Holy hell, the only image worse than a bunch of loud, fat, obnoxious Texans all in one place is having them all be gamers! Gamers are great but Texans are annoying enough already so that just doesn't work for them. I thought my family reunion with all my hick 2nd cousins from northern Wisconsin was the worst gathering of obnocious idiots in history but now I know it's been beaten....hey, was G4 there? It seems just like their cup of tea.
This is just Microsoft being arrogant about the fact that a small, "unprofessional" team of people can create something that millions of people want and they, with all their billions and teams of "professionals" can't. They're too busy making a PC Halo 2 that nobody can play because nobody's buying Vista. I say they reprogram the whole thing on a Quake 3 engine or something, minus any actual mention of the word Halo of course.
using like a billion joules in heat to plasma arc weld garbage that will give off 1/100th of that amount of heat and using it to power a power plant seems not only counterproductive but also impossible. Even if they're using chemical energy to create the plasma, they could just use that chemical reaction to power the plant. But if they find a way to use all the toxic carcinogenic fumes from burning plastic, rubber, and toxic metals that are created to power another plant, then we just might be in business!
British people are always driving on the wrong side of the road so it's good if they can replace cabs with robot ones, lol. But we also need to replace every single Illinois driver with a robot because damn, those people don't know how to drive. I'm from Wisconsin btw:-D
If that happened in the game I play (Silkroad Online) people would be pissed. No wait, TURBO PISSED! I think that alone could change South Korea into "the bad half" cuz that's where they made the game. Last time I tried to change my password, it wouldn't take my answer to my secret question even though I triple checked it when I made it.
I was going to make a boycott Vista website but then I just went and played Silkroad Online, lol. I'm so lazy...but I'm glad someone did it! If a product sucks, don't buy it!
and also..."pointless update to XP -- a perfectly fine operating system" WHAT?!
I was helping a VERY untechnical office staff (most around 50+ years old) move to a new building and while going through the basement, we found floppy backups of their medical and insurance info and they told me they didn't need ones older than 10 years, which there were some of. Before I even said it, they suggested we destroy them somehow because of the sensitive data on them. I ended up putting a scissors blade through a couple hundred floppies, 3 at a time (that was FUN!) But if 50+ year old doctors know that they need to destroy stuff that holds customer data, who the hell would be stupid enough to just throw out tapes? Obviously someone Chase.
spying on your own people is one thing but spy on people outside the company and uh ohhhhh, you're in extra trouble! That must be the policy because it sort of fits with how they don't catch more crap about having all HP computers come preinstalled with mal/ad/bad/annoy/bloat/painintheass-ware. Now if they made a deal with Microsoft to put it in a windows update so they could annoy non-HP customers, uh ohhhhhhhh!
P.S. hmmm...why no uh oh for AOL and their crap software?
okay, I'll explain it a bit more. What I'm 99% sure they're referring to is a gene that affects how much of a certain mollecule (or maybe group of mollecules) is chopped off when a cell splits. It's a little barbel shaped thingy and every time a cell divides, it loses a little bit of it. Once it's out, the cell can't divide anymore and it dies. Cancer cells are defined by having unlimited barbels. They never run out so it divides over and over and never stops. Remove this gene and your cells can split significantly more times before the barbel runs out, thus the extended life. But, they say that this gene can sometimes inhibit cancer cells from growing out of control. The chance that this gene would be powerful enough to reduce the barbel on a cancer cell are astronomical. If it was really even close to an immunity to cancer, you'd practically have progeria because it would take so much barbel limiting power that regular cells would have a very low diving limit.
Btw I lied when I said I didn't know much about this cuz I've seen a show and science class movie about it.
thousands of companies worldwide could be losing millions from a security hole in IE or XP and they just can't seem to get out a patch for weeks and weeks but ohhhhh watch out when there's a problem with the almighty and all powerful DRM and the RIAA and MPAA might lose a buck or two. Then they can pull a patch out of their asses and deploy it in 3 days. Thou shalt have no other gods before DRM!
and you can't forget that also the web allows for something prohibition didn't. People wouldn't make their own gambling site then gamble on it by themselves in the own home (correction, normal people wouldn't) so the "If the average Joe can find it, the FBI can find it" rule applies. How do you make a website that someone can find if they're looking for a site to gamble on but the FBI can't find? It's impossible on the web.
From what I know about cancer, which isn't a whole lot, the immune system is supposed to be a supressor of tumors. It doesn't make any sense for just a gene to do it if it isn't one related to white blood cell manufacturing. To make a long story short, the "cancer supressing" powers of the gene are barely noteworthy, like putting on a spring jacket to stop frostbite at -40 F, and they wrote it in that biased way so it makes a dramatic headline that implies you may have to choose between living longer and an increased risk of cancer.
They really overkilled the issue. They could have just said "Unlike other games, we made it not suck" or more specifically, "We decided to limit including features that people wouldn't like" and it still would have been just as accurate. All they really did was not screw up like most other MMOG companies.
Perhaps they should get the mystery science theater characters' commentaries too. Or maybe those guys from cheap seats. Or me, I can comment on anything funnily! Yup, that's a word.
It's not so much a trojan as it is just being stupid. It's like having an arsonist join the volunteer fire department. Microsoft isn't exactly known for their browser's security, ya know -- understatement of the century
you could look at it in a mirror:-D A touch sensitive USB mirror? I dunno lol. As a programmer though, I can tell you there's at least 5 ways to do it. One would be to run a shell replacement program. Two is to hack the default windows shell yourself. Three is to try and find a shell or display related registry entry that changes when you switch to a right to left language and change them when you change back to english. Four is that in theory, you could write a program that puts a scrollbar on the left of every window so there would be one on both sides (Nvidia did that sort of thing to the top bars of windows) And five is that there's probably a windows API to change it so get programming, lol. Oh yeah, or just use the page up and down keys and arrow keys or the mouse wheel (get a clicky mouse wheel so you can 4 diretion scroll)
Just to be safe, I'm going to go patent breathing before Microsoft gets that one too. I'll get it too because apparently you can patent things that you didn't invent that already exist.
I figured out how to make this super popular! With all these capabilities, they should just take that tiny extra step and have disaster scenarios like a monster slowly eating the info on the page and you have to stop him or a black hole at the bottom of the page sucking up all the text and scrolling you down faster and faster as it grows. That would be cool and would really spice up boring web documents. I think it would even encourage kids to read long research papers more:-)
If it takes you 10x longer to design the content and the person viewing the page can find what they want 10x faster then is it really a net gain? (no pun intended) It still is a good way to organize information and beats the crap out of the way some webpage makers do it. It sure would save surfing/researching time but is that a good tradeoff for a massive slowdown in content creation speed because of the page maker having to add all the meta data type stuff?
and for the next update they're going to make all their users wear that dynamic LED jacket seen on slashdot a few days ago and it will scroll the newsfeed:-D
read my sig. I can look at or even just read about features and know how they were designed and how they function based on how Microsoft manages their company. Mainly non-tech people come up with ideas that would sell then just tell the programmers to "make it work" and "make it secure" and then a bunch of the time is spent fixing the train wrecks between all the features.
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Holy hell, the only image worse than a bunch of loud, fat, obnoxious Texans all in one place is having them all be gamers! Gamers are great but Texans are annoying enough already so that just doesn't work for them. I thought my family reunion with all my hick 2nd cousins from northern Wisconsin was the worst gathering of obnocious idiots in history but now I know it's been beaten....hey, was G4 there? It seems just like their cup of tea.
This is just Microsoft being arrogant about the fact that a small, "unprofessional" team of people can create something that millions of people want and they, with all their billions and teams of "professionals" can't. They're too busy making a PC Halo 2 that nobody can play because nobody's buying Vista. I say they reprogram the whole thing on a Quake 3 engine or something, minus any actual mention of the word Halo of course.
sweet, I'm totally ditching my athlon for a spinach leaf processor with 4 position switches instead of binary...well it IS possible in theory.
using like a billion joules in heat to plasma arc weld garbage that will give off 1/100th of that amount of heat and using it to power a power plant seems not only counterproductive but also impossible. Even if they're using chemical energy to create the plasma, they could just use that chemical reaction to power the plant. But if they find a way to use all the toxic carcinogenic fumes from burning plastic, rubber, and toxic metals that are created to power another plant, then we just might be in business!
British people are always driving on the wrong side of the road so it's good if they can replace cabs with robot ones, lol. But we also need to replace every single Illinois driver with a robot because damn, those people don't know how to drive. I'm from Wisconsin btw :-D
If that happened in the game I play (Silkroad Online) people would be pissed. No wait, TURBO PISSED! I think that alone could change South Korea into "the bad half" cuz that's where they made the game. Last time I tried to change my password, it wouldn't take my answer to my secret question even though I triple checked it when I made it.
I was going to make a boycott Vista website but then I just went and played Silkroad Online, lol. I'm so lazy...but I'm glad someone did it! If a product sucks, don't buy it!
and also..."pointless update to XP -- a perfectly fine operating system"
WHAT?!
I was helping a VERY untechnical office staff (most around 50+ years old) move to a new building and while going through the basement, we found floppy backups of their medical and insurance info and they told me they didn't need ones older than 10 years, which there were some of. Before I even said it, they suggested we destroy them somehow because of the sensitive data on them. I ended up putting a scissors blade through a couple hundred floppies, 3 at a time (that was FUN!) But if 50+ year old doctors know that they need to destroy stuff that holds customer data, who the hell would be stupid enough to just throw out tapes? Obviously someone Chase.
hey, isn't Saddam's trial still going on too for just about the same reason? Hope they get some results a little faster here.
spying on your own people is one thing but spy on people outside the company and uh ohhhhh, you're in extra trouble! That must be the policy because it sort of fits with how they don't catch more crap about having all HP computers come preinstalled with mal/ad/bad/annoy/bloat/painintheass-ware. Now if they made a deal with Microsoft to put it in a windows update so they could annoy non-HP customers, uh ohhhhhhhh!
P.S. hmmm...why no uh oh for AOL and their crap software?
okay, I'll explain it a bit more. What I'm 99% sure they're referring to is a gene that affects how much of a certain mollecule (or maybe group of mollecules) is chopped off when a cell splits. It's a little barbel shaped thingy and every time a cell divides, it loses a little bit of it. Once it's out, the cell can't divide anymore and it dies. Cancer cells are defined by having unlimited barbels. They never run out so it divides over and over and never stops. Remove this gene and your cells can split significantly more times before the barbel runs out, thus the extended life. But, they say that this gene can sometimes inhibit cancer cells from growing out of control. The chance that this gene would be powerful enough to reduce the barbel on a cancer cell are astronomical. If it was really even close to an immunity to cancer, you'd practically have progeria because it would take so much barbel limiting power that regular cells would have a very low diving limit.
Btw I lied when I said I didn't know much about this cuz I've seen a show and science class movie about it.
thousands of companies worldwide could be losing millions from a security hole in IE or XP and they just can't seem to get out a patch for weeks and weeks but ohhhhh watch out when there's a problem with the almighty and all powerful DRM and the RIAA and MPAA might lose a buck or two. Then they can pull a patch out of their asses and deploy it in 3 days. Thou shalt have no other gods before DRM!
and you can't forget that also the web allows for something prohibition didn't. People wouldn't make their own gambling site then gamble on it by themselves in the own home (correction, normal people wouldn't) so the "If the average Joe can find it, the FBI can find it" rule applies. How do you make a website that someone can find if they're looking for a site to gamble on but the FBI can't find? It's impossible on the web.
From what I know about cancer, which isn't a whole lot, the immune system is supposed to be a supressor of tumors. It doesn't make any sense for just a gene to do it if it isn't one related to white blood cell manufacturing. To make a long story short, the "cancer supressing" powers of the gene are barely noteworthy, like putting on a spring jacket to stop frostbite at -40 F, and they wrote it in that biased way so it makes a dramatic headline that implies you may have to choose between living longer and an increased risk of cancer.
They really overkilled the issue. They could have just said "Unlike other games, we made it not suck" or more specifically, "We decided to limit including features that people wouldn't like" and it still would have been just as accurate. All they really did was not screw up like most other MMOG companies.
Perhaps they should get the mystery science theater characters' commentaries too. Or maybe those guys from cheap seats. Or me, I can comment on anything funnily! Yup, that's a word.
It's not so much a trojan as it is just being stupid. It's like having an arsonist join the volunteer fire department. Microsoft isn't exactly known for their browser's security, ya know -- understatement of the century
you could look at it in a mirror :-D A touch sensitive USB mirror? I dunno lol.
As a programmer though, I can tell you there's at least 5 ways to do it. One would be to run a shell replacement program. Two is to hack the default windows shell yourself. Three is to try and find a shell or display related registry entry that changes when you switch to a right to left language and change them when you change back to english. Four is that in theory, you could write a program that puts a scrollbar on the left of every window so there would be one on both sides (Nvidia did that sort of thing to the top bars of windows) And five is that there's probably a windows API to change it so get programming, lol. Oh yeah, or just use the page up and down keys and arrow keys or the mouse wheel (get a clicky mouse wheel so you can 4 diretion scroll)
kinda makes you wonder what she'd do to find out who leaked the info about her spying on people.
Just to be safe, I'm going to go patent breathing before Microsoft gets that one too. I'll get it too because apparently you can patent things that you didn't invent that already exist.
I figured out how to make this super popular! With all these capabilities, they should just take that tiny extra step and have disaster scenarios like a monster slowly eating the info on the page and you have to stop him or a black hole at the bottom of the page sucking up all the text and scrolling you down faster and faster as it grows. That would be cool and would really spice up boring web documents. I think it would even encourage kids to read long research papers more :-)
If it takes you 10x longer to design the content and the person viewing the page can find what they want 10x faster then is it really a net gain? (no pun intended) It still is a good way to organize information and beats the crap out of the way some webpage makers do it. It sure would save surfing/researching time but is that a good tradeoff for a massive slowdown in content creation speed because of the page maker having to add all the meta data type stuff?
and for the next update they're going to make all their users wear that dynamic LED jacket seen on slashdot a few days ago and it will scroll the newsfeed :-D
it's one of those days...anyway, my family's Dell has an MX400 and boots so you were wrong anyway.
read my sig. I can look at or even just read about features and know how they were designed and how they function based on how Microsoft manages their company. Mainly non-tech people come up with ideas that would sell then just tell the programmers to "make it work" and "make it secure" and then a bunch of the time is spent fixing the train wrecks between all the features.