I love how all the small-government types - the ones who think that the notions of commonwealth are somehow equivalent to boogieman socialism - get all righteously pro-State, when it comes to WikiLeaks. It is a curious kind of cognitive dissonance.
It is a cognitive dissonance which forms part of a larger pattern. There is even a freely downloadable book on the topic, written by a psychology professor.
because you "Americans" invented the English spelling you arsehole?
Who are you calling "American", you arsehole?
Hint: I'm not American, British, Canadian, Australian, etc., but am quite fluent in both British and American English. The word "superior" is spelled the same in all dialects of English that I'm aware of.
We irradiate meat to make it safer, so why not people?
Curiously, despite going through a couple airports in the NW US recently, I was only scanned in Seattle, where they appeared to be scanning everyone. In Portland, it was just standard metal detectors (I used Portland rather more than Seattle). In Vancouver Canada, it was also just metal detectors.
They need to be told, clearly and unequivocally, what's the recommended thing to do in issues involving science/medicine/etc.
Well, they have been. They've been told that vaccines are harmful, and they shouldn't give them to their kids. If we had an educated population used to questioning things and doing research themselves, then ignorant demagogues wouldn't be able to get such traction.
And those demagogues are one part of the problem. The fact that they are not held responsible for the damage they can be proven to cause is another part of it. And that's why I also said (but you inexplicably cut out):
Any imbecile who publicly tells them to do demonstrably harmful things should be taken to task, and held culpable to the extent which can be justified.
People need to spend 5 seconds doing some goddamn research on an issue
You're asking too much here.
A lot of people just can't understand the result of their search, or won't realize they should do such a search, or cannot sort through the quantity of information available (lots of dross, even in good science). They need to be told, clearly and unequivocally, what's the recommended thing to do in issues involving science/medicine/etc. Any imbecile who publicly tells them to do demonstrably harmful things should be taken to task, and held culpable to the extent which can be justified.
Maybe so, but only in a half-hearted, sullen, and mean-spirited way - which is admittedly an improvement for them. A cynic might surmise that they're just putting more effort into concealing their embedded evil.
If they were to start releasing some of their significant applications on Linux and/or BSD (as paid commercial packages, like some other vendors), then I'd agree that they're probably trying to be actually nice instead of just faking it.
They even have "screw" on the list! So how are students to refer to a helically-threaded tapered fastener which is inserted by rotational action? Are they supposed to refer to the thing by using its head type (torx or pozidrive or philips, etc.). This alone would make it challenging to communicate sentences such as:
"We learned when to use a screw instead of a nail in woodwork class."
"The shelf fell off because I used the wrong screw."
The blocked word list also includes perfectly acceptable non-smutty words such as "hell". Without being able to use the common term for Hades, even the most prim and proper Bible-thumping students would get devout messages blocked (not necessarily a bad thing, but stupidity should not be fought with stupidity).
But students will just code around it with a little creativity. The term fucking cunt would be blocked, but calling someone a copulating vulva would breeze past the filter (and adds a certain panache to the epithet). The religious types will even learn of the many synonyms for hell. It might even improve a typical student's vocabulary to the point that instead of calling someone a motherfucking jerk-off, they would use a term such as oedipal masturbator.
I show to Jobs a middle-finger-gesture - he should go and patent that!
Patenting that would require quite the reality distortion effect. There is prior art on the digitus impudicus which has a document trail stretching back at least 2 millennia.
If you follow it to it's logical conclusion, the best programmer's flip the machine bits by hand...
Correct: the best programmers can use machine code if needed. But the best programmers also don't abuse the apostrophe as much as you did...
If I found out someone was manipulating code at the machine level - I'd definitely have issues with that. You lose portability and expose yourself to a nearly infinite amount of issues - there really aren't many cases left where this would even be remotely advisable.
Well, that's why I emphasized the "if needed" bit. I suspect that cases where a real need for machine code might arise are probably limited to embedded systems and other single-architecture real-time applications, where a complete re-write (from specs) would be needed for a change in architecture.
PS. Nitpicking grammar - that's nearly as bad as using machine code directly.:p
Hmm... now was I picking at a grammar nit or a spelling nit? Or were you suggesting that grammar related to a disgusting activity is nearly equivalent to direct use of machine laguage?
They appear to have forgotten the best one. The bucking bronco.
That definition of Bucking Bronco position is lame. For a real bucking bronco, just start in doggy style with your wife/GF, and when she's starting to enjoy it, lean forward and whisper "your sister likes it this way, too". Then you've just got to stay on for 8 more seconds...
I won't go to the gym to save my life, but I will work in the yard, garden some, mow the law, haul water in a 5 gallon bucket, wheel barrel stuff off, etc.
Not to mention humping the wife daily. For medicinal reasons, of course [quoth the merely middle-aged rheumatic].
But the gauges differ by only a tad over 3 inches, which is less than the space required for a typical rail and a typical wheel flange, and is likely why GP said:
"probably requiring four rails due to the closeness of the two gauges".
It's not just about dynamic range, it's also about manipulating the image without degrading it due to rounding errors.
Indeed. And this is why many scientific images are converted to the FITS format before processing. FITS files allow floating point representations of images, and support multiple image planes, such as multispectral images, as well as simple photometric and spectral measurements. Obviously, there need be no loss of precision in manipulating images with float or double datatypes. Software such as NASA fv will render FITS images as well as is possible with your hardware. However, they are not properly handled by any of the tools mentioned here (Photoshop, GIMP, Irfanview, etc.), which can only import a subset of the FITS formats, generally truncating resolution in the process.
When you're just manipulating an image to enhance it for presentation on screen or printer, there is rarely even a need to use 16 bits per channel (of which only 10-12 might be significant, even with "professional" cameras).
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I love how all the small-government types - the ones who think that the notions of commonwealth are somehow equivalent to boogieman socialism - get all righteously pro-State, when it comes to WikiLeaks. It is a curious kind of cognitive dissonance.
It is a cognitive dissonance which forms part of a larger pattern. There is even a freely downloadable book on the topic, written by a psychology professor.
Fruit-based name.
I'm still hoping for the Banana jr. series to be revived...
So, when i unplug my peripherals from my computer case, it ceases to be a PC?
Becomes a server?
A server with attached keyboard and monitor is a PC then?
The monitor and related stuff is a kind of handicap... Let's call it a workstation, 'cause you'll have to work harder at keeping it going.
because you "Americans" invented the English spelling you arsehole?
Who are you calling "American", you arsehole?
Hint: I'm not American, British, Canadian, Australian, etc., but am quite fluent in both British and American English. The word "superior" is spelled the same in all dialects of English that I'm aware of.
Cancer in the defense of freedom is not cancer at all.
If you get cancer, they'll just offer to irradiate some more...
We irradiate meat to make it safer, so why not people?
Curiously, despite going through a couple airports in the NW US recently, I was only scanned in Seattle, where they appeared to be scanning everyone. In Portland, it was just standard metal detectors (I used Portland rather more than Seattle). In Vancouver Canada, it was also just metal detectors.
Learn to spell "fone", dammit!
He hit me back [points sullenly at erstwhile victim]. It's NOT fair!
Stupid swiss should better stick to making chocolate!!
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
but not because of superior spelling...
So people not only don't care about doing the research. They resent those who do.
"No good deed goes unpunished". Sad, but true.
They need to be told, clearly and unequivocally, what's the recommended thing to do in issues involving science/medicine/etc.
Well, they have been. They've been told that vaccines are harmful, and they shouldn't give them to their kids. If we had an educated population used to questioning things and doing research themselves, then ignorant demagogues wouldn't be able to get such traction.
And those demagogues are one part of the problem. The fact that they are not held responsible for the damage they can be proven to cause is another part of it. And that's why I also said (but you inexplicably cut out):
Any imbecile who publicly tells them to do demonstrably harmful things should be taken to task, and held culpable to the extent which can be justified.
People need to spend 5 seconds doing some goddamn research on an issue
You're asking too much here.
A lot of people just can't understand the result of their search, or won't realize they should do such a search, or cannot sort through the quantity of information available (lots of dross, even in good science). They need to be told, clearly and unequivocally, what's the recommended thing to do in issues involving science/medicine/etc. Any imbecile who publicly tells them to do demonstrably harmful things should be taken to task, and held culpable to the extent which can be justified.
... a lot of people believe that killing some of them makes the rest of us better.
FTFY. Define "them" and "us" as deemed expedient in each case.
MS ... is trying to be nice.
Maybe so, but only in a half-hearted, sullen, and mean-spirited way - which is admittedly an improvement for them. A cynic might surmise that they're just putting more effort into concealing their embedded evil.
If they were to start releasing some of their significant applications on Linux and/or BSD (as paid commercial packages, like some other vendors), then I'd agree that they're probably trying to be actually nice instead of just faking it.
"We learned when to use a screw instead of a nail in woodwork class."
"The shelf fell off because I used the wrong screw."
The blocked word list also includes perfectly acceptable non-smutty words such as "hell". Without being able to use the common term for Hades, even the most prim and proper Bible-thumping students would get devout messages blocked (not necessarily a bad thing, but stupidity should not be fought with stupidity).
But students will just code around it with a little creativity. The term fucking cunt would be blocked, but calling someone a copulating vulva would breeze past the filter (and adds a certain panache to the epithet). The religious types will even learn of the many synonyms for hell. It might even improve a typical student's vocabulary to the point that instead of calling someone a motherfucking jerk-off, they would use a term such as oedipal masturbator.
I show to Jobs a middle-finger-gesture - he should go and patent that!
Patenting that would require quite the reality distortion effect. There is prior art on the digitus impudicus which has a document trail stretching back at least 2 millennia.
If you follow it to it's logical conclusion, the best programmer's flip the machine bits by hand...
Correct: the best programmers can use machine code if needed. But the best programmers also don't abuse the apostrophe as much as you did...
If I found out someone was manipulating code at the machine level - I'd definitely have issues with that. You lose portability and expose yourself to a nearly infinite amount of issues - there really aren't many cases left where this would even be remotely advisable.
Well, that's why I emphasized the "if needed" bit. I suspect that cases where a real need for machine code might arise are probably limited to embedded systems and other single-architecture real-time applications, where a complete re-write (from specs) would be needed for a change in architecture.
PS. Nitpicking grammar - that's nearly as bad as using machine code directly. :p
Hmm... now was I picking at a grammar nit or a spelling nit? Or were you suggesting that grammar related to a disgusting activity is nearly equivalent to direct use of machine laguage?
http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/health/sex/better-sex-guide/sex-positions-that-double-as-exercise/
They appear to have forgotten the best one. The bucking bronco.
That definition of Bucking Bronco position is lame. For a real bucking bronco, just start in doggy style with your wife/GF, and when she's starting to enjoy it, lean forward and whisper "your sister likes it this way, too". Then you've just got to stay on for 8 more seconds...
I won't go to the gym to save my life, but I will work in the yard, garden some, mow the law, haul water in a 5 gallon bucket, wheel barrel stuff off, etc.
Not to mention humping the wife daily. For medicinal reasons, of course [quoth the merely middle-aged rheumatic].
If you follow it to it's logical conclusion, the best programmer's flip the machine bits by hand...
Correct: the best programmers can use machine code if needed. But the best programmers also don't abuse the apostrophe as much as you did...
You only need three rails to support two gauges.
But the gauges differ by only a tad over 3 inches, which is less than the space required for a typical rail and a typical wheel flange, and is likely why GP said:
"probably requiring four rails due to the closeness of the two gauges".
It's not just about dynamic range, it's also about manipulating the image without degrading it due to rounding errors.
Indeed. And this is why many scientific images are converted to the FITS format before processing. FITS files allow floating point representations of images, and support multiple image planes, such as multispectral images, as well as simple photometric and spectral measurements. Obviously, there need be no loss of precision in manipulating images with float or double datatypes. Software such as NASA fv will render FITS images as well as is possible with your hardware. However, they are not properly handled by any of the tools mentioned here (Photoshop, GIMP, Irfanview, etc.), which can only import a subset of the FITS formats, generally truncating resolution in the process.
When you're just manipulating an image to enhance it for presentation on screen or printer, there is rarely even a need to use 16 bits per channel (of which only 10-12 might be significant, even with "professional" cameras).
HTML 5 local storage worries the hell out of me. It's nothing new though because Microsoft has had an almost identical "userdata persistence" feature since forever. Try this link in IE browser http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/persistence/userData_1.htm
Yet another reason to avoid IE, even in its newer (differently-evil) incarnations.
If they'd just called it a "Jesus Cookie" no one would be complaining.
Then it would at least stay dead for three days.
And bugger off permanently after another 40 days or thereabouts.