I'm surprised Boston and Washington aren't even lower. Boston has a couple promising young guys (Bergeron and Kessell), and Sinden isn't in charge of destroying the team anymore.
The worst commentator on ESPN was one of the guys they had for the NCAA selection show this year (I'm blanking on his name). Here's a few things he said:
1. New Hampshire was the most vulnerable #1 seed (out of four regionals)
2. New Hampshire would lose in the first round (to the #4 seed in their regional)
3. There won't be any upsets in the first round
I know it was just the tournament selection show for college hockey, but the least they could have done was get a couple guys that weren't on crack.
One of the reasons I like the playoffs is that I can pick whichever team has players from my college. Since my local team is the Bruins, I don't have to worry about having to cheer for my home team.
I watched a lot of the NHL playoffs on television, but the best experience is still going to a college hockey game. If you want rabid fans, that's the best place to go. Some student sections can't yell anything more complicated than "You suck" (I'm looking at you, UMass), but a lot of schools have very vocal and very organized student sections.
The second America wakes up from its self-induced slumber and actually begins involving itself in the democratic process once more is the day we win back our freedoms.
Will that be the second before or after the sun goes nova?
Ah, so what does that have to do with nvidia again? As I said, you would think nvidia's in charge.
I would guess that means that nVidia can't release the source code for the drivers because they don't actually own the rights to the code. As for nVidia being in charge, I would think that nVidia, being the far larger company that the smaller company may not be able to exist without, would have the advantage in negotiations. Then again, if nVidia said "Screw you, we'll write our own code", they'd probably get slapped by a patent infringement lawsuit. The only outcome that could possibly lead to a win for Linux users would be nVidia buying out all of the companies that they've licensed code from.
And that means no nation should be able to tax it.
As impressive as many acts of stupidity by various governments have been, do you really think that any state (as in one of the several United States) would actually try to directly tax citizens of other countries for Internet usage, even if they were connecting to a server within that state's jurisdiction? The federal government seems to enjoy trying to force its will on other countries, but I don't see individual states trying it. I think it's far more likely that it'll work the same as the taxes on telephone and television services; the states will tax the service providers, who will just increase the customers' bills to pay for it.
I have no idea why I was modded Troll, but oddly enough, when I posted it I was thinking "Somebody isn't going to have their sarcasm detector turned on and is going to mod this down."
I was actually using a Bluetooth keyboard (Logitech MX5000 desktop, hopefully newer runs of it have fixed the issues I have) when I posted, so I was wondering how good the encryption is and how easily someone could intercept and decipher the signals.
There are problem areas such as graphics and WiFi but Linux supports more hardware combinations than any other operating system. Graphics cards and WiFi just tend to be popular and give a bad impression.
Even worse, the problems are pretty much because of only three companies: nVidia, ATI, and Broadcom. If AMD really does force ATI's hand, nVidia may have to follow along in order to avoid completely missing out on a growing market. That would just leave Broadcom.
The difference is that you and your wife have two different genetic conditions. If both are caused by recessive genes, and the other person does not carry that recessive gene, your children have an effectively 0% chance of having either of those conditions. With incest, both people are far more likely to carry the recessive genes, raising the probability of children having that genetic condition to 25% (if both people are carriers).
I'm not really arguing in support of either side, I just like sounding smart, and this is pretty much the only biology I remember from high school.
I might be way off on this, but I thought there were laws against broadcasting pictures of people's faces without their permission. Isn't that why some news programs have had to blur out people's faces, especially people in the background? I don't think it's an absolute rule (or nobody bothers filing lawsuits), so I'm a bit curious about the details.
Before the first exoplanet was discovered the fraction was 2/9, and now it's 2/249. The percentage is getting less impressive as our understanding of the universe improves
Those are only the fractions of known habitable planets over known planets. Small planets near the star they orbit, like Earth, are still difficult to detect. As our ability to detect such planets improves, the ratio will likely increase.
"Chemistry works the same way, regardless of which solar system you are in."
Prove it.
It's science. You can't "prove" it. You can only draw reasonable conclusions from the available evidence and, until evidence disproving your conclusion becomes available, assume that your conclusion is close enough to correct to be useful
The wik says "the majority of the early Church Fathers including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen, Augustine, Eusebius, and Basil did not believe the Genesis account depicted ordinary solar days."
It would have been pretty hard to have solar days before the sun existed, which wasn't until the fourth day.
But now the new GAIM/Pidgin comes along and, oh, hey, guess what? You can't configure it to use control-enter to send any more!
Sorry to go off-topic here, but you can configure that, it just isn't internal to Pidgin. You have to use a.gtkrc file instead. On the Windows computer I'm on now, it's "c:\Documents and Settings\Name\.gtkrc-2.0". The file should look something like this:
Mary Wilson, who with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard formed the original Supremes, said the exemption was unfair and forced older musicians to continue touring to pay their bills.
I would be willing to agree with her on one condition: 100% of the royalties that radio stations pay for playing songs goes to the original creator(s) and 0% goes to current RIAA executives.
Far MORE terrifying is Cheney dying in office due to heart failure and Speaker of the House Nancy "Lugosi" taking over. *shudder*
When I first read that, I read it as Cheney dying in the office of vice president. Maybe that was an incorrect reading, and it meant Cheney dying in office after Bush was already gone. If Bush is gone and Cheney is president, the only way that Pelosi would become president is if Cheney dies before a new vice president is selected. Maybe that's what the original post meant, but it wasn't at all clear on that point. While the original post may not be technically "wrong", it is certainly lacking some important details.
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I'm surprised Boston and Washington aren't even lower. Boston has a couple promising young guys (Bergeron and Kessell), and Sinden isn't in charge of destroying the team anymore.
The worst commentator on ESPN was one of the guys they had for the NCAA selection show this year (I'm blanking on his name). Here's a few things he said:
1. New Hampshire was the most vulnerable #1 seed (out of four regionals)
2. New Hampshire would lose in the first round (to the #4 seed in their regional)
3. There won't be any upsets in the first round
I know it was just the tournament selection show for college hockey, but the least they could have done was get a couple guys that weren't on crack.
One of the reasons I like the playoffs is that I can pick whichever team has players from my college. Since my local team is the Bruins, I don't have to worry about having to cheer for my home team.
I watched a lot of the NHL playoffs on television, but the best experience is still going to a college hockey game. If you want rabid fans, that's the best place to go. Some student sections can't yell anything more complicated than "You suck" (I'm looking at you, UMass), but a lot of schools have very vocal and very organized student sections.
I have no idea why I was modded Troll, but oddly enough, when I posted it I was thinking "Somebody isn't going to have their sarcasm detector turned on and is going to mod this down."
I was actually using a Bluetooth keyboard (Logitech MX5000 desktop, hopefully newer runs of it have fixed the issues I have) when I posted, so I was wondering how good the encryption is and how easily someone could intercept and decipher the signals.
The difference is that you and your wife have two different genetic conditions. If both are caused by recessive genes, and the other person does not carry that recessive gene, your children have an effectively 0% chance of having either of those conditions. With incest, both people are far more likely to carry the recessive genes, raising the probability of children having that genetic condition to 25% (if both people are carriers).
I'm not really arguing in support of either side, I just like sounding smart, and this is pretty much the only biology I remember from high school.
I'm sorry, but I have to say it. You must be new here.
I might be way off on this, but I thought there were laws against broadcasting pictures of people's faces without their permission. Isn't that why some news programs have had to blur out people's faces, especially people in the background? I don't think it's an absolute rule (or nobody bothers filing lawsuits), so I'm a bit curious about the details.