If the objective was to describe speciation, why not just use the Herring/Lesser-black-backed gull? This nicely demonstrates both speciation by geography and how our concept of species is somewhat artificial. In Europe, the Herring gull and Lesser-black-backed gull appear to be distinct species, and don't interbreed. However, these species are just end-points in a continuous geographic distribution around the northern hemisphere, without an obvious species break.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Black-backed_Gull
I fully agree with the article poster's sentiment for old German products.
There are still some things made properly (i.e. without the designed-in short lifetime), but their number is declining, alas. Cheap shit forces good shit out of the mass market, and into expensive niches. This trend has been very clear for at least 15 years (I speak as a PhD engineer with 30 years experience).
The design objective nowadays is not really 2 days past warranty, but one day. Unfortunately, some fool puts an extra day into leap years, which necessitates one or more additional days of overengineered lifetime, as warranties are calendar-based.
An upcoming insidious trend is to make the warranty for complex items conditional on regular service, which can only be purchased from the manufacturer, due to "trade secrets" or protected "intellectual property".
Periods go inside parentheses, just like quotation marks (or just about any other sentence-ending punctuation, really.)
Not always. It's actually a trickier issue with some sentences. For instance, which of the following is correct:
In early documents, Ms Rice's first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic].
In early documents, Ms Rice's first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic.]
Ah, you may exclaim, that example used square brackets, not parentheses, and "sic." often has a period as it is a contraction of "sicut". But what if the entire sentence were parenthetical:
Ms Condoleeza Rice (earlier, her first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic]).
Ms Condoleeza Rice (earlier, her first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic].)
Ms Condoleeza Rice (earlier, her first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic.])
Similar questions arise for sentences ending with quotes inside parentheses and other forms of consecutive punctuation. One could construct a sentence which is a question, but which terminates in a parenthetical statement which is not a question, or is even an exclamation.
Winston Smith's committee, set up in 1984, has not yet issued a definitive recommendation on this vexed issue.
Some tattoos contains iron in the color. And what if somebody has a tattoo of a knife or a gun then?
Not to mention those with body piercing in "interesting places", complete with metal attachments... Here's an image of a guy who might cause consternation http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/dragon.htm
That's my thought - why can't these be "object detectors", with no need for a visual screen?
Think of the poor security folks! That would deprive them of their constitutionally protected right to pursue happiness (through the job satisfaction caused by giggling or ogling).
I also tried various approaches to things it *should* be good at, but once again, not very impressive.
Same experience here. I tried "semiderivative of cos(x)" and even "semiderivative of c". It claimed not to understand, and it suggested things like "derivative of cos(x)" or "cos(x)" as related searches. These suggested searches, of course, resulted in nice summaries of the expected sort.
However, the "semiderivative of c" should be a doddle for Alpha, since the answer can be found in Wolfram's own web site at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Semiderivative.html
I'm only slightly impressed (for the moment, anyway).
I had LASIK a couple of years ago, and have been tickled pink with the results. I went from -7 diopters in both eyes to 20/20. I'm in my mid-forties, so it was likely I would need reading glasses, but so far, I have not.
How is your night vision? I've heard that LASIK and its ilk do you no favours on dark-adaptated vision (fully dilated pupil overlaps the laser sutures, causing a nastily spiked PSF). This is important for me, as one of my hobbies is astronomy.
I've had my Tabs on the side/left in Opera since 2000
Well, I've been doing that for a while also, but I wish Firefox could do it as well - there are some sites that refuse to work with Opera. Even in a 4:3 display, Opera is fine with tabs on the side. In a 16:9 display, two Opera browser windows can eb side-by-side with tabs on the left. With my 3840x1200 dual head setup (32:10), there's room for four Opera browsers in each desktop.
I prefer to make up a cryptic crossword clue, but one which only I could know the answer to. Here's an example: "Red Cross indebted to largesse (9)". Don't bother trying to guess the answer - it involves two uncommon languages, and some personal quirks. It's also more than 9 characters long.
For those "first pet" idiot questions, I typically choose an extinct species, but not any of the well-known ones, and add a non-alphameric character (like Elrathia^kingi or Charnia_masoni, although I have not used those particular examples). An analogous approach works for "mother's maiden name" and other such security challenges.
This approach has served me for years, and I can always remember the passwords...
If African-Americans were not racist, then at most 65% of them would have supported Obama.
I think you may want to look into look into the percentage of African Americans that vote Democrat regardless of race.
For example, according to CNN's exit polls in the 2004 presidential election, 88% of African-Americans voted for the Democratic candidate, John Kerry. There were no non-whites on either ticket, so any putative racial preference would have been inoperative.
So what about a graph of sites you visited, instead of a list?
You mean like IBM Web Explorer did in 1994?
It arranged the session history into a tree according to the path you traversed. It did not arbitrarily truncate the tree into a linear sequence the way almost all browsers do now.
Note to the Mozilla devs: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
More directly: if it ain't broke, don't break it!
With all the 16:9 and 16:10 wide format screens now, moving the tabs to the side would make more sense. A lot more can be usefully fit in that way (about 30-60, depending on font preference & screen size), even with the current tabbing metaphor. In fact, it would work for me on a regular 4:3 screen as well, since I usually keep the web page displayed in a sort of "portrait" aspect ratio, leaving a lot of spare room beside the browser - enough for tabs to fit easily.
Or a PDP-11 or microVAX. After all, troff never crashed on me...
Hell, for reliability, the PDP-8 was excellent for me - not one single crash, ever. It just lacked graphics (damn paper tape).
I call TOTAL bullshit on the detection of lysergic acid*.
Agreed. However, there are many natural sources of lysergine derivatives, and it's just possible there may have been contamination of the survey from a local gardening store. Examples include the Morning Glory and Hawaiian Baby Rosewood seeds (the latter may also be coated in strychnine - watch out). Then again, contamination is more likely to be at detectable levels if one of the technicians setting up the equipment had handled a few blotters recently...
Just because code is not written to some official standard does not mean it is guaranteed to be buggy. Undisciplined coding is as bad as undisciplined specifications - results can indeed be ugly. It is preferable if the coders follow good practices, and there ideally would be a clear system for specifying program behaviour in testable ways. It is easier to produce good code with robust behaviour if good practices are followed from design through coding to testing and documentation, but it is not impossible to achieve good results in other ways also.
Did they find any coding bugs, or did they just criticize the approach to coding?
If the Old Man of the Mountain finally fell down, then perhaps he should stay down where he fell.
Agree completely. Its appeal was that it was natural, not artificial.
Now, if something is to be built as a replacement tourist attraction in Franconia Crotch^WNotch, let's make it the "Young hottie of the mountain". This would obviously be politically correct, as it's a female replacing a male. It would also be acceptable to most males, provided the hottie is done artistically (i.e. featuring the naughty bits).
Try the Economist magazine: no sports section, no horoscope, no celebrity gossip columns, no tips on cooking or motorbike maintenance. It's almost like reading just the news and informed comment on the news.
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If the objective was to describe speciation, why not just use the Herring/Lesser-black-backed gull? This nicely demonstrates both speciation by geography and how our concept of species is somewhat artificial. In Europe, the Herring gull and Lesser-black-backed gull appear to be distinct species, and don't interbreed. However, these species are just end-points in a continuous geographic distribution around the northern hemisphere, without an obvious species break. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Black-backed_Gull
Remember who else fought on multiple fronts
...at once, when the odds were stacked against him, and remember well what happened to him.
Is this a subtle attempt to Godwin the thread?
I fully agree with the article poster's sentiment for old German products.
There are still some things made properly (i.e. without the designed-in short lifetime), but their number is declining, alas. Cheap shit forces good shit out of the mass market, and into expensive niches. This trend has been very clear for at least 15 years (I speak as a PhD engineer with 30 years experience).
The design objective nowadays is not really 2 days past warranty, but one day. Unfortunately, some fool puts an extra day into leap years, which necessitates one or more additional days of overengineered lifetime, as warranties are calendar-based.
An upcoming insidious trend is to make the warranty for complex items conditional on regular service, which can only be purchased from the manufacturer, due to "trade secrets" or protected "intellectual property".
Periods go inside parentheses, just like quotation marks (or just about any other sentence-ending punctuation, really.)
Not always. It's actually a trickier issue with some sentences. For instance, which of the following is correct:
In early documents, Ms Rice's first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic].
In early documents, Ms Rice's first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic.]
Ah, you may exclaim, that example used square brackets, not parentheses, and "sic." often has a period as it is a contraction of "sicut". But what if the entire sentence were parenthetical:
Ms Condoleeza Rice (earlier, her first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic]).
Ms Condoleeza Rice (earlier, her first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic].)
Ms Condoleeza Rice (earlier, her first name was spelled Condoleeeza [sic.])
Similar questions arise for sentences ending with quotes inside parentheses and other forms of consecutive punctuation. One could construct a sentence which is a question, but which terminates in a parenthetical statement which is not a question, or is even an exclamation.
Winston Smith's committee, set up in 1984, has not yet issued a definitive recommendation on this vexed issue.
Both: malicious incompetence.
However, it is unlikely to be incompetent malice, since Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated competence in that field.
Some tattoos contains iron in the color. And what if somebody has a tattoo of a knife or a gun then?
Not to mention those with body piercing in "interesting places", complete with metal attachments... Here's an image of a guy who might cause consternation http://www.beyond-the-pale.org.uk/dragon.htm
That's my thought - why can't these be "object detectors", with no need for a visual screen?
Think of the poor security folks! That would deprive them of their constitutionally protected right to pursue happiness (through the job satisfaction caused by giggling or ogling).
Did they give any configuration which is not at risk?
I also tried various approaches to things it *should* be good at, but once again, not very impressive.
Same experience here. I tried "semiderivative of cos(x)" and even "semiderivative of c". It claimed not to understand, and it suggested things like "derivative of cos(x)" or "cos(x)" as related searches. These suggested searches, of course, resulted in nice summaries of the expected sort.
However, the "semiderivative of c" should be a doddle for Alpha, since the answer can be found in Wolfram's own web site at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Semiderivative.html
I'm only slightly impressed (for the moment, anyway).
I had LASIK a couple of years ago, and have been tickled pink with the results. I went from -7 diopters in both eyes to 20/20. I'm in my mid-forties, so it was likely I would need reading glasses, but so far, I have not.
How is your night vision? I've heard that LASIK and its ilk do you no favours on dark-adaptated vision (fully dilated pupil overlaps the laser sutures, causing a nastily spiked PSF). This is important for me, as one of my hobbies is astronomy.
I've had my Tabs on the side/left in Opera since 2000
Well, I've been doing that for a while also, but I wish Firefox could do it as well - there are some sites that refuse to work with Opera. Even in a 4:3 display, Opera is fine with tabs on the side. In a 16:9 display, two Opera browser windows can eb side-by-side with tabs on the left. With my 3840x1200 dual head setup (32:10), there's room for four Opera browsers in each desktop.
I prefer to make up a cryptic crossword clue, but one which only I could know the answer to. Here's an example: "Red Cross indebted to largesse (9)". Don't bother trying to guess the answer - it involves two uncommon languages, and some personal quirks. It's also more than 9 characters long.
For those "first pet" idiot questions, I typically choose an extinct species, but not any of the well-known ones, and add a non-alphameric character (like Elrathia^kingi or Charnia_masoni, although I have not used those particular examples). An analogous approach works for "mother's maiden name" and other such security challenges.
This approach has served me for years, and I can always remember the passwords...
If African-Americans were not racist, then at most 65% of them would have supported Obama.
I think you may want to look into look into the percentage of African Americans that vote Democrat regardless of race.
For example, according to CNN's exit polls in the 2004 presidential election, 88% of African-Americans voted for the Democratic candidate, John Kerry. There were no non-whites on either ticket, so any putative racial preference would have been inoperative.
So what about a graph of sites you visited, instead of a list?
You mean like IBM Web Explorer did in 1994?
It arranged the session history into a tree according to the path you traversed. It did not arbitrarily truncate the tree into a linear sequence the way almost all browsers do now.
Note to the Mozilla devs: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
More directly: if it ain't broke, don't break it!
With all the 16:9 and 16:10 wide format screens now, moving the tabs to the side would make more sense. A lot more can be usefully fit in that way (about 30-60, depending on font preference & screen size), even with the current tabbing metaphor. In fact, it would work for me on a regular 4:3 screen as well, since I usually keep the web page displayed in a sort of "portrait" aspect ratio, leaving a lot of spare room beside the browser - enough for tabs to fit easily.
Where's the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag when it's needed?
She looks like a horse sat on her face.
I have a horse, you insensitive clod!
Its ass is nowhere near as ugly as her face.
So you are getting a mac then?
Or a PDP-11 or microVAX. After all, troff never crashed on me...
Hell, for reliability, the PDP-8 was excellent for me - not one single crash, ever. It just lacked graphics (damn paper tape).
I call TOTAL bullshit on the detection of lysergic acid*.
Agreed. However, there are many natural sources of lysergine derivatives, and it's just possible there may have been contamination of the survey from a local gardening store. Examples include the Morning Glory and Hawaiian Baby Rosewood seeds (the latter may also be coated in strychnine - watch out). Then again, contamination is more likely to be at detectable levels if one of the technicians setting up the equipment had handled a few blotters recently...
And, in Prague you would probably smell old beer belches?
Farts. You'd smell the beer farts much more than the beer belches.
Just because code is not written to some official standard does not mean it is guaranteed to be buggy. Undisciplined coding is as bad as undisciplined specifications - results can indeed be ugly. It is preferable if the coders follow good practices, and there ideally would be a clear system for specifying program behaviour in testable ways. It is easier to produce good code with robust behaviour if good practices are followed from design through coding to testing and documentation, but it is not impossible to achieve good results in other ways also.
Did they find any coding bugs, or did they just criticize the approach to coding?
But, Remington Microscreen shaves as close as a blade or your money back. How can Occam compete with that?
I have a beard, you insensitive clod!
Occam appears clean shaven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_of_Ockham.png, despite the scarcity of Remington shavers.
That page also screws up in Opera and Epiphany. It keeps generating a login popup. Bad, bad linux.com!
If the Old Man of the Mountain finally fell down, then perhaps he should stay down where he fell.
Agree completely. Its appeal was that it was natural, not artificial.
Now, if something is to be built as a replacement tourist attraction in Franconia Crotch^WNotch, let's make it the "Young hottie of the mountain". This would obviously be politically correct, as it's a female replacing a male. It would also be acceptable to most males, provided the hottie is done artistically (i.e. featuring the naughty bits).
Sheesh, where do you get your news - no sports!?
Try the Economist magazine: no sports section, no horoscope, no celebrity gossip columns, no tips on cooking or motorbike maintenance. It's almost like reading just the news and informed comment on the news.