OOps, I used the term 'global warming' which is not quite accurate. Perhaps I should have phrased that as 'Climate Change' which is a more accurate term. Some places are experiencing unusual warming trends such as the arctic, whereas other locations are experiencing cooling and/or droughts uncharacteristically. Climate change is a more appropriate term to attach to the effect that industrialization and resulting green house gases have had on global weather patterns and trends.
Generally speaking, there's supposed to be at least a few of them which aren't melting away to nothing." In who's reality? I live in the arctic, the glaciers are all receding with each passing year.
Anyone that says global warming isn't happening is ill informed. All you have to do is visit places like Alaska and see for yourself.
"But that was NASA and not Bush." This was discussed here quite a bit back when it was going on. Perhaps I erroneously pointed my middle finger at bush holding him directly accountable for such a retarded idea. But considering bush controlled what funds NASA got, and for some stupid reason they decided to scrap one of the most important scientific devices of all time. Even though a NASA administrator caught the bulk of flack from the community over the idea of scrapping Hubble, you know as well as I that the decision came from the "decider". And as usual, it's always some pion that has to fall on his sword to protect the #1 asshole that thought up the idea in the first place.
I still and will always consider C to be an excellent first programming language. It's clean, simple, top down procedural flow. Very easy to understand and code.
From there new coders can move on to object oriented codes to advance their skills once the basics are understood.
The resolution of the full size image of Hubble is incredible. I have always been a fan of the Hubble site and still remain today.
I was heart broken, as well as many others, a few years back when bush wanted to scrap Hubble. I hope we learned from that near mistake and keep the thing going for years to come.
It will only continue to provide new discoveries with each passing year. A very valuable asset to science.
Many good points. I live in Alaska and have seen the F-22 in training flights over remote territory where military training flights commonly exceed Mach1. I'll say this, I've watched the F-22 overhead hit the afterburner and they can cross an entire sky in seconds. Very impressive aircraft.
But considering if this craft is merely a concept aircraft, with 187 concepts built to date, I'd say some past governmental administration has been severely fucking the nation and taxpayers footing the bill. So we have 187 units of fragile & untested-in-combat aircraft sitting around that has and will never see the battle field.
I'd say some past president and staff needs serious jail time to reflect on the concepts of ethics and honour. Fucking the nation just to coddle your corporate financiers.
When the F23 was first introduced to the military for consideration, on it's demonstration flight, the pilot once airborne pulled the craft's nose ballistic and took the thing up to 80,000 feet before leveling off.
That is one kickass aircraft in my book! Who cares what the thing looks like with performance like that.
a fueled SUV for 1 week on only 1 Walmart shopper is not bad at all you just return each week for a refill there's a never ending supply and they will make more as needed just pass out some larry the cable guy dvd's and before long there will be thousands for the harvest
If the will of the consumer dictates evolution of society, we will remain in the stone age forever.
When the first horseless carriage was introduced, most consumers stayed with their reliable horse drawn models. But the auto mobile paved the way for flying machines, space craft, computers, and all current technologies we enjoy today. And it all started with the horseless carriage.
With global organic energy resources declining, the world now needs development of next generation smart grid technology in addition to solar based energy. Solar based energy doesn't specifically equate to just solar panels, we need to harness all aspects the sun's energy induces on the planet. Solar radiation, wind & wave. Our sun provides all the energy our society will ever need. We just have to pull our heads out of our asses, ignore the politician assholes bank rolled by the fossil and nuclear fuel industries and "Keep moving forward".
Private industry entrepreneurs will most likely cash in on the way to the future, just like Henry Ford did.
Agreed, this is hardly tech news. The simple fact of the matter here is that racism is an outward expression of ignorance by an individual. People are people regardless of skin color. We all eat, sleep, and shit each and everyday from the day we're born until we die. Some contribute to the community to make life better for all, but most are worthless uneducated meat sacks.
Cops on the other hand are no better than anyone else, although they like to think they are 'special'. Most are assholes with little dick syndrome. Give them a gun, and now you have an armed asshole with a little dick running around on the loose, and contributing nothing of value to humanity.
I remember the day that Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I remember running home from the community swimming pool to watch Neil Armstrong take the first step onto the lunar surface. That was a very impressive event indeed.
I was fascinated with the technology of the time. Following all the missions intently, watching the big Saturn 5 launches. Very impressive considering how primitive the computers were then, by today's standards. The near disaster of Apollo 13 and how ingenious the crew were to improvise what they had on hand to survive the 2 week trip to the moon and back with crippled life support systems. Impressive!
It made me very sad years later to hear younger people in the 90's repeating the retarded bad science theories doubting the accomplishments of the day.
As another posted above:
I still remember when Fox News aired their little "moon hoax" series what NASA's response was Yes, We Did. Don't think that just because we have slathering idiots in the streets that America as a whole has become uneducated. I assure you, idiots breed in larger numbers than smart people in every country.
Why do we always return to picking on the whales? What did the whales ever do to warrant this? Whales are cool! I say lets replace all usage of whale blubber to using people blubber instead. There are plenty of useless people wandering about everywhere. A few here and there won't be missed. We can start with rounding some up in the halls of congress.
Agreed! any programming book makes the perfect gift for nieces & nephews as well as your own children. I remember my first C programming book. I was fascinated with learning to code. I may even have to pick up this book as I have not yet learned python. Just another one of the many things I must do before I die.
"He once controlled the world's PCs. Now Bill Gates has set his sights on controlling the world's weather. And patenting it.
Wow, what a sensational headline! Another way it could have been: "The evil Dr. Morlock bent on holding the world for ransom"
But then again, maybe Bill Gates may be onto something here. If he can control global warming and weather patterns, we all can worship him like a god, and he can charge us all a fee for bringing rainfall to arid regions and sunshine and rainbows to all the good children in lollipop land.
I'm in the same boat. Do what I'm doing. Buy a nice lot near town and build your own house out of pocket. A bank loan on $250M will cost you $400M-$500M after interest for the full term. Fuck the banks Start with a basic 900 sq/ft initial phase to get a roof over your head and out of renter hell. Then over several years extend until you have your comfortable 2500+/- sq/ft dream house. You have the power to make your dreams come true. All it takes is a good plan and desire for what you want. No Guts, No Glory
Q: How many people that have money practice the "Give it all away" theory? A: None. If they gave it all away, they wouldn't have money. People with riches keep their money by not paying their bills, for one. Or screwing everyone they can to maximize holdings. This is just the nature of the beast and the power of greed.
I'll agree w/ you on this. Dos 5 and Windows 3.0 were on my first machine. This is what brought out in hidden geek here. I loved the technology and couldn't get enough.
The reason that M$ is the bane of today's world is Bill Gates' lack of leadership and responsibility in his new found empire. 1. The minute they realized their product Windows95 was an unstable abortion that crashed miserably on an operation as simple as a file save should have been a flashing red light to repair their product to protect their valued customers. 2. When the virus wars started to emerge making hash of their products, they should have taken the lead in securing their products against compromise. 3. When they talked interoperability in the office, they should have followed to their own speak and opened their file formats so other systems could interact with theirs.
Keep in mind here that M$ is a marketing company first and foremost. They were incapable of programming their first product, dos. Dos was bought from a small developer originally labeled QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and relabeled to MSDOS. All their products are built to insulate the user from the technical side of computing. Computing for boneheads if you will. This ease makes for a fertile petri dish for malware to propagate.
If M$ desires to continue to lead in the computing industry, they owe the global community a safe and secure environment to work through, or interact with, and here they have failed miserably.
Yes, M$ brought computing to the masses. But their business model of "king of the playground" is a failed experiment and they will whither and die unless they clean up their act and play nice with the rest of us. Once upon a time we were all forced to run M$ products on our hardware for desktop computing. Times have changed and now they have competition and the competition is getting very good at stable, safe and secure computing.
You may label Bill Gates as a pioneer, that's fine, but I still won't hang his picture on my wall. Thanks anyway
I'm with you on this one We already have some areas that do very well generating wind power One that comes to mind is in southern California and the valley is wall to wall wind turbines. Why not experiment there? Nobody will mind
They expended big bucks on the technology over the years when the rest of the automakers were building crap like giant SUVs and Hummers. This is Capitalism 101 at it's finest. You take a risk when the market niche is young, and benefit when the rest of the world catches up. Toyota makes fine automobiles and the American big 3 deserve to go bankrupt for the shit vehicles they have been producing up 'til now.
The only reason people want money is for happiness
Bullshit! you can't buy happiness with money. I've known lots of millionaires and they are all miserable people and nuts to boot. It's all proportional, the more money someone has, the closer they get to complete asshole certification Makes me glad to be an average working stiff, but I'm happy. Happiness is doing something you enjoy. When you get out of bed tomorrow morning, rise with the thought that this day will be a great day, that's pretty much how happiness starts Just my $.02
As much as Americans like to villanize the Iranians for political reasons, this is all very tragic to see the will of the Iranian people crushed by a few corrupt individuals and a couple of religious zealots in top authoritative positions.
I thought America was bad after the past 10 years of political dictatorship by our own collection of criminals, including their gestapo arrest tactics, wiretapping of all internal communications, and general spying of all citizens. At least here in the US we can succeed at voting the assholes out. That took 8 years, but the task got done finally.
It was a positive development to see the Iranian people, through political process, want change and friendship with the west and we are all better off for it. Our hearts go out to you all and hope you can make the changes to your system that will give you the freedom you deserve. Perhaps the Iranian dictatorship should read up about the demise of General Custer and a few other selected figures from history. They may all find themselves one day swinging from the end of a rope, or worse.
Hp implemented this feature as well. I recently bought a new dv7 laptop, only to see continual popup ads trying to sell me other garbage apps. I thought it was just a Microsoft Vista thing. My solution was to wipe the drive and install Linux. Problem solved and now I can get some work done
You aren't spread "healthy fear" you are spreading the FUD cooked up by polluters.
and their lobbyists... This clown is just spewing FUD cooked up by the major corporations to keep their large polluting smoke stacks belching toxic dreck for decades to come.
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OOps, I used the term 'global warming' which is not quite accurate. Perhaps I should have phrased that as 'Climate Change' which is a more accurate term. Some places are experiencing unusual warming trends such as the arctic, whereas other locations are experiencing cooling and/or droughts uncharacteristically. Climate change is a more appropriate term to attach to the effect that industrialization and resulting green house gases have had on global weather patterns and trends.
Generally speaking, there's supposed to be at least a few of them which aren't melting away to nothing."
In who's reality? I live in the arctic, the glaciers are all receding with each passing year.
Anyone that says global warming isn't happening is ill informed. All you have to do is visit places like Alaska and see for yourself.
"But that was NASA and not Bush."
This was discussed here quite a bit back when it was going on. Perhaps I erroneously pointed my middle finger at bush holding him directly accountable for such a retarded idea. But considering bush controlled what funds NASA got, and for some stupid reason they decided to scrap one of the most important scientific devices of all time.
Even though a NASA administrator caught the bulk of flack from the community over the idea of scrapping Hubble, you know as well as I that the decision came from the "decider". And as usual, it's always some pion that has to fall on his sword to protect the #1 asshole that thought up the idea in the first place.
I still and will always consider C to be an excellent first programming language. It's clean, simple, top down procedural flow. Very easy to understand and code.
From there new coders can move on to object oriented codes to advance their skills once the basics are understood.
The resolution of the full size image of Hubble is incredible.
I have always been a fan of the Hubble site and still remain today.
I was heart broken, as well as many others, a few years back when bush wanted to scrap Hubble.
I hope we learned from that near mistake and keep the thing going for years to come.
It will only continue to provide new discoveries with each passing year.
A very valuable asset to science.
Many good points.
I live in Alaska and have seen the F-22 in training flights over remote territory where military training flights commonly exceed Mach1. I'll say this, I've watched the F-22 overhead hit the afterburner and they can cross an entire sky in seconds. Very impressive aircraft.
But considering if this craft is merely a concept aircraft, with 187 concepts built to date, I'd say some past governmental administration has been severely fucking the nation and taxpayers footing the bill. So we have 187 units of fragile & untested-in-combat aircraft sitting around that has and will never see the battle field.
I'd say some past president and staff needs serious jail time to reflect on the concepts of ethics and honour. Fucking the nation just to coddle your corporate financiers.
When the F23 was first introduced to the military for consideration, on it's demonstration flight, the pilot once airborne pulled the craft's nose ballistic and took the thing up to 80,000 feet before leveling off.
That is one kickass aircraft in my book! Who cares what the thing looks like with performance like that.
a fueled SUV for 1 week on only 1 Walmart shopper is not bad at all
you just return each week for a refill
there's a never ending supply and they will make more as needed
just pass out some larry the cable guy dvd's and before long there will be thousands for the harvest
If the will of the consumer dictates evolution of society, we will remain in the stone age forever.
When the first horseless carriage was introduced, most consumers stayed with their reliable horse drawn models.
But the auto mobile paved the way for flying machines, space craft, computers, and all current technologies we enjoy today.
And it all started with the horseless carriage.
With global organic energy resources declining, the world now needs development of next generation smart grid technology in addition to solar based energy. Solar based energy doesn't specifically equate to just solar panels, we need to harness all aspects the sun's energy induces on the planet. Solar radiation, wind & wave. Our sun provides all the energy our society will ever need. We just have to pull our heads out of our asses, ignore the politician assholes bank rolled by the fossil and nuclear fuel industries and "Keep moving forward".
Private industry entrepreneurs will most likely cash in on the way to the future, just like Henry Ford did.
Agreed, this is hardly tech news.
The simple fact of the matter here is that racism is an outward expression of ignorance by an individual. People are people regardless of skin color. We all eat, sleep, and shit each and everyday from the day we're born until we die. Some contribute to the community to make life better for all, but most are worthless uneducated meat sacks.
Cops on the other hand are no better than anyone else, although they like to think they are 'special'. Most are assholes with little dick syndrome. Give them a gun, and now you have an armed asshole with a little dick running around on the loose, and contributing nothing of value to humanity.
I remember the day that Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I remember running home from the community swimming pool to watch Neil Armstrong take the first step onto the lunar surface. That was a very impressive event indeed.
I was fascinated with the technology of the time. Following all the missions intently, watching the big Saturn 5 launches. Very impressive considering how primitive the computers were then, by today's standards. The near disaster of Apollo 13 and how ingenious the crew were to improvise what they had on hand to survive the 2 week trip to the moon and back with crippled life support systems. Impressive!
It made me very sad years later to hear younger people in the 90's repeating the retarded bad science theories doubting the accomplishments of the day.
As another posted above:
So very true
Why do we always return to picking on the whales? What did the whales ever do to warrant this? Whales are cool!
I say lets replace all usage of whale blubber to using people blubber instead. There are plenty of useless people wandering about everywhere. A few here and there won't be missed. We can start with rounding some up in the halls of congress.
Soylent Green anyone?
Agreed! any programming book makes the perfect gift for nieces & nephews as well as your own children. I remember my first C programming book. I was fascinated with learning to code. I may even have to pick up this book as I have not yet learned python. Just another one of the many things I must do before I die.
Agreed!
whatcouldpossiblygowrong
Wow, what a sensational headline!
Another way it could have been: "The evil Dr. Morlock bent on holding the world for ransom"
But then again, maybe Bill Gates may be onto something here. If he can control global warming and weather patterns, we all can worship him like a god, and he can charge us all a fee for bringing rainfall to arid regions and sunshine and rainbows to all the good children in lollipop land.
Lord Bill is my hero ... big sigh
I'm in the same boat. Do what I'm doing. Buy a nice lot near town and build your own house out of pocket.
A bank loan on $250M will cost you $400M-$500M after interest for the full term. Fuck the banks
Start with a basic 900 sq/ft initial phase to get a roof over your head and out of renter hell. Then over several years extend until you have your comfortable 2500+/- sq/ft dream house.
You have the power to make your dreams come true. All it takes is a good plan and desire for what you want.
No Guts, No Glory
Q: How many people that have money practice the "Give it all away" theory?
A: None. If they gave it all away, they wouldn't have money.
People with riches keep their money by not paying their bills, for one. Or screwing everyone they can to maximize holdings.
This is just the nature of the beast and the power of greed.
I'll agree w/ you on this. Dos 5 and Windows 3.0 were on my first machine. This is what brought out in hidden geek here. I loved the technology and couldn't get enough.
The reason that M$ is the bane of today's world is Bill Gates' lack of leadership and responsibility in his new found empire.
1. The minute they realized their product Windows95 was an unstable abortion that crashed miserably on an operation as simple as a file save should have been a flashing red light to repair their product to protect their valued customers.
2. When the virus wars started to emerge making hash of their products, they should have taken the lead in securing their products against compromise.
3. When they talked interoperability in the office, they should have followed to their own speak and opened their file formats so other systems could interact with theirs.
Keep in mind here that M$ is a marketing company first and foremost. They were incapable of programming their first product, dos. Dos was bought from a small developer originally labeled QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and relabeled to MSDOS. All their products are built to insulate the user from the technical side of computing. Computing for boneheads if you will. This ease makes for a fertile petri dish for malware to propagate.
If M$ desires to continue to lead in the computing industry, they owe the global community a safe and secure environment to work through, or interact with, and here they have failed miserably.
Yes, M$ brought computing to the masses. But their business model of "king of the playground" is a failed experiment and they will whither and die unless they clean up their act and play nice with the rest of us. Once upon a time we were all forced to run M$ products on our hardware for desktop computing. Times have changed and now they have competition and the competition is getting very good at stable, safe and secure computing.
You may label Bill Gates as a pioneer, that's fine, but I still won't hang his picture on my wall. Thanks anyway
I'm with you on this one
We already have some areas that do very well generating wind power
One that comes to mind is in southern California and the valley is wall to wall wind turbines.
Why not experiment there? Nobody will mind
Umm, That is not ordinary hot air you're referring to
It is more like flatulence
They expended big bucks on the technology over the years when the rest of the automakers were building crap like giant SUVs and Hummers. This is Capitalism 101 at it's finest. You take a risk when the market niche is young, and benefit when the rest of the world catches up.
Toyota makes fine automobiles and the American big 3 deserve to go bankrupt for the shit vehicles they have been producing up 'til now.
Bullshit! you can't buy happiness with money. I've known lots of millionaires and they are all miserable people and nuts to boot. It's all proportional, the more money someone has, the closer they get to complete asshole certification
Makes me glad to be an average working stiff, but I'm happy.
Happiness is doing something you enjoy.
When you get out of bed tomorrow morning, rise with the thought that this day will be a great day, that's pretty much how happiness starts
Just my $.02
As much as Americans like to villanize the Iranians for political reasons, this is all very tragic to see the will of the Iranian people crushed by a few corrupt individuals and a couple of religious zealots in top authoritative positions.
I thought America was bad after the past 10 years of political dictatorship by our own collection of criminals, including their gestapo arrest tactics, wiretapping of all internal communications, and general spying of all citizens. At least here in the US we can succeed at voting the assholes out. That took 8 years, but the task got done finally.
It was a positive development to see the Iranian people, through political process, want change and friendship with the west and we are all better off for it. Our hearts go out to you all and hope you can make the changes to your system that will give you the freedom you deserve. Perhaps the Iranian dictatorship should read up about the demise of General Custer and a few other selected figures from history. They may all find themselves one day swinging from the end of a rope, or worse.
Hp implemented this feature as well. I recently bought a new dv7 laptop, only to see continual popup ads trying to sell me other garbage apps. I thought it was just a Microsoft Vista thing.
My solution was to wipe the drive and install Linux. Problem solved and now I can get some work done
and their lobbyists ...
This clown is just spewing FUD cooked up by the major corporations to keep their large polluting smoke stacks belching toxic dreck for decades to come.