heh, guess i'm not the only one with that excessive ls habit. i also do it ever exiting pine or pretty much anything else.
though I think i have trained my subconscious to look at it since in directory i spend alot of time in (eg my home dir) i do tend to notice if things don't "look right" (wrong # of columns) indicating i probably dumped a temporary file there intending to do something with it and haven't done it yet or haven't deleted it.
wrong. notice how your car tips forward during a hard stop? There may not be much rotational inertia, but there sure as hell is forward momentum and if the wheel suddenly becomes joined to the previously floating central axle, the whole thing will need to roll together. (or maybe skid, if you're lucky...all depends how much traction the wheel has).
All your forward momentum will be converted into a rotation as soon as the seize event occurs. (again unless the wheel can slide because it's on a frictionless surface)
[Lastly, where did you get the 20% idea? That's higher than Social Security (15%) and three steps up the progressive tax scale (10% & 15%). Is it equitable to increase the tax on all those with an Adjusted Gross Income of under 65,000? (for single tax payer, no dependants, the highest tax rate) Realize that this means increasing tax on at least 60% of US incomes while lowering it on the remaining 40%]
Though your other points have merit, this one may not..you're ignoring his tax credit/refund, which depending how it's allocated, would keep the tax rate from going up for those people.. (you might pay 20% initially, but if you get 19% of it back at the end of the year, you've only paid 1%). That said, if the refunds effectively lower the rate for most people, and the people who don't get refunds are topping out at paying 20%, which is less than they pay now... that would seem to present a problem.
Clearly you either need a higher base rate (with higher corresponding refunds for lower income people) or a sliding sales tax where the "basics" aren't taxed and the luxury expenditures are taxed heavily, in order to collect more from the rich and less from the poor.
it's not simple by any means, but then, neither is what we have today.
though some of your cases are not as easily addressed as others, the quick answer is "get rid of the tax breaks"... we have so many bolted on "oh if you did this in this year and your income is less than this but you used the item to do that, take a 0.57% tax break"... these are the things that let people cheat and make taxes so damn complicated. get rid of them, find another way to help the blind/families.
that's a pretty good point, though one already experienced in a slightly different way with the physics of jumping in Quake, where depending your framerate, your jump distance varies...
however, they were not breaking the three laws. the laws (or first law in this case) was not present. That's a far cry from "laws were made to be broken" or whatever. When programmed with the laws, the robots followed them. When programmed without them, surprise surprise, they didn't..(though no one died in the story you're mentioning..i'm sure in the movie version someone would)
well, if they see you recorded channel 725 for 2 hours, then watched that recording, pausing and rewinding as per a normal movie, it's a pretty good sign something was actually recorded, as opposed to just static/scrambled HBO.
much as i'd like to believe you, they don't have to patent it (very expensive!!) to do that...all they'd have to do is publish it to establish prior art. Which IBM does do with a number of inventions they don't feel are going to recoup value in patent licensing.
If IBM patented it, it means they expect to make money off it, not just protect themselves.
but this reminds me of a scifi short story i once read about "slowglass"..the premise was that one could make glass that light would take (for instance) 10 years to travel through...(either slow down the speed of light, or maybe it sends it through a really winding fiberoptic path that's REALLY long..who knows, who cares, interesting idea). Anyway the point was, you could setup this window at, say, a beachfront house for a few years, then move the window to your mountain cabin, but from inside, you'd still see the (10 year old) view of the beach.
Seems to me, you could do something like that with these, a PC, and a webcam, effectively. useful? hardly, but it's always interesting when technology catches up with a scifi concept, but in a completely new way.. (this story was old enough that most of this tech probably didn't exist)
definitely. my building sets: 1) construx 2) legos 3) tinkertoys (including a motor!) 4) fas-tech (some sort of plastic pop-riveting building system) 5) erector set 6) some sort of geometric kit i can't remember the name of..had mostly triangular and square pieces you snapped together, but the joints were flexible 7) capsela
i think his point (or i can make it mine) is that not everyone you want to email may have created a public/private key for themselves. this may work well among your closed set of friends, but if you have a non-techy acquaintance (or family/friends) who can't figure out this "pgp" thing, you're dead in the water.
i think that's his point. If they (the editors) really believe that there's no privileged reading, then they shouldn't care that the author came out and said "haha! it's all crap!" because hey, the author doesn't matter.
However, they DID get upset...really upset. They should have made the argument "it doesn't matter that you didn't mean it, you still wrote really good stuff, intentionally or not" but they didn't.. in otherwords, they don't buy into their own philosophy (that the work is independent of its author)
it being cheaper to drive than fly hardly seems like a new thing...nor a trend i'd like to see encouraged. If travel is getting cheaper, then the fastest methods should be getting cheaper, not the slowest...
it says the system removes moisture..any chance they're removing a ton (literally) of moisture from two tons of trash? doesn't seem impossible to me...water weighs alot.
Thank god I work for IBM... we have an 800 number explicitly for IBM employees with sprint phones (for personal use, it's not a business phone or anything)...I always get a customer service rep in under a minute, day or night.. probably why I don't have the same hatred for sprint customer service that everyone else seems to harbor...
sure, it won't fall over sideways, but there's nothing to stop it from pitching forward and backward, no matter how fast the wheel is spinning. that's what the poster is concerned about.
IBM's invention policy is: first patent: $1500 when it's filed, another $500 if the patent is awarded any patents after that: $750, +$500 if patent awarded.
Every 4 patents you hit a "plateau" and get a bonus $1250 or so on top of everything else.
From the posts in this forum, sounds like that's actually a pretty nice system.
I think you're dead on..I read this article (was linked from fark) a few days ago and i'm pretty sure i scrolled all the way to the bottom and i'm pretty sure there was no lesbian porn reference.
the 7135 is that bad? that's disappointing..I have a 6035 and hoped to upgrade once the price came down a bit (I got my 6035 for $50 at the end of it's retail lifespan)... guess i'll be sticking w/ what i got. Did you have a 6035 before the 7135?
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heh, guess i'm not the only one with that excessive ls habit. i also do it ever exiting pine or pretty much anything else.
though I think i have trained my subconscious to look at it since in directory i spend alot of time in (eg my home dir) i do tend to notice if things don't "look right" (wrong # of columns) indicating i probably dumped a temporary file there intending to do something with it and haven't done it yet or haven't deleted it.
wrong. notice how your car tips forward during a hard stop? There may not be much rotational inertia, but there sure as hell is forward momentum and if the wheel suddenly becomes joined to the previously floating central axle, the whole thing will need to roll together. (or maybe skid, if you're lucky...all depends how much traction the wheel has).
All your forward momentum will be converted into a rotation as soon as the seize event occurs. (again unless the wheel can slide because it's on a frictionless surface)
i was pretty sure they used a little NiCad......
[Lastly, where did you get the 20% idea? That's higher than Social Security (15%) and three steps up the progressive tax scale (10% & 15%). Is it equitable to increase the tax on all those with an Adjusted Gross Income of under 65,000? (for single tax payer, no dependants, the highest tax rate) Realize that this means increasing tax on at least 60% of US incomes while lowering it on the remaining 40%]
Though your other points have merit, this one may not..you're ignoring his tax credit/refund, which depending how it's allocated, would keep the tax rate from going up for those people.. (you might pay 20% initially, but if you get 19% of it back at the end of the year, you've only paid 1%). That said, if the refunds effectively lower the rate for most people, and the people who don't get refunds are topping out at paying 20%, which is less than they pay now... that would seem to present a problem.
Clearly you either need a higher base rate (with higher corresponding refunds for lower income people) or a sliding sales tax where the "basics" aren't taxed and the luxury expenditures are taxed heavily, in order to collect more from the rich and less from the poor.
it's not simple by any means, but then, neither is what we have today.
though some of your cases are not as easily addressed as others, the quick answer is "get rid of the tax breaks"... we have so many bolted on "oh if you did this in this year and your income is less than this but you used the item to do that, take a 0.57% tax break"... these are the things that let people cheat and make taxes so damn complicated. get rid of them, find another way to help the blind/families.
that's a pretty good point, though one already experienced in a slightly different way with the physics of jumping in Quake, where depending your framerate, your jump distance varies...
however, they were not breaking the three laws. the laws (or first law in this case) was not present. That's a far cry from "laws were made to be broken" or whatever. When programmed with the laws, the robots followed them. When programmed without them, surprise surprise, they didn't..(though no one died in the story you're mentioning..i'm sure in the movie version someone would)
well, if they see you recorded channel 725 for 2 hours, then watched that recording, pausing and rewinding as per a normal movie, it's a pretty good sign something was actually recorded, as opposed to just static/scrambled HBO.
circumstantial perhaps, but it's something.
I think his point was if he'd bought it new it'd be $18. the "$18 my ass" would imply "i'm not paying $18 for 45 minutes of music"
much as i'd like to believe you, they don't have to patent it (very expensive!!) to do that...all they'd have to do is publish it to establish prior art. Which IBM does do with a number of inventions they don't feel are going to recoup value in patent licensing.
If IBM patented it, it means they expect to make money off it, not just protect themselves.
"possession"
downloaded a MOD/S3M of it first, no less.
but this reminds me of a scifi short story i once read about "slowglass"..the premise was that one could make glass that light would take (for instance) 10 years to travel through...(either slow down the speed of light, or maybe it sends it through a really winding fiberoptic path that's REALLY long..who knows, who cares, interesting idea). Anyway the point was, you could setup this window at, say, a beachfront house for a few years, then move the window to your mountain cabin, but from inside, you'd still see the (10 year old) view of the beach.
Seems to me, you could do something like that with these, a PC, and a webcam, effectively. useful? hardly, but it's always interesting when technology catches up with a scifi concept, but in a completely new way.. (this story was old enough that most of this tech probably didn't exist)
sounds like you must be a manager.
ever actually tie a product you were developing to a third party library? it's no walk in the park.
that's it! thanks.
definitely. my building sets:
1) construx
2) legos
3) tinkertoys (including a motor!)
4) fas-tech (some sort of plastic pop-riveting building system)
5) erector set
6) some sort of geometric kit i can't remember the name of..had mostly triangular and square pieces you snapped together, but the joints were flexible
7) capsela
do i win a prize? (most spoiled child perhaps?)
i think his point (or i can make it mine) is that not everyone you want to email may have created a public/private key for themselves. this may work well among your closed set of friends, but if you have a non-techy acquaintance (or family/friends) who can't figure out this "pgp" thing, you're dead in the water.
i think that's his point. If they (the editors) really believe that there's no privileged reading, then they shouldn't care that the author came out and said "haha! it's all crap!" because hey, the author doesn't matter.
However, they DID get upset...really upset. They should have made the argument "it doesn't matter that you didn't mean it, you still wrote really good stuff, intentionally or not" but they didn't.. in otherwords, they don't buy into their own philosophy (that the work is independent of its author)
it being cheaper to drive than fly hardly seems like a new thing...nor a trend i'd like to see encouraged. If travel is getting cheaper, then the fastest methods should be getting cheaper, not the slowest...
it says the system removes moisture..any chance they're removing a ton (literally) of moisture from two tons of trash? doesn't seem impossible to me...water weighs alot.
Thank god I work for IBM... we have an 800 number explicitly for IBM employees with sprint phones (for personal use, it's not a business phone or anything)...I always get a customer service rep in under a minute, day or night.. probably why I don't have the same hatred for sprint customer service that everyone else seems to harbor...
sure, it won't fall over sideways, but there's nothing to stop it from pitching forward and backward, no matter how fast the wheel is spinning. that's what the poster is concerned about.
IBM's invention policy is:
first patent: $1500 when it's filed, another $500 if the patent is awarded
any patents after that: $750, +$500 if patent awarded.
Every 4 patents you hit a "plateau" and get a bonus $1250 or so on top of everything else.
From the posts in this forum, sounds like that's actually a pretty nice system.
I think you're dead on..I read this article (was linked from fark) a few days ago and i'm pretty sure i scrolled all the way to the bottom and i'm pretty sure there was no lesbian porn reference.
how'd you get full window resizing in windowmaker? I thought it wasn't supported (just dragging)
the 7135 is that bad? that's disappointing..I have a 6035 and hoped to upgrade once the price came down a bit (I got my 6035 for $50 at the end of it's retail lifespan)... guess i'll be sticking w/ what i got. Did you have a 6035 before the 7135?