CERN could create black hole in front of the earth that would suck down the asteroid. To hell with detractors and their "drawbacks". Haters gonna hate.
Considering that most of Linux's previous attempts to topple Microsoft on the desktop were based on sheer force of zealotry alone, I guess that's progress.
Anyone who throws battery acid in schoolgirls' faces to prevent them from going to school and who doesn't let widows work to support their starving children has already dehumanized themselves.
I should really be worried about Gattacaish stuff instead of looking forward to gene therapies to cure us 5'6"ers of our affliction; women in clubs and bars don't look for a sense scientific morality though.
Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with office supplies.
(Grumbles from all)
Palin:Oh, you promised you wouldn't do office supplies this week.
Sgt.:What do you mean?
Jones:We've done office supplies the last nine weeks.
Sgt.:What's wrong with office supplies? You think you know it all, eh?
Palin:Can't we do something else?
Idle (Welsh):Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick?
Sgt.: Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Office supplies not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bag of rubber bands, don't come crying to me! Now, the tape dispenser. When your assailant lunges at you with a tape dispenser
All:We done the tape dispenser
Sgt.:What?
Chapman:We done the tape dispenser.
Palin:We done protractors, staples, paper...
Jones: 8 x 11 and legal
Palin: White-out, mechanical pencils
Chapman: Dry erase markers, tape dispenser...
Palin: Dixie cups
Jones: Envelopes
Chapman: Sticky Notes
Sgt.: How about rulers?
All: We did them.
Sgt.: Metric and standard?
All:Yes!
Sgt.: All right, folders.
(All sigh.)
Sgt.: We haven't done them, have we? Right. Folders. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a folder. Now you, come at me with this folder. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a folder. First of all you force him to drop the folder; then, second, you stick the folder in a file cabinet, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless.
Technically there's tradeoff between meeting more obscure customer demand vs. safety issues. If a business refuses to serve the steak bloody rare, then they piss off the steak geeks and lose potential revenue. Yet if the business allows undercooked meat, they lose the safety net of well-done meat that protects their customers from e-coli and the resulting bad press and lawsuits.
The food safety engineer understands food and also understands there's no right answer to the question of allowing bloody rare steak; the company gives up one thing to get another thing. What it really boils down to is what side of the tradeoff he's on and what balancing of the food equation best serves the needs of the target audience.
The food geek only understand food; he doesn't understand the concept of tradeoff. He screams and howls that the steak is unfairly being crippled and that he's not getting it his way and his freedoms are getting infringed upon by "the man" because it's easier to understand the concept of the "man" than an equation that must be balanced on both sides to produce the best results for the target audience, which in the case of Burger King and their lawyers doesn't happen to be him.
In a war, the best person to stick in position as a sniper is the guy who's spend the last ten years or more practicing to handle a sniper rifle, and getting experience.
Historically, the best snipers, Carlos Hathcock, Vasily Zaitsev, Simo Häyhä, etc were "hunting geeks" in their childhoods. They learned how to be hide themselves using their surroundings, how to stalk and track a target and shoot from a distance before they ever got into the military.
Back when I was a lowly QA tester for a company that took DARPA contracts involving things specific to North Korea, it never ceased to amaze me that the entire programmer staff were H1B's from China, who just happens to be North Korea's main ally, who were hired solely for their utter cheapness.
This is why I just can't take tin-foil hat people seriously.
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CERN could create black hole in front of the earth that would suck down the asteroid. To hell with detractors and their "drawbacks". Haters gonna hate.
Robert S. Mueller, III has just invited you to TerroristVille. How about sending him a free gift in return?
Simply to avoid having to wear tights.
"Want to have a look at my linux box in my Mom's basement?"
You need better pickup lines.
14,598.5 airships assuming that the entire planet immediately halts all welding of metal.
There is no rational explanation for the proliferation of "Monster Airship" articles given the helium shortage. I've stopped trying to understand it.
You'll know where the SCOTUS is you put GPS transmitters on their cars.
Considering that most of Linux's previous attempts to topple Microsoft on the desktop were based on sheer force of zealotry alone, I guess that's progress.
I only read newspapers for the hilarity of their inaccuracy and the absurdity of what they leave in and what they leave out.
So you are frequenting slashdot for its journalistic excellence, lack of absurdity, and total adherence to the truth.
Do you save four times as many people?
Windows 7 is Clean Coal. Get your coals straight.
Was Yahoo's search engine not able discriminate between Stayart and "Stay Hard"?
Why buy the cow when you can milk the bull for free?
"Smart Phones are increasingly important to people's lives. They must be notified of things. That's why we're suing motorola."
+5 Informative.
Anyone who throws battery acid in schoolgirls' faces to prevent them from going to school and who doesn't let widows work to support their starving children has already dehumanized themselves.
Don't forget that as of now, one can sideload and install via ADB on almost all devices.
Android phones support Apple Desktop Bus? How cool is that!
Is Amazon building it's own Android phone?
I should really be worried about Gattacaish stuff instead of looking forward to gene therapies to cure us 5'6"ers of our affliction; women in clubs and bars don't look for a sense scientific morality though.
All you need is a single monolithic chip that's 640 times bigger than a regular core.
Tonight I shall be carrying on from where we got to last week when I was showing you how to defend yourselves against anyone who attacks you with armed with office supplies.
(Grumbles from all)
Palin:Oh, you promised you wouldn't do office supplies this week.
Sgt.:What do you mean?
Jones:We've done office supplies the last nine weeks.
Sgt.:What's wrong with office supplies? You think you know it all, eh?
Palin:Can't we do something else?
Idle (Welsh):Like someone who attacks you with a pointed stick?
Sgt.: Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Office supplies not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bag of rubber bands, don't come crying to me! Now, the tape dispenser. When your assailant lunges at you with a tape dispenser
All:We done the tape dispenser
Sgt.:What?
Chapman:We done the tape dispenser.
Palin:We done protractors, staples, paper...
Jones: 8 x 11 and legal
Palin: White-out, mechanical pencils
Chapman: Dry erase markers, tape dispenser...
Palin: Dixie cups
Jones: Envelopes
Chapman: Sticky Notes
Sgt.: How about rulers?
All: We did them.
Sgt.: Metric and standard?
All:Yes!
Sgt.: All right, folders.
(All sigh.)
Sgt.: We haven't done them, have we? Right. Folders. How to defend yourself against a man armed with a folder. Now you, come at me with this folder. Catch! Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against a man armed with a folder. First of all you force him to drop the folder; then, second, you stick the folder in a file cabinet, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him 'elpless.
I agree. But let's have a name which reeks of quality and good design, not of Che Guevara.
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail."--Zawinski's Law
Technically there's tradeoff between meeting more obscure customer demand vs. safety issues. If a business refuses to serve the steak bloody rare, then they piss off the steak geeks and lose potential revenue. Yet if the business allows undercooked meat, they lose the safety net of well-done meat that protects their customers from e-coli and the resulting bad press and lawsuits.
The food safety engineer understands food and also understands there's no right answer to the question of allowing bloody rare steak; the company gives up one thing to get another thing. What it really boils down to is what side of the tradeoff he's on and what balancing of the food equation best serves the needs of the target audience.
The food geek only understand food; he doesn't understand the concept of tradeoff. He screams and howls that the steak is unfairly being crippled and that he's not getting it his way and his freedoms are getting infringed upon by "the man" because it's easier to understand the concept of the "man" than an equation that must be balanced on both sides to produce the best results for the target audience, which in the case of Burger King and their lawyers doesn't happen to be him.
In a war, the best person to stick in position as a sniper is the guy who's spend the last ten years or more practicing to handle a sniper rifle, and getting experience.
Historically, the best snipers, Carlos Hathcock, Vasily Zaitsev, Simo Häyhä, etc were "hunting geeks" in their childhoods. They learned how to be hide themselves using their surroundings, how to stalk and track a target and shoot from a distance before they ever got into the military.
Back when I was a lowly QA tester for a company that took DARPA contracts involving things specific to North Korea, it never ceased to amaze me that the entire programmer staff were H1B's from China, who just happens to be North Korea's main ally, who were hired solely for their utter cheapness.
This is why I just can't take tin-foil hat people seriously.