What other liquid did you have in mind? Water is about the simplest, most abundant, and most versatile liquid out there. Most other naturally-occurring liquids are not liquids in the Martian temperature range, or too complex for there to be a significant amount of (and this applies to the entire universe in general as well, though there may be localized anomolies).
Unless you're positing that it was something organic like oil, or artificial like formaldehyde, there's no other likely candidate liquid that's abundant, operates at those temperatures, and with that viscosity. Don't forget that CO2, the only other abundant substance on Mars, subliminates under 5 atm, and we know the Martian atmospheric pressure is lighter than ours.
Stop. You're giving people here a feeling of relevance. They might try to fight the RIAA/MPAA in court next, or come up with a new way to find extra-solar planets, or create new physics, or even run for public office.
Who knows what they might do with this new feeling of power? It's dangerous, and you need to stop encouraging this behavior right now!
6% to dip under 50%, but they'll still have the largest piece of the pie over all the other players individually (even if you group them into corporations instead of OS), and thus will continue to have market dominance for some time yet.
And IF I do want to have fun, it's not the bloody OS that is going to amuse me, but the games I can play on it.
What's both sad and amusing at the same time is that Windows 8 doesn't even come preloaded with the usual suite of games that's in every other version of Windows.
Because people's fingers are still too fat. The mouse pointer can get down to one or two pixels in resolution. Fingers are still stuck at a blob of around 12-15 in diameter.
No, you're thinking of the little guy who would've bought into the hype. The SEC is thinking of the institutional investors who put money into FB before the IPO who would've sold high on the hype (and still did, to a large extent).
Since we're all neophytes running AMD Athlons, it's helpful to remind people that portable computer prices have dropped drastically in the past 10 or so years, ever since the netbook came out. Even Apple's had to cut their prices down (or really, increase their feature set) to stay competitive.
A $1k laptop is really, really well spec'ed, comparable with what $3k used to get relatively speaking. The Alienware laptops that used to go for upwards of $5k are no more than $3k now.
Admittedly, I didn't realized this myself until a month or two ago when I went to buy a new laptop and found that even the best spec'ed stuff isn't as expensive as I thought it'd be, and the mid-range stuff was far cheaper than I expected.
The first iPods had huge fragile laptop drives too. In fact, their all-flash offerings prior to the iPhone were the iPod mini and nano, which did not do nearly as well as the iPod itself.
The real killer feature of the iPod was the circular control. Remember that? Originally, it was a mechanical device. That was not so good. Then they moved to capacitive touch technology and that's when the iPod became really popular.
would you want to drink American mega-brews at a temperature you could taste them?
What, and find out that all it is is piss water in a can?
In any case, I wouldn't suggest destroying the flavor of this carefully aged meat with the application of heat.
I would, however, weigh that with the effects of not destroying the prehistoric microbes that might be crawling all over these meats, and that we probably have no antibodies for.
It's all about lawsuits. Laws cannot be written with every specific case in mind (and probably should not). The very purpose of judges (and juries) is to determine the application of law in each specific case.
The problem (in this case) is neither the judges nor the lawmakers. It's the lawyers, and the sue-happy culture. A large company's primary goal operationally is to avoid lawsuits. It's not to make money. It's not to create products. it's the avoid lawsuits. That should tell you everything about the culture.
Who would have figured that Android, running a Java front end, would be the one and only place that Linux would have any chance of making it as a consumer OS.
A central authority always makes things easier. Why do you think history is not littered with democracies and republics, but of monarchies and other dictatorships?
Yes, it'd be nice if all the Linux developers pooled all of their resources into one distro and the libraries around it. But then they'd all be following one person's vision. That's how Apple made OSX the most popular BSD distribution, and how Google's making Android the most popular Linux distribution.
But that is the antithesis of OSS.
I guess in the end, it's unreasonable to expect Linux to be successful as it exists now as a consumer product. With a leader capable of throwing massive amounts of resources, market clout, and strong leadership into a product, it'd be possible.
Hell, we saw a little bit of that with Ubuntu for a short time. They had everything except the market clout. And it was going well too, until that leader (or group of leaders) decided to jump off the deep end and pull everyone else along with. But then the ability to fork and go off on a different direction is what makes the good parts of Ubuntu still alive in the form of Mint.
By your definition, as every program has its own stack and heap and maybe access to some shared memory space, every program runs in its own virtual machine.
I think the more common name for that is a process.
Given that most of those people obviously can't even express this to another human being (Judging from their requirements docs,) I'm not losing any sleep over it.
1) Most people are idiots, irrespective of fields.
just because your language has an expressive syntax or any specific feature doesn't mean you can hire chimpanzees to code your application.
2) Employers like to hire idiots because they cost less.
Oh, and here's this gem:
He's thinking "If I push this over here maybe it will magically go away and I won't have to deal with it." Most of the time this is because he doesn't actually understand the business logic behind the code he's writing. He's writing to a series of requirements but he has no understanding of why the requirements exist or how they drive the business. So he tries to keep his code abstract as possible and hopes that no one notices.
3) Few people realize, and nobody likes to admit that they're a member of the idiots.
Over-engineering and over-simplification are both signs of idiocy. The usual "maintenance nightmare" excuse assumes #2 at its base. Of course, due to #1, it's usually accurate.
You don't quite understand the military or aviation in general. Most planes flying out there today were designed in the 50's and 60's, maybe first manufacturered in the 70's, with minor cosmetic upgrades over the years since. In fact, most of planes use technology that date from the dawn of aviation (propellers, for example).
It's the same with the military. If you think they're all using James Bond-type stuff, then you're sorely mistaken. A split second is the difference between life and death. That's about the amount of time it takes for you to slide to unlock your phone. The M-16 was designed in the 50's. The AK-47 was designed in the 40's(!) and is arguably a cheaper, more reliable, and overall better gun than the M-16.
Both aviation and the military industries are about what works the best and continues to work under as many conditions as possible. Neither industries are about the latest, greatest gadget.
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No. It's on display for all to see.
In the paleoanthropology section of the Smithsonian.
What other liquid did you have in mind? Water is about the simplest, most abundant, and most versatile liquid out there. Most other naturally-occurring liquids are not liquids in the Martian temperature range, or too complex for there to be a significant amount of (and this applies to the entire universe in general as well, though there may be localized anomolies).
Unless you're positing that it was something organic like oil, or artificial like formaldehyde, there's no other likely candidate liquid that's abundant, operates at those temperatures, and with that viscosity. Don't forget that CO2, the only other abundant substance on Mars, subliminates under 5 atm, and we know the Martian atmospheric pressure is lighter than ours.
We could just send the cockroaches instead and hope that in a thousand years, they'll turn into humans. Or something like that.
Stop. You're giving people here a feeling of relevance. They might try to fight the RIAA/MPAA in court next, or come up with a new way to find extra-solar planets, or create new physics, or even run for public office.
Who knows what they might do with this new feeling of power? It's dangerous, and you need to stop encouraging this behavior right now!
6% to dip under 50%, but they'll still have the largest piece of the pie over all the other players individually (even if you group them into corporations instead of OS), and thus will continue to have market dominance for some time yet.
And IF I do want to have fun, it's not the bloody OS that is going to amuse me, but the games I can play on it.
What's both sad and amusing at the same time is that Windows 8 doesn't even come preloaded with the usual suite of games that's in every other version of Windows.
Because people's fingers are still too fat. The mouse pointer can get down to one or two pixels in resolution. Fingers are still stuck at a blob of around 12-15 in diameter.
Someone really ought to do some data mining to see how interest in Linux (via page views and downloads) has been affected by Windows 8.
I'm certain that by the end of this year, when Windows 7 is finally phased out, we will know for certain.
No, you're thinking of the little guy who would've bought into the hype. The SEC is thinking of the institutional investors who put money into FB before the IPO who would've sold high on the hype (and still did, to a large extent).
Since we're all neophytes running AMD Athlons, it's helpful to remind people that portable computer prices have dropped drastically in the past 10 or so years, ever since the netbook came out. Even Apple's had to cut their prices down (or really, increase their feature set) to stay competitive.
A $1k laptop is really, really well spec'ed, comparable with what $3k used to get relatively speaking. The Alienware laptops that used to go for upwards of $5k are no more than $3k now.
Admittedly, I didn't realized this myself until a month or two ago when I went to buy a new laptop and found that even the best spec'ed stuff isn't as expensive as I thought it'd be, and the mid-range stuff was far cheaper than I expected.
That Slashdot editors gave up on the English language and are making up new words as they go along?
The first iPods had huge fragile laptop drives too. In fact, their all-flash offerings prior to the iPhone were the iPod mini and nano, which did not do nearly as well as the iPod itself.
The real killer feature of the iPod was the circular control. Remember that? Originally, it was a mechanical device. That was not so good. Then they moved to capacitive touch technology and that's when the iPod became really popular.
But conservationists might be interested in having such hunters being trampled by said mammoths.
would you want to drink American mega-brews at a temperature you could taste them?
What, and find out that all it is is piss water in a can?
In any case, I wouldn't suggest destroying the flavor of this carefully aged meat with the application of heat.
I would, however, weigh that with the effects of not destroying the prehistoric microbes that might be crawling all over these meats, and that we probably have no antibodies for.
Google News is pretty damn popular. Google Maps as well.
The only place they can't seem to do well in is social networking, e.g. their competitor to Facebook (Google+) and Flickr (Picasa).
Nobody's saying it works, either in the short or the long term. But that's how they're approaching it anyway.
It's all about lawsuits. Laws cannot be written with every specific case in mind (and probably should not). The very purpose of judges (and juries) is to determine the application of law in each specific case.
The problem (in this case) is neither the judges nor the lawmakers. It's the lawyers, and the sue-happy culture. A large company's primary goal operationally is to avoid lawsuits. It's not to make money. It's not to create products. it's the avoid lawsuits. That should tell you everything about the culture.
Who would have figured that Android, running a Java front end, would be the one and only place that Linux would have any chance of making it as a consumer OS.
A central authority always makes things easier. Why do you think history is not littered with democracies and republics, but of monarchies and other dictatorships?
Yes, it'd be nice if all the Linux developers pooled all of their resources into one distro and the libraries around it. But then they'd all be following one person's vision. That's how Apple made OSX the most popular BSD distribution, and how Google's making Android the most popular Linux distribution.
But that is the antithesis of OSS.
I guess in the end, it's unreasonable to expect Linux to be successful as it exists now as a consumer product. With a leader capable of throwing massive amounts of resources, market clout, and strong leadership into a product, it'd be possible.
Hell, we saw a little bit of that with Ubuntu for a short time. They had everything except the market clout. And it was going well too, until that leader (or group of leaders) decided to jump off the deep end and pull everyone else along with. But then the ability to fork and go off on a different direction is what makes the good parts of Ubuntu still alive in the form of Mint.
"We're Google and we can do whatever the fuck we want because we're so cool and if you don't like it you'll just have to suck it up and deal."
That's how they currently approach every product. And when I say every product, I mean every product. They're not even trying to compete anymore.
By your definition, as every program has its own stack and heap and maybe access to some shared memory space, every program runs in its own virtual machine.
I think the more common name for that is a process.
Basically:
Given that most of those people obviously can't even express this to another human being (Judging from their requirements docs,) I'm not losing any sleep over it.
1) Most people are idiots, irrespective of fields.
just because your language has an expressive syntax or any specific feature doesn't mean you can hire chimpanzees to code your application.
2) Employers like to hire idiots because they cost less.
Oh, and here's this gem:
He's thinking "If I push this over here maybe it will magically go away and I won't have to deal with it." Most of the time this is because he doesn't actually understand the business logic behind the code he's writing. He's writing to a series of requirements but he has no understanding of why the requirements exist or how they drive the business. So he tries to keep his code abstract as possible and hopes that no one notices.
3) Few people realize, and nobody likes to admit that they're a member of the idiots.
Over-engineering and over-simplification are both signs of idiocy. The usual "maintenance nightmare" excuse assumes #2 at its base. Of course, due to #1, it's usually accurate.
We should introduce PETA to the people who raise pit bulls for dog fighting and have them duke it out.
They might as well have. Maybe they'll cry defacement when somebody puts a sign on their booth too.
He did most certainly did. Pretty sure he responded too.
You don't quite understand the military or aviation in general. Most planes flying out there today were designed in the 50's and 60's, maybe first manufacturered in the 70's, with minor cosmetic upgrades over the years since. In fact, most of planes use technology that date from the dawn of aviation (propellers, for example).
It's the same with the military. If you think they're all using James Bond-type stuff, then you're sorely mistaken. A split second is the difference between life and death. That's about the amount of time it takes for you to slide to unlock your phone. The M-16 was designed in the 50's. The AK-47 was designed in the 40's(!) and is arguably a cheaper, more reliable, and overall better gun than the M-16.
Both aviation and the military industries are about what works the best and continues to work under as many conditions as possible. Neither industries are about the latest, greatest gadget.