that evolution continues, even in the bleeding heart charity world. Whereas before, organisms with genetic defects were simply unfit to survive, now they are denied employement. They should at least give you a darwin award before kicking you out of the gene pool.
Could you imagine what it would be like if the bleeding hearts were around in paleolithic times and had to save every mutation unfit to survive in it's habitat? "Oh no! Another species is going to become extince if we don't do something to assuage my subconscious guilt!" Crimney, we'd have Mesozoic Era Diplodocus carnegii still collecting welfare, I tell you.
Besides, it's cooler this way. And sadly, that really matters when impressing management..
Well, coolness matters - the mgmt where I'm working are moving toward vmware to replace a bunch of individual servers - I just chalk it up to the mainframe mentality in operation as they all come from the big iron days. Personally I like diversified clusters of many small boxes - when one fails it's a small hit. But when you've massive vmware blade server goes down, admittedly rare, it takes everything. Anyway, interesting that the trend these days is back toward big centralized boxes that look like a bunch of units, instead of small distributed boxes combined into one big unit.
Besides, "Genuine Advantage" is a misleading moniker, like "Patriot Act". Who has the real 'advantage', someone who buys a product at artificially inflated prices or the person who takes 'advantage' of free or lower cost products or, can get away with stealing it like Mstf did?
The Borg Motor Corp. tells thier customers that "Quality is Job One", they tell their employess that "Safety is Job One", but they tell their stockholders the truth, that "Profits are Job One". Msft has a long history of doing anything to accomplish Job One, and there's nobody they won't shake hands with then stab-in-the-back to do it. This lab manager makes 1) good pr for a company will tons (billions) of ill-gotten gain to throw around and 2) helps them understand the competition better in order to win contracts that someone else may get.
- is that it is highly likely that Pluto will be downgraded to non-planet status
OK, but I sure wouldn't want to be the one to tell the king of the underworld about it.
Chief Astronomer: Hey! Pluto, come in, have a seat. Look, let me be the first to say you've done a splended job as a planet all these years. But, ahem, you know, things change, and we all, ah, have to be ready to change with the times. Frankly there have been a lot of new discoveries lately and, well, we feel you would be happier in the role of, uh, 'object'. You know, being a full planet is such responsibility, you can leave all that with Uranus and take some time off, take it easy and enjoy things.
is the view of God using trial and error to create something,which is what evolution suggests. Creationists can't accept the fact that a lot of 'beings' were created and died while trying to find the best one suitable to survive in it's particular environment. It's like they want Ford, instead of incrementally creating the quadra-cycle, the Model-T, the Model-A, the Mustang, etc - they want him to, out of nothing, create the 2055 Mustang with fusion drive, gps navigator and mp3 player. One minute you have a barren planet, the next minute, boom, you've got Adam walking around. What a great design! Yeah right, show us the blueprints please.
God just isn't as fantastic as his followers make him out to be.
with all the negative comments here - I guess it would have been much cooler to have a buzz-droid crawl along the shuttle exterior trimming off protrusions.
You should always give these type of presentations at the "White Hat Security Researchers Conference of Law Enforcing Good Guys", not the "Black Hat Hacker Convention of Nefarious Ne'er-do-wells and Juvenile Deliquents".
When I bought a Dell Inspiron 8600 last Dec for a project, intending to use Linux on it, there was no option for "no OS" so I had to buy Windows, which was immediatly wiped off the hard disk, didn't even activate it. That was some amount of payment to Msft for absolutely nothing, and I think should be viewed as a net loss to an economy as there is no product delivering any 'value' to anybody other than taking my $$$ and giving it to Msft. In fact, that represents money NOT spent on anything else, not at the grocery store, toward a new car, etc. As far as I'm concerned it may as well have been burned.
My NASA RealAudio video feed froze at about t-5 minutes, so I switched over to Yahoo! Windows Media feed and it glitched at about t-1, hung in 'buffering', but I was able to restart it in time to see the launch at about 10:39:30 EDT (rdate with time.nist.gov).
Just like Commodore and the VIC-20 in Germany - from wikipedia: "The VIC-20 was originally meant to be called Vixen, but this name was inappropriate in Germany, Commodore's second most important market, because it sounds like wichsen, the German language word for "masturbate". VIC, which was subsequently chosen, has a similar problem--it can be pronounced like ficken, the German word for... "
You'll just have to lookup vic-20 in wiki for that. Likewise, the Japanese video game Puck-Man was changed for fear of US graffiti.
That's just about what nearly every novice I hear sounds like - they don't pay attentention to spacing ( I know it was the lameness filter or something in your case ) - way too many novices just run their letters and words together into one difficult to decode stream.
Geez, we've been doing this since the early 80's, big deal. Why don't they give more attention to something interesting like fusion research at the National Ignition Facility. Now that's cutting edge research, boldly measuring energies that no physicist has measured before!
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that evolution continues, even in the bleeding heart charity world. Whereas before, organisms with genetic defects were simply unfit to survive, now they are denied employement. They should at least give you a darwin award before kicking you out of the gene pool.
Could you imagine what it would be like if the bleeding hearts were around in paleolithic times and had to save every mutation unfit to survive in it's habitat? "Oh no! Another species is going to become extince if we don't do something to assuage my subconscious guilt!" Crimney, we'd have Mesozoic Era Diplodocus carnegii still collecting welfare, I tell you.
there's this - I don't know if they're equivalent tho.
Besides, it's cooler this way. And sadly, that really matters when impressing management..
Well, coolness matters - the mgmt where I'm working are moving toward vmware to replace a bunch of individual servers - I just chalk it up to the mainframe mentality in operation as they all come from the big iron days. Personally I like diversified clusters of many small boxes - when one fails it's a small hit. But when you've massive vmware blade server goes down, admittedly rare, it takes everything. Anyway, interesting that the trend these days is back toward big centralized boxes that look like a bunch of units, instead of small distributed boxes combined into one big unit.
Ok, that's the what. Now the why: why would I want to run 4 VM's on one AMD 3200+ instead of 4 old 800Mhz PC's with 100mbps ethernet?
Not any more than products with Radio Corporation of America having been made in asia since the 70's.
Besides, "Genuine Advantage" is a misleading moniker, like "Patriot Act". Who has the real 'advantage', someone who buys a product at artificially inflated prices or the person who takes 'advantage' of free or lower cost products or, can get away with stealing it like Mstf did?
The Borg Motor Corp. tells thier customers that "Quality is Job One", they tell their employess that "Safety is Job One", but they tell their stockholders the truth, that "Profits are Job One". Msft has a long history of doing anything to accomplish Job One, and there's nobody they won't shake hands with then stab-in-the-back to do it. This lab manager makes 1) good pr for a company will tons (billions) of ill-gotten gain to throw around and 2) helps them understand the competition better in order to win contracts that someone else may get.
a loyalty card with rfid and customers with remote control implants.
"Smedley, there's a customer in aisle 7 with a weakness for cream filled donuts - jerk him over to aisle 3 quick!"
- is that it is highly likely that Pluto will be downgraded to non-planet status
OK, but I sure wouldn't want to be the one to tell the king of the underworld about it.
Chief Astronomer: Hey! Pluto, come in, have a seat. Look, let me be the first to say you've done a splended job as a planet all these years. But, ahem, you know, things change, and we all, ah, have to be ready to change with the times. Frankly there have been a lot of new discoveries lately and, well, we feel you would be happier in the role of, uh, 'object'. You know, being a full planet is such responsibility, you can leave all that with Uranus and take some time off, take it easy and enjoy things.
Might as well, they're certainly not making use of intelligent design
is the view of God using trial and error to create something ,which is what evolution suggests. Creationists can't accept the fact that a lot of 'beings' were created and died while trying to find the best one suitable to survive in it's particular environment. It's like they want Ford, instead of incrementally creating the quadra-cycle, the Model-T, the Model-A, the Mustang, etc - they want him to, out of nothing, create the 2055 Mustang with fusion drive, gps navigator and mp3 player. One minute you have a barren planet, the next minute, boom, you've got Adam walking around. What a great design! Yeah right, show us the blueprints please.
God just isn't as fantastic as his followers make him out to be.
N. Korea's Kim Jong-il will have an army of clone warriors.
We have a leak in aisle 6 - send Microsoft cleanup crew immediately. Repleat, we have a leak in aisle 6.
with all the negative comments here - I guess it would have been much cooler to have a buzz-droid crawl along the shuttle exterior trimming off protrusions.
You should always give these type of presentations at the "White Hat Security Researchers Conference of Law Enforcing Good Guys", not the "Black Hat Hacker Convention of Nefarious Ne'er-do-wells and Juvenile Deliquents".
Our next responsibility is to try very very hard not to contaminate Mars with Earth-life, if we haven't already with our probes.
Why not?
Mr Bill must be crying all the way to the bank.
Interesting that another censor was the veeps wife, Tipper Gore and the PMRC.
When I bought a Dell Inspiron 8600 last Dec for a project, intending to use Linux on it, there was no option for "no OS" so I had to buy Windows, which was immediatly wiped off the hard disk, didn't even activate it. That was some amount of payment to Msft for absolutely nothing, and I think should be viewed as a net loss to an economy as there is no product delivering any 'value' to anybody other than taking my $$$ and giving it to Msft. In fact, that represents money NOT spent on anything else, not at the grocery store, toward a new car, etc. As far as I'm concerned it may as well have been burned.
My NASA RealAudio video feed froze at about t-5 minutes, so I switched over to Yahoo! Windows Media feed and it glitched at about t-1, hung in 'buffering', but I was able to restart it in time to see the launch at about 10:39:30 EDT (rdate with time.nist.gov).
Maybe they just hate English.
that'll be corrected in the dupe
Just like Commodore and the VIC-20 in Germany - from wikipedia: "The VIC-20 was originally meant to be called Vixen, but this name was inappropriate in Germany, Commodore's second most important market, because it sounds like wichsen, the German language word for "masturbate". VIC, which was subsequently chosen, has a similar problem--it can be pronounced like ficken, the German word for ... "
You'll just have to lookup vic-20 in wiki for that. Likewise, the Japanese video game Puck-Man was changed for fear of US graffiti.
That's just about what nearly every novice I hear sounds like - they don't pay attentention to spacing ( I know it was the lameness filter or something in your case ) - way too many novices just run their letters and words together into one difficult to decode stream.
Geez, we've been doing this since the early 80's, big deal. Why don't they give more attention to something interesting like fusion research at the National Ignition Facility. Now that's cutting edge research, boldly measuring energies that no physicist has measured before!