I agree. One cannot predict where something is going, without knowing from where it came. As far as I know, man-kind has not yet understood the full reverse of the universe yet. I mean our scientist still cannot come up with a model of the universe, and cannot link the quantum world with the every-day world we live in. There is a point where (when reversing the time of the universe) our current understanding of reality fails, and we cannot understand the transition of matter from it's current state, to that of what it was just after the "Big Bang".
I couldn't RTFA, but I wonder how far back they went.
It's perfectly reasonable to believe that this is the case just as it is reasonable to believe that you don't know which to/too/two to use in your statement "...I have to much confidence..." (It should be the second one).
Spelling is man-made, and is only defined by people who care enough to research it. I think my spelling is good enough to convey my point.
Just think about your experience with math. There is usually one branch of it that is "hard to get". Once someone says that words that link your current understanding of things, to the way they are expressed as a group in math form, then suddenly BING!, you get it. And it's usually something like, "Oh man, so THAT'S it. Oh okay, now I understand." After that, it's easy. Have you never had this experience? I had this experience with geometry.
These are the real pioneers who made most of modern engineering math possible.
they made engineering math possible? So before them, adding and subtracting wasn't possible? That's like saying before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity, everything just floated.
I get your point, and you're right. But at that time I was just learning how to wipe as well.
Really though, I know people in 3rd world countries that cannot even read or write their own language, but they can add and subtract. My whole point was that once you can add, you can subtract. I mean the most common way to express to a child how to add/subtract is by way of apples. You say, "You have 1 apple and I give you 2 more apples, now how many apples do you have?" It is just automatic that if you understand the way it is expressed, then the two (adding and subtracting) are one.
It is the same reason that when you go somewhere, you only need directions how to get there. You don't now need directions on how to get home, isn't it?
If anyone can show me a child that learns how to only add, and not automaticly know how to then subtract, then I'll change the way I view the entire universe. I don't know, maybe I have to much confidence in man-kind, but addition and subtraction are both the same thing. It is not like saying, this guy can tear a building down, but he cannot put a building up. That is totally different. We are humans with a human brain. These things (addition/subtraction) are known from birth, and only taught how to communicate it to others by way of expression. Once you get the expression, you automaticly can express both sides of this "coin".
maybe I just have a hard time believing that someone went through enough school to be able to read:
Black plus black is black
Red plus red is red Black plus red or red plus black,
hand the sheets to team 2
...but can only add, and not subtract.
All in all, I do not believe this is a real story, but only an exateration of some story, then posted on our all favorite Slashdot. Just remember, beleive half of what you see, and none of what you hear. So, I guess that means only believe 1/4 of what you read?
Astrology has been around for years, and has been used to build the most fasinating, and longest standing structures. It is a tool that one can use to detect the "pushes and pulls" of the planets as relative to the sun and planet that we live on. In order to get an accurate reading, you must know a lot about the EXACT placement of the planets, and I mean EXACT. In order to do so, there is a lot of history involved. I mean, you must know about the past, and planet position. An example is the creation of the moon. Some say that it was created by the collision of 2 planets. This would have been natures way of creation, so it's justified? It doesn't matter if it's justified, just that you KNOW that it happened, and the time and placement of the planets at the time it happened.
This lady shouldn't be able to sue NASA, because they gave the time, date, and location. If she is worth her salt, she should be able to use this info to better her career.
All that being said, this comet has about as much "push and pull" on the planets, and our lives, as seeing a bird on the side of the road deos to your driving, not much.
What's funny is that if there are more than 2 people that say this is a dupe, they get modded down to "Redundant" when in fact this article itself is a dupe. Catch-22?
What's even funnier is that the article is basicly saying that if you put an unprotected Windows box online, that within 12 minutes it's got problems. I want to know who is putting an unprotected Windows box online? All the Windows boxes that are sold today have the latest updates already installed on them, and I must say, Microsoft has stepped up it's game a bit. Days of Windows bashing should be near-end.
I get the impression from the name "DVD Jon" that this guy is really good at perhaps hacking code for the use of some media device. So why is adding "//" to impressive? Surely he has done better in the past.
Rogers - This is an outrage! Our product is being givin away by those goddamn linux "boxen" riders to millions of people! We can't survive like this! Our stock is plumiting, we're loosing ground in the industry!
Roger's's secritary - Bob, we have the new figures in.
Roger - Oh shit! What now? Are we going under???
Roger's secritary - Well, accually from what people see, they, well, want to see more.
Roger - BRILLIANT!!! Now I can give them just enough to want more! BRILLIANT!!!
Roger's secritary - Oh and sir, you look like a complete ass on Slashdot.
I see a lot of people bashing these poor sales people. I can understand a little critisism, but really, what's up? If you have a question for a salesman, then that means that you don't know the answer either! Don't be so damn 1337!
boxen:/boksn/, pl.n.
[very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase 'Unix boxen', used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.
You know, I hear a lot of this shit about if the user isn't savvy enough, or know enough about it, then they deserve what they get, and I'm tired of it.
What do you know about your vehicle? Hell, I live in Alabama (please stay seated, and for god's sake, stop clapping!) and there was a guy pulled over on the side of the road. There was steam everywhere just boiling out of his engine. I pulled over and looked at it. His radiator hose had come unclipped. I clipped it back for him, and drove to the nearest gas-station, and got water. I brought it back to him, and put enough water in his radiator so he could go to the gas-station. He didn't know anything about an engine, and really, I don't either. I just pulled over to see if I could lend a hand.
People like you are so fucking 1337 that you end up in your mother's basement with a really nice linux "boxen" and enough bandwidth to replace your cockwidth. You are trying to glorify yourself with this type of shpeel, and I'm not impressed.
Oh and just to clarify one thing, if you were broke down on the side of the road, I would help you if I could. But you probably don't even have a car, you can ride your "boxen".
Mod me down if you must, but this shit happens all of the time. This is why the business world is starting to pump spyware in. It will solve nothing, but will make everything a lot harder. Congradulations Nerds! It matters.
Mobile, yes. I didn't know that there was a "storm surge" per se. I thought that there was just a shit-load of water that flooded the area. There were people as far north as Styron Rd. that had significant water damage. Surely that wasn't storm surge.
No computer seller/retailer/builder would ever put it to someone that this computer is dangerous, and should be treated like heavy machienery. They want your money. Strange enough, the "botmakers" also want money.
I don't see the botnets getting any smaller. Accually, they are getting bigger, and better. If you own a company that is dependant on the internet for revinue, and you get attacked by these botnets, there is a company that you can go to for help. They will want about as much money as the botnet people want, so you have to weigh your options.
That wave never reached land. In fact, we only had minimum damage from the storm surge. Normaly, the storm sucks all the water out of the bay (Mobile Bay), then it pushes all that water back in along with a lot more, creating what we call 'storm surge'. Strange enough, this storm was so big, that the water was never pulled all the way out, nor was a large amount of water pushed back in. The water did rise about 15 feet, but not in the form of a storm surge.
I'm thinking that the wave that they measured must have been a good way out. If a 91ft. wave came into this area, I would have been wiped out along with about 30,000 others.
All that is so very true. But at the same time, we are still blogging, isn't it? It's the American in us. We want to be intertained, even if it means having to look up random shit to make sure it's true. It's some form of learning, isn't it? You seem to be one of the few that understand this, and THE ONLY one that said it.
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Well, you sound logical, so I withdraw my suspicion of the artical. Thanks.
I couldn't RTFA, but I wonder how far back they went.
Spelling is man-made, and is only defined by people who care enough to research it. I think my spelling is good enough to convey my point.
Math is something that is a part of nature. Look here:b slide.htm/
http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/fibslide/jbfi
and here:/
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciNumber.html
Just think about your experience with math. There is usually one branch of it that is "hard to get". Once someone says that words that link your current understanding of things, to the way they are expressed as a group in math form, then suddenly BING!, you get it. And it's usually something like, "Oh man, so THAT'S it. Oh okay, now I understand." After that, it's easy. Have you never had this experience? I had this experience with geometry.
they made engineering math possible? So before them, adding and subtracting wasn't possible? That's like saying before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity, everything just floated.
Look here: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/pythag /pythag.html/
This was a really long time ago, and he was believed to have learned this from the egyptians.
Really though, I know people in 3rd world countries that cannot even read or write their own language, but they can add and subtract. My whole point was that once you can add, you can subtract. I mean the most common way to express to a child how to add/subtract is by way of apples. You say, "You have 1 apple and I give you 2 more apples, now how many apples do you have?" It is just automatic that if you understand the way it is expressed, then the two (adding and subtracting) are one.
It is the same reason that when you go somewhere, you only need directions how to get there. You don't now need directions on how to get home, isn't it?
If anyone can show me a child that learns how to only add, and not automaticly know how to then subtract, then I'll change the way I view the entire universe. I don't know, maybe I have to much confidence in man-kind, but addition and subtraction are both the same thing. It is not like saying, this guy can tear a building down, but he cannot put a building up. That is totally different. We are humans with a human brain. These things (addition/subtraction) are known from birth, and only taught how to communicate it to others by way of expression. Once you get the expression, you automaticly can express both sides of this "coin".
maybe I just have a hard time believing that someone went through enough school to be able to read:
Black plus black is black
Red plus red is red Black plus red or red plus black,
hand the sheets to team 2
...but can only add, and not subtract.
All in all, I do not believe this is a real story, but only an exateration of some story, then posted on our all favorite Slashdot. Just remember, beleive half of what you see, and none of what you hear. So, I guess that means only believe 1/4 of what you read?
Black plus black is black Red plus red is red Black plus red or red plus black, hand the sheets to team 2
It doesn't seem likely that his is a real fact. More like a good slashdot story.
...and by the looks of it, you didn't give much thought to your post, or is that another aspect of "The Hacker Mentality"?
This lady shouldn't be able to sue NASA, because they gave the time, date, and location. If she is worth her salt, she should be able to use this info to better her career.
All that being said, this comet has about as much "push and pull" on the planets, and our lives, as seeing a bird on the side of the road deos to your driving, not much.
What's even funnier is that the article is basicly saying that if you put an unprotected Windows box online, that within 12 minutes it's got problems. I want to know who is putting an unprotected Windows box online? All the Windows boxes that are sold today have the latest updates already installed on them, and I must say, Microsoft has stepped up it's game a bit. Days of Windows bashing should be near-end.
I've never conducted a survey, but I don't think this is very relivant. ;~P
...and I thought that I was masterbating to much.
I get the impression from the name "DVD Jon" that this guy is really good at perhaps hacking code for the use of some media device. So why is adding "//" to impressive? Surely he has done better in the past.
I'm going to patent pick-up lines. If you use any of my pick-up lines, I gets the pussy!
Roger's's secritary - Bob, we have the new figures in.
Roger - Oh shit! What now? Are we going under???
Roger's secritary - Well, accually from what people see, they, well, want to see more.
Roger - BRILLIANT!!! Now I can give them just enough to want more! BRILLIANT!!!
Roger's secritary - Oh and sir, you look like a complete ass on Slashdot.
Roger - Slash-who?
I see a lot of people bashing these poor sales people. I can understand a little critisism, but really, what's up? If you have a question for a salesman, then that means that you don't know the answer either! Don't be so damn 1337!
Not very many, but now that it's reached slashdot, it will forever be coined as "Boxen", even though power linux users probably think differently.
boxen: /boksn/, pl.n.
[very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase 'Unix boxen', used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.
What do you know about your vehicle? Hell, I live in Alabama (please stay seated, and for god's sake, stop clapping!) and there was a guy pulled over on the side of the road. There was steam everywhere just boiling out of his engine. I pulled over and looked at it. His radiator hose had come unclipped. I clipped it back for him, and drove to the nearest gas-station, and got water. I brought it back to him, and put enough water in his radiator so he could go to the gas-station. He didn't know anything about an engine, and really, I don't either. I just pulled over to see if I could lend a hand.
People like you are so fucking 1337 that you end up in your mother's basement with a really nice linux "boxen" and enough bandwidth to replace your cockwidth. You are trying to glorify yourself with this type of shpeel, and I'm not impressed.
Oh and just to clarify one thing, if you were broke down on the side of the road, I would help you if I could. But you probably don't even have a car, you can ride your "boxen".
Mod me down if you must, but this shit happens all of the time. This is why the business world is starting to pump spyware in. It will solve nothing, but will make everything a lot harder. Congradulations Nerds! It matters.
Mobile, yes. I didn't know that there was a "storm surge" per se. I thought that there was just a shit-load of water that flooded the area. There were people as far north as Styron Rd. that had significant water damage. Surely that wasn't storm surge.
I don't see the botnets getting any smaller. Accually, they are getting bigger, and better. If you own a company that is dependant on the internet for revinue, and you get attacked by these botnets, there is a company that you can go to for help. They will want about as much money as the botnet people want, so you have to weigh your options.
I'm thinking that the wave that they measured must have been a good way out. If a 91ft. wave came into this area, I would have been wiped out along with about 30,000 others.
Let's just hope that nothing goes, "BAM!"
Holy let-down Batman! I accually thought that David Chappell commented.
That's got to be the best explination I've got yet. Thank-you for your kind words. I hope there are many others with your style.
Congradulations, you're smarter than most here.