If Global Warming were the big threat to mankind that Al Gore hypes it to be, then we should be building hundreds of nuclear plants and millions of electric cars, starting yesterday.
That's sort of the point, isn't it? That if we wait until the planet is fully in a climate crisis, it'll be way too late to get started? This sort of response is begging the question, by saying effectively that if we needed to change our ways to prevent climate crisis then we'd be doing so, and that since we're not doing so we must not need to.
Just because extremist environmentalists have their heads up their asses about some types of immediate action doesn't nullify the science that says we're fiddling while Rome burns.
Man, that gives me the best idea ever! The next piece of open-source software I write is going to be released under the BPL (Beer Public License) - in order to distribute, send me a six-pack!
Wow. I absolutely love reading Tolkien because of his use of language; it has a melodic quality that I've not found in any others' writing.
I particularly love to read Tolkien aloud, because this allows the richness to come to the surface. If I'm not reading aloud, I often go too quickly and miss the details and hidden corners of Tolkien's sentences that, while they don't necessarily advance the plot, are integral to his books as works of art. There is no such care or attention to detail in Rowling's words; hers make a workmanlike product that conveys a decent story but bears little resemblence to Tolkien's art.
I guess whether or not one finds Tolkien's language easy to read depends upon experience; I grew up reading and re-reading Tolkien, so his style of language is like an old friend, immediately recognized and warmly greeted.
That the founders of the United States were geniuses... or lucky bastards.
Had they truly been geniuses in the sense you suggest, they'd have specified the algorithm for determination of the copyright period, instead of just the value.
I've often wished that the founders of the states had been smart enough to describe an apolitical algorithm for determination of the boundaries for congressional districts as well. Or had been smart enough to realize that plurality voting systems (instead of ranked or condorcet methods) would ultimately result in the creation of an entrenched two-party duopoly from which there appears to be no escape.
Ah, I had interpreted your proposal as being most useful for someone who wants to buy a general class of product, like a computer, but doesn't know the specific configuration that's best for their particular use. This seems less well-tailored to an activity like browsing for random gadgets, or books, or whatever.
That's quite an interesing idea, but it neglects a significant part of the business model of most stores: selling customers who are there to browse and to people who are likely to make impulse buys.
While your model works great for someone who knows what they're looking for, my guess is that these people are probably in the minority except when it comes to major purchases. I think that this is a significant part of the reason why the WalMart and Target type stores are so effective - you can go in for one thing and come out with several. This would be much less likely under your model.
What HP laptop do you have? I've got Dapper running on a Pavilion dv5020us, but haven't been able to boot with acpi support at all without getting a kernel panic. It bums me out, because I'd like for my battery monitor to work!
No doubt. I've got an upside-down trash can pushed way back under my desk as a footrest, and my chair reclined as far as it will go. Having a relaxed posture and a relaxed attitude is essential to writing good code.
I mean, who can think straight if they're all tensed to sit upright?
Unfortunately, I missed the initial call for questions, but are there any plans for MySQL to support bi-temporal queries? Tracking history of values in a database is a problem I'm constantly running up against, and there doesn't seem to be a vendor out there who is addressing the problem.
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You can fix that slow boot problem quite easily, you know.
Just do the mkinitramfs part, and you'll be fine.
You mean winter in the northern hemisphere?
Because, y'know, when it's winter in the southern hemisphere, the sun IS farther away due to the orbital eccentricity of the earth. The OP was right.
That's sort of the point, isn't it? That if we wait until the planet is fully in a climate crisis, it'll be way too late to get started? This sort of response is begging the question, by saying effectively that if we needed to change our ways to prevent climate crisis then we'd be doing so, and that since we're not doing so we must not need to.
Just because extremist environmentalists have their heads up their asses about some types of immediate action doesn't nullify the science that says we're fiddling while Rome burns.
Man, that gives me the best idea ever! The next piece of open-source software I write is going to be released under the BPL (Beer Public License) - in order to distribute, send me a six-pack!
This is gonna be great.
Wow. I absolutely love reading Tolkien because of his use of language; it has a melodic quality that I've not found in any others' writing.
I particularly love to read Tolkien aloud, because this allows the richness to come to the surface. If I'm not reading aloud, I often go too quickly and miss the details and hidden corners of Tolkien's sentences that, while they don't necessarily advance the plot, are integral to his books as works of art. There is no such care or attention to detail in Rowling's words; hers make a workmanlike product that conveys a decent story but bears little resemblence to Tolkien's art.
I guess whether or not one finds Tolkien's language easy to read depends upon experience; I grew up reading and re-reading Tolkien, so his style of language is like an old friend, immediately recognized and warmly greeted.
Had they truly been geniuses in the sense you suggest, they'd have specified the algorithm for determination of the copyright period, instead of just the value.
I've often wished that the founders of the states had been smart enough to describe an apolitical algorithm for determination of the boundaries for congressional districts as well. Or had been smart enough to realize that plurality voting systems (instead of ranked or condorcet methods) would ultimately result in the creation of an entrenched two-party duopoly from which there appears to be no escape.
I've always thought that domain names should be like mining claims - in that you're forced to provide evidence of having worked the claim to renew it.
Folks in the old west got it right, but of course those who don't know history...
Ah, I had interpreted your proposal as being most useful for someone who wants to buy a general class of product, like a computer, but doesn't know the specific configuration that's best for their particular use. This seems less well-tailored to an activity like browsing for random gadgets, or books, or whatever.
That's quite an interesing idea, but it neglects a significant part of the business model of most stores: selling customers who are there to browse and to people who are likely to make impulse buys.
While your model works great for someone who knows what they're looking for, my guess is that these people are probably in the minority except when it comes to major purchases. I think that this is a significant part of the reason why the WalMart and Target type stores are so effective - you can go in for one thing and come out with several. This would be much less likely under your model.
What HP laptop do you have? I've got Dapper running on a Pavilion dv5020us, but haven't been able to boot with acpi support at all without getting a kernel panic. It bums me out, because I'd like for my battery monitor to work!
No doubt. I've got an upside-down trash can pushed way back under my desk as a footrest, and my chair reclined as far as it will go. Having a relaxed posture and a relaxed attitude is essential to writing good code.
I mean, who can think straight if they're all tensed to sit upright?
Unfortunately, I missed the initial call for questions, but are there any plans for MySQL to support bi-temporal queries? Tracking history of values in a database is a problem I'm constantly running up against, and there doesn't seem to be a vendor out there who is addressing the problem.