The US only entered the war after Japan attacked the US without warning one fine Sunday morning, firing the first shot of the Pacific War. Japan could have surrendered at any point and saved themselves from the atomic bombing. Instead, they were arming women and children with sharpened stakes. The nuclear bombing saved more lives, both US and Japanese than it took.
And in the countries the US hasn't gotten to yet, they just stone women who've been raped for adultery, sell daughters into marriage and generally work against any sort of progress.
Microsoft actually has people who will talk to me about the problems I have with their software and systems. They, in many cases, will work with my company to fix the problems, or at least provide a workaround.
I've never been able to talk to anyone at Google about a problem or have them acknowledge it, much less work with me to fix it.
Does anyone know how they identify the commercials?
Do they have software that can identify them in the stream?
Or do they pay someone to watch the shows and mark the time code to create an index to download?
This is hosted in the US.
It's at the poster's and the hoster's risk.
I can sue you if it's true. I can sue you if it's not true. I can sue you if I'm blind and you don't have captions on the images.
I would not sue for these, but plenty of other operators have been sued for just this kind of thing.
> You can lease a gas tank with hydrogen to fill balloons at a kindergarten party.
Ummm, no. You can lease or buy a Helium tank. But, no one is working on a Helium car.
So, by this logic, if only 1:1,000,000 travelers are ACTUALLY a terrorist carrying a bomb, then we should stop all airport security whatsoever, since we have inconvenienced 999,999 travelers who are NOT terrorists.
The computer room Lieberts commonly used in data centers actually cool, then re-heat when the temperature is within range, but the humidity is too high.
Choice of OS has very little to do with speed. If it did, we'd all have moved to the MIPS r3000 RISC chip (that the 1st version of Windows NT was developed on).
It's about two things, neither of which Linux does yet:
Compatibility with the applications people want to run. Note: this does not mean application compatibility. Open Office is almost compatible with MS Word. A few little things don't format right. Then, there's Visio and probably 100 Windows applications that some of our 25,000 desktop users at work need to buy off the shelf and run.
I can come up with a scenario for no Linux desktops in the fleet of 25,000 users and make all but the Mac users happy. I can't come up with a scenario where there's not 2,000-4,000 Windows users, so we're going to have to support it.
The second reason is that Windows runs on almost any hardware right out of the box. I don't need to download an RPM. I don't need to ask someone on IRC or the forums. It just *works*. And, if I need a driver, there's a Windows XP driver on the manufacturer's website if the hardware is less than 10 years old.
Unfortunately, desktop operating systems are a natural monopoly. See Wikipedia on Natural Monopoly and Network Effect.
I worked for a casino chain. Vegas hated Comdex. Back in those days, hotel rooms were a giveaway, and the money was made on the casino floors. Comdex attendees understand statistics and probability, and don't drop a lot of $$$. They told me that's the week they renovate the casino floors. They could take 1/2 the tables down for the week and not miss them.
Also, while out there on business, we went over to the Hilton to see a friend who left to work at the STE. Gave us a back stage tour - we sat in the control couches. Wish I had had a camera. Also saw the motion sim capsules running from above and the computer control systems.
The exhibits and memorabilia were 1st class. I hope they find a home for it somewhere soon.
We should renovate some of the old industrial sites (far from downtown) or surplus military bases so that no one should have to sleep on the streets. There should be enough beds for everyone.
When that's done, no one should be allowed to sleep on the streets or in the parks. Streets are for walking/driving. Parks are for recreation.
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NASA was formed 50 years ago when a small group of people willing to make huge sacrifices of their time (and possibly careers) to leave a large, stodgy, 50-year old organization involved in arcane research to actually do something new and interesting.
Now NASA has become the NACA of 50 years ago, and, if we want to succeed at space, take a core of committed, visionary people out of NASA to a new place and start over.
Of course, we need a national commitment like Kennedy generated, but I don't see that coming any time soon either.
It's already happened.
Current Mustangs have an electronic ignition system that is downloadable. You can adjust parameters and flash them to the car system rom.
It's quite elegant, actually. You can override the factory parameters to get more 1) acceleration 2) horsepower 3) better fuel economy or 4) less pollution. Regardless of what all the conspiracy theorists say, pick any ONE. Perhaps TWO. You can't optimize for all FOUR any more than Detroit already has.
Back to topic: one of the guys who worked with me races the Mustang he drives to work on the weekends at the drag strip. One morning he called in and said the parameters he had loaded last night didn't work, his car wouldn't start, and he couldn't come in until he figured out what settings to put back in and reflash the car...
I've never heard of a sunlight spill, but I know lots of people who have gotten serious RADIATION burns from that sun thing. It ought to be stopped, before more people are burned and injured like my kids have been.
Who knows, it might even cause CANCER.
We need more studies before approving the sun.
Slashdot is probably the worst place to start this discussion...
We're all binary people. If the code is wrong, and doesn't execute flawlessly, we SIGHUP, rewrite the code and fix it.
We can't SIGHUP people, though there are a few I vote for kill -9. Probably a different list than yours.
People are different from code. Do we want to 'fix' the code? Who decides what 'fixed' is? Many would write out homosexuality, if it's genetic. Others would write out the 'warrior gene' that both makes men agressive, but also willing to die to defend their families.
But, doing anything to stop it flies in the face of current orthodoxy: an embryo is part of the mother's body. It's solely HER choice whether to keep or terminate it, and she can do so based on any criteria SHE wants. That's the endgame of Roe v. Wade. So, if you want to ban the mother from making any choice you want, you weaken the argument in Roe v. Wade that it's just a bunch of cells attached to the mother.
My personal belief is that somewhere between conception and birth it becomes a person, but it's hard to draw that line clearly in a legal, moral or scientific way
Genetics is going to change the world this century as much as electricity and electronics did the last, and we're not ready for it.
No, the Apollo space capsule was built by North American Aviation....
The LEM was built by Grumman, and it WAS a real spaceship.
http://myweb.accessus.net/~090/as13tow.html
You've hit on my biggest gripe about environmentalists. They never seem to have a SOLUTION to anything. They always tell you what you SHOULDN'T do.
Nuclear power bad. Coal bad. Compact fluorescent bad. If we did solar power in a big way, that would probably kill tortoises or something.
The sum total of all they want is us to go back to the stone age or earlier. I'm looking for an environmentalist that understands engineering and mathematics and can propose SOLUTIONS, not 'can'ts'.
Irkutsk is on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the main East-West transport axis. You can bet there's a lot of fiber down the railroad right-of-way, so comms won't be a problem.
Irkutsk is on the Angara River, which is fed by Lake Baikal. The Bratsk dam (4,500MW) is one of the largest hydropower dams in the world, and there are three more on the Angara. Can you say "zero carbon emissions" and "reliability"?
I would staff the facility with all but a handful of positions being Russian. You can get CCNA/MCSE level people there for less than $10,000USD/year. And, they are quite competent (think Tetris or some of the Russian hackers).
As another poster points out, it doesn't matter any more where there server is located, with the competent remote support tools that all current OSs have.
I would say it's one of the better decisions Microsoft has made.
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The US only entered the war after Japan attacked the US without warning one fine Sunday morning, firing the first shot of the Pacific War. Japan could have surrendered at any point and saved themselves from the atomic bombing. Instead, they were arming women and children with sharpened stakes. The nuclear bombing saved more lives, both US and Japanese than it took.
And in the countries the US hasn't gotten to yet, they just stone women who've been raped for adultery, sell daughters into marriage and generally work against any sort of progress.
Yeah, like sacrificing virgins at the Solstice....
Microsoft actually has people who will talk to me about the problems I have with their software and systems. They, in many cases, will work with my company to fix the problems, or at least provide a workaround. I've never been able to talk to anyone at Google about a problem or have them acknowledge it, much less work with me to fix it.
Because if the only classification were "human" then smaller subgroups could no longer claim discrimination or disadvantage for special privileges.
So you're very concerned about Apple, and prefer the Microsoft ecosystem?
Yes
Does anyone know how they identify the commercials? Do they have software that can identify them in the stream? Or do they pay someone to watch the shows and mark the time code to create an index to download?
This is hosted in the US. It's at the poster's and the hoster's risk. I can sue you if it's true. I can sue you if it's not true. I can sue you if I'm blind and you don't have captions on the images. I would not sue for these, but plenty of other operators have been sued for just this kind of thing.
> You can lease a gas tank with hydrogen to fill balloons at a kindergarten party. Ummm, no. You can lease or buy a Helium tank. But, no one is working on a Helium car.
Is that what you're saying?
The computer room Lieberts commonly used in data centers actually cool, then re-heat when the temperature is within range, but the humidity is too high.
Ummm... cause they go down so often?
SOMEONE has to be responsible for your pain, fear and anguish - they have to pay for what you suffered.
That's what I get from the Stella story.
Coffee supposed to be hot. It is. Patron spills. McDonald's fault. From now on, only cold coffee can be served.
Choice of OS has very little to do with speed. If it did, we'd all have moved to the MIPS r3000 RISC chip (that the 1st version of Windows NT was developed on).
It's about two things, neither of which Linux does yet:
Compatibility with the applications people want to run. Note: this does not mean application compatibility. Open Office is almost compatible with MS Word. A few little things don't format right. Then, there's Visio and probably 100 Windows applications that some of our 25,000 desktop users at work need to buy off the shelf and run.
I can come up with a scenario for no Linux desktops in the fleet of 25,000 users and make all but the Mac users happy. I can't come up with a scenario where there's not 2,000-4,000 Windows users, so we're going to have to support it.
The second reason is that Windows runs on almost any hardware right out of the box. I don't need to download an RPM. I don't need to ask someone on IRC or the forums. It just *works*. And, if I need a driver, there's a Windows XP driver on the manufacturer's website if the hardware is less than 10 years old.
Unfortunately, desktop operating systems are a natural monopoly. See Wikipedia on Natural Monopoly and Network Effect.
Also, while out there on business, we went over to the Hilton to see a friend who left to work at the STE. Gave us a back stage tour - we sat in the control couches. Wish I had had a camera. Also saw the motion sim capsules running from above and the computer control systems.
The exhibits and memorabilia were 1st class. I hope they find a home for it somewhere soon.
http://www.dhmo.org/truth/Dihydrogen-Monoxide.html
Hundreds of people are killed each year from exposure to di-hydrogen monoxide. We can't be too certain, so we should ban it altogether.
We should renovate some of the old industrial sites (far from downtown) or surplus military bases so that no one should have to sleep on the streets. There should be enough beds for everyone. When that's done, no one should be allowed to sleep on the streets or in the parks. Streets are for walking/driving. Parks are for recreation.
NASA was formed 50 years ago when a small group of people willing to make huge sacrifices of their time (and possibly careers) to leave a large, stodgy, 50-year old organization involved in arcane research to actually do something new and interesting. Now NASA has become the NACA of 50 years ago, and, if we want to succeed at space, take a core of committed, visionary people out of NASA to a new place and start over. Of course, we need a national commitment like Kennedy generated, but I don't see that coming any time soon either.
Devices here: http://www.v8power.com/cat--Mustang-Computer-Tuning--comp.html
It's quite elegant, actually. You can override the factory parameters to get more 1) acceleration 2) horsepower 3) better fuel economy or 4) less pollution. Regardless of what all the conspiracy theorists say, pick any ONE. Perhaps TWO. You can't optimize for all FOUR any more than Detroit already has.
Back to topic: one of the guys who worked with me races the Mustang he drives to work on the weekends at the drag strip. One morning he called in and said the parameters he had loaded last night didn't work, his car wouldn't start, and he couldn't come in until he figured out what settings to put back in and reflash the car...
I've never heard of a sunlight spill, but I know lots of people who have gotten serious RADIATION burns from that sun thing. It ought to be stopped, before more people are burned and injured like my kids have been. Who knows, it might even cause CANCER. We need more studies before approving the sun.
We're all binary people. If the code is wrong, and doesn't execute flawlessly, we SIGHUP, rewrite the code and fix it.
We can't SIGHUP people, though there are a few I vote for kill -9. Probably a different list than yours.
People are different from code. Do we want to 'fix' the code? Who decides what 'fixed' is? Many would write out homosexuality, if it's genetic. Others would write out the 'warrior gene' that both makes men agressive, but also willing to die to defend their families.
But, doing anything to stop it flies in the face of current orthodoxy: an embryo is part of the mother's body. It's solely HER choice whether to keep or terminate it, and she can do so based on any criteria SHE wants. That's the endgame of Roe v. Wade. So, if you want to ban the mother from making any choice you want, you weaken the argument in Roe v. Wade that it's just a bunch of cells attached to the mother.
My personal belief is that somewhere between conception and birth it becomes a person, but it's hard to draw that line clearly in a legal, moral or scientific way
Genetics is going to change the world this century as much as electricity and electronics did the last, and we're not ready for it.
No, the Apollo space capsule was built by North American Aviation.... The LEM was built by Grumman, and it WAS a real spaceship. http://myweb.accessus.net/~090/as13tow.html
You've hit on my biggest gripe about environmentalists. They never seem to have a SOLUTION to anything. They always tell you what you SHOULDN'T do.
Nuclear power bad. Coal bad. Compact fluorescent bad. If we did solar power in a big way, that would probably kill tortoises or something.
The sum total of all they want is us to go back to the stone age or earlier. I'm looking for an environmentalist that understands engineering and mathematics and can propose SOLUTIONS, not 'can'ts'.
Irkutsk is on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the main East-West transport axis. You can bet there's a lot of fiber down the railroad right-of-way, so comms won't be a problem.
Irkutsk is on the Angara River, which is fed by Lake Baikal. The Bratsk dam (4,500MW) is one of the largest hydropower dams in the world, and there are three more on the Angara. Can you say "zero carbon emissions" and "reliability"?
I would staff the facility with all but a handful of positions being Russian. You can get CCNA/MCSE level people there for less than $10,000USD/year. And, they are quite competent (think Tetris or some of the Russian hackers).
As another poster points out, it doesn't matter any more where there server is located, with the competent remote support tools that all current OSs have.
I would say it's one of the better decisions Microsoft has made.