Have you even read either of those books? The amount of times people on slashdot shit out "references" to 1984 which basically consist of mentioning the title of the book whenever the uk government proposes anything invasive or tries to give too much power to the police. This is not insightful. Do you even know what 1984 is about, other than "they have cameras everywhere"?
If somehow a Scientology Party got into power in britain, then I'd start shitting myself about "1984"
So is it I.T. itself or just learning how I.T. devices work that you feel is irrelevant fucking around that does nothing to solve any important issues in the world? Perhaps you're wasting your time reading the wrong website. Or the wrong medium.
FLOPS are a measurement of rate, so to describe something as performing a certain number of flops in under a second, implies that the processor is accelerating.
New Scientist is absolutely awful for giving creationists ripe quote mines by presenting every new discovery or refinement to biology as somehow rendering all previous discoveries a bunch of naive speculation, and banging on about "darwin" being "wrong". This article is an egregious example, giving up juicy quote mines like:
How could modern biology have gone so badly off track? According to Woese, it is a simple tale of scientific complacency.[...]Woese believes that along the way biologists were seduced by their own success into thinking they had found the final truth[...] "Biology built up a facade of mathematics around the juxtaposition of Mendelian genetics with Darwinism," he says.
Strong claims, but others are taking them seriously. "Their arguments make sense and their conclusion is very important," says biologist Jan Sapp of York University in Toronto, Canada. "The process of evolution just isn't what most evolutionary biologists think it is."
nothing in the modern synthesis explains the most fundamental steps in early life: how evolution could have produced the genetic code and the basic genetic machinery used by all organisms, especially the enzymes and structures involved in translating genetic information into proteins. Most biologists, following Francis Crick, simply supposed that these were uninformative "accidents of history".
Evidence for this lies in the genetic code, say Woese and Goldenfeld. Though it was discovered in the 1960s, no one had been able to explain how evolution could have made it so exquisitely tuned to resisting errors. Mutations happen in DNA coding all the time, and yet the proteins it produces often remain unaffected by these glitches. Darwinian evolution simply cannot explain how such a code could arise.
In 1991, geneticists David Haig and Lawrence Hurst at the University of Oxford went further, showing that the code's level of error tolerance is truly remarkable.[...]"The actual genetic code," says Goldenfeld, "stands out like a sore thumb as being the best possible." That would seem to demand some evolutionary explanation. Yet, until now, no one has found one.
If a paradigm shift is pending, Pace says it will be in good hands. "I think Woese has done more for biology writ large than any biologist in history, including Darwin," he says. "There's a lot more to learn, and he's been interpreting the emerging story brilliantly."
The specific members of Rare that designed goldeneye and perfect dark became free radical and made timesplitters/timesplitters 2/3 (spiritual successors to GE and PD), Second Sight, finally having a big flop with Haze on the ps3 then went bankrupt and got bought out by crytek and became "crytek uk". They're now sitting on timesplitters 4 while they work on some project that has £50 million injected into it by crytek. The rest of Rare got bought up, chewed up, and shat out by microsoft. The two founders left in 2007 to pursue "other opportunities" which havent really shown up on any radars so far.
There a difference between "proved" and demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. It depends what you decide is a reasonable doubt. What I experienced was, in my opinion, laughably inadequate and practically useless. I would not find it reasonable to suspect barclaycard's URL to be the subject of a DNS poisoning attack on OpenDNS's servers. Although possible, it's so unlikely that if it did happen I would just consider myself extremely unlucky and deal with the consequences.
Two women showed up unsolicited at my place of business with a cheap glossy business card in a plastic holder claiming to be from barclaycard asking if i wanted to sign up for a barclaycard PDQ machine. Before filling in almost every single confidential detail about my business and bank accounts and signing a piece of paper I wanted to verify who they were.
They were really taken aback and said that no one had ever asked to verify who they were before. They told me to phone the number on their "ID card" but that i had to say they were from some other company who were presumably subcontracted on a commission basis by barclaycard. I got an answer on the phone and gave their names and the guy on the other end confirmed their names, so I asked him how I was supposed to know that this number was legit. He tried to cover the receiver but I could hear him asking some other guy in the room, then the pair of them sounding stumped like they were just shrugging at each other and had never heard the question before. Then they told me to phone barclaycard's main switchboard and get put through to the security department.
I got barclaycard's main number from their website, but when i rang it, i spoke to about 4 different people none of whom knew of this department and when i tried to explain what i wanted to know, they just kept asking me what my credit card number was even though the request was regarding a pdq machine not a credit card.
The two women also needed my business partner's details and signature and he wasn't around and they were going back to london the next morning so they wanted to go to his house to get him to sign something. He couldn't do it so they wanted me to post a copy of the papers to the woman's home address. This was incredibly fishy, so I took down the woman's driving licence details that matched the address. Long story short, it turned out in the end that they were from barclaycard. Abso-fucking-lutely astonishing.
I don't see how any of that addresses the questions I asked. They were quite specific, and these answers seem hand-waving at best, and totally irrelevant at worst.
The FACT of the matter is that Chinese culture has evolved a longer term thinking AS A WHOLE than Western culture has
just because you put the word "fact" in capital letters does not make it fact. Do you have anything to back up your bold assertion? It just seems arbitrary lines are being drawn based on nothing at all. why is it that you think that "western" culture begins at 1AD? what happened at that date that scrapped all previous culture?
what is it that makes you think that since the chinese have not decided to reset their calendar in the past 4-5 thousand years that there have been no cultural regressions/disruptions/reboots since the inception of that calendar? Europe didn't reset its calendar during the renaissance...
Is the daily number of commuters the same as the size of the entire population of the city? If so i suppose it wouldn't be that much different. but another factor to weigh in is that commuters aren't fleeing for their lives, and are likely to be much more patient, and not start attacking one another when a traffic jam builds up. As soon as something out of the ordinary and disruptive like that happens i can't help thinking it would rapidly compound and spiral out of control.
sounds like a recipe for carnage if the projected impact zone is a highly populated area. hey everyone in new york city - you have two days to clear the city - ready,steady,go!
although that carnage is neither here nor there when the alternative is being obliterated instantly.
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this might explain the unbuildability of the win2k source leak
You forgot to include some citations from conservapedia.
Have you even read either of those books? The amount of times people on slashdot shit out "references" to 1984 which basically consist of mentioning the title of the book whenever the uk government proposes anything invasive or tries to give too much power to the police. This is not insightful. Do you even know what 1984 is about, other than "they have cameras everywhere"?
If somehow a Scientology Party got into power in britain, then I'd start shitting myself about "1984"
i call this new form of life "The Semanticons"
myths
at any point in this conversation were either of you ever thinking about tits?
So is it I.T. itself or just learning how I.T. devices work that you feel is irrelevant fucking around that does nothing to solve any important issues in the world? Perhaps you're wasting your time reading the wrong website. Or the wrong medium.
FLOPS are a measurement of rate, so to describe something as performing a certain number of flops in under a second, implies that the processor is accelerating.
New Scientist is absolutely awful for giving creationists ripe quote mines by presenting every new discovery or refinement to biology as somehow rendering all previous discoveries a bunch of naive speculation, and banging on about "darwin" being "wrong". This article is an egregious example, giving up juicy quote mines like:
How could modern biology have gone so badly off track? According to Woese, it is a simple tale of scientific complacency.[...]Woese believes that along the way biologists were seduced by their own success into thinking they had found the final truth[...] "Biology built up a facade of mathematics around the juxtaposition of Mendelian genetics with Darwinism," he says.
Strong claims, but others are taking them seriously. "Their arguments make sense and their conclusion is very important," says biologist Jan Sapp of York University in Toronto, Canada. "The process of evolution just isn't what most evolutionary biologists think it is."
nothing in the modern synthesis explains the most fundamental steps in early life: how evolution could have produced the genetic code and the basic genetic machinery used by all organisms, especially the enzymes and structures involved in translating genetic information into proteins. Most biologists, following Francis Crick, simply supposed that these were uninformative "accidents of history".
Evidence for this lies in the genetic code, say Woese and Goldenfeld. Though it was discovered in the 1960s, no one had been able to explain how evolution could have made it so exquisitely tuned to resisting errors. Mutations happen in DNA coding all the time, and yet the proteins it produces often remain unaffected by these glitches. Darwinian evolution simply cannot explain how such a code could arise.
In 1991, geneticists David Haig and Lawrence Hurst at the University of Oxford went further, showing that the code's level of error tolerance is truly remarkable.[...]"The actual genetic code," says Goldenfeld, "stands out like a sore thumb as being the best possible." That would seem to demand some evolutionary explanation. Yet, until now, no one has found one.
If a paradigm shift is pending, Pace says it will be in good hands. "I think Woese has done more for biology writ large than any biologist in history, including Darwin," he says. "There's a lot more to learn, and he's been interpreting the emerging story brilliantly."
The specific members of Rare that designed goldeneye and perfect dark became free radical and made timesplitters/timesplitters 2/3 (spiritual successors to GE and PD), Second Sight, finally having a big flop with Haze on the ps3 then went bankrupt and got bought out by crytek and became "crytek uk". They're now sitting on timesplitters 4 while they work on some project that has £50 million injected into it by crytek. The rest of Rare got bought up, chewed up, and shat out by microsoft. The two founders left in 2007 to pursue "other opportunities" which havent really shown up on any radars so far.
you can just prefix it with "wiki" it has the same effect and takes less time/is less prone to typos
i havent seen firefox crash for as long as i can remember so fuck knows what's up with his system
There a difference between "proved" and demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. It depends what you decide is a reasonable doubt. What I experienced was, in my opinion, laughably inadequate and practically useless. I would not find it reasonable to suspect barclaycard's URL to be the subject of a DNS poisoning attack on OpenDNS's servers. Although possible, it's so unlikely that if it did happen I would just consider myself extremely unlucky and deal with the consequences.
Two women showed up unsolicited at my place of business with a cheap glossy business card in a plastic holder claiming to be from barclaycard asking if i wanted to sign up for a barclaycard PDQ machine. Before filling in almost every single confidential detail about my business and bank accounts and signing a piece of paper I wanted to verify who they were.
They were really taken aback and said that no one had ever asked to verify who they were before. They told me to phone the number on their "ID card" but that i had to say they were from some other company who were presumably subcontracted on a commission basis by barclaycard. I got an answer on the phone and gave their names and the guy on the other end confirmed their names, so I asked him how I was supposed to know that this number was legit. He tried to cover the receiver but I could hear him asking some other guy in the room, then the pair of them sounding stumped like they were just shrugging at each other and had never heard the question before. Then they told me to phone barclaycard's main switchboard and get put through to the security department.
I got barclaycard's main number from their website, but when i rang it, i spoke to about 4 different people none of whom knew of this department and when i tried to explain what i wanted to know, they just kept asking me what my credit card number was even though the request was regarding a pdq machine not a credit card.
The two women also needed my business partner's details and signature and he wasn't around and they were going back to london the next morning so they wanted to go to his house to get him to sign something. He couldn't do it so they wanted me to post a copy of the papers to the woman's home address. This was incredibly fishy, so I took down the woman's driving licence details that matched the address. Long story short, it turned out in the end that they were from barclaycard. Abso-fucking-lutely astonishing.
and rock n roll racing! Jake lights him up!
so does mm mean metermeter?
You linked the word BeLSan to an article about a place called BeSLan. You should have linked to Belsen Concentration Camp
I don't see how any of that addresses the questions I asked. They were quite specific, and these answers seem hand-waving at best, and totally irrelevant at worst.
That is proper hard-fucking-core geek wit. Bravo.
"Alter" is still too vague. You mean pervert or perhaps coerce.
The FACT of the matter is that Chinese culture has evolved a longer term thinking AS A WHOLE than Western culture has
just because you put the word "fact" in capital letters does not make it fact. Do you have anything to back up your bold assertion? It just seems arbitrary lines are being drawn based on nothing at all. why is it that you think that "western" culture begins at 1AD? what happened at that date that scrapped all previous culture?
what is it that makes you think that since the chinese have not decided to reset their calendar in the past 4-5 thousand years that there have been no cultural regressions/disruptions/reboots since the inception of that calendar? Europe didn't reset its calendar during the renaissance...
Is the daily number of commuters the same as the size of the entire population of the city? If so i suppose it wouldn't be that much different. but another factor to weigh in is that commuters aren't fleeing for their lives, and are likely to be much more patient, and not start attacking one another when a traffic jam builds up. As soon as something out of the ordinary and disruptive like that happens i can't help thinking it would rapidly compound and spiral out of control.
sounds like a recipe for carnage if the projected impact zone is a highly populated area. hey everyone in new york city - you have two days to clear the city - ready,steady,go!
although that carnage is neither here nor there when the alternative is being obliterated instantly.
he's a synonymous coward