Comment Re:They discovered... (Score 1) 198
It's a known phenomenon in political-science known as "peter principle." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
It's a known phenomenon in political-science known as "peter principle." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
I bet if I shoved a smart phone up my a**, it would lose a lot of signal too...
If you get a Windows Phone 7, you might be more prone to do just that!
This is Slashdot. Did you honestly expect something different? Mindless wikipedia troll...
Actually, the makers of fancy pens have been reporting increasing sales over the past several decades. The number of people who are studying and practicing good writing may not be increasing as fast as the population, but the number is increasing. So there's a good chance that there will still be experts in all sorts of handwriting in another 70 or 80 or 100 years.
We still have professional brickmakers, binders, printers, farriers, coopers, and all kinds of now-deceased tradesmen. Calligraphic writing will pass into the annals of expert historical custodianship.
So long as there are historians nothing shall be lost in its entirety. The dainty days of Vermeer painting a woman authoring a letter as artistic in language as it is in script may be over, but the painting, the letter, and the knowledge of how it was done don't pass.
Good God man, don't you think you'll be able to find calligraphy lessons on YouTube soon enough?
And in the far corner, weighing in at just over the weight of an IBM mainframe... SUN MODULAR DATACENTER!
Well if God is everywhere and nowhere, then he'd be both internal and external. (which I don't believe, btw, 'cuz the Nicean creed is a load of medieval bullshit)
More specifically he made no point at all. He essentially said that:
if there are no external forces then
internal forces are the only forces at play
endif
Since nobody on
The only threat to a tyrant is free press. If indeed Achmedinijad is a tyrant, then by limiting free speech he will prove himself therewith.
This applies to many languages - many languages are popular precisely because they are popular, not because of inherent elegance or suitability.
So that's why we still have Java, C++, and BASIC! Gee I never really thought it out...
How could a 7 foot Wookie live on Endor?
Wookies are from Kashyykk. Duh!
You sir need to do more research. There are numerous standards in Linux/GNU software.
Think about it: if Apple ported OS X to run on the NT Kernel, would it still be OS X or would it magically turn into Windows?
No, I'm pretty sure the universe would spontaneously combust destroying all life as we know it. Either that or it would be treated by the compiler as one great big syntax error.
Dragging the fiber can't be that expensive
Yes, it can be that expensive. This is why we need a strong WISP (wireless ISP) industry to fight back against the Qwests, Comcasts, Verizons, and AT&Ts of this country - to use a medium that is mile for mile cheaper and overall speedy enough for 97% or more of Internet users to start shaking the boat, to start getting the monopolies in the ivory oligopolis to take notice and to stop fucking us over every step of the way.
What's wrong here in the US is a strong public distrust of having the government do anything, because the government may screw you over. So instead people prefer to give important tasks to businesses, who will screw you over.
There's a distinction. The FEDERAL government in the US can be depended on to do the absolute WORST thing possible. Local governments (cities and counties) can be generally depended upon to do things that are sane. STATE governments are like the Feds - they just think "oh I'm just one level below the feds, I can fuck up all I want too!"
Just think - on the whole, who are YOU more happy with? Your City, State, or your Country?
Al Gore invented the Internet!
No, I was thinking of the time when a crazy person shot four police officers. That got a lot of media attention in comparison to the BART Police murder.
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