Weeeeell, animal testing is fine up to a point. The problem is that in quite a lot of cases testing things on animals won't tell you anything about how it'll affect humans.
Yes, nuclear power is "big boys toys" and just as a one would not give a child a loaded gun, one does not give and tries to prevent immature, aggressively violent regimes from acquiring dangerous technology.
So by that reasoning only Europe, Egypt, and China should have nuclear power, since all the other countries have immature regimes:)
I mean, seriously, if your country hasn't been in existence for at least a thousand years how can you possibly claim to be civilised:)
Well, IANAL, but if it turns out that other companies were funding SCO to get up to its tricks then they might then have a case for prosecuting them for something. There could be a proffit motive there.
Plus being shown to have been the innocent victim of a massive slur conspiricy would probably be good PR.
If you want to mod me down, mod me as flamebait, not troll. I believe everything I have said there and am simply responding to some genuine flamebait (or possibly trolling) with a statement of how I see things. Fact is I'm a long term Linux user who has recently "switched" to Mac OS X, and have seriously enjoyed teh experience. I have used windows in a number of enviroments, and even helped administer it - and the simple fact as I have found it is that windows is less intuitive, less configurable, and less secure than Linux, BSD, or OS X. What is more, it is less user-friendly than OS X, and less user-friendly than many Linux instalations.
Why do we get this same old tired FUD over and over again? Several slashdotters have on many occasions compared specs and prices of Intel-based Apple computers against similar PCs (similar is noteable, since no idetical models exist), and have found that the Apple price is pretty close to the PC price, even if you ignore the design and weigh issues and the superiority of the software.
The reason that Apple computers are expensive and they are) is not because they are more expensive than an equivalent PC, but because the equivalent PC to a low-end mac is near the top of its range. Simply put: Apple don't sell cheep computers.
They didn't "leave it out", they never had any reason to put one in, anymore than they would put a floppy-drive, paralel port, or 25-pin serial-port in their machines.
Despite using many of the same parts Intel Macs have a significantly different architecture from generic PCs, without a lot of legacy hardware which the PC platform has supported for a long time.
That's assuming that you consider prostitution as serious a crime as murder. Hell, depending upon what country you're in prostitution may not even be a crime.
Simple answer is that were the cable to snap it would either fly outwards away from the earth, or shatter into graphite dust. People living along the equator would probably have to stay in doors for a while to avoid breathing it in, but it wouldn't be all that devastating. The only place where significant damage might occur would be around the anchor point... which is supposedly going to be at sea anyway.
The science in Red Mars is better than in many Sci-Fi books, but still quite flawed.
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(Wow, on slashdot even the "witty" responses are duped)
Beg to differ. That would be Darwin or OpenDarwin - the resemblence to BSD exists, but is generaly overstated.
Weeeeell, animal testing is fine up to a point. The problem is that in quite a lot of cases testing things on animals won't tell you anything about how it'll affect humans.
So by that reasoning only Europe, Egypt, and China should have nuclear power, since all the other countries have immature regimes :)
I mean, seriously, if your country hasn't been in existence for at least a thousand years how can you possibly claim to be civilised :)
Oh yes, but the absolute amount of livable volume in teh solar system is pretty huge.
University would be so much better if we could just get rid of all the undergraduates ...
Plus being shown to have been the innocent victim of a massive slur conspiricy would probably be good PR.
Think about that for a second.
(and don't even get me started on why Cell wouldn't make a goood desktop processor)
If you want to mod me down, mod me as flamebait, not troll. I believe everything I have said there and am simply responding to some genuine flamebait (or possibly trolling) with a statement of how I see things. Fact is I'm a long term Linux user who has recently "switched" to Mac OS X, and have seriously enjoyed teh experience. I have used windows in a number of enviroments, and even helped administer it - and the simple fact as I have found it is that windows is less intuitive, less configurable, and less secure than Linux, BSD, or OS X. What is more, it is less user-friendly than OS X, and less user-friendly than many Linux instalations.
Well, there was this one girl, at the LUG meeting ...
If you were to measure the momentum of one, then the position of both will become fuzzy. That's what quantum entanglement does.
Or, indeed, NeXTSTeP
They may both suck compared to MacOS (though depending upon what you want to do this may or may not be the case) - but compared to windows?
What's that skip? Timmy's trapped down the well?
The reason that Apple computers are expensive and they are) is not because they are more expensive than an equivalent PC, but because the equivalent PC to a low-end mac is near the top of its range. Simply put: Apple don't sell cheep computers.
Nope, it's a trojan, and it requires you to give it your admin password to do anything realy nasty.
They didn't "leave it out", they never had any reason to put one in, anymore than they would put a floppy-drive, paralel port, or 25-pin serial-port in their machines.
Despite using many of the same parts Intel Macs have a significantly different architecture from generic PCs, without a lot of legacy hardware which the PC platform has supported for a long time.
Actualy microsoft sold all their apple stock.
Oh yes, because you absolutely need all that power ;)
Are quite hard to find.
That's assuming that you consider prostitution as serious a crime as murder. Hell, depending upon what country you're in prostitution may not even be a crime.
Simple answer is that were the cable to snap it would either fly outwards away from the earth, or shatter into graphite dust. People living along the equator would probably have to stay in doors for a while to avoid breathing it in, but it wouldn't be all that devastating. The only place where significant damage might occur would be around the anchor point ... which is supposedly going to be at sea anyway.
The science in Red Mars is better than in many Sci-Fi books, but still quite flawed.