I disagree. Technically the first prostitute wasn't a prostitute until she'd done the deed, and that didn't happen until she'd marketed her wares. Marketing is the oldest profession, prostitution a very close second.
Only if he or she advertised first. But if he or she was solicited, which seems more likely, then prostitution was the oldest.
Name one standard graphics system used by more than one operating system
Everyone uses one everyday. I've got four implementations by different vendors on the system I'm using right now. There are implementations for Linux, OS X, Windows, and pretty much everything else. Have you heard of HTML? It's the network transparent UI platform that the world has settled on.
See and I've tried them. I really have, and even after two or three months, I had to go back because my living room felt like a damn jail cell or dentist office. I tried them again recently too and I still hate them. Why can't they produce them with more normal colour temperatures?
They do. From the first link in the post you replied to: "AVAILABLE IN WARM WHITE (3000K) or DAYLIGHT(5500K)".
Snowden didn't flee to get "better treatment," he wasn't being mistreated in the US. He fled law enforcement because he broke the law. He is a fugitive from justice.
Not sure how you got that wrong.
"Broke the law"? There hasn't been a trial. Not sure how you got that wrong.
Perhaps he looked at the way in which the US treated Bradley Manning and decided he'd get better treatment elsewhere?
I have always had an honest question about the data on global warming that no one can seem to answer so I will try here...
It's such as simple question that I can't believe that "no one can seem to answer". More likely you just don't accept their answer for some reason. Anyway Google "climate proxies" and you'll have your answer.
Could you remind me again, won't this be the 15th year since global warming stopped?
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
Are you saying the oceans, which are all connected, are as much as a constant 4" different in level, say, between NYC and, oh, Denmark or Japan?
Yes. See, for example, this Straight Dope which mentions that there is a 8" difference between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans at Panama.
IDC anticipates that desktops will suffer the biggest slowdown with not only a 4.2% downtick this year but also continued, albeit slower, declines through at least 2017
Desktop sales shrinking for that long is not an insignificant shrinking of the market (segment), it's a sign that the market has permanently changed. There will always be a market for desktops but it's in the process of becoming a niche segment.http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3518209&cid=43088747#
Which I don't see happening with desktops anytime soon if ever.
I find it strange that I can install a flash blocker that allows me to whitelist certain websites but that similar functionality seems to be missing for Java... the easy answer is to not allow java to run unless the site or even specific URL is in a whitelist.
There is a Firefox feature request to add the ability to block all types of media (Flash, applets, other plugins) by site: bug 94035. It was created in 2001. More than 100 duplicate bugs have been added over the decade since. It's still not been implemented.
It could probably be used as a hammer to break an iPhone. A Gorilla Glass vs. whatever it is that Apple uses match would be interesting...
That would be Gorilla Glass vs. Gorilla Glass. Which was resurrected and promoted by Corning because Steve Jobs asked them to.
Base 12 is actually much easier to "bring calculation...within the arithmetic of every man..."
12 has 6 factors. 10 has 4. Divide 12 into thirds and you get a nice and neat "4" instead of
A decimal system does not mean you have to abandon fractions. There is nothing wrong with talking about 1/3 of a meter if you need to be that precise. But multiplying 37 by 12 is harder than multiplying 37 by 10, and 37*12*12 is much harder than 37*10*10.
For the record, all current Intel desktop CPUs are pinless. The pins are on the board. So saying it ships without pins doesn't really say much. That's why I have a sneaking suspicion that the author might just be a clueless dumbass talking out their ass.
If you RTFA, rather than just the summary, you'll see that they are saying that Broadwell will not be available in an LGA package. It Only BGA. Whether they are right or not, time will tell, but they are not confused about how CPUs are connected to motherboards.
I've bult my own PCs for 20+ years, and I can't remeber ever really caring about moving the CPU from one motherboard to another. I shop for them as a matched pair, and assuming they work when I get them, I've alays replace both if problems developed later down the road (because a few years later, when you're on the far side of the failure "bathtub curve", you might as well replace both).
But so far you've done the matching. You could put a cheaper CPU into an expensive motherboard or vice versa. You can pick for any one of say 10 CPUs and match it with any one of say 30 motherboards: 300 combinations. If the CPUs are soldered then there will probably be far fewer combinations available, say 50 in total. Expensive motherboards will be paired with expensive CPUs and cheap motherboards will only be available with cheap CPUs.
Like you I've almost always bought CPUs and motherboards together (primarily because I don't upgrade very often), but this move, if it happens, is clearly going to cut down the options we have.
She was actually referring to *scientists*, something you are obviously not.
How exactly is a biologist's opinion on climate change any more informed or relevant than Sarten-X's? If you want to restrict the field to scientists then you really should go all the way and reduce it to climatologists. They are the scientists who really count. And 99% of climatologists accept the AGW hypothesis as been correct. I've yet to hear of one climatologist who has become a sceptic.
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
