A 'new kind of TV' I might just buy is one where the sound ever matches the lip-synch on-screen, as it used to do in CRT days. Probably never will, as most drama source is now so badly post-dubbed. And, with all the 'presence' of actors sitting on sofas reading out their lines down cardboard tubes. Probably so they can do all the 5.1 sound-magic that's too tedious to set up on location. Any sound engineers here know what's really wrong?
XP's still fine for the archaeology of applications and kit I run. But I needed a Linux education too, so I put Ubuntu on with WUBI (no need to repartition). After the Unity scare stories, I found a way to switch that over to Mint. Still works fine and dual-boots with the same WUBI setup - just in case anyone wants to know.
I haven't really understood this thread, as Firefox works very well for me. So I looked at Help | About, and yes, it does say '3.6'. Can't we have a LTS guarantee?
My Zink 'PoGo' printer is rechargeable, fits the pocket, and works with most digital cameras. 2"x3" prints are tiny, but better than most for albums. No idea how stable yet.
Mailwasher works very well for me too (has done for years). But the auto-'bounce' is discouraged, being pointless for most spam senders and just adding traffic. Only really useful if there's a 'friend' or catalogue-company you really want to lose.
True, but have you considered reverse causation? 'Places whose culture is of authoritarian murderous nightmares tend to end up with extreme political systems'. Communism is indeed one of those, but think also Mexico, Cambodia, Burma, Saudi...
Isn't this another instance of the 'Fallacy of the Commons'? Maybe it's true that the cost of full community screening is not matched by the net benefit of all outcomes. But for me, I sure want to pay the cost of anything that might give me more life or comfort. It's clearer if you don't expect 'the community' to pay (or the insurer who mutualises community risks). How does your own money vote? And would that optimise community benefit?
At university, boring lectures were relieved by staring into the back of the prototype Phillips Machine, face to the wall because it was then unrestored. WikiP shows it was/is a fluid-dynamic macroeconomic model, only needs filling with coloured water. Something reminded me of my Northumberland G-Granny's meaningless rhyme "I fell into a bucket of eggs / and all the yaller ran down me legs". The best in that room went into banking - now they know too.
OT, but the wife has a ring with a big opal, and the skin it was over got red. So I took it to work (the ring...) and the lab gave it the once-over. Nothing, at any level. Reading this thread, I'm understanding why they laughed so much.
My school in the '60s, we had a 'Wireless Club' out of hours. Just anything interesting, dead or alive, came into our shack. Some we'd mend, some we'd repurpose, some we'd strip for spares or just to see 'what's inside'. Doesn't everyone do this now? Or does 'elfin safety' make it impossible? Sure, my VCR97 drew blood when the string broke, don't ask me where it came from.
Those examples increase entropy. 'Self-replication of materials' must DEecrease enrtopy. Ergo, you need an energy input to a process designed or evolved to do the replication. It won't just 'go out there and do it'.
My time in Moscow, I broke away, used the Metro, visited people and institutions in the snow. They had a hard time, they'd fixed things, and it was 'normal'. They grudgingly respected their country, enjoyed life, worked hard and did intensive office-politics, and were forever trying to build businesses. How bad is that?
You'll remember that when the Germans set up V2s to fire at London, what the RAF noticed as handy targets were the identical oriented sheds - in which teams of soldiers with little hammers would tap the fuselages first, so that magnetic targetting would work. Don't you know there's a war on?
I have a fully mechanical pushbutton dialler, that outputs pulse codes just like an old (UK) rotary. You can hit the buttons at any speed, but must then wait while it does it all inside using the energy from keypresses. Still works here.
Been there, in detail, seeing several generations as viewed from the outside. The skin is all a game of politicised 'announcements', and this one is still in the mainstream. The 15-20% that actually works, mostly standardised intercommunication, will go on and will/must certainly deliver. All the rest is a kind of evolutionary broth - sometimes useful things pop out, usually the entrenched opponents subtly kill them. Money gets wasted big time, but that's oh-so-much easier to identify in retrospect. If the alternative were doing nothing at all, what exactly would YOU recommend instead? Woz sat at the table, and I did try.
In my country, the inflated price pays for the 'free consultations' with 'qualified audiologists' (who do indeed have families who must eat, and who must expect many 'free' visits from grumbling oldies in their high-overhead retail stores). Good luck if you buy a used appliance (lots of users die soon): no-one will re-tune it to your frequencies (or to default), no-one will mould an earbud for your own ear. A good direct-sell Swiss product was forced off the market because it challenged the legally-backed scam.
When I deputised for some Director in Belgium, all faxes were received in the Post Room. The secretary wasn't allowed in there, a severe man in a brown warehouse coat had to bring it upstairs for her when he was ready. And she then logged it in a little book. She brought it to me with my coffee tray, but only if the little 'traffic lights' outside my door were green. I had buttons for that.
Yes, that too. I'm suggesting that the partial error of being reminded of an analogy, for example, enables an analytical method encoded for one purpose to be applied to a quite different perception (sometimes, of course, with bad results - 'experience' picks the winners).
Brains likely hold memeories in holographic-like form, and there are probably many (insightful? imaginative? deceptive?) 'errors' in their access pathways. Maybe you could simulate just anything on a Turing Machine, but the whole seems distinctively different.
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A 'new kind of TV' I might just buy is one where the sound ever matches the lip-synch on-screen, as it used to do in CRT days. Probably never will, as most drama source is now so badly post-dubbed. And, with all the 'presence' of actors sitting on sofas reading out their lines down cardboard tubes. Probably so they can do all the 5.1 sound-magic that's too tedious to set up on location. Any sound engineers here know what's really wrong?
XP's still fine for the archaeology of applications and kit I run. But I needed a Linux education too, so I put Ubuntu on with WUBI (no need to repartition). After the Unity scare stories, I found a way to switch that over to Mint. Still works fine and dual-boots with the same WUBI setup - just in case anyone wants to know.
I haven't really understood this thread, as Firefox works very well for me. So I looked at Help | About, and yes, it does say '3.6'. Can't we have a LTS guarantee?
My Zink 'PoGo' printer is rechargeable, fits the pocket, and works with most digital cameras. 2"x3" prints are tiny, but better than most for albums. No idea how stable yet.
Mailwasher works very well for me too (has done for years). But the auto-'bounce' is discouraged, being pointless for most spam senders and just adding traffic. Only really useful if there's a 'friend' or catalogue-company you really want to lose.
True, but have you considered reverse causation? 'Places whose culture is of authoritarian murderous nightmares tend to end up with extreme political systems'. Communism is indeed one of those, but think also Mexico, Cambodia, Burma, Saudi...
Isn't this another instance of the 'Fallacy of the Commons'? Maybe it's true that the cost of full community screening is not matched by the net benefit of all outcomes. But for me, I sure want to pay the cost of anything that might give me more life or comfort. It's clearer if you don't expect 'the community' to pay (or the insurer who mutualises community risks). How does your own money vote? And would that optimise community benefit?
Or try using a 'spanner' - they're British Standard.
At university, boring lectures were relieved by staring into the back of the prototype Phillips Machine, face to the wall because it was then unrestored. WikiP shows it was/is a fluid-dynamic macroeconomic model, only needs filling with coloured water. Something reminded me of my Northumberland G-Granny's meaningless rhyme "I fell into a bucket of eggs / and all the yaller ran down me legs". The best in that room went into banking - now they know too.
OT, but the wife has a ring with a big opal, and the skin it was over got red. So I took it to work (the ring...) and the lab gave it the once-over. Nothing, at any level. Reading this thread, I'm understanding why they laughed so much.
My school in the '60s, we had a 'Wireless Club' out of hours. Just anything interesting, dead or alive, came into our shack. Some we'd mend, some we'd repurpose, some we'd strip for spares or just to see 'what's inside'. Doesn't everyone do this now? Or does 'elfin safety' make it impossible? Sure, my VCR97 drew blood when the string broke, don't ask me where it came from.
Those examples increase entropy. 'Self-replication of materials' must DEecrease enrtopy. Ergo, you need an energy input to a process designed or evolved to do the replication. It won't just 'go out there and do it'.
My time in Moscow, I broke away, used the Metro, visited people and institutions in the snow. They had a hard time, they'd fixed things, and it was 'normal'. They grudgingly respected their country, enjoyed life, worked hard and did intensive office-politics, and were forever trying to build businesses. How bad is that?
You'll remember that when the Germans set up V2s to fire at London, what the RAF noticed as handy targets were the identical oriented sheds - in which teams of soldiers with little hammers would tap the fuselages first, so that magnetic targetting would work. Don't you know there's a war on?
"Beware the Ides of March."
I have a fully mechanical pushbutton dialler, that outputs pulse codes just like an old (UK) rotary. You can hit the buttons at any speed, but must then wait while it does it all inside using the energy from keypresses. Still works here.
Been there, in detail, seeing several generations as viewed from the outside. The skin is all a game of politicised 'announcements', and this one is still in the mainstream. The 15-20% that actually works, mostly standardised intercommunication, will go on and will/must certainly deliver. All the rest is a kind of evolutionary broth - sometimes useful things pop out, usually the entrenched opponents subtly kill them. Money gets wasted big time, but that's oh-so-much easier to identify in retrospect. If the alternative were doing nothing at all, what exactly would YOU recommend instead? Woz sat at the table, and I did try.
Contents are strange to eat, but the cylindrical foil cans with a dipole epoxied inside are great for long distances.
In my country, the inflated price pays for the 'free consultations' with 'qualified audiologists' (who do indeed have families who must eat, and who must expect many 'free' visits from grumbling oldies in their high-overhead retail stores). Good luck if you buy a used appliance (lots of users die soon): no-one will re-tune it to your frequencies (or to default), no-one will mould an earbud for your own ear. A good direct-sell Swiss product was forced off the market because it challenged the legally-backed scam.
When I deputised for some Director in Belgium, all faxes were received in the Post Room. The secretary wasn't allowed in there, a severe man in a brown warehouse coat had to bring it upstairs for her when he was ready. And she then logged it in a little book. She brought it to me with my coffee tray, but only if the little 'traffic lights' outside my door were green. I had buttons for that.
Great idea. And get back to driving on the left, to avoid all those 'foreign' confusions too.
In my country, RF devices have always had 'Aerials'. And not only foxes have 'Earths' here.
Yes, that too. I'm suggesting that the partial error of being reminded of an analogy, for example, enables an analytical method encoded for one purpose to be applied to a quite different perception (sometimes, of course, with bad results - 'experience' picks the winners).
Brains likely hold memeories in holographic-like form, and there are probably many (insightful? imaginative? deceptive?) 'errors' in their access pathways. Maybe you could simulate just anything on a Turing Machine, but the whole seems distinctively different.
Given that our species *came* from Africa, the challenge should be limited to folk who stayed there or left in recent times.