Bullshit.

Just have a look at Europe's history.
The collapse of Western Rome due to an invasion of migrants.
A few centuries of relative peace (the so called dark ages), when the pristine forests of northern and eastern were settled.
Followed by a millennium of non-stop war.
The crusades, the Reconquista, the Hundred Years' War, the conquest of the Americas, colonization of Africa, India and South East Asia, the age of Imperialism, all culminating in two world wars.

Yes, Europeans got the wiser. Yes, that indeed stopped a millennium of wars. However, it did not actually prevent these wars.

Unchecked population growth exhausts resources in short time.
This is the base of Darwin's thoughts.

Perhaps famine and pestilence will kick in to correct the insane birth rate of third world.
If not, we will see a new age of all-out wars.

In general, air consists of molecular Nitrogen (N2) with a volume count of 78%. To extract it you just need to cool the air until the Nitrogen liquefies. This process was discovered in the 19th century and is the base of inorganic chemistry.

Determining and remembering eye color is a thing only women do.
And it has nothing to do with an alleged obsession of tits or hips.
Just ask your male colleges what eye color their mothers have.

On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, fell victim to a terrorist act performed by Bosnian Serbs. Some of them managed to escape to Serbia. When Austria requested them to be extradited, they were told "to go take a hike."

What can we learn from this historical excursion?
- Unlike Serbia, Afghanistan had no friends. Too bad.
- Might makes right. Especially in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow
# The dogcow, also known as Clarus the Dogcow, is a bitmapped image first introduced by Apple. [...]

A few years ago, a 1ghz P3 with 512mb and a 17" CRT was considered high end, and people would be very happy to have one...

Hint: we just clocked over to 2010, not 2000.

Actually, Dreamweaver is quite good at dynamic layouts and assisting you in proper website creation. The HTML is usually pretty clean.

But static HTML is so last millenium. ^^

Look at the code of that page (Warning: This was never finished, so expect bugs.), and count the number of HTML tags in there, compared to the actual content. ;))

I get what your saying but...c'mon. Artists shouldn't have to ask permission to do their work.

They're not doing THEIR work, they're adapting SOMEONE ELSE's work. And it's not like Nintendo is abusing a copyright that should have long-since expired by now, either... they're perfectly within their legal and moral right in this case.

If they wanted to make a fantasy movie, and more power to them, they could have made an *original* one, making it an original work. Then I might be able to respect the film.

The only reason they did a Zelda adaptation in the first place is to cash-in on the name recognition. Cha-ching.

OK, that's an interesting point. I can't find anything in the memo that says anything about being secret. Indeed, from my reading of it, basically every aircraft operator and every person in security at every airport would have needed to read the memo to implement what was in it.

    So, we have a document, not labeled secret in any way that I can find, that hundreds of thousands of people must read and understand. By what reasoning do you conclude that everyone looking at the memo was sworn to secrecy?

People who have to make do with broken device drivers that come out of sleep with no sound or (worse) no video.

Linux, yes. My HP tablet PC wouldn't wake correctly just last year when I put Linux on it.

But have you seen it in Windows in the last 5 years? Hell, 10 years? Seriously?

Did they get the information they were looking for?

Does "giving up" keep them from answering for their behavior in front of a judge?

those that refuse to see...

Some software lasts decades and has big side effects. Techniology management is ephemeral, with life-spans measured in months, rarely years.

Managers knowingly mandate stupid decisions, because there is no personal downside and a short term budget upside.

Y2K was because large organizations (or the incumbent management) repeatedly ignored technical advice to allow for 4 digit years, because it saved a few bytes storage for each date (which was significant back then) and they could argue "that problems still 15 years away, we will replace it", "that's still 10 years away, we may replace it", "that's still 5 years away, maybe we can fix it later", "that's still 2 years away, we are asking for a Y2K budget"...

Y2K? Oh Sh*t Fix that now..., then blame the developers!

Technology "management" typically refuses to see or respond to anything with an effect longer than their own Mayfly existence. At the same time mangers (as a group) are hypocritical and unethical enough to blame others, when the fertilizer hits the windmill... Couple that asshattery with a wilfully ignorant and fear mongering media, and you have the recipe for shifting the blame from chronic management incompetence to "the techies did it..." which is completely bogus.

There are few, if any, real technical issues remaining unsolved for most business purposes, and none that go completely unpredicted by systems analysts.

There are an enormous number of fundamentally incompetent CIO's and (worse) "Project managers", who should not be permitted the long term indirect technical influence they possess.

Their myopic decisions can cause potentially dangerous and expensive impacts on society, such as Y2K.

The negative influence, spin, and misleading media, continues; for example, the poor design of security in most commercial applications is directly attributable to short term "not my problem" management thinking.
Fortunately, we have better controls on building bridges than we have software, but the impact of some types of software is now much more serious and far reaching than mere mechanical and civil engineering.

Technology management needs a better professional accreditation and system of ethics, see acm.org for in depth discussions.
In particular, the ludicrous notion that you can manage construction of something you don't understand, (and don't attempt to understand) )by setting arbitrary dates and budgets, is commonplace in IT.

When the time comes to fix the next disaster, our failure to fix chronic management incompetence, will be the root cause.

Amen to "and" being a decimal/superfluous when spoken. However, there should only be a hyphen for numbers under 100. So if you were writing a check for $1234 it would be written:

One thousand two hundred thirty-four.