There are other American English expressions that have a similar sarcastic inversion of an apparent sense, such as Tell me about it!, which usually means 'Don't tell me about it, because I know all about it already'. The Yiddish I should be so lucky!, in which the real sense is often 'I have no hope of being so lucky', has a similar stress pattern with the same sarcastic inversion of meaning as does I could care less.
I know it's an extra cost, but they do have USB-to-RS232 converters available for this sort of thing. I haven't researched them, but I imagine it'd be pretty easy to make a box that converts a single USB port into a lot of RS-232 ports, so you can control a lot of equipment at once.
Which works great until you have to do something like hook up a GPS receiver with PPS output to keep 'ntpd' accurate.
Personally, I'd be happy if the motherboard makers would at least just stop implementing the parallel port. What kind of idiot still uses a parallel printer instead of USB or Ethernet?
The parallel port is useful for more than just printers. It's a high-bandwidth port (well, higher bandwidth than the serial port) that you can access at a very low level to do things like driving an LCD display, programming a PIC, etc.
Besides, USB is a crappy interface for printers. I used to have a Linux box that was a print server for a parallel port laser printer and a USB inkjet. I could turn off the laser printer any time I wanted and CUPS was okay with it. But CUPS has this thing about USB printers going bye-bye while it's running. I had to resort to a hotplug script that would delete the old printer record and re-add it when the machine sensed the printer being plugged in. Even then it worked about 3 times out of 5. And don't get me started on the crappy quality that you get when you buy some purpose-built USB print server. Whereas pretty much any parallel port print server that's older than dirt still works fine no matter what the printer.
This phrase is constantly misspoken by induhviduals, and every so often I spend a few moments of my copious free time correcting them. Congrats, you're today's winner.
You're the worst kind of grammar Nazi -- the one who can't account for the possibility he may be wrong.
Both usages are correct. "I couldn't care less" is a statement of fact. "I could care less" is a sarcastic remark. So it's down to context to decide which is correct. Given that this is a/. pissing match, I'd say the context supports both as correct.
Not too long ago my employer went from hosting the datacenter on-site to co-locating @ HP's data center in Colorado Springs. It seems to me that Blackbox would be a boon for companies like HP. Companies can start with whatever IT infrastructure they need, be it a Blackbox or some organic collection of UNIX and Wintel stuff. When they've grown to the point that in-house IT infrastructure management costs more than it's worth*, HP trucks in a Blackbox. The client company moves data and does a test switchover. Then the HP Blackbox gets moved to the local datacenter and the real switchover occurs.
*There are days when I question if IT infrastructure management ever costs more than it's worth, but it's at least useful to recognize the reality that some CxO will draw that line in the sand...
The really brutal part of the year here in Phoenix is June, July and August -- 90 days. If you really want to do something outdoorsy during that period, drive the 70 miles up to Prescott where the lapse rate makes it ~ 15 degrees cooler.
The offset, of course, is that the other 270 days of the year it's pretty nice here. When the family is out for Thanksgiving it's nice enough to wear shorts, something that doesn't go over so well in Chicago or Seattle.
I'm not the person that posted that, and to be honest, I'm not a Seattle native. But I did spend 14 years there, so I think I am qualified to say it's a dark, gloomy place. The year that I left was the year with 100 straight days of rain. 100. Straight. Days. Of. Rain.
I will acknowledge that exception, where the lawsuit is filed in the name of an imaginary person while the lawyer runs out and tries to find a poster child for their threatened BS class action, which they promise they won't file if you settle for a nominal amount less than your anticipated legal defense bill to have the lawsuit dismissed. That IS abusive litigation and those guys deserve to be punished.
These suits that you acknowledge as an exception are, unfortunately, not rare. Madison County Illinois is a hotbed of such activity. It's been documented numerous times that the lead plaintiff for many of the suits that come out of the lawsuit mills there is an employee of the firm that files the lawsuit.
As it's tangential to the rest of the discussion, I won't even bring up the rest of the shennanigans that occur in Madison County.
The difference between this and conventional rocket technology is that rocket launches create a signal that is easily detected (or, at least, hard to hide). Both the US and Russia have satellites that monitor for these signs. In the US this information is coordinated with over-the-horizon radar data to determine where the payload is going as soon as possible. Assuming you can hide/minimize the signature for this launcher, that type of early warning goes out the window.
I have yet to read TFA but it sounds like this would be a reasonable delivery system for Project Thor type projectiles. No need for cruise missiles, just wait 90 minutes and someone's got a tungsten crowbar sticking out of their head...
I'm not sure what the hell you're talking about. GM is the king of "badge engineering", where they produce the same general content and then the divisions just slap a different badge on it and price it according to the nameplate. Their cars are nothing but reusable modular parts. In fact, that's one of my digs against GM: They use the same cheap-ass switch gear on their low end Chevy models and on their high-end Caddilac models. In the 60s and early 70s every division was experimenting with unique powerplants. Today it's nothing but the Ecotec 4, the "Buick" 3800 V6, and revision after revision of "Chevy" V8. Transmissions are shared across platforms. If you really want to see how reusable parts are, go check out the Hollander interchange guide. Heck, if you really wanted to, you could buy a GM A-Body from the 60s (e.g. a Buick Skylark), throw in some spindles from an 80s B-Body (e.g. Caprice Classic) and add some 90s brake rotors (12" dia. 1LE Camaro brakes) without a single non-OEM part in sight.
Second, GM's issue isn't that they refuse to get serious about fuel economy, it's that they can't. Their cost structure is based on terrible agreements they signed with the union. They can't make money on cheap small cars, so they've been making all their money on SUVs and big cars and selling the smaller, fuel efficient vehicles at or just barely above cost in order to avoid CAFE civil fines.
If GM (or Ford for that matter) wanted to get serious about fuel economy, they'd essentially have to break their unions.
Today, Japanese product comes at a premium, and is superior to most product (IMHO) that is manufactured here in North America (vehicles immediately spring to mind).
You are of course aware that many vehicular Japanese products are manufactured here in North America?
The issue with domestic vehicles produced in North America has less to do with the ability of the workers (both assembly and engineering) and more to do with their existing cost structure and how they have chosen to attempt to turn a profit in that environment.
The question has always been whether the exit polls provide affirmative evidence that fraud did in fact occur. This involves a very basic concept of statistical inquiry: We assume no effect until one can be proven, or more technically, we assume a "null hypothesis" until we can prove some alternative. The same principle exists in law as the presumption of innocence. We do not assume a crime has been committed and work backwards to try to disprove it. We presume innocence until enough evidence has been established to prove guilt.... What I have argued for the last year and a half is that the exit polls have many such weaknesses that have long been in evidence.
At the center of the exit poll debate is a basic concept about polls that deserves a lot more attention: Statistical sampling error -- the random variation that comes from drawing a sample of voters rather than interviewing the whole population -- is just one source of potential error in a survey. There are others including bias from selected respondents who decline to participate (response error), from voters missed altogether (coverage error), from questions that do not accurately measure the attitude of interest (measurement error) or from a failure to choose exiting voters at random using the correct sampling interval.... However, I have certainly learned a great deal about exit polls since then, and calling them the "most reliable" of surveys ignores a host of other practical challenges. Exit polls generally sample a larger number of voters than telephone polls, but they do so because the "cluster sample" technique used on exit polls-- which first selects sample precincts and then voters at those precincts -- has more sampling error than comparably sized telephone poll samples. Exit polls also miss the growing number that vote by mail or cast absentee ballots.... [Exit poll] reliability can be questionable. One might think that there is no reason why voters in stable democracies should conceal or lie about how they have voted, especially because nobody is under any obligation to answer in an exit poll. But in practice they often do. The majority of exit polls carried out in European countries over the past years have been failures... There is reason for a sense of embarrassment and it involves one of the most blatant omissions from the Kennedy article: U.S. exit polls have been wrong before. In fact, according to the Edison-Mitofsky report, they have shown a consistent discrepancy favoring the Democrats in every presidential election since 1988. And while the 2004 discrepancy was the highest ever, they were almost as far off in 1992. More specifically, the "within precinct error" (WPE) reported by Edison-Mitofsky showed differences favoring the Democrat of 2.2 points on the margin in 1988, 5.0 in 1992, 2.2 in 1996, 1.8 in 2000 and 6.5 in 2004
Yes, statistics are a science. But they're not an exact science.
The substance of the arms control provisions is in Article IV. This article restricts activities in two ways:
First, it contains an undertaking not to place in orbit around the Earth, install on the moon or any other celestial body, or otherwise station in outer space, nuclear or any other weapons of mass destruction.
Second, it limits the use of the moon and other celestial bodies exclusively to peaceful purposes and expressly prohibits their use for establishing military bases, installation, or fortifications; testing weapons of any kind; or conducting military maneuvers.
So really, that treaty says you can't station WMDs in orbit and you can't build military bases on the moon, Mars, or asteroids. Other than that, military use of space is fair game.
I've read books on a couple generations of PDAs (Casio EM500, iPaq 3100 and 3600) as well as dedicated eBook readers
(Franklin EBM-911, Fictionwise eb-1150).
In general, fiction isn't too bad on the smaller screens. The problem for me is that my reading is split between
fiction and technical reference. You've never experienced pain until you've tried to figure out WTF 70 columns of code
is supposed to be when it's been split over 8 lines and the reader has added extraneous hyphens.
In general the eb-1150 isn't too bad if you're willing to stick with the content you get from Fictionwise. $DIETY help you
if you want to download content from PG. You've got to convert the plain text to HTML and then use the proprietary ETI ebook
publisher software (Win32 and OS9 only!) to create the ebook.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury... --Alexander Tyler
It's not a question of whether the oil companies are right or wrong to back bills the benefit themselves (they're wrong). The issue is that public policy is no longer a matter of deciding what's best for us as a whole (where 'us' is locally at the city level all the way up to the federal government).
With that said, in this instance, it may actually be that what's best for 'us' (well, California) just happens to also benefit the VCs that are backing this legislation.
Yeah, I mean, the least he (Bush) could have done was to come up with an excuse like "I drank too much iced tea and was in the men's room when they discussed that part". Or maybe he could say that he knows of no "controlling legal authority" that would constrain him from these illegal actions.
Don't kid yourself that it's only the guys with the 'R' after their name that do wrong and then do a piss-poor job of coming clean later...
You were using the wrong kind of pressure. At one place I worked if people left there machines unlocked we'd change their screen backgrounds to Barney as a first warning and to some random image from hotmale.com (Note: Not the Microsoft webmail service!) any time after that.
My work environment is safe enough to leave my iPod on my desk for an hour at lunch but I still lock my screen to get a cup of water from the cooler thats 30 feet from my cube.
How old is "old"? I don't think a modern handset is going to do anything to a 727. Or, at least, nothing that the pilots won't notice when those huge fucking trim wheels start whizzing away in the center console...
IMO it's worse than that. Have you priced reasonable motherboards for these two CPU families recently?
I was considering both an E6400 and an AM2 X2 4200+. I could get an AM2 motherboard with onboard DVI capable video for under $100. There is no such animal for Core 2 Duo. On top of that, I'd have to spend something like $200 for a motherboard. So between the motherboard and the vid card, the Core 2 Duo solution is $140 more expensive out of the box. That's like a free X2 3800+!
Bad luck happens. My paternal great grandfather walked out onto the porch one day and slipped in a puddle of soapy water that had spilled there. Broke his back and he was dead in a couple of weeks. A couple of months later his wife did the same thing and was also dead a short while later. Their four kids were left to fend for themselves. When the neighbors all came over and said "John owed me $X" or "John borrowed X from me" the oldest daughter (@ 12) was powerless to stop them from taking everything in the house that wasn't nailed down.
After that the kids got shipped around from relative to relative. My grandfather got sick of it, lied about his age, and joined the Army at 14. He wound up in the Pacific maintaining B-29s pounding the home islands. I consider it dumb luck that he didn't get something much more dangerous.
NT ran fine on Alphas. It was the last non-x86 architecture supported in the run up to Windows 2000. In fact, there were even internal Microsoft builds of Win2k for Alpha from before Compaq pulled the plug* The real problem with running NT on Alpha was that you had to use FX!32 to get a lot of 3rd party software to run on your machine. FX!32 was great but there were programs it just wouldn't work for. All the enterprise stuff from Microsoft (Exchange, SQL Server, etc.) had native Alpha builds. Ponder this -- NT's chief architect was Dave Cutler. Dave Cutler came to Microsoft from Digital Equipment Corporation. Dave had an Alpha on his desk for the longest time. Even after Compaq pulled the plug Dave was using an Alpha to do Win64 development.
*Compaq and Microsoft had a cost sharing agreement to produce binaries for Alpha. Some of it had to be done exclusively by Compaq but other parts were done by Microsoft. Right before Windows 2000 was released Compaq determined they no longer wanted to be in the Windows servers not running x86 processor business. When they stopped writing the checks that was the end of AXP binaries.
My insurer (Cigna) has a $150 deductable for ER visits and a $50 deductable for visits to Urgent Care (i.e. a storefront operation with a couple of docs and nurses). If the docs @ Urgent Care refer you to the ER Cigna will waive the $100 difference between Urgent Care and the ER.
So these places exist -- there are 3 Urgent Care locations closer to my house than the nearest ER.
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I know it's an extra cost, but they do have USB-to-RS232 converters available for this sort of thing. I haven't researched them, but I imagine it'd be pretty easy to make a box that converts a single USB port into a lot of RS-232 ports, so you can control a lot of equipment at once.
Which works great until you have to do something like hook up a GPS receiver with PPS output to keep 'ntpd' accurate.
Personally, I'd be happy if the motherboard makers would at least just stop implementing the parallel port. What kind of idiot still uses a parallel printer instead of USB or Ethernet?
The parallel port is useful for more than just printers. It's a high-bandwidth port (well, higher bandwidth than the serial port) that you can access at a very low level to do things like driving an LCD display, programming a PIC, etc.
Besides, USB is a crappy interface for printers. I used to have a Linux box that was a print server for a parallel port laser printer and a USB inkjet. I could turn off the laser printer any time I wanted and CUPS was okay with it. But CUPS has this thing about USB printers going bye-bye while it's running. I had to resort to a hotplug script that would delete the old printer record and re-add it when the machine sensed the printer being plugged in. Even then it worked about 3 times out of 5. And don't get me started on the crappy quality that you get when you buy some purpose-built USB print server. Whereas pretty much any parallel port print server that's older than dirt still works fine no matter what the printer.
This phrase is constantly misspoken by induhviduals, and every so often I spend a few moments of my copious free time correcting them. Congrats, you're today's winner.
/. pissing match, I'd say the context supports both as correct.
You're the worst kind of grammar Nazi -- the one who can't account for the possibility he may be wrong.
Both usages are correct. "I couldn't care less" is a statement of fact.
"I could care less" is a sarcastic remark. So it's down to context to decide which is correct. Given that this is a
Not too long ago my employer went from hosting the datacenter on-site to co-locating @ HP's data center in Colorado Springs.
It seems to me that Blackbox would be a boon for companies like HP. Companies can start with whatever IT infrastructure they need, be it a Blackbox or some organic collection of UNIX and Wintel stuff. When they've grown to the point that in-house IT infrastructure management costs more than it's worth*, HP trucks in a Blackbox. The client company moves data and does a test switchover. Then the HP Blackbox gets moved to the local datacenter and the real switchover occurs.
*There are days when I question if IT infrastructure management ever costs more than it's worth, but it's at least useful to recognize the reality that some CxO will draw that line in the sand...
The really brutal part of the year here in Phoenix is June, July and August -- 90 days. If you really want to do something
outdoorsy during that period, drive the 70 miles up to Prescott where the lapse rate makes it ~ 15 degrees cooler.
The offset, of course, is that the other 270 days of the year it's pretty nice here. When the family is out for Thanksgiving it's nice enough to wear shorts, something that doesn't go over so well in Chicago or Seattle.
I'm not the person that posted that, and to be honest, I'm not a Seattle native. But I did spend 14 years there, so I think I am qualified to
say it's a dark, gloomy place. The year that I left was the year with 100 straight days of rain. 100. Straight. Days. Of. Rain.
According to the Chilton manual for Firefox, "reinstallation is the reverse of disassembly".
The difference between this and conventional rocket technology is that rocket launches create a signal that is easily detected (or, at least, hard to hide).
Both the US and Russia have satellites that monitor for these signs. In the US this information is coordinated with over-the-horizon radar data to determine
where the payload is going as soon as possible. Assuming you can hide/minimize the signature for this launcher, that type of early warning goes out the window.
I have yet to read TFA but it sounds like this would be a reasonable delivery system for Project Thor type projectiles. No need for cruise missiles, just wait 90 minutes and someone's got a tungsten crowbar sticking out of their head...
I'm not sure what the hell you're talking about. GM is the king of "badge engineering", where they produce the same general content and then the divisions just slap a different badge on it and price it according to the nameplate. Their cars are nothing but reusable modular parts. In fact, that's one of my digs against GM: They use the same cheap-ass switch gear on their low end Chevy models and on their high-end Caddilac models. In the 60s and early 70s every division was experimenting with unique powerplants. Today it's nothing but the Ecotec 4, the "Buick" 3800 V6, and revision after revision of "Chevy" V8. Transmissions are shared across platforms.
If you really want to see how reusable parts are, go check out the Hollander interchange guide. Heck, if you really wanted to, you could buy a GM A-Body from the 60s (e.g. a Buick Skylark), throw in some spindles from an 80s B-Body (e.g. Caprice Classic) and add some 90s brake rotors (12" dia. 1LE Camaro brakes) without a single non-OEM part in sight.
Second, GM's issue isn't that they refuse to get serious about fuel economy, it's that they can't. Their cost structure is based on terrible agreements they signed with the union. They can't make money on cheap small cars, so they've been making all their money on SUVs and big cars and selling the smaller, fuel efficient vehicles at or just barely above cost in order to avoid CAFE civil fines.
If GM (or Ford for that matter) wanted to get serious about fuel economy, they'd essentially have to break their unions.
Today, Japanese product comes at a premium, and is superior to most product (IMHO) that is manufactured here in North America (vehicles immediately spring to mind).
You are of course aware that many vehicular Japanese products are manufactured here in North America?
The issue with domestic vehicles produced in North America has less to do with the ability of the workers (both assembly and engineering) and more to do with their existing cost structure and how they have chosen to attempt to turn a profit in that environment.
Aren't statistics a science?
Read this article.
Some select quotes...
Yes, statistics are a science. But they're not an exact science.
Here's the US State Department page on the "Outer Space Treaty": http://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm
So really, that treaty says you can't station WMDs in orbit and you can't build military bases on the moon, Mars, or asteroids. Other than that, military use of space is fair game.
I've read books on a couple generations of PDAs (Casio EM500, iPaq 3100 and 3600) as well as dedicated eBook readers (Franklin EBM-911, Fictionwise eb-1150). In general, fiction isn't too bad on the smaller screens. The problem for me is that my reading is split between fiction and technical reference. You've never experienced pain until you've tried to figure out WTF 70 columns of code is supposed to be when it's been split over 8 lines and the reader has added extraneous hyphens. In general the eb-1150 isn't too bad if you're willing to stick with the content you get from Fictionwise. $DIETY help you if you want to download content from PG. You've got to convert the plain text to HTML and then use the proprietary ETI ebook publisher software (Win32 and OS9 only!) to create the ebook.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury...
--Alexander Tyler
It's not a question of whether the oil companies are right or wrong to back bills the benefit themselves (they're wrong). The issue is that public policy is no longer a matter of deciding what's best for us as a whole (where 'us' is locally at the city level all the way up to the federal government).
With that said, in this instance, it may actually be that what's best for 'us' (well, California) just happens to also benefit the VCs that are backing this legislation.
Yeah, I mean, the least he (Bush) could have done was to come up with an excuse like "I drank too much iced tea and was in the men's room when they discussed that part". Or maybe he could say that he knows of no "controlling legal authority" that would constrain him from these illegal actions.
Don't kid yourself that it's only the guys with the 'R' after their name that do wrong and then do a piss-poor job of coming clean later...
You were using the wrong kind of pressure. At one place I worked if people left there machines unlocked we'd change their
screen backgrounds to Barney as a first warning and to some random image from hotmale.com (Note: Not the Microsoft webmail service!)
any time after that.
My work environment is safe enough to leave my iPod on my desk for an hour at lunch but I still lock my screen to get a cup of water from the cooler
thats 30 feet from my cube.
How old is "old"? I don't think a modern handset is going to do anything to a 727. Or, at least, nothing that the pilots won't notice
when those huge fucking trim wheels start whizzing away in the center console...
IMO it's worse than that. Have you priced reasonable motherboards for these two CPU families
recently?
I was considering both an E6400 and an AM2 X2 4200+. I could get an AM2 motherboard with
onboard DVI capable video for under $100. There is no such animal for Core 2 Duo. On top of that, I'd have to spend something like $200 for a motherboard. So between the motherboard and the vid card, the Core 2 Duo solution is $140 more expensive out of the box. That's like a free X2 3800+!
Bad luck happens. My paternal great grandfather walked out onto the porch one day and slipped in a puddle of soapy water that had spilled there.
Broke his back and he was dead in a couple of weeks. A couple of months later his wife did the same thing and was also dead a short while later.
Their four kids were left to fend for themselves. When the neighbors all came over and said "John owed me $X"
or "John borrowed X from me" the oldest daughter (@ 12) was powerless to stop them from taking everything in the house that wasn't nailed down.
After that the kids got shipped around from relative to relative. My grandfather got sick of it, lied about his age, and joined the Army at 14. He wound up in the Pacific maintaining B-29s pounding the home islands. I consider it dumb luck that he didn't get something much more dangerous.
NT ran fine on Alphas. It was the last non-x86 architecture supported in the run up to Windows 2000. In fact, there were even internal Microsoft builds of Win2k for Alpha from before Compaq pulled the plug* The real problem with running NT on Alpha was that you had to use FX!32 to get a lot of 3rd party software to run on your machine. FX!32 was great but there were programs it just wouldn't work for. All the enterprise stuff from Microsoft (Exchange, SQL Server, etc.) had native Alpha builds. Ponder this -- NT's chief architect was Dave Cutler. Dave Cutler came to Microsoft from Digital Equipment Corporation. Dave had an Alpha on his desk for the longest time. Even after Compaq pulled the plug Dave was using an Alpha to do Win64 development. *Compaq and Microsoft had a cost sharing agreement to produce binaries for Alpha. Some of it had to be done exclusively by Compaq but other parts were done by Microsoft. Right before Windows 2000 was released Compaq determined they no longer wanted to be in the Windows servers not running x86 processor business. When they stopped writing the checks that was the end of AXP binaries.
My insurer (Cigna) has a $150 deductable for ER visits and a $50 deductable for visits to Urgent Care (i.e. a storefront operation with a couple of docs and nurses). If the docs @ Urgent Care refer you to the ER Cigna will waive the $100 difference between Urgent Care and the ER. So these places exist -- there are 3 Urgent Care locations closer to my house than the nearest ER.