My kids (age 13 and 17) have said they want to go see it. Last time they wanted to see a movie it was, um, I don't remember them ever both saying they wanted to see the same movie.
We'll go, probably the first weekend.
Go Darth!
(I just like to cheer for the winning side)
(Sorry for the spoiler)
(But anybody who's see Star Wars IV knew that already)
(We already know the ending. The only thing left to see is the blood!)
I wonder how long it will take before the bacteria riding aboard the various spacecraft we send to Mars begin to spread all over the planet?
If we then "discover" bacteria on Mars, imagine the excitement, and the loss. The loss of our chance to truly know if it was there already. The loss will go unnoticed, though, as anyone broaching the question will be lumped with the Creationists, an object of scorn.
But the situations in which cars find themselves are not.
I dread the advent of a Windowsmobile. Event-driven programs trying to respond to conditions can only do so according to a finite set of rules (even if the car learns by some yet-undefined mechanism). Cars are put into essentially limitless sets of circumstances, many of which will not match the given rules.
I'm all for adding technology to cars, if that will make them work better. It seems that manufacturers are adding technology just to make them more expensive.
I really don't care for it myself. It was a joke. I meant to fill out the joke with a little humor, but I forgot:-).
All administrations see science as a political tool. This one just uses it in a way you don't seem to like. Think Kennedy wanted to go the moon to answer the burning question of what the rocks were made from there? No, it was to make political hay in the Cold War.
I don't care, frown if you must. It's a futile, meaningless life, and in the end we return to dust. No sense wasting all that energy trying to enjoy it while we're here.
Try smiling! When you smile, the whole world smiles with you!
Kids want to be rich, be famous, and get laid. Scientists, by and large, lack a reputation for at least two of those.
If it takes a prize or two to motivate a generation of young people ("Oh, wow, I can win that prize I can't pronounce and get rich, be famous, and get laid all over the place!"), that's what it takes.
Hindsight's 20/20, of course, but it seems obvious to me that you introduce fees in a formerly free setting by charging for new, premium services. To use Slashdot metaphors:
Wow, you're right. My records indicated that they had done the name change after filing the suit, but it was before. They filed the suit, and all filings up until July '03, as "Caldera Systems, Inc., d/b/a The SCO Group".
You're still missing the obvious point that this SCO and that SCO are two different companies. It's pointless to lump them together.
Juliet: Tis but thy name that is mine enemie. Whats Mountague? It is nor hand nor foote, Nor arme, nor face, nor any other part. Whats in a name? That which we call a Rose, By any other name would smell as sweet: So Romeo would, were he not Romeo cald, Retaine the diuine perfection he owes: Without that title Romeo part thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee, Take all I haue.
Dear Sir: I am the son of a wealthy Zwahalian chief here in Nigeria, and we have need of your assistance....
Just a thought.
(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).
Honestly, just what is the deal with these fundamentalists? I have two issues with these people.
I'm not a fundamentalist, but I don't think evolution has been proven as fact. I've never seen or heard of evidence showing one species changing into another. Plenty of variation inside of a species, but no crossover. My mind is open to it, but until it shows up I'm not convinced.
There are lots and lots of fossils. What's missing are transitionary forms: a pre-dolphin with legs or a pre-dolphincow with fins.
Given the depth and breadth of the fossil record, it seems odd that there aren't many, many such finds, rather than zero.
Most Creationists I've heard talk about the flaws in carbon dating. I don't really understand carbon dating. Could someone please explain it to me, again? It's at the crux of the 6e3 v. 4e9 year-old Earth debate, and it seems kind of like hand-waving to me.
As for God playing tricks on us, I think He does stuff just to humble us. Doesn't always work.
How was the Klingon cloaking device developed? Did they develop it themselves or steal the tech from someone else?
How about a Klingon series? How would a Vulcan do in a Klingon culture?
Living planets, stars, asteroids, etc. Crew beams down and all their metallic equipment gets digested.
More about manufacturing, social problems, and the ramifications of absurdly advanced technology on society. Does manufacturing consist of a CAD designer with a replicator? Does every house have a replicator, a transporter, and a holodeck? How do these changes affect society?
Star Trek has always been unrealistically utopian; I'd like to see a nice civil war (between humans on Earth, not on some disposable alien world). Even a labor dispute now and then would be refreshing.
OK, the funny part: Star Trek, the reality series! A female Klingon, a male human, a gay Vulcan, a Christian Romulan, (and so on) have to live in a shuttle craft for 13 episodes. Well, *I* think it's funny.
It was especially silly of me to say that wasn't a word when I know that words can spring into existence at any time through literary invention, historical revival, transfer from another language, or simple common usage.
Microsoft wants to interoperate? Go ahead! Just quit *not* interoperating.
Microsoft wants to reach out to the Open Source community? Uh, they really don't get it, do they. There aren't any leaders to reach out to! There are leaders, but it's not a labor union or a PTA.
We'll judge you by your actions, not by what you say to our leaders.
But besides that, whether a buffer overflows or not is not a hardware issue, it's a program bug. If a programmer is so unclever as to allocate a buffer using a temp array on the stack and not bounds-check his code, well, unemployment should result.
Yeah, someone did piss in my Wheaties this morning.
it will fall even faster than IE to surreptitious purveyors of spyware and virii taking advantage of the source to discover new ways to subvert our web browsers without our knowledge.
I don't think that will happen, for several reasons:
One of the design goals of Firefox is preventing viruses and such from using it to attack your computer. IE doesn't have design goals, it has "security features".
The source code for Mozilla has be available for what, 5 years now? Your imagined plague of Mozilla virii and spyware hasn't happened yet.
The source code is available to the good guys, too. That means that bugs can and will be found before anyone ever tries to exploit them.
The source code is available to the good guys, too. That also means that bugs can be fixed more quickly. It's not magic: finding a bug is the time-consuming part. With lots of people looking, identifying the exact nature of the bug becomes much easier. Once the exact nature of the bug is known, coding around it is less painful and happens faster.
Firefox is an application, not part of the OS.
There are lots easier ways to develop and spread viruses than scouring the Firefox source code.
Many of those writing viruses do it for the glory factor - just to think that they did something "important". Yeah, it's stupid, but at least they aren't doing it for greed. Anyway, for some of these folks there will be stronger motivation to do get credit for supplying a patch than there would be to release a virus.
This is because XP is not designed right, not because the TCP/IP protocol is wrong. (just to be clear)
You nailed it.
Microsoft is clearly trying to shift the blame from their dain-bramaged design to TCP/IP. How many other operating systems are there that do (more or less) fully implement TCP/IP, including raw sockets? It's almost universal.
Oh well. I guess Microsoft knows the neighborhood is safer with a crippled lunatic than healthy one.
Slashdot Mirror
* shrug *
My kids (age 13 and 17) have said they want to go see it. Last time they wanted to see a movie it was, um, I don't remember them ever both saying they wanted to see the same movie.
We'll go, probably the first weekend.
Go Darth!
(I just like to cheer for the winning side)
(Sorry for the spoiler)
(But anybody who's see Star Wars IV knew that already)
(We already know the ending. The only thing left to see is the blood!)
I wonder how long it will take before the bacteria riding aboard the various spacecraft we send to Mars begin to spread all over the planet?
If we then "discover" bacteria on Mars, imagine the excitement, and the loss. The loss of our chance to truly know if it was there already. The loss will go unnoticed, though, as anyone broaching the question will be lumped with the Creationists, an object of scorn.
>[Cars are simpler than computers]
But the situations in which cars find themselves are not.
I dread the advent of a Windowsmobile. Event-driven programs trying to respond to conditions can only do so according to a finite set of rules (even if the car learns by some yet-undefined mechanism). Cars are put into essentially limitless sets of circumstances, many of which will not match the given rules.
I'm all for adding technology to cars, if that will make them work better. It seems that manufacturers are adding technology just to make them more expensive.
>I hate this attitude...
:-).
I really don't care for it myself. It was a joke. I meant to fill out the joke with a little humor, but I forgot
All administrations see science as a political tool. This one just uses it in a way you don't seem to like. Think Kennedy wanted to go the moon to answer the burning question of what the rocks were made from there? No, it was to make political hay in the Cold War.
I don't care, frown if you must. It's a futile, meaningless life, and in the end we return to dust. No sense wasting all that energy trying to enjoy it while we're here.
Try smiling! When you smile, the whole world smiles with you!
Kids want to be rich, be famous, and get laid. Scientists, by and large, lack a reputation for at least two of those.
If it takes a prize or two to motivate a generation of young people ("Oh, wow, I can win that prize I can't pronounce and get rich, be famous, and get laid all over the place!"), that's what it takes.
* Shrug *
Hindsight's 20/20, of course, but it seems obvious to me that you introduce fees in a formerly free setting by charging for new, premium services. To use Slashdot metaphors:
Wow, you're right. My records indicated that they had done the name change after filing the suit, but it was before. They filed the suit, and all filings up until July '03, as "Caldera Systems, Inc., d/b/a The SCO Group".
You're still missing the obvious point that this SCO and that SCO are two different companies. It's pointless to lump them together.
But you don't know what Mom and I do over the webcam. She's SO Hot in those fishnet stockings!
Just kidding. I have no mother.
... at highway rest areas in Texas. Nope, not even if you have to go really bad.
Besides, there's nothing good to see there any more.
Just a thought.
(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).
I'm not a fundamentalist, but I don't think evolution has been proven as fact. I've never seen or heard of evidence showing one species changing into another. Plenty of variation inside of a species, but no crossover. My mind is open to it, but until it shows up I'm not convinced.
There are lots and lots of fossils. What's missing are transitionary forms: a pre-dolphin with legs or a pre-dolphincow with fins.
Given the depth and breadth of the fossil record, it seems odd that there aren't many, many such finds, rather than zero.
Most Creationists I've heard talk about the flaws in carbon dating. I don't really understand carbon dating. Could someone please explain it to me, again? It's at the crux of the 6e3 v. 4e9 year-old Earth debate, and it seems kind of like hand-waving to me.
As for God playing tricks on us, I think He does stuff just to humble us. Doesn't always work.
What's all this, then?
That's year 4053 your time.
I could go humorous here, but I'll try not to:
How was the Klingon cloaking device developed? Did they develop it themselves or steal the tech from someone else?
How about a Klingon series? How would a Vulcan do in a Klingon culture?
Living planets, stars, asteroids, etc. Crew beams down and all their metallic equipment gets digested.
More about manufacturing, social problems, and the ramifications of absurdly advanced technology on society. Does manufacturing consist of a CAD designer with a replicator? Does every house have a replicator, a transporter, and a holodeck? How do these changes affect society?
Star Trek has always been unrealistically utopian; I'd like to see a nice civil war (between humans on Earth, not on some disposable alien world). Even a labor dispute now and then would be refreshing.
OK, the funny part: Star Trek, the reality series! A female Klingon, a male human, a gay Vulcan, a Christian Romulan, (and so on) have to live in a shuttle craft for 13 episodes. Well, *I* think it's funny.
It was especially silly of me to say that wasn't a word when I know that words can spring into existence at any time through literary invention, historical revival, transfer from another language, or simple common usage.
My bad.
Why don't they get a more powerful telescope on the ground and point it at the Hubble?
They could fix it from here!
I'm surprised nobody's thought of this. Maybe those "rocket scientists" aren't so smart after all.
Well. You learn something new every day.
>That was me. Sorry.
No problem. Thanks for owning up to it.
What a load of baloney!
Microsoft wants to interoperate? Go ahead! Just quit *not* interoperating.
Microsoft wants to reach out to the Open Source community? Uh, they really don't get it, do they. There aren't any leaders to reach out to! There are leaders, but it's not a labor union or a PTA.
We'll judge you by your actions, not by what you say to our leaders.
Informative post, but it's "Administer".
But besides that, whether a buffer overflows or not is not a hardware issue, it's a program bug. If a programmer is so unclever as to allocate a buffer using a temp array on the stack and not bounds-check his code, well, unemployment should result.
Yeah, someone did piss in my Wheaties this morning.
I don't think that will happen, for several reasons:
Can I sue the Attorney General fer loss of income?
You nailed it.
Microsoft is clearly trying to shift the blame from their dain-bramaged design to TCP/IP. How many other operating systems are there that do (more or less) fully implement TCP/IP, including raw sockets? It's almost universal.
Oh well. I guess Microsoft knows the neighborhood is safer with a crippled lunatic than healthy one.
You don't put any stock in this "cold fusion" mumbo jumbo, do ya?