Well, for one thing, you probably wouldn't be reading this site
You wouldn't be reading this site without integrated circuits. When I was in the USAF in 1972 I got to see the insides of a 1972 computer that ran a C-5A flight simulator. Rooms full of bookshelves, except instead of books the shelves held printed circuit boards. That was a computer in 1972, and it was probably far less powerful than an Apple IIe.
But I also learned at an early age to make friends with the school's authorities
I was a PITA to them, because I was bored out of my mind in school; I already knew what they were teaching. But I was friends with non-bully Eddie, whose dad was an Illinois Golden Gloves champion. My beating the hell out of an asshole who'd been trying to bully me in the 7th grade put a stop to the bullying attempts.
They should stop shooting the drones and start shooting the dickless creeps that shoot live animals for fun.
Dude, every hunter I've ever met either ate the game or gave it to someone else to eat. I hunted with my dad as a kid, and one of the rules was "eat what you kill."
And as someone pointed out earlier, without hunters the deer have no predators, and huge herds develop and starve. I'd much rather be shot than starve to death. Not allowing hunting is cruel to animals who have no predators, as well as other species in food competetion with them.
Those "differences" are provably superficial and purely cultural
No. Ever been married? A woman seems incapable of putting anything where they picked it up from, and every single married man I ever met concurs. "Where's the stratodoober, dear?"
"Just LOOK for it!" she says. It goes all the way back to hunter-gatherer societies, where women would pick fruits and nuts and berries, and men would hunt game. Evolutionary pressures made women adept at finding stationary things, and men adept at seeing movement. That is completely a brain thing.
I was going to post an amusing personal coincidence from wikipedia: "the machine became operational in April 1951. It was handed over to the computing group in May 1952."
It's exactly one year older than me; I was born in April 1952. Whoever did the summary isn't very good at math, I'm not 70 years old. This thing was operational 61 years ago. Most of you guys grew up with computers, Computers grew up with me.
It is still a digital computer (as opposed to an analogue computer), as were other non-binary false starts like the Setun which used balanced ternary.
Yes, a base 3 computer would use positive, negative, and off. Seems like one would be a lot more complex to design than a binary computer.
They also had pure analog computers well into the 1960s (maybe even '70s) that used voltage as a "number system". Most were vaccuum tube based. No rounding errors, but noise was the problem.
True, being a lesbian isn't a sin, she's how God made her. But you see way too many so-called "Christians" saying "God hates fags". The fact is, God loves gays, he just doesn't like sodomy. Being gay isn't a sin, the sodomy is. Like I said, I pointed out to her that it was as much a sin for me to eat pussy as it is for her.
A low UID doesn't matter at all. Context is everything. An earlier comment noted that the shills all have brand new accounts, you tried to turn it on its head and it just didn't work.
Why did you get a new ID? You can get your old one back if you want it.
I tried Gnome ten years ago and hated it, I've been happy with KDE. It seems like MS is trying to copy Apple and Linux, but are choosing the wrong things to emulate in those OSes. When I get off my lazy ass I'm replacing W7 with kubuntu on my notebook because I don't like having to enter a password on reboot, I don't like rebooting when I install a new program, I don't like having to reboot every Patch Tuesday, and when I do boot I want all the apps and docs open that were open when I shut it down. On the kubuntu "desktop" (more of a media center) I just push the power button and it's like it was before.
Well, the only Apple I have is an old G3 someone gave me that I never use. Haven't used an Apple since IIe, so I wouldn't have a clue about Apple's behavior.
I can see where it's good to have a "feature" removed, like Clippy. But they're few and far between, W8 sounds like a tremendous clusterfuck.
I disagree, Alt is right next to the spacebar and F4 has a physical break between it and F5 on most desktop keyboards.
That's not the point. The point is, a new user will have no clue that he has to use a keyboard shortcut, or even that there are such things. I have a Linux box feeding a TV set I use for an entertainment center, the wireless keyboard has sat on a shelf since I last upgraded the OS. You should only need a keyboard if you want to type; we have mice and touchscreens these days.
There is no reason whatever why a new user shouldn't be able to use a computer off the bat without reading any fucking manuals (which MS no longer provides, anyway). But MS seems to want users to think "computers are hard." They shouldn't be. Everything you need to know should be up front, like the old Office "File" menu that they replaved the "file" with a cryptic button.
I think MS's top executives have gone stark raving mad.
Considering most of the supporters of Linux/Apple (dare I say "fanboys") have REALLY high UID's
Um, like my five digit UID? Fact is, son, I've never seen a windows fan with less than six digits, most have seven or eight. Most of the Linux fans have lower UIDs than me. I almost never see anyone post AC in favor of Linux, why would they?
So to misquote George Smoot when he was talking to Sheldon, With all due respects, Doctor hairyfish, but are you on crack?
The answer is in TFA. It isn't just heat, but fusion. At 13-14 times Jupiter's mass, there is a nuclear burn, but only with deuterium and it doesn't burn long. Brown Dwarfs are also called "failed stars". In short, it's a big planet that started fusing deuterium until the deuterium ran out.
From what I have read the problem is not with the phone OS, it has been with buggy or faulty hardware.
Which is one reason I'd shy away from an MS phone. I realize that it's possible this rewrite will fix things for them, but Windows was never the least bit tolerant of hardware faults.
Several years ago I was running XP and Mandriva dual-boot, Windows was really flaky. I'd get bluescreens, reboots, all sorts of troubles and kept cursing MS for being buggy, until Linux quit -- the power supply had been going out for quite a while.
I got a notebook a few years ago with W7, had it dual-booting with kubuntu. When it was set to hibernate when the lid was closed on battery but do nothing on AC and you closed the lid and plugged it in, it wouldn't restart without pulling the battery. It gave both OSes fits, but killed Windows.
Thankfully, the notebook was stolen and the replacement didn't have that problem.
But again, Windows is NOT tolerant of flaky hardware, and Linux is, making Android a better choice.
Of course their power never went out, they had three separate electric companies wired in, if one went down a second kicked in, if that went down one of their two generators kicked in.
Monsanto has sued people who have not paid for use of their patents when those peoples crops became tainted.
No. Monsanto sued one guy. The farmer planted normal corn next to his neighbor's field, the neighbor was using roundup-ready seed. He saved the crop until the next year, planted it, and dosed his corn heavily with roundup. Roundup is a grass herbicide, and corn is a grass. The corn that didn't die was harvested for the next year's crop. I'd say in that one case Monsanto was in the right.
Having grown up near a Monsanto plant before the EPA, I'm amazed that I'd defend those sociopaths, but in this case they were in the right. There are no "accidental" cases I know of, but would love to see a link that shows me wrong because I fucking HATE Monsanto.
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Well, for one thing, you probably wouldn't be reading this site
You wouldn't be reading this site without integrated circuits. When I was in the USAF in 1972 I got to see the insides of a 1972 computer that ran a C-5A flight simulator. Rooms full of bookshelves, except instead of books the shelves held printed circuit boards. That was a computer in 1972, and it was probably far less powerful than an Apple IIe.
But I also learned at an early age to make friends with the school's authorities
I was a PITA to them, because I was bored out of my mind in school; I already knew what they were teaching. But I was friends with non-bully Eddie, whose dad was an Illinois Golden Gloves champion. My beating the hell out of an asshole who'd been trying to bully me in the 7th grade put a stop to the bullying attempts.
Humans do not like loosing
Interesting, I like setting people free (loosing). Is that because my eye implant makes me not 100% human? Non-cyborgs love enslaving people?
Sadly, yes. However, that is a very recent phenomenon.
They should stop shooting the drones and start shooting the dickless creeps that shoot live animals for fun.
Dude, every hunter I've ever met either ate the game or gave it to someone else to eat. I hunted with my dad as a kid, and one of the rules was "eat what you kill."
And as someone pointed out earlier, without hunters the deer have no predators, and huge herds develop and starve. I'd much rather be shot than starve to death. Not allowing hunting is cruel to animals who have no predators, as well as other species in food competetion with them.
Do you really think that one side or the other is going be that much better?
I have a feeling that the Greens or Libertarians may be.
Those "differences" are provably superficial and purely cultural
No. Ever been married? A woman seems incapable of putting anything where they picked it up from, and every single married man I ever met concurs. "Where's the stratodoober, dear?"
"Just LOOK for it!" she says. It goes all the way back to hunter-gatherer societies, where women would pick fruits and nuts and berries, and men would hunt game. Evolutionary pressures made women adept at finding stationary things, and men adept at seeing movement. That is completely a brain thing.
I was going to post an amusing personal coincidence from wikipedia: "the machine became operational in April 1951. It was handed over to the computing group in May 1952."
It's exactly one year older than me; I was born in April 1952. Whoever did the summary isn't very good at math, I'm not 70 years old. This thing was operational 61 years ago. Most of you guys grew up with computers, Computers grew up with me.
It is still a digital computer (as opposed to an analogue computer), as were other non-binary false starts like the Setun which used balanced ternary.
Yes, a base 3 computer would use positive, negative, and off. Seems like one would be a lot more complex to design than a binary computer.
They also had pure analog computers well into the 1960s (maybe even '70s) that used voltage as a "number system". Most were vaccuum tube based. No rounding errors, but noise was the problem.
I usually stay away from C|NET too, that link was in my Google News feed yesterday morning.
Being a Christian isn't easy.
True, being a lesbian isn't a sin, she's how God made her. But you see way too many so-called "Christians" saying "God hates fags". The fact is, God loves gays, he just doesn't like sodomy. Being gay isn't a sin, the sodomy is. Like I said, I pointed out to her that it was as much a sin for me to eat pussy as it is for her.
A low UID doesn't matter at all. Context is everything. An earlier comment noted that the shills all have brand new accounts, you tried to turn it on its head and it just didn't work.
Why did you get a new ID? You can get your old one back if you want it.
I tried Gnome ten years ago and hated it, I've been happy with KDE. It seems like MS is trying to copy Apple and Linux, but are choosing the wrong things to emulate in those OSes. When I get off my lazy ass I'm replacing W7 with kubuntu on my notebook because I don't like having to enter a password on reboot, I don't like rebooting when I install a new program, I don't like having to reboot every Patch Tuesday, and when I do boot I want all the apps and docs open that were open when I shut it down. On the kubuntu "desktop" (more of a media center) I just push the power button and it's like it was before.
Apple does that more often
Well, the only Apple I have is an old G3 someone gave me that I never use. Haven't used an Apple since IIe, so I wouldn't have a clue about Apple's behavior.
I can see where it's good to have a "feature" removed, like Clippy. But they're few and far between, W8 sounds like a tremendous clusterfuck.
I disagree, Alt is right next to the spacebar and F4 has a physical break between it and F5 on most desktop keyboards.
That's not the point. The point is, a new user will have no clue that he has to use a keyboard shortcut, or even that there are such things. I have a Linux box feeding a TV set I use for an entertainment center, the wireless keyboard has sat on a shelf since I last upgraded the OS. You should only need a keyboard if you want to type; we have mice and touchscreens these days.
There is no reason whatever why a new user shouldn't be able to use a computer off the bat without reading any fucking manuals (which MS no longer provides, anyway). But MS seems to want users to think "computers are hard." They shouldn't be. Everything you need to know should be up front, like the old Office "File" menu that they replaved the "file" with a cryptic button.
I think MS's top executives have gone stark raving mad.
Funny thing is, my DnD group is closer to a solid fellowship than any "church" I've ever been to.
Then your DnD group IS your church. "Whenever two or three are gathered together in my name, I will be there."
Considering most of the supporters of Linux/Apple (dare I say "fanboys") have REALLY high UID's
Um, like my five digit UID? Fact is, son, I've never seen a windows fan with less than six digits, most have seven or eight. Most of the Linux fans have lower UIDs than me. I almost never see anyone post AC in favor of Linux, why would they?
So to misquote George Smoot when he was talking to Sheldon, With all due respects, Doctor hairyfish, but are you on crack?
Oh, right, you're using Windows...
No, this is the moon. You'll get the goatse pictures and jokes when we find a hole on Uranus.
The answer is in TFA. It isn't just heat, but fusion. At 13-14 times Jupiter's mass, there is a nuclear burn, but only with deuterium and it doesn't burn long. Brown Dwarfs are also called "failed stars". In short, it's a big planet that started fusing deuterium until the deuterium ran out.
Thanks! They look like the pictures of Mars holes. This really is an exciting time.
I wanted to see a picture of the moon hole. Here's one on Mars, I'd like to see a robot investigate that!
If a generator's sitting idle in a data center, and the power never goes out, is it working?
Yes, they test them regularly, especially if they're expecting a big storm.
From what I have read the problem is not with the phone OS, it has been with buggy or faulty hardware.
Which is one reason I'd shy away from an MS phone. I realize that it's possible this rewrite will fix things for them, but Windows was never the least bit tolerant of hardware faults.
Several years ago I was running XP and Mandriva dual-boot, Windows was really flaky. I'd get bluescreens, reboots, all sorts of troubles and kept cursing MS for being buggy, until Linux quit -- the power supply had been going out for quite a while.
I got a notebook a few years ago with W7, had it dual-booting with kubuntu. When it was set to hibernate when the lid was closed on battery but do nothing on AC and you closed the lid and plugged it in, it wouldn't restart without pulling the battery. It gave both OSes fits, but killed Windows.
Thankfully, the notebook was stolen and the replacement didn't have that problem.
But again, Windows is NOT tolerant of flaky hardware, and Linux is, making Android a better choice.
Of course their power never went out, they had three separate electric companies wired in, if one went down a second kicked in, if that went down one of their two generators kicked in.
Monsanto has sued people who have not paid for use of their patents when those peoples crops became tainted.
No. Monsanto sued one guy. The farmer planted normal corn next to his neighbor's field, the neighbor was using roundup-ready seed. He saved the crop until the next year, planted it, and dosed his corn heavily with roundup. Roundup is a grass herbicide, and corn is a grass. The corn that didn't die was harvested for the next year's crop. I'd say in that one case Monsanto was in the right.
Having grown up near a Monsanto plant before the EPA, I'm amazed that I'd defend those sociopaths, but in this case they were in the right. There are no "accidental" cases I know of, but would love to see a link that shows me wrong because I fucking HATE Monsanto.