TV is irrelevant. It is a complete waste of time. I already know enough about soap and female deodorant products to last me a lifetime.

They blew it. This is a one way street. There It is really nice not having a cable bill!

I'll have the arsenic steak please. Medium rare with a backed potato and sour cream and chives.

Nobody will find me investing with this! What sort of linear logic goes from dessert -> sand -> silicon -> gobs of free power? Would it be this comes from people who forget the technology required to turn sand into solar panels?

They say "pure silicon" but what do "they" mean by pure? If they talked about setting up a glass factory and making parabolic mirrors I might have more faith. But I still will not invest.

when it comes to law please remember the British made it illegal for India to harvest salt from the Sea. Bolivia privatized the public water system and I think it was Bechel who bought it and were charging poor people as much as 1/4 of their income. They were not even allowed to catch rainfall. The British ran drugs into China.

Law is not about justice. Its about power and money.

yes, your explanation is correct. It is the same point in the set of real numbers and just has two (2) or more different notations. One can also use different bases.

On a dare I proved this decades ago. Its really easy and took less than 10 minutes.

The issue is really one of notation. 1E0 also equals 1. It is not that 0.99999... is close to 1.0 It is actually equal to 1.0 and just another way to write 1.0.

Why is this is slashdot?

I didn't shut it off for me. Somewhere some little kid may be up with the flu while mommy and daddy are sleeping and kids will turn the TV on looking for something to watch while they lay down on the couch. Little kids flip channels too.

Our broadcasters have to realize they have some moral responsibility and if they can't get common sense into their thick greedy skulls then they need to realize some people like me won't do business with them.

They say reputation is hard to earn and easy to lose.

When my kids were little I didn't bother trying to censor the net. When they are too little they really aren't interested so they won't go looking for it (usually). When they are older and are interested then they can't be stopped. The thing about the net is they need to (usually) actually look. With TV they can just flip channels which is something they grew up with.

That being said, I would prefer if our search engines had a kiddie channel. I'm sure Google can organize something like this.

What I would really like to see is an access card of some sort. I know passwords can do the same thing but people forget to log out. As I see it there is a problem and people who bitch do have a very legitimate bitch . Responsibility to limit access needs to rest with those who make this garbage available. It should not be the reponsibility of the parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and friends of those who have children.

However since Bell doesn't see it my way I accepted the responsibility they shirk and I canceled their service. Problem solved.

Also - I have no complaint if someone wants to subscribe to a porn channel. This is unless the kid is 10 years old! I just don't want to see the porn on channels ordinarily sold to families and as I see it - this includes the standard movie package I subscribed to several years ago which at that time didn't have porn and which were not sold as porn channels.

It is my opinion that the broadcast business model is dead and if not dead then it is sure getting smelly. The idea these people have dreamed up to broadcast inappropriate material and this includes porn in my humble opinion is a symptom of the problem. Somehow they think this will attract market share and perhaps even keep them in business.

Bell ExpressView tried this on me. On one of the movie channels I used to subscribe to, lo and behold "Cat House" showed up.

Even though I do not have any young children at home and no grandchildren, Bell ExpressView found that from this moment on their bills went directly from my mail box to the trash bag. I tried to phone them to cancel the service and when they didn't answer the phone then I hung up and gave up and I figured eventually they will find their source of revenue from me has dried up and maybe they will catch on. Sure enough - eventually they caught on.

My TV service has been canceled now for over two (2) years! I breath a sigh of relief that I no longer get the advertising and especially the Kotex Commercials!

About the only thing that happens is that once in a while I get a phone call from a collection agency but it is quite easy to hang up on them. Eventually they will catch on as well.

I will urge everyone who detests what they broadcast to simply cart the bill to the trash bin. Eventually they will catch on!

What I find is that here in Calgary we have a WONDERFUL library service. There are 1000's of DVDs on every subject imaginable except I have not seen any porn in the library.

A library card costs a lot less than the $60++ per month I use to pay for the satellite service. So in a way I'm glad they broadcast the porn because it prompted me to take action. Now I have commercial free programming and at a much lower cost. My service has improved.

Now the next issue is content offered via the net. What I want to see which is primarily business related is generally available on the net. The problem is the dummies have not woken up to the fact that I use Ogg Theora and that unless they make their programming available in a format which I can store on my hard drive so I can watch it when I want and where I want and this may well be while in a fishing camp far from the net - then I ain't gonna be their customer no more!

If they want to be in business they will catch on and if not - who cares!
 

Fungus are neither plant nor animal. They are in the 5th kingdom - but from a biological standpoint we are very similar to them.

Since they evolved before us perhaps we evolved from them which would make them our ancestors. We should have respect for our ancestors!

Well - the ant evolved about 400 million years ago so if the fungus evolved 48 million years ago then it is more evolved than the ant.

That is pretty damn specific, amazing so simple an organism can induce behavior that complex in an ant

What you miss is that the programming which means the complexity of all organisms is contained within each individual cell. From a computer standpoint one would have to view all life forms as simply a network of computers where for any given network (individual) all computers (cells) have the same programming.

It is just that some of these computers (cells) perform different functions and I guess that would not be much different than one server handling mail while another handles web services, yet they all contain of course (shameless plug!) OpenBSD and the same identical code base.

One cannot conclude that just because one type of network (species) might act in a particular fashion that it is a "simple" network (organism).

Cordyceps subsessilis has at least four (4) imperfect forms, one of which was identified as Tolypocaladium inflatum from which ciclosporin is made.

Even when it comes to size it is totally incorrect to think that because one might require a microscope to study the beast that it is therefore "simple" or "small". The largest living organism on earth is a fungus: Armillaria ostoyea and it covers more than 3.4 square miles and is thousands of years old. It is bigger than an ant and bigger than a whale and perhaps far more complex and far more evolved.

In fact the bible says that when we die God will come to fetch us. Perhaps God is a fungus!

Perhaps it is the ant which is the simple organism!

Its two. However some pea brain anal retentive programmers have decided to override this and wrote code to remove the "extra" space. Their reasoning is probably about as sound as wanting to use LF instead of CRLF and to use YY instead of YYYY. We need to put up with them until we can fix it.

A non techie should focus on what they do well and hire a programmer.

There is no way a non techie can begin to compete with what a good programmer can do. There brain space is just not big enough.

I am a programmer and I am a businessman. I have one foot in each of two canoes. I have had to remove my foot from the programming canoe. I like it - I wish I could go back to it. But my brains are simply not big enough to do both.

We have doctors who will be doctors. We have microbiologists you will be microbiologists. We have lawyers who will be lawyers. We have micologists who will be micologists. We have poets who will be poets.

Very few are gifted enough to pursue more than one field. But of those who are able to place one foot in each of two canoes - they don't need to ask the question in the title of this story because they already know the answer.

A non-techie is simply a non-techie and they are unsuitable to be programmers because you need to be a techie in order to be a programmer! Its as simple as that!

BTW - I hire accountants too. I'm not an accountant and never want to be one. No successful business is going to have one guy doing everything - that is unless that one guy wants to be a slave to his own business and then who does said guy pass it on to when he is too old to do it anymore. If you can't leave your business to your kids then IMHO you failed.

So since when did Elisabeth Shue make a trip to North Korea?

I usually don't reply to myself... Here is another issue.

If they hit a gas pocket then the gas will form bubbles in the drilling mud and this reduces the density. Reduce the density and the mud blows out of the hole.

It will be a long time before we know what happened. This is if we EVER know what happened. Right now I expect some very brilliant reservoir engineers are trying to figure out what happened.