I suppose that most of those 2 billions would eventually be spent on manpower
In the case of a Google-class search engine, I'd think it would pay a few highly-qualified people and that most would go to the pharaonic amount of hardware needed. If you want to invest in order to help with employment you're better off building a huge bridge or an aircraft carrier.
of worthless human-like mutation or those that still protect the children just as always genetically programmed
I'll try to avoid insulting your intelligence, but I must make you remark that child molestors are not mutants and that people don't molest children because of their genes but rather because of their psychological issues and such. In other words there's no such thing as born child molestors.
I don't see what's wrong with prisons by the way, last time I checked it was rather hard to molest children from a jail cell, so if anything between shooting child molestors dead and putting them in prison for life I think prison would be a better solution. I just love it when people are motivated by feelings and try to justify whatever it makes them do or say reasonably.
just providing a workable solution to a nearly impossible problem.
About as great of a solution as killing all poors to solve the poverty problem, or killing all drug dealers and smokers in order to win the drug war, or killing every corrupt official in order to solve corruption, or kill all queers in order to get rid of the gay problem.
Back on topic, convicted child molestors don't represent much of a menace to children, most child molestors are never caught (we all know people who got raped by people from their family and never got convicted), and convicted are less likely to ever get to molest again than those on the loose.
Your solution is utterly stupid in that it wouldn't even remotely get close to solving the problem and that you'd kill quite a lot of people for nothing. But I'm sure your "solution" was motivated by your disgust for such offenders, in other words you probably think that they deserve to die, so they should be killed because they deserve it more than to prevent anything.
We do live in such an world. If you follow the link, it leads to an article linking to the article by the person who coined the term, and he seems to be dead serious.
"And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0." --Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada
I thought dell built the computer exactly how YOU wanted it? Why not order it with No windows to begin with?
Dell pays the Windows license no matter whether they actually put Windows on it or not. And it's been going on since the early 90's or maybe even earlier. That's what prevented Dell from making x86 Mac clones around 1993 when System 7 was ported to x86, they would have only done it if Apple had given their OS away for free.
I just hate it when people use horrible analogies to support their case, like this one FTFA:
Boxes that ask users to confirm whether they want to take a step such as deleting a document are another example of what he calls a bad feature.
"Your car does not ask, 'Do you really want to start the engine?' when you turn the key," Platt said.
It doesn't have to ask you that because it's reversible, you can turn it back on. Now deleting a document is not (within the scope of the end user) reversible. That's why it's necessary. A better analogy would be if your car asked you 'Do you really want to run over that elderly woman who's crossing the street?'.
This being said, if you apologize to your screen when there's an error message, buy a Mac, and stay away from word processors.
Platt, who has also written nine books for computer professionals, has a message for software developers: "Your. User. Is. Not. You."
No shit Sherlock, I'm glad I read Slashdot so that I can realize that potential users of my program don't necessarily have the same level of technical skills as I do, I would have never found this out on my own.
I think it was a weird project in the first place, and quite a waste. Trying to make something better than Google would be like trying to catch up with Michael Schumacher while he's got 9 laps of advance on you. Why spend 2 billions on something as useless anyways, we (in France) have a trillion euros debt, an economic situation (among others) that could be better and we're pumping 2 billions into THAT?
Regardless of how good the game was, I think that maybe what might have turned people down was the title, which must make the game sound worse than it actually is.
SheepShaver is useless without ROMs, the discovery of, extraction of, and installation of is well beyond the capabilities of even many advanced users. Apple does not allow the SheepShaver project to redistribute those ROMS or include them in a pre-build binary. That certainly hinders the project a lot and prevents it from ever being user friendly enough to attract a significant body of developers. It seems like a tiny bit of privilege from Apple would go a long way here, but they withhold it.
If I recall correctly the SheepShaver website links to the download of a freely available NewWorld ROM file that Apple distributed as an update to the ROM file for many NewWorld machines. And SheepShaver runs greatly off that ROM file.
I think it's inaccurate to talk about race riots (but certainly less than to talk about a religious war). The reason for that is that, although there's quite some racism against visible minorities, the riots involve social categories. Because unlike in the USA, we don't have any racial segregation but rather social segregation, and our "ghettos" aren't made of either blacks or arabs but of first, second or third generation immigrants, and whereas racial discrimination is an important phenomenon, geographical discrimination (to discriminate against people who live in our equivalents of ghettos) is something very important if not more important
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lol man, I can't believe your comment. That one is busted, it's some guy who released balloons and pretended it was UFO's. UFO sightings usually involve such things as wild trajectories, that, is just a friggin balloon. And if you can't get around to realizing that this is just a trick you must take the least little Las Vegas magician for someone with genuine paranormal powers.
After working so hard to get from C to C++, I don't see why I would settle for D
I'd gladly have my girlfriend to go from C to D, but I admit there's nothing I would love more than DD.
Edit : yeah I know, quit telling me that I must be a liar, I don't have a girlfriend, WHO CARES?!? Edit #2 : What? You can't edit your comments on Slashdot? So how am I doing that, jerk?
Hold on, the end of the Minitel? Nothing less? Because when I look at the main Minitel page there is no such thing. Plus it seems to me that if the Minitel network would stop working I would have heard about it quite a lot from my family, on TV and I'm sure we would have returned the terminal to France Télécom, not to mention that the Slashdot article would have been edited.
It rather seems that the news is rather about some particular online (on the web) service, not the end of the network itselves.
Big deal, the only thing the US Intelligence has to hide when it comes to the JFK assassination is its own incompetence (as to how they miserably failed to prevent it as Fidel Castro has survived 638 assassination attempts, part of them which had been directly ordered by JFK and RFK)
All of these next year IT prevision lists make me wonder, if we magically went back to one year ago and tried making a list of IT predictions for 2006, what would be in this list? Because I've been thinking about it and although I must have went through 80% at least of all Slashdot summaries in 2006 I can't think of anything but the Gootube merge and the Reiser story (but that one can't be put in a prediction list since it was obviously unpredictable)
"'By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community.' Is 2007 the year of the OpenSolaris desktop?"
I could replace the word OpenSolaris with Linux.
You mean "By the end of the year the Linux community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community."?;-)
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I suppose that most of those 2 billions would eventually be spent on manpower
In the case of a Google-class search engine, I'd think it would pay a few highly-qualified people and that most would go to the pharaonic amount of hardware needed. If you want to invest in order to help with employment you're better off building a huge bridge or an aircraft carrier.
of worthless human-like mutation or those that still protect the children just as always genetically programmed
I'll try to avoid insulting your intelligence, but I must make you remark that child molestors are not mutants and that people don't molest children because of their genes but rather because of their psychological issues and such. In other words there's no such thing as born child molestors.
I don't see what's wrong with prisons by the way, last time I checked it was rather hard to molest children from a jail cell, so if anything between shooting child molestors dead and putting them in prison for life I think prison would be a better solution. I just love it when people are motivated by feelings and try to justify whatever it makes them do or say reasonably.
just providing a workable solution to a nearly impossible problem.
About as great of a solution as killing all poors to solve the poverty problem, or killing all drug dealers and smokers in order to win the drug war, or killing every corrupt official in order to solve corruption, or kill all queers in order to get rid of the gay problem.
Back on topic, convicted child molestors don't represent much of a menace to children, most child molestors are never caught (we all know people who got raped by people from their family and never got convicted), and convicted are less likely to ever get to molest again than those on the loose.
Your solution is utterly stupid in that it wouldn't even remotely get close to solving the problem and that you'd kill quite a lot of people for nothing. But I'm sure your "solution" was motivated by your disgust for such offenders, in other words you probably think that they deserve to die, so they should be killed because they deserve it more than to prevent anything.
Your comment just made me realize the potential danger of these registers. Fortunately, too few people are sufficiently sick to do what you suggest.
I'll pop you right in the jaw.
Pow! Right in the Kisser! Pow! Right in the Kisser! Pow! Right in the Kisser!
We do live in such an world. If you follow the link, it leads to an article linking to the article by the person who coined the term, and he seems to be dead serious.
"And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0." --Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada
I thought dell built the computer exactly how YOU wanted it? Why not order it with No windows to begin with?
Dell pays the Windows license no matter whether they actually put Windows on it or not. And it's been going on since the early 90's or maybe even earlier. That's what prevented Dell from making x86 Mac clones around 1993 when System 7 was ported to x86, they would have only done it if Apple had given their OS away for free.
I just hate it when people use horrible analogies to support their case, like this one FTFA :
Boxes that ask users to confirm whether they want to take a step such as deleting a document are another example of what he calls a bad feature.
"Your car does not ask, 'Do you really want to start the engine?' when you turn the key," Platt said.
It doesn't have to ask you that because it's reversible, you can turn it back on. Now deleting a document is not (within the scope of the end user) reversible. That's why it's necessary. A better analogy would be if your car asked you 'Do you really want to run over that elderly woman who's crossing the street?'.
This being said, if you apologize to your screen when there's an error message, buy a Mac, and stay away from word processors.
Platt, who has also written nine books for computer professionals, has a message for software developers: "Your. User. Is. Not. You."
No shit Sherlock, I'm glad I read Slashdot so that I can realize that potential users of my program don't necessarily have the same level of technical skills as I do, I would have never found this out on my own.
I think it was a weird project in the first place, and quite a waste. Trying to make something better than Google would be like trying to catch up with Michael Schumacher while he's got 9 laps of advance on you. Why spend 2 billions on something as useless anyways, we (in France) have a trillion euros debt, an economic situation (among others) that could be better and we're pumping 2 billions into THAT?
Regardless of how good the game was, I think that maybe what might have turned people down was the title, which must make the game sound worse than it actually is.
This would have been even funnier in 1998 or earlier, when b) wasn't even an operating system, but a hacked-in DOS shell.
Can someone mod that fool down please? Windows 98 (or even 95) is not a standalone Operating System? lol, STFU
Because no one actually has a PS3 or plays games on it; they just exist to get flipped on eBay!
For less than the retail price now, so you can say they are only being sold to be returned the same day to the store.
It was renamed to Urectum, just to end that lame joke once and for all.
But now I'm afraid we need something new to end that Urectum joke.
Too late, already taken.
"It's Murder!!"
SheepShaver is useless without ROMs, the discovery of, extraction of, and installation of is well beyond the capabilities of even many advanced users. Apple does not allow the SheepShaver project to redistribute those ROMS or include them in a pre-build binary. That certainly hinders the project a lot and prevents it from ever being user friendly enough to attract a significant body of developers. It seems like a tiny bit of privilege from Apple would go a long way here, but they withhold it.
If I recall correctly the SheepShaver website links to the download of a freely available NewWorld ROM file that Apple distributed as an update to the ROM file for many NewWorld machines. And SheepShaver runs greatly off that ROM file.
Bush coudn't have done those things, he doesn't know what those words mean!
Just like Mr. Jourdain, you don't need to know what the word "prose" means to express yourself with it.
I think it's inaccurate to talk about race riots (but certainly less than to talk about a religious war). The reason for that is that, although there's quite some racism against visible minorities, the riots involve social categories. Because unlike in the USA, we don't have any racial segregation but rather social segregation, and our "ghettos" aren't made of either blacks or arabs but of first, second or third generation immigrants, and whereas racial discrimination is an important phenomenon, geographical discrimination (to discriminate against people who live in our equivalents of ghettos) is something very important if not more important
lol man, I can't believe your comment. That one is busted, it's some guy who released balloons and pretended it was UFO's. UFO sightings usually involve such things as wild trajectories, that, is just a friggin balloon. And if you can't get around to realizing that this is just a trick you must take the least little Las Vegas magician for someone with genuine paranormal powers.
After working so hard to get from C to C++, I don't see why I would settle for D
I'd gladly have my girlfriend to go from C to D, but I admit there's nothing I would love more than DD.
Edit : yeah I know, quit telling me that I must be a liar, I don't have a girlfriend, WHO CARES?!?
Edit #2 : What? You can't edit your comments on Slashdot? So how am I doing that, jerk?
not to mention that the Slashdot article would have been edited.
I obviously meant the Wikipedia article
Hold on, the end of the Minitel? Nothing less? Because when I look at the main Minitel page there is no such thing. Plus it seems to me that if the Minitel network would stop working I would have heard about it quite a lot from my family, on TV and I'm sure we would have returned the terminal to France Télécom, not to mention that the Slashdot article would have been edited.
It rather seems that the news is rather about some particular online (on the web) service, not the end of the network itselves.
Big deal, the only thing the US Intelligence has to hide when it comes to the JFK assassination is its own incompetence (as to how they miserably failed to prevent it as Fidel Castro has survived 638 assassination attempts, part of them which had been directly ordered by JFK and RFK)
Maybe, but that's still gonna be hard for the Linux community to beat the Linux community ;-)
All of these next year IT prevision lists make me wonder, if we magically went back to one year ago and tried making a list of IT predictions for 2006, what would be in this list? Because I've been thinking about it and although I must have went through 80% at least of all Slashdot summaries in 2006 I can't think of anything but the Gootube merge and the Reiser story (but that one can't be put in a prediction list since it was obviously unpredictable)
Anyone?
"'By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community.' Is 2007 the year of the OpenSolaris desktop?"
I could replace the word OpenSolaris with Linux.
You mean "By the end of the year the Linux community will be widely recognized as larger and more active than the Linux community."? ;-)