My HP-48GX was a most treasured possession (until it died from saltwater damage). RPN is to infix as vi(m) is to notepad.exe. The only difference is that the learning curve is faster, since there are only about two concepts to learn (order of operands/operators, and use of the stack).
The PBS article is a hit piece. In the controversial area of race/IQ/dysgenics, you will notice that there are no quotes from Shockley. Instead there is negative value judgment after value judgment without any references or specifics.
Even with the wikipedia references, I notice that there are very few quotes to be found amidst many value judgments about his "(ob)noxious racial views". Surely if they were indeed that horrible they could treat the reader to a direct quote or two?
"In anycase from my view point normal schooling is much more likely to be harmful. Instead of socialising up and down the age groups like home-schooled kids, they tend to stick to one narrow age group."
Absolutely. There is a disconnect in our society between elderly, working age and youth. It makes it very difficult for the young and working age people to learn without the road of hard knocks. For example, many grandparents today know well the danger of debt. In today's world of low interest rates, high debt and debt service levels wrt income, neither kids nor most working age families are aware of the dangers debt holds. If the youth of yesterday had turned the TV off or had gotten to socialize with their grandparents a bit more instead of equally know-nothing kids their own age, they might be in a better position when interest rates inevitably rise again.
What's just as bad is that the pace of learning is usually dictated by the average. Smart children are left twiddling their thumbs most of the time. I suspect this is half the point. That way they grow up to be nice, compliant sheep ripe for the shearing.
Preventative maintenance in general (be it mechanical, systems administration, etc) goes unloved in most companies while those who cut short term costs and are seen fighting fires are the heroes.
We learn security the hard way, only after our machines are hacked or full of malware.
Recognizing good preventative maintenance and rewarding it is a sign of excellent management.
It does sound rather like an extortion racket... threaten whoever has the most to lose. I wonder if cash payments or expensive gifts would improve Apple's rankings, if they were given to the right people.
Yep. To create a wing strong enough to carry a whole passenger airplane aloft, the wing needs to have a decent thickness. The only way to achieve this thickness with low drag is to use an airfoil shape. The rest of the empty space is usually filled with fuel.
And over 99.27% of Uranium is in the form of U-238, which can be converted to fuel in breeder reactors. That is not included in that 70 years of known resources.
Perhaps one of the saddest things is that this future source of fuel has been used as a projectile. To future generations it will probably be as incomprehensible as shooting bullets made out of gold.
Unfortunately, I don't think anything other than high oil prices or government regulation is going to get the average mpg on cars/trucks down. And for the record, I think such government intervention is a damn good idea.
A police officer I knew once told me that the reason both of his cars were SUVs was because he had witnessed many, many traffic accidents. People in SUVs survive accidents, especially thanks to the crumple zones of the smaller car. (Cruise around in one of the Grand Theft Auto games, the collision physics is very realistic as far as momentum conservation is concerned. Hop in an SUV versus a small car or motorbike.)
If you drive a small car, thank you. Please remember to drive defensively because it's very difficult to sue someone from inside a coffin.
It's more like a vim (or even emacs) plugin for notepad.exe. Or a lifetime ticket to a well equipped free weight gym included in the price of a bowflex. Or Michael Bay directing a movie where the protagonist goes to a cinema and watches the Godfather in its entirety. Or GWB outsourcing his presidential duties to a random guy on the street. Or MacDonalds grinding up filet mignon to make patties. Or...
"Vista is a solution looking for a problem. Or maybe a problem looking for a solution - it's difficult to say, really."
Vista is MS's solution for maintaining their revenue stream. As far as I can work out, the plan goes like this:
1. Come out with a new Office suite that breaks forward compatible with previous versions.
- perhaps they will use as bait a new "open but not open" document format such as OOXML. 2. Bombard users with advertising until they perceive the new Office as working better in Vista. 3. Existing Office users get sick of receiving OOXML files from Office upgraders and decide that since they need the new Office they may as well get the OS it works best on, i.e. Vista. 4. Profit. (...for one more upgrade cycle)
I'm not sure what they are going to do after that one, if that plan even works. Their situation is becoming more and more like that of Batman/MacGuyver at the end of a "To be continued" episode.
Will MS come up with a new open document format to end all document formats? Will a new killer app be found that renders all our computers obsolete? Will Ballmer be committed to a highly secure, chair-free insane asylum?
Find out in a few years! Same bat time, same bat channel!
The difference between computers 11 years ago and today is that the average system specification is much higher today. 11 years ago (I also tried linux for the first time a year or so later) EVERYTHING was too slow. Productivity, communications, web browsing, multimedia, games, all of it was too slow.
Now, a 4 year old system will handle the bulk of that with ease. There are still several reasons to upgrade, including snappy video editing, having a quiet, economical and eco-friendly applicance, and those who desire the latest games. But this is a much smaller subset of users. And those users now have an incentive to switch with MS malware issues.
But it's perfectly righteous to assassinate atomic scientists, religious leaders and invade countries on very dubious pretexts. All you have to do is mention "democracy", "freedom" and "rule of law" in every second sentence and you're golden.
"We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs' expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians' toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq."
'...I remember seeing a demonstration 10-15 years ago of the latest Spectrum Analyser, where the salesman made a big deal of the battery backed RAM saving the settings when the device was switched off. One of the older engineers said "we've got that on the analogue spec analysers, we call it a knob."'
I'm not sure what you can do exactly to boost your immune system. Most of it is probably just marketing hype.
It is also nice to know that a person actually gets some benefit to the ailments he has. A lot of (most?) genetics is like that; it's all about engineering compromises. The recent idea of curing "genetic diseases" or aborting carriers of such diseases viewed in that light seems a bit strange. Oftentimes it seems that as soon as you throw out an old part or piece of junk, that's the very time you figure out a use for it.
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Why use keyboard shortcuts when you can use a mouse?
My HP-48GX was a most treasured possession (until it died from saltwater damage). RPN is to infix as vi(m) is to notepad.exe. The only difference is that the learning curve is faster, since there are only about two concepts to learn (order of operands/operators, and use of the stack).
Wikipedia has an article on him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
The PBS article is a hit piece. In the controversial area of race/IQ/dysgenics, you will notice that there are no quotes from Shockley. Instead there is negative value judgment after value judgment without any references or specifics.
Even with the wikipedia references, I notice that there are very few quotes to be found amidst many value judgments about his "(ob)noxious racial views". Surely if they were indeed that horrible they could treat the reader to a direct quote or two?
"In anycase from my view point normal schooling is much more likely to be harmful. Instead of socialising up and down the age groups like home-schooled kids, they tend to stick to one narrow age group."
Absolutely. There is a disconnect in our society between elderly, working age and youth. It makes it very difficult for the young and working age people to learn without the road of hard knocks. For example, many grandparents today know well the danger of debt. In today's world of low interest rates, high debt and debt service levels wrt income, neither kids nor most working age families are aware of the dangers debt holds. If the youth of yesterday had turned the TV off or had gotten to socialize with their grandparents a bit more instead of equally know-nothing kids their own age, they might be in a better position when interest rates inevitably rise again.
What's just as bad is that the pace of learning is usually dictated by the average. Smart children are left twiddling their thumbs most of the time. I suspect this is half the point. That way they grow up to be nice, compliant sheep ripe for the shearing.
You lost me at "paleolithic fish". Perhaps try a car analogy?
Not sure if this has been mentioned on this thread, but I think I recall reading it on \. before:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/overview/
Ultramon in windows allows you to swap windows from one session to the other without dragging, via a little icon at the top. Very handy.
That is so true right across the board.
Preventative maintenance in general (be it mechanical, systems administration, etc) goes unloved in most companies while those who cut short term costs and are seen fighting fires are the heroes.
We learn security the hard way, only after our machines are hacked or full of malware.
Recognizing good preventative maintenance and rewarding it is a sign of excellent management.
It does sound rather like an extortion racket... threaten whoever has the most to lose. I wonder if cash payments or expensive gifts would improve Apple's rankings, if they were given to the right people.
I for one, extend hearty greetings to our new cliche correcting overseers.
Ok, so if I kill you by colliding into your Honda Insight with my Ford Expedition, is it your fault for not driving a Hummer?
Here is an excellent map of the language groups of Europe.
http://www.verbix.com/imag/map_indoeuropean.gif
Wikipedia also has an interesting article on the Germanic languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages
Can anyone explain exactly is so bad about car analogies?
Yep. To create a wing strong enough to carry a whole passenger airplane aloft, the wing needs to have a decent thickness. The only way to achieve this thickness with low drag is to use an airfoil shape. The rest of the empty space is usually filled with fuel.
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http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/photorel
"Looks like he... hit the tree Jim!"
Ah, memories.
And over 99.27% of Uranium is in the form of U-238, which can be converted to fuel in breeder reactors. That is not included in that 70 years of known resources.
Perhaps one of the saddest things is that this future source of fuel has been used as a projectile. To future generations it will probably be as incomprehensible as shooting bullets made out of gold.
Unfortunately, I don't think anything other than high oil prices or government regulation is going to get the average mpg on cars/trucks down. And for the record, I think such government intervention is a damn good idea.
A police officer I knew once told me that the reason both of his cars were SUVs was because he had witnessed many, many traffic accidents. People in SUVs survive accidents, especially thanks to the crumple zones of the smaller car. (Cruise around in one of the Grand Theft Auto games, the collision physics is very realistic as far as momentum conservation is concerned. Hop in an SUV versus a small car or motorbike.)
If you drive a small car, thank you. Please remember to drive defensively because it's very difficult to sue someone from inside a coffin.
It's more like a vim (or even emacs) plugin for notepad.exe. Or a lifetime ticket to a well equipped free weight gym included in the price of a bowflex. Or Michael Bay directing a movie where the protagonist goes to a cinema and watches the Godfather in its entirety. Or GWB outsourcing his presidential duties to a random guy on the street. Or MacDonalds grinding up filet mignon to make patties. Or...
I suspect that it would be automatically configured to use autovacuum.
Ben Affleck as David Duchovny would be better.
Mozilla should hold out for...
One hundred billion dollars!!!
"Vista is a solution looking for a problem. Or maybe a problem looking for a solution - it's difficult to say, really."
Vista is MS's solution for maintaining their revenue stream. As far as I can work out, the plan goes like this:
1. Come out with a new Office suite that breaks forward compatible with previous versions.
- perhaps they will use as bait a new "open but not open" document format such as OOXML.
2. Bombard users with advertising until they perceive the new Office as working better in Vista.
3. Existing Office users get sick of receiving OOXML files from Office upgraders and decide that since they need the new Office they may as well get the OS it works best on, i.e. Vista.
4. Profit. (...for one more upgrade cycle)
I'm not sure what they are going to do after that one, if that plan even works. Their situation is becoming more and more like that of Batman/MacGuyver at the end of a "To be continued" episode.
Will MS come up with a new open document format to end all document formats? Will a new killer app be found that renders all our computers obsolete? Will Ballmer be committed to a highly secure, chair-free insane asylum?
Find out in a few years! Same bat time, same bat channel!
The difference between computers 11 years ago and today is that the average system specification is much higher today. 11 years ago (I also tried linux for the first time a year or so later) EVERYTHING was too slow. Productivity, communications, web browsing, multimedia, games, all of it was too slow.
Now, a 4 year old system will handle the bulk of that with ease. There are still several reasons to upgrade, including snappy video editing, having a quiet, economical and eco-friendly applicance, and those who desire the latest games. But this is a much smaller subset of users. And those users now have an incentive to switch with MS malware issues.
Hating people is bad, m'kay?
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But it's perfectly righteous to assassinate atomic scientists, religious leaders and invade countries on very dubious pretexts. All you have to do is mention "democracy", "freedom" and "rule of law" in every second sentence and you're golden.
http://www.instapundit.com/archives2/2007/02/post
"We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs' expat business interests out of business, etc. Basically, stepping on the Iranians' toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq."
'...I remember seeing a demonstration 10-15 years ago of the latest Spectrum Analyser, where the salesman made a big deal of the battery backed RAM saving the settings when the device was switched off. One of the older engineers said "we've got that on the analogue spec analysers, we call it a knob."'
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From http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/02/28/0041
I'm not sure what you can do exactly to boost your immune system. Most of it is probably just marketing hype.
It is also nice to know that a person actually gets some benefit to the ailments he has. A lot of (most?) genetics is like that; it's all about engineering compromises. The recent idea of curing "genetic diseases" or aborting carriers of such diseases viewed in that light seems a bit strange. Oftentimes it seems that as soon as you throw out an old part or piece of junk, that's the very time you figure out a use for it.