Srinivasa Ramanujan was given a brain, a brain that is not that different from the one we have in between our own ears.
There's another comment in this thread with a link to Harvard that says you're wrong. According to the article, creative people's brains aren't normal. They're closer to the brains of madmen. And yes, it applies to me as well, I'm nowhere near normal.
Joe, I'm pretty sure English isn't your native language so let me help you out there:
He installed the fake McAfee on their systems as well as the real ones, and that gave him the time to get away while they had to rebuild their systems.
As someone who has learned (badly) a couple of languages, I hope that was a help. I'd appreciate the same if I were trying to post on a Spanish language board.
Because having someone out there who thinks that the laws don't apply to him is unsafe by my book;-).
That's almost everyone with more than a couple million dollars in the bank -- and they're usually right, they are above the law. Like the Who song says, they have guns that fire cops.
Sure, the store should have wiped it, but why is this so much worse than, say, a violent movie parents will let kids watch?
If my kids were little and I'd bought this box, I'd have been pissed when I saw the images (and the kids never would have seen them) whether it was porn or The Terminator.
That's my opinion. CSS was a good idea but it's almost never used for its intended purpose, which was to make it easy to change the style of an entire site without rewriting every page. What it's used for is to vainly attempt to make a web site look like a newspaper or magazine page with everything exactly where the designer wants it -- only that's an impossibility, because of different aspect ratios, screen sizes, and orientations.
Web designers today want to use absolute coordinates, which results in one user having a horizontal scroll bar while another has half the screen empty, and both get an ugly page that sucks donkey balls, pretty as the page may be on the designer's screen.
I wish they'd take absolute positioning out of the spec. You can't position an item absolutely on the internet.
Oh, and I have to apologize for web2.0, because I had all its elements in my web site in 1998 (except ebsolute positioning; I'm not nearly as stupid as most webmasters). Sorry guys, my bad.
I thought economists were pretty divided on the effects of a minimum wage.
They're divided on just about everything. Ecomonics as a "science" is a joke. You won't find a single economist that there's not another calling the first a gold-studded liar.
Relax, 10 years ago it was Kevin and in 10 years you'll have a lot of Justins running around. And it won't change 'til parents stop naming their rugrats after the current pop star du jour.
That's not what I've seen. What I've seen (and I've been around a long time) is that people try to choose uncommon names for their kids and usually do so with "baby books" and wind up with a whole lot of kids with the same "uncommon" name. There are already a ton of Justins within ten years of Beiber's age, I know quite a few. How many fifty year old women do you know named "Marilyn"? How many fifty and sixty year old men do you know named "Clint"? I know of none, despite the fact that Marilyn Monroe and Clint eastwood were immensely popular film stars.
In twenty years you'll be hard pressed to find many twenty year olds named Justin; twenty years ago is when all the kids got that name.
who gives a poo about Milk, it's unhealthy anyway.:) I'm all for warrantless eavesdropping.
Having the Govt able to see if i cal my mom or if i send a text to my wife saying i'm at the store buying dog food is a small price to pay for increased security and making sure some d-bag doesn't bomb a plane that i'm on.
agreed.
You're both noncomposmentos. Milk is what comes from a mother's tit and is the healthiest thing you can have; it's only unhealthy if you're lactose-intolerant.
Your chances of dying because some dirt bag bombs your plane is orders of magnatude less than your chances of dying because of a mechanical malfunction or pilot error takes it down.
How many people do you know pwesonally who've died because of terrorism? How many have died on the highway? Died from cancer? Died from heart disease?
You are both fools and idiots. Congrats on the stupidest comment I've seen all week.
Now please go back to Yahoo or fark or wherever you came from, slashdot was designed for folks with at least average intelligence, not mentally deficient folks like you two who can't tell the difference between three thousand and three million.
Considering that this is a nerd site, calling someone out for illiteracy (or at least, aliteracy) is warranted, especially if done humorously. Educated people don't have trouble with homophones. If you don't know the difference between weather and whether you're probably a high school dropout, how much credence can you give to the ignorant in a forum such as this?
Hoe (tool), a hand tool used in gardening Hoe (dish), a Korean dish of raw fish Plymouth Hoe, a public space in Plymouth, England, United Kingdom Hoe, Norfolk, a village in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom USS Hoe (SS-258), a U.S. Navy submarine from World War II Richard March Hoe (1812-1886), an American inventor Robert Hoe (1784â"1833), an English-born American businessman, the father of Richard Hoe Robert Hoe III (1839â"1909), an American businessman, the grandson of Robert Hoe Homing Overlay Experiment, a project in the Strategic Defense Initiative Heroes Over Europe, a 2009 arcade flying video game, published by Ubisoft Chevrolet Tahoe, an automobile manufactured by the Chevrolet division of General Motors HOe scale, a narrow gauge variant of HO scale in model railroading Holographic Optical Element, a virtual lens or mirror in advanced imaging systems
Are you sure you don't mean 'ho? That would have been mildly amusing, but "garden tool garden tool garden tool" just sounds stupid.
Did it help the poor? Hell no. It hurt. If it wasn't for minimum wage you'd still be paying about a nickel for a loaf of bread.
That is the most asinine load of bullshit I've heard all damned year. The workers aren't getting that 95 cents over your nickle a loaf of generic bread gets, nor does he cause the $3 for a loaf of Winder Bread ($5 in the convinience store).
A five pound bag of potatos is $2, the same price as a medium, single serving of fries at McDonald's. Do you really think most of that $2 goes to the fry cook and cashier? No, it goes to the CEO, board, and stockholders, all but maybe fifty cents of it.
When one in ten is out of work, it's easy to rip off the poor by paying them far less than honorable wages, unless you have a minimum wage.
Is it worth $8/hr for a gym to hire a kid to wipe sweat off the equipment in the afternoons?
If it's not worth paying someone a decent wage, it's not worth doing at all. If sweaty equpment is losing customers and money for you, damned right it's worth it.
why not make the minimum wage $10,000/hr!
Are you stupid, or do you think the rest of us are? Your arguments for making people go hungry because they weren't born into the right family are shockingly obscene.
Interesting take on a country that just re-elected the most income-distributing president of all time.
I take it you're unfamiliar with history. Ever heard of Abraham Lincoln? The income tax was instituted under his administration, and only the rich paid. Ever hear of FDR? His administration instituted Social Security and had such programs as the WPA. Sorry you slept through class.
We know he didn't win on his economic record.
No, he won on Mitt Romney's economic record. He won because he wasn't a far right-wing looney like Santorum or Gingrich.
He won on the same kind of class warfare talk that you're giving right now.
The 1% have been waging war on the rest of us for a long, long time. It's about time we started admitting that ugly fact.
How much is a "decent wage?" I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it.
A decent wage is a wage that will let a worker support his family. You can't put a dollar amount on it, because the cost of things varies place to place. A decent wage in Springfield is half what a decent wage is in Chicago, because everything costs twice as much there.
What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make?
Why should McDonald's and Walmar workers be dependant on food stamps? Many of their workers are homeless. I wouldn't even call that a fair wage, let alone "decent". In fact, it's so indecent it's obscene.
Also, how much more should a person with a degree make than this base "living wage."
There should be a hell of a lot less disparity between an engineer's wage and the CEO's wage. The disparity today is greater than the disparity between the CEO and janitor thirty years ago.
Should the government force the banks to let homeless people live in bank-owned houses?
They should be forced to rent those houses at an affordable price. Someone working at WalMart should be able to afford rent on a small two bedroom house, but they can't because WalMart is too stingy and greedy.
How many have you taken into your home to live with you?
I don't know about the GP, but many of us have and do.
Please describe your moral code with respect to who should be giving what to whom in what situations
Again, I don't know about he GP, but as a Christian, my moral code mostly comes from the first four books of the New Testament. It comes down HARD on the rich and greedy.
The masthead doesn't say news for geeks, it says news for NERDS. There's nothing nerdier than science. Even though I was writing assembly thirty years ago I agree with the GP that the ten most unique* biological viruses would be far more interesting than the ten most unique pieces of malware.
You're at the wrong site, you need to be at that juvenile site geek.com if you don't want all that icky sciency junk.
* The title is brain-dead stupid. There is no such thing as "most unique".
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was given a brain, a brain that is not that different from the one we have in between our own ears.
There's another comment in this thread with a link to Harvard that says you're wrong. According to the article, creative people's brains aren't normal. They're closer to the brains of madmen. And yes, it applies to me as well, I'm nowhere near normal.
If you don't like McAfee stories, don't click on McAffee stories, and don't bother those of us who do by bitching about it.
No, that's backwards. What is hardware's ONLY purpose? Running software. Hardware's ONLY purpose is supporting software.
Joe, I'm pretty sure English isn't your native language so let me help you out there:
He installed the fake McAfee on their systems as well as the real ones, and that gave him the time to get away while they had to rebuild their systems.
As someone who has learned (badly) a couple of languages, I hope that was a help. I'd appreciate the same if I were trying to post on a Spanish language board.
Because having someone out there who thinks that the laws don't apply to him is unsafe by my book ;-).
That's almost everyone with more than a couple million dollars in the bank -- and they're usually right, they are above the law. Like the Who song says, they have guns that fire cops.
Sure, the store should have wiped it, but why is this so much worse than, say, a violent movie parents will let kids watch?
If my kids were little and I'd bought this box, I'd have been pissed when I saw the images (and the kids never would have seen them) whether it was porn or The Terminator.
Silicon Snake Oil 2.0?
That's my opinion. CSS was a good idea but it's almost never used for its intended purpose, which was to make it easy to change the style of an entire site without rewriting every page. What it's used for is to vainly attempt to make a web site look like a newspaper or magazine page with everything exactly where the designer wants it -- only that's an impossibility, because of different aspect ratios, screen sizes, and orientations.
Web designers today want to use absolute coordinates, which results in one user having a horizontal scroll bar while another has half the screen empty, and both get an ugly page that sucks donkey balls, pretty as the page may be on the designer's screen.
I wish they'd take absolute positioning out of the spec. You can't position an item absolutely on the internet.
Oh, and I have to apologize for web2.0, because I had all its elements in my web site in 1998 (except ebsolute positioning; I'm not nearly as stupid as most webmasters). Sorry guys, my bad.
Putting the "right" in jail just because they have right-wing opinions is freaking scary.
Not scary, just wrong.
The people in prison today committed crimes that put them there
Crimes like sodomy, marijuana, gambling...
I thought economists were pretty divided on the effects of a minimum wage.
They're divided on just about everything. Ecomonics as a "science" is a joke. You won't find a single economist that there's not another calling the first a gold-studded liar.
Relax, 10 years ago it was Kevin and in 10 years you'll have a lot of Justins running around. And it won't change 'til parents stop naming their rugrats after the current pop star du jour.
That's not what I've seen. What I've seen (and I've been around a long time) is that people try to choose uncommon names for their kids and usually do so with "baby books" and wind up with a whole lot of kids with the same "uncommon" name. There are already a ton of Justins within ten years of Beiber's age, I know quite a few. How many fifty year old women do you know named "Marilyn"? How many fifty and sixty year old men do you know named "Clint"? I know of none, despite the fact that Marilyn Monroe and Clint eastwood were immensely popular film stars.
In twenty years you'll be hard pressed to find many twenty year olds named Justin; twenty years ago is when all the kids got that name.
Your hypothesis doesn't hold up to the facts.
who gives a poo about Milk, it's unhealthy anyway. :) I'm all for warrantless eavesdropping.
You're both noncomposmentos. Milk is what comes from a mother's tit and is the healthiest thing you can have; it's only unhealthy if you're lactose-intolerant.
Your chances of dying because some dirt bag bombs your plane is orders of magnatude less than your chances of dying because of a mechanical malfunction or pilot error takes it down.
How many people do you know pwesonally who've died because of terrorism? How many have died on the highway? Died from cancer? Died from heart disease?
You are both fools and idiots. Congrats on the stupidest comment I've seen all week.
Now please go back to Yahoo or fark or wherever you came from, slashdot was designed for folks with at least average intelligence, not mentally deficient folks like you two who can't tell the difference between three thousand and three million.
Google didn't go live until 1998. It wasn't an infant in 1996, it was a zygote. It was an infant in 1998.
You might have gotten ok results from infoseek or Excite in 1996, but unless you were at Brin's university, Google was unavailable.
Considering that this is a nerd site, calling someone out for illiteracy (or at least, aliteracy) is warranted, especially if done humorously. Educated people don't have trouble with homophones. If you don't know the difference between weather and whether you're probably a high school dropout, how much credence can you give to the ignorant in a forum such as this?
Shit, really, what's next? Me having to spend time with the brats?
The Ramones have the answer for you (see track two).
Hoe, or HOE may refer to:
Hoe (tool), a hand tool used in gardening
Hoe (dish), a Korean dish of raw fish
Plymouth Hoe, a public space in Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
Hoe, Norfolk, a village in Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
USS Hoe (SS-258), a U.S. Navy submarine from World War II
Richard March Hoe (1812-1886), an American inventor
Robert Hoe (1784â"1833), an English-born American businessman, the father of Richard Hoe
Robert Hoe III (1839â"1909), an American businessman, the grandson of Robert Hoe
Homing Overlay Experiment, a project in the Strategic Defense Initiative
Heroes Over Europe, a 2009 arcade flying video game, published by Ubisoft
Chevrolet Tahoe, an automobile manufactured by the Chevrolet division of General Motors
HOe scale, a narrow gauge variant of HO scale in model railroading
Holographic Optical Element, a virtual lens or mirror in advanced imaging systems
Are you sure you don't mean 'ho? That would have been mildly amusing, but "garden tool garden tool garden tool" just sounds stupid.
Either every animal reproduces via sex or some animals do not reproduce via sex. Both cannot be true. One of your sentences is obviously a lie.
So errors are "lies" now? Pedantry and flamebait all in one, I like it!
Did it help the poor? Hell no. It hurt. If it wasn't for minimum wage you'd still be paying about a nickel for a loaf of bread.
That is the most asinine load of bullshit I've heard all damned year. The workers aren't getting that 95 cents over your nickle a loaf of generic bread gets, nor does he cause the $3 for a loaf of Winder Bread ($5 in the convinience store).
A five pound bag of potatos is $2, the same price as a medium, single serving of fries at McDonald's. Do you really think most of that $2 goes to the fry cook and cashier? No, it goes to the CEO, board, and stockholders, all but maybe fifty cents of it.
When one in ten is out of work, it's easy to rip off the poor by paying them far less than honorable wages, unless you have a minimum wage.
Is it worth $8/hr for a gym to hire a kid to wipe sweat off the equipment in the afternoons?
If it's not worth paying someone a decent wage, it's not worth doing at all. If sweaty equpment is losing customers and money for you, damned right it's worth it.
why not make the minimum wage $10,000/hr!
Are you stupid, or do you think the rest of us are? Your arguments for making people go hungry because they weren't born into the right family are shockingly obscene.
Hope the Russians name their technology something other than Next Gen Spacecraft.
Actually, that's both a mistranslation and a typo. It's Next GIN Spacecraft (the typo) that uses Vodka as a propellant (the mistranslation).
Interesting take on a country that just re-elected the most income-distributing president of all time.
I take it you're unfamiliar with history. Ever heard of Abraham Lincoln? The income tax was instituted under his administration, and only the rich paid. Ever hear of FDR? His administration instituted Social Security and had such programs as the WPA. Sorry you slept through class.
We know he didn't win on his economic record.
No, he won on Mitt Romney's economic record. He won because he wasn't a far right-wing looney like Santorum or Gingrich.
He won on the same kind of class warfare talk that you're giving right now.
The 1% have been waging war on the rest of us for a long, long time. It's about time we started admitting that ugly fact.
How much is a "decent wage?" I hear people all the time talk about a "living wage" on here, but nobody puts a dollar figure on it.
A decent wage is a wage that will let a worker support his family. You can't put a dollar amount on it, because the cost of things varies place to place. A decent wage in Springfield is half what a decent wage is in Chicago, because everything costs twice as much there.
What should the high-school drop-out ditch digger (or whatever) who has learned no marketable skills make?
Why should McDonald's and Walmar workers be dependant on food stamps? Many of their workers are homeless. I wouldn't even call that a fair wage, let alone "decent". In fact, it's so indecent it's obscene.
Also, how much more should a person with a degree make than this base "living wage."
There should be a hell of a lot less disparity between an engineer's wage and the CEO's wage. The disparity today is greater than the disparity between the CEO and janitor thirty years ago.
I'm going to call for citation on that one.
Here are a whole lot of them.
Should the government force the banks to let homeless people live in bank-owned houses?
They should be forced to rent those houses at an affordable price. Someone working at WalMart should be able to afford rent on a small two bedroom house, but they can't because WalMart is too stingy and greedy.
How many have you taken into your home to live with you?
I don't know about the GP, but many of us have and do.
Please describe your moral code with respect to who should be giving what to whom in what situations
Again, I don't know about he GP, but as a Christian, my moral code mostly comes from the first four books of the New Testament. It comes down HARD on the rich and greedy.
Too low smacks of moderate-to-severe aspeger's and probable basement dwelling.
In my case, it's just a sign of old age. Now get off my lawn!
Yep, I just got a Sony
My condolences.
The masthead doesn't say news for geeks, it says news for NERDS. There's nothing nerdier than science. Even though I was writing assembly thirty years ago I agree with the GP that the ten most unique* biological viruses would be far more interesting than the ten most unique pieces of malware.
You're at the wrong site, you need to be at that juvenile site geek.com if you don't want all that icky sciency junk.
* The title is brain-dead stupid. There is no such thing as "most unique".
Thanks for that, I guess I'll stick with my old 720p TV and Dell that's plugged into it. Although I need to buy some memory for the Dell...
Wouldn't a uniquest be a single quest you undertook alone?