Destroying that by releasing buggy crap wouldn't be a good idea.
"Just because you haven't seen the full beauty of the Pink Unicorn and what belief in her can do to change your life, don't put my belief in the Pink Unicorn down. If you understood the deep implications of my belief in the Pink Unicorn and its benefits for society, you'd believe too."
Yeah, whatever. Believe whatever you want, it doesn't make it true. Even if religion could be shown to be beneficial on the whole, that wouldn't make them true. And the idea that religions are actually beneficial to society is tough to prove, given all the evidence to the contrary. Perhaps _you_ should approach your beliefs more critically, looking for real evidence they are correct, instead of just joining a group of people who will help support you in your belief of them.
The trouble is, you know nothing about this supposed god, so like as not, "you're doing it wrong, you'll have your arms pulled off and burn in a lake of fire for all eternity," anyway.
If I die and appear before a god and he asks why I didn't believe, I'd say, "Cause I couldn't believe that if there were a god that he'd be such a fucking asshole!"
Not necessarily, they could have just been raised without any exposure to religion. If they believe that pixies make the world go around that doesn't make them theists, but it also doesn't make them critical thinkers:-)
But people belive in so many different 'gods' that you can't tell what ethical framework they derive.
Which one is it? Is it the 'turn the other cheek' one, or the one where adulters and atheists should be stoned to death?
'god' is a non-word. It has so many different meanings as to be meaningless.
And the arogance to look at the world and say that you can see the hand of god and divine his/her/its intentions and claim that your intuition or revelation is the one true faith is obscene.
No, you can't say that a world of atheists would be a better or worse world, since a world of people who don't believe in God isn't really different from a world of people who don't believe in pink unicorns or celestial teapots. Saying what someone doesn't believe doesn't tell you enough about what they do believe.
So, with 5 year terms, bush has had the opportunity to appoint every member of the commission. And while two members must not be republicans like the other three, there are certainly Democrats like Zell Miller who are to the right of many Republicans.
Nothing involving people is apolitical. Everyone brings their viewpoint and interpretation to the job.
I have no idea whether Bush was involved in any of this, but to say that it's impossible is naive.
Even if Bush couldn't fire Cox directly, to say that crossing Bush wouldn't have negative consequences going forward is also naive.
And if you clickthru the SEC link on that page you get this: Christopher Cox is the current chairman of the SEC. He was appointed by President George W. Bush.
Right. Non-political. Sure. Like the Justice Department.
Yeah, I was in a hurry and got my panties in a twist there at the end...normally I'm much more reasonable:-)
But as a mathematician, he should know that it's silly to make any conclusions from a lack of information.
And his opening statement, "Science and religion are orthogonal to each other." is wrong in that both science and religion make claims about the world. Perhaps "the existence of a godlike prime mover which started the universe and never interfered again" and science are orthogonal, but religion has never been about that, it's been about controlling humans in the here and now by claiming to know what an interfering god wants us humans to do.
But my panties are starting to twist up again, so I should go back to working...
This is only interesting because people hate to say "I don't know".
To ascribe anything to 'God' (the traditional Christian, or otherwise) is unsupported by science, and therefore, logically the only conclusion is "I don't know"
That's why when science discovers the causes of more and more things, and 'God' is pushed further and further back, (now into the, "well, maybe He caused the big bang") people talk about Science disproving God. They are speaking of the traditional big-three god that interfered in human affairs.
To says that, "we'll either prove that 'God' could exist, or we'll prove that 'God' must exist." is idiotic. The initial cause of the universe isn't what most people mean when they say 'God', and further, of course 'God' could exist. The idiots who believe in him define 'Him' in such a way as to be unfalsifyible.
Just say, "I don't know", and stop claiming to know that some guy in a white robe hates it when men love each other or when kids wack off.
Why not just have the google toolbar compare the page it sees in the end users' browser with that google found when spidering. Very similar to that botnet, but without the nefariousness...
(I haven't read the article, typically I find the comments more interesting:-)
Well, the seed for the random number generator should probably be kept secret. Or there should be no seed, there should be hardware randomness so without that data stream, there's no way to predict. Not sure how you distribute the schedule in real time from the hardware random generator to the actual officers and keep it from being eavsdropped on, but I guess encrypted communications can be assumed...
Yeah, me too, but I don't stop at Islam, I think all irrational thought needs to be stamped out, especially institutionalized irrationality like religion.
Islam gets a special place because it's so violent and virulent. Hence my ironic.sig here...
How close are you to the top of the ridge? How much money do you want to spend? How friendly are you with your neighbors? If you have line of sight to someone else who has line of site to someone else who has HSIPC (high-speed IP connectivity), or even direct line of sight to someone, then you can probably setup a 802.11[bgn] link.
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"That's no moon, that's Google's new data center!"
On the other hand, solar power would be cheap, efficient. cooling would be easy, just hide behind the solar array.
Ping times to earth would suck though...
Cause he was in the UK at the time. (We're 'normally' in the US, so it would have been an expensive call to do so).
forgot to lock the keys on my cell phone and my phone called my friend 14 times!
Doh!
I believe the president when he says we went to war with iraq because they were pirating Microsoft software and that he can bring freedom and Microsoft domination to the country.
My board just locks up, black screen, under linux. Completely dead. Tried a bunch of kernels & distros. init 5 (GUI) and init 3 (text console). Completely unstable.
Runs like a champ under NetBSD (not flamebait, but an indicator that the board and RAM are fine).
If the program you use edits (rewrites) the file directly, that's true, but some applications will write a new file and move it into place at the old name to provide protection against crashes. That would sever the hard link between the two names. Same with the other approach of moving aside the old file and writing the new version at the old name, then deleting the temporary backup. So, a lot of that depends on the application doing the "saving".
The should have released it 'on time' regardless if that made it feature-poor and buggy.
These comentators don't understand Apple customers. Apple customers value quality. You try to sell them crap and they will eat you alive.
Apple's prime value is in the intangible goodwill of it's customers. Destroying that by releasing buggy crap wouldn't be a good idea.
"Just because you haven't seen the full beauty of the Pink Unicorn and what belief in her can do to change your life, don't put my belief in the Pink Unicorn down. If you understood the deep implications of my belief in the Pink Unicorn and its benefits for society, you'd believe too."
Yeah, whatever. Believe whatever you want, it doesn't make it true. Even if religion could be shown to be beneficial on the whole, that wouldn't make them true. And the idea that religions are actually beneficial to society is tough to prove, given all the evidence to the contrary. Perhaps _you_ should approach your beliefs more critically, looking for real evidence they are correct, instead of just joining a group of people who will help support you in your belief of them.
Ah, Pascal's Wager.
The trouble is, you know nothing about this supposed god, so like as not, "you're doing it wrong, you'll have your arms pulled off and burn in a lake of fire for all eternity," anyway.
If I die and appear before a god and he asks why I didn't believe, I'd say, "Cause I couldn't believe that if there were a god that he'd be such a fucking asshole!"
Not necessarily, they could have just been raised without any exposure to religion. If they believe that pixies make the world go around that doesn't make them theists, but it also doesn't make them critical thinkers :-)
But people belive in so many different 'gods' that you can't tell what ethical framework they derive.
Which one is it? Is it the 'turn the other cheek' one, or the one where adulters and atheists should be stoned to death?
'god' is a non-word. It has so many different meanings as to be meaningless.
And the arogance to look at the world and say that you can see the hand of god and divine his/her/its intentions and claim that your intuition or revelation is the one true faith is obscene.
No, you can't say that a world of atheists would be a better or worse world, since a world of people who don't believe in God isn't really different from a world of people who don't believe in pink unicorns or celestial teapots. Saying what someone doesn't believe doesn't tell you enough about what they do believe.
Dude, if someone wanted the United States to be destroyed, they'd support Cheney/Bush 2008.
Bush and Cheney have done incredible damage to the foundation of the United States: that even the government is subject to the rule of law.
Did you search for "hiring people to kill innocent civilians"?
So, with 5 year terms, bush has had the opportunity to appoint every member of the commission. And while two members must not be republicans like the other three, there are certainly Democrats like Zell Miller who are to the right of many Republicans.
Nothing involving people is apolitical. Everyone brings their viewpoint and interpretation to the job.
I have no idea whether Bush was involved in any of this, but to say that it's impossible is naive.
Even if Bush couldn't fire Cox directly, to say that crossing Bush wouldn't have negative consequences going forward is also naive.
And if you clickthru the SEC link on that page you get this:
Christopher Cox is the current chairman of the SEC. He was appointed by President George W. Bush.
Right. Non-political. Sure. Like the Justice Department.
Right. From your link:
Executive branch independent agencies are not part of a fourth branch of government; they are part of the executive branch
And they list the CIA as an example Independent Agency. The President certainly has the authority to order the CIA around.
Yeah, I was in a hurry and got my panties in a twist there at the end...normally I'm much more reasonable :-)
But as a mathematician, he should know that it's silly to make any conclusions from a lack of information.
And his opening statement, "Science and religion are orthogonal to each other." is wrong in that both science and religion make claims about the world. Perhaps "the existence of a godlike prime mover which started the universe and never interfered again" and science are orthogonal, but religion has never been about that, it's been about controlling humans in the here and now by claiming to know what an interfering god wants us humans to do.
But my panties are starting to twist up again, so I should go back to working...
This is only interesting because people hate to say "I don't know".
To ascribe anything to 'God' (the traditional Christian, or otherwise) is unsupported by science, and therefore, logically the only conclusion is "I don't know"
That's why when science discovers the causes of more and more things, and 'God' is pushed further and further back, (now into the, "well, maybe He caused the big bang") people talk about Science disproving God. They are speaking of the traditional big-three god that interfered in human affairs.
To says that, "we'll either prove that 'God' could exist, or we'll prove that 'God' must exist." is idiotic. The initial cause of the universe isn't what most people mean when they say 'God', and further, of course 'God' could exist. The idiots who believe in him define 'Him' in such a way as to be unfalsifyible.
Just say, "I don't know", and stop claiming to know that some guy in a white robe hates it when men love each other or when kids wack off.
Why not just have the google toolbar compare the page it sees in the end users' browser with that google found when spidering. Very similar to that botnet, but without the nefariousness...
(I haven't read the article, typically I find the comments more interesting :-)
Well, the seed for the random number generator should probably be kept secret. Or there should be no seed, there should be hardware randomness so without that data stream, there's no way to predict. Not sure how you distribute the schedule in real time from the hardware random generator to the actual officers and keep it from being eavsdropped on, but I guess encrypted communications can be assumed...
Yeah, me too, but I don't stop at Islam, I think all irrational thought needs to be stamped out, especially institutionalized irrationality like religion.
.sig here...
Islam gets a special place because it's so violent and virulent. Hence my ironic
Arabic predates Islam. They need not be conflated. You don't conflate the number system we use today with Sharia law do you?
I wasn't being pro-islam, I was being pro-freedom of speech. The hysteria about Arabs is ridiculous, as evidenced by the Jet Blue T-shirt incident.
Someone should really make a t-shirt with arabic script that blinks with LEDs...that's sure to bring on the end of the world.
How close are you to the top of the ridge? How much money do you want to spend? How friendly are you with your neighbors? If you have line of sight to someone else who has line of site to someone else who has HSIPC (high-speed IP connectivity), or even direct line of sight to someone, then you can probably setup a 802.11[bgn] link.
Well argued sir...