It reminds me of the military approach, where every system has at least two backups or alternates.
Millitary geat is FAR more robust than its civilian counterparts. I don't know how many winter coats I've bought that have worn out in the last forty years, I finally quit buying coats and now just wear the USAF field jacket I was issued forty years ago, that is still in good shape. I was always lucky to get three years out of a civilian coat (I'm rough on clothing).
They're marketing it to the wrong crowd, that shit is magic. It makes you a super-lover. The best part is, if you're much older than 40 all you have to do to get it is ask the doctor for a prescription. But they should be marketing it to the young, considering how fat young women mostly are these days (not to mention those ugly-assed tattoos and piercings, ugh).
You know the real reason why older men have erectile dysfunction? I'll tell you: same reason rich old men have wives half their age. Ever try to get it up for a sixty year old woman? Well, it's just as hard for a sixty year old man to get it up for a sixty year old woman.
While I'm all for trying to find life on other planets, wouldn't it be far better to improve our space travel capabilities as well as creating some sort of Intergalactic Network
INTERGALACTIC?? Holy shit, man, the closest galaxy to ours is 11.7 million light-years away! You're going to wait 11.7 million years for a response? Where are you going to get the power to send a message that far, considering the inverse square law? If you meant intragalactic, the nearest star is four light years away. Do you have some magic way to get a signal to move faster than light? If so, there's a Nobel in it for you.
I mean, we know how to make ozone, so wouldn't it be a good move to get comets, land them on Mars, then use the oxygen and water inside of them to partially terraform the planet?
"Partially" is the key word here. How are you going to give Mars a magnetosphere? Without that, you're not going to have a habitable Mars. Yeah, Mars was terraformed in the book I'm writing (see the journal), but that's ten million years in the future and it's the species that we evolve into that terraforms it. And no, I hand-waved past the magnetosphere. Plus, it's fiction.
These were designed to look down. Of course they have something better now. If you don't think they can't read the headlines on your newspapers from space you're mistaken.
The newspaper? How about the date on a dime, through your roof -- or even better.
I think he meant a physical key isn't as easy to copy, and for a hotel room you'd have to change the lock or whoever had the key last could break right in. With key cards, it takes seconds to reprogram the lock and key.
the Milky Way is only 100,000 ly wide. Therefore, if there were alien life out there with advanced civilizations, they would find travelling such a small distance a piece of cake and would have discovered us by now.
To be advanced enought to get past lightspeed, we'd be chimps or less by comparison.
And Tegmark says if the whole galaxy we live in has no life, it's highly unlikely there's life any elsewhere, either
Not logical. It could well be that there are only one or two plaents in any given galaxy that is conducive to life forming.
Sabin used a "weakened" vaccine, and that is NOT a good thing. The military tests new drugs and vaccines on its members, and when I was in the AF I was given a "weakened" flu vaccine. I had the worst case of flu I've ever had.
We're talking about polio and children here. A weakend polio bug might be far less deadly but still have very serious lifelong consequences. I have a friend who had polio as a child, and although it didn't kill him, it did leave him with a few physical challenges which are still with him today. I can see why they wouldn't trust the Sabin vaccine.
Dude, you're confusing me. You mention W7 and Metro, but metro us W8 and you didn't say jack shit about W8. Typo? Hit the 7 instead of the 8?
But to say that MSFT can't write a good OS is just the height of arrogance
Bullshit. Maybe they can, but they don't. Yes, W7 is heads and shoulders above XP but is still far less stable than Linux, still lacks many features that most distros have, and still puts "shiny" before useable.
well, maybe your real problem isn't that you need a new computer, but that you need to grow a pair so that you don't feel the need to justify everything to your wife like she's your mother.
I can see that you've either never been married (you're young, I see, from your lack of capitalization) or have been married several times and just don't learn (also shows up by your refusal to use the shift key; I know 40 year olds who act like teenagers).
Normal key locks are vulnerable to various cheap lock picks as well
How fast can you pick an industrial-strength lock? This method takes no longer to get in than using a real card. If you're burglarizing people, you want to get in and out as quick as possible. Plus, how many people know how to pick a lock? This is as easy as using a legit key; anyone can do it, unlike picking a lock.
It's cheaper to buy a bare-bones pre-assembled PC with mobo, CPU, memory already installed. No need to buy a new mouse or keyboard, and just transfer your old hard drive to it, which takes far less time than moving all your data to the new machine. also, it has the added time saver of not having to remove MS crapware and third party toolbars and other third party crapware.
I have a BSOD under W7 every other update on my main home machine, i.e. twice a month or so. Must be a driver of some sort, but still inexcusable. The machine runs perfectly fine with linux
You probably have a piece of flaky hardware; Windows is NOT tolerant of flaky hardware. I've had two machines running dual-boot where Linux ran flawlessly but Windows bluescreened, one had a flaky power supply which eventually went out completely, the other was a bad mobo that I noticed some expoded capacitors on. It could be something as simple as a tiny bit of corrosion on a pin.
You seem to miss the point entirely. CFCs are good for more than hair spray. An alien civilization might use them for terraforming (or Xanthaforming) new homes.
The point is to look for signs of chemicals that don't occur naturally. Although they're sure to have some false positives, since something that doesn't occur naturally here may occur naturally there.
There are few new things imagined by anyone. Most stories are rehashes of old stories, often mashups of all stories. How many versions of Romeo and Juliet are there, only with different names, different wordings, different characters' characteristics, time settings, etc?
No, if someone started shooting at civilians or even the cops themselves, they should shoot back. But your comment is a straw man; the point remains that there is no excuse for beating the shit out of any prisoner, especially after they're handcuffed.
Keep in mind that Warren Buffet has a lot of unrealized equity gain.
Yes, and I would abolish capital gains taxes and tax capital gais as income. The 15% CGT is an abomination.
And keep in mind the unspoken alternative: you think it's a great idea and implement it in a country with cheaper labor and more generous taxation policies.
Which are only a part of profits. If your workforce is more productive it offsets taxes and cheaper, less productive labor. Also is regulation -- move your operations to Bangladesh and you can burn a hundred people to death with impunity, move to China and you can pollute to your heart's content. I was alive before the EPA was established, you can't believe how toxic the air was back then. You couldn't fish in most lakes they were so dirty, and rivers actually caught fire from the pollution. Let India and China have the industries run by unpatriotic sociopaths that don't mind killing people.
You must purchase parts and materials from vendors.
Physical moving parts wear out. Software doesn't.
What's more- if your gas tank starts to leak in a ten year old car the manufacturer will definitely not fix it.
No, not if you hit a sharp rock and puncture it, but if your tank leaks because of a design flaw, they'll recall it.
The fact that you think a person has to indefinitely maintain any software they've ever written leads me to believe you don't know much about software development.
Lets see, BASIC, assembly, JPL, NOMAD, dBASE, FoxPro, various scripts including javascript... and a few more I've completely forgotten about, I've been doing it for thirty years. I software-hacked an old TRS-80 MC10 which was text-only and uppercase only into high-res (for the time) graphics and mixed case presentation. I wrote quite a few games on that and other machines, including early DOS machines. I know how computers work down to the solder, and how software works. Ever hand-assembled machine code? I have.
You only have to indefinitely maintain software if it's a shitpile of buggy code. Windows 95 would still be useable if it wasn't a bug-ridden pile of shit. You kids today seem to take no pride whatever in your work, especially the ones working for MS, Adobe, and actually quite a few other vendors. To be fair, though, my guess is it's more the bean counter's fault than yours.
I can maintain my own auto, I can't maintain closed source software. If my ten year old car has a design flaw (bug) that makes it leak gasoline, it will be fixed for free.
A person or company should fix their fuckups. Commercial software companies don't, and it's just plain wrong that they refuse to.
Bullshit, XP works just fine but MS chooses to no longer fix its bugs and the vulns they pose. In fact, Windows 95 would still run fine. TCP/IP hasn't changed, nor has much else in computers except their speed. It's an excuse for a ripoff. Do you work for them by chance? If so, tell them to stop writing shitty software.
What do we really know? The earth has been here for billions of years, and we have knowledge of it's weather and stuff for maybe 100 years?
We have direct temperature readings for a hundred or so years, but we also have methods of determining temperature for geologic time scales, such as ice cores.
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It reminds me of the military approach, where every system has at least two backups or alternates.
Millitary geat is FAR more robust than its civilian counterparts. I don't know how many winter coats I've bought that have worn out in the last forty years, I finally quit buying coats and now just wear the USAF field jacket I was issued forty years ago, that is still in good shape. I was always lucky to get three years out of a civilian coat (I'm rough on clothing).
They're marketing it to the wrong crowd, that shit is magic. It makes you a super-lover. The best part is, if you're much older than 40 all you have to do to get it is ask the doctor for a prescription. But they should be marketing it to the young, considering how fat young women mostly are these days (not to mention those ugly-assed tattoos and piercings, ugh).
You know the real reason why older men have erectile dysfunction? I'll tell you: same reason rich old men have wives half their age. Ever try to get it up for a sixty year old woman? Well, it's just as hard for a sixty year old man to get it up for a sixty year old woman.
While I'm all for trying to find life on other planets, wouldn't it be far better to improve our space travel capabilities as well as creating some sort of Intergalactic Network
INTERGALACTIC?? Holy shit, man, the closest galaxy to ours is 11.7 million light-years away! You're going to wait 11.7 million years for a response? Where are you going to get the power to send a message that far, considering the inverse square law? If you meant intragalactic, the nearest star is four light years away. Do you have some magic way to get a signal to move faster than light? If so, there's a Nobel in it for you.
I mean, we know how to make ozone, so wouldn't it be a good move to get comets, land them on Mars, then use the oxygen and water inside of them to partially terraform the planet?
"Partially" is the key word here. How are you going to give Mars a magnetosphere? Without that, you're not going to have a habitable Mars. Yeah, Mars was terraformed in the book I'm writing (see the journal), but that's ten million years in the future and it's the species that we evolve into that terraforms it. And no, I hand-waved past the magnetosphere. Plus, it's fiction.
These were designed to look down. Of course they have something better now. If you don't think they can't read the headlines on your newspapers from space you're mistaken.
The newspaper? How about the date on a dime, through your roof -- or even better.
I think he meant a physical key isn't as easy to copy, and for a hotel room you'd have to change the lock or whoever had the key last could break right in. With key cards, it takes seconds to reprogram the lock and key.
the Milky Way is only 100,000 ly wide. Therefore, if there were alien life out there with advanced civilizations, they would find travelling such a small distance a piece of cake and would have discovered us by now.
To be advanced enought to get past lightspeed, we'd be chimps or less by comparison.
And Tegmark says if the whole galaxy we live in has no life, it's highly unlikely there's life any elsewhere, either
Not logical. It could well be that there are only one or two plaents in any given galaxy that is conducive to life forming.
Sabin used a "weakened" vaccine, and that is NOT a good thing. The military tests new drugs and vaccines on its members, and when I was in the AF I was given a "weakened" flu vaccine. I had the worst case of flu I've ever had.
We're talking about polio and children here. A weakend polio bug might be far less deadly but still have very serious lifelong consequences. I have a friend who had polio as a child, and although it didn't kill him, it did leave him with a few physical challenges which are still with him today. I can see why they wouldn't trust the Sabin vaccine.
So.. the aliens are cats?
Dude, you're confusing me. You mention W7 and Metro, but metro us W8 and you didn't say jack shit about W8. Typo? Hit the 7 instead of the 8?
But to say that MSFT can't write a good OS is just the height of arrogance
Bullshit. Maybe they can, but they don't. Yes, W7 is heads and shoulders above XP but is still far less stable than Linux, still lacks many features that most distros have, and still puts "shiny" before useable.
well, maybe your real problem isn't that you need a new computer, but that you need to grow a pair so that you don't feel the need to justify everything to your wife like she's your mother.
I can see that you've either never been married (you're young, I see, from your lack of capitalization) or have been married several times and just don't learn (also shows up by your refusal to use the shift key; I know 40 year olds who act like teenagers).
Normal key locks are vulnerable to various cheap lock picks as well
How fast can you pick an industrial-strength lock? This method takes no longer to get in than using a real card. If you're burglarizing people, you want to get in and out as quick as possible. Plus, how many people know how to pick a lock? This is as easy as using a legit key; anyone can do it, unlike picking a lock.
It's cheaper to buy a bare-bones pre-assembled PC with mobo, CPU, memory already installed. No need to buy a new mouse or keyboard, and just transfer your old hard drive to it, which takes far less time than moving all your data to the new machine. also, it has the added time saver of not having to remove MS crapware and third party toolbars and other third party crapware.
I have a BSOD under W7 every other update on my main home machine, i.e. twice a month or so. Must be a driver of some sort, but still inexcusable. The machine runs perfectly fine with linux
You probably have a piece of flaky hardware; Windows is NOT tolerant of flaky hardware. I've had two machines running dual-boot where Linux ran flawlessly but Windows bluescreened, one had a flaky power supply which eventually went out completely, the other was a bad mobo that I noticed some expoded capacitors on. It could be something as simple as a tiny bit of corrosion on a pin.
The Orion Nebula has alcohol. It will take over a thousand years to get there, assuming you're a photon (are you?). Sugar is closer, less than half as far.
You seem to miss the point entirely. CFCs are good for more than hair spray. An alien civilization might use them for terraforming (or Xanthaforming) new homes.
The point is to look for signs of chemicals that don't occur naturally. Although they're sure to have some false positives, since something that doesn't occur naturally here may occur naturally there.
There are few new things imagined by anyone. Most stories are rehashes of old stories, often mashups of all stories. How many versions of Romeo and Juliet are there, only with different names, different wordings, different characters' characteristics, time settings, etc?
No, if someone started shooting at civilians or even the cops themselves, they should shoot back. But your comment is a straw man; the point remains that there is no excuse for beating the shit out of any prisoner, especially after they're handcuffed.
Keep in mind that Warren Buffet has a lot of unrealized equity gain.
Yes, and I would abolish capital gains taxes and tax capital gais as income. The 15% CGT is an abomination.
And keep in mind the unspoken alternative: you think it's a great idea and implement it in a country with cheaper labor and more generous taxation policies.
Which are only a part of profits. If your workforce is more productive it offsets taxes and cheaper, less productive labor. Also is regulation -- move your operations to Bangladesh and you can burn a hundred people to death with impunity, move to China and you can pollute to your heart's content. I was alive before the EPA was established, you can't believe how toxic the air was back then. You couldn't fish in most lakes they were so dirty, and rivers actually caught fire from the pollution. Let India and China have the industries run by unpatriotic sociopaths that don't mind killing people.
Yours was firewalled off here, so I googled.
No, we're obviously talking cross-purpose. yes, XP will run fine, but your machine will be pwned because MS won't fix its still lingering bugs.
You must purchase parts and materials from vendors.
Physical moving parts wear out. Software doesn't.
What's more- if your gas tank starts to leak in a ten year old car the manufacturer will definitely not fix it.
No, not if you hit a sharp rock and puncture it, but if your tank leaks because of a design flaw, they'll recall it.
The fact that you think a person has to indefinitely maintain any software they've ever written leads me to believe you don't know much about software development.
Lets see, BASIC, assembly, JPL, NOMAD, dBASE, FoxPro, various scripts including javascript... and a few more I've completely forgotten about, I've been doing it for thirty years. I software-hacked an old TRS-80 MC10 which was text-only and uppercase only into high-res (for the time) graphics and mixed case presentation. I wrote quite a few games on that and other machines, including early DOS machines. I know how computers work down to the solder, and how software works. Ever hand-assembled machine code? I have.
You only have to indefinitely maintain software if it's a shitpile of buggy code. Windows 95 would still be useable if it wasn't a bug-ridden pile of shit. You kids today seem to take no pride whatever in your work, especially the ones working for MS, Adobe, and actually quite a few other vendors. To be fair, though, my guess is it's more the bean counter's fault than yours.
I can maintain my own auto, I can't maintain closed source software. If my ten year old car has a design flaw (bug) that makes it leak gasoline, it will be fixed for free.
A person or company should fix their fuckups. Commercial software companies don't, and it's just plain wrong that they refuse to.
The linked article said he wrote commercial software. Commercial software is crap, and commercial software was what his rant was about..
Bullshit, XP works just fine but MS chooses to no longer fix its bugs and the vulns they pose. In fact, Windows 95 would still run fine. TCP/IP hasn't changed, nor has much else in computers except their speed. It's an excuse for a ripoff. Do you work for them by chance? If so, tell them to stop writing shitty software.
What do we really know? The earth has been here for billions of years, and we have knowledge of it's weather and stuff for maybe 100 years?
We have direct temperature readings for a hundred or so years, but we also have methods of determining temperature for geologic time scales, such as ice cores.