Well, that is wonderful news since about that long ago was the 'end' of the last ice age when temperatures were so low we were having massive die offs due to the cold climate.
Warming is good for life. You might not be acclimated to it but the reality is when we have periods of cooling we have die offs and when we have periods of warming there is an expansion of species, of biodiversity. The Earth has been much warmer in the past and that was good for life.
I welcome warmer temperatures. It has been too cold in the last thousands of years.
All this fussing about warming is ignoring the real problem. Global Warming is just a distraction from the real issue of toxic pollution.
I've kept Java turned OFF on all of our computers for a long, long time. It's a pig. It hogs computer resource units. I have not not once run into anything that requires it. Just say no to Java.
Not really. That is a common mythconception. Grow slowly and borrow instead of getting investors. That means you benefit more from your innovation. There is no better place for you to invest your own money, and time, than in your own creations where you have control.
The trick is vertical in-house integration. That is what our family has done with our businesses. The more we do in-house the more control we have the lower the costs and the more money stays in our pocket. This gives us better resilience for surviving and even thriving through economic downturns. Own the tools of manufacturing as much as possible.
These report writers need to get out of their air conditioned office and experience the real world where the temperatures vary from -45ÂF to over 100ÂF and I'm not even in an extreme climate. The real world is not a climate controlled 72ÂF 24/7. We have seasons.
People actually pay attention to the NYTimes best seller list??? I never have. I find an author I like and read their books. Occasionally I'll look at reviews on Amazon but those have to be taken with a table spoon of salt. I read a lot of books and I've never looked at the NYTimes rating. Best is to be able to read a few pages randomly in the book. That tells me more than any review.
"The holy grail of self driving cars is a situation where cars are driving 70MPH with about 2 feet between them."
I will read the newspaper stories in the future about the incredibly massive pileups of enormous numbers of self-driving cars on your highways.
Self-driving cars need to also be using vision, radar, sonar - all their senses. Relying on just one sense is folly. The reality of the world is that not everyone will play nice and they'll have to be able to adapt to that, or die.
Any self-driving cars can't adapt to radio interference then they will die off, litter along the road of technological progress. The driving force will be the litigation against the self-driving cars that crash.
The IP address is indeed one way of identifying computers but falls down. That is why I said, 'identify the computer' rather than the IP. IP's fall down because they may be dynamically assigned like yours or they may be used by many computers such as behind a router or WiFi point. Identifying the individual computers can be done in a number of ways.
The zombies would do bad things and web masters like me who flag them would mark those zombies as spammers. A single flag should not be enough to nail them but several would demote them to a 'proved not valid' status from which it is much harder to get back to both 'unknown' and then 'valid'. This sort of thing is already done with some software. The addition I'm suggesting is combining it with the Captcha which suggests 'valid' and at some point doesn't need to be done (no more Captcha) if the user/computer obtains the status of 'valid'. This way zombies dig themselves into deep graves while valid users get elevated above the fray. If you're letting your computer be a zombie then you go down with it. Incentive to kill zombie in your control.
It would be better to simply prove that the computer is used reasonably and then stop presenting the captcha's after the initial few tests. If the computer starts being detected as a spammer then it must prove again, harder this time, that it is a valid user to become reaccepted. This would save time and processing power.
You just don't get it. The problem is they're creating more and more federal holidays which are almost always on a Monday or a Friday so that creates a long weekend. Great for people like you who are just cogs in the system, mere pion workers. But it is a waste of time for the rest of us that don't observe bank holidays and federal holidays. For us it is an annoying waste of time and money.
What is your problem? You can't wait to have your holiday on the weekend or an existing holiday? No need to make more federal holidays. If you want to take a day off, fine, do that, but don't force it on the rest of us, sJames. Take responsibility for yourself.
This a joke right? The USPS needs to focus on doing their job well. They loose and damage all too many packages. Their postal clerks are all too often poorly trained and give wrong advice. They make excuses for their poor service citing regulations. Then they wonder why people are switching to UPS and FedEx for packages and email for letters. Service.
"where the 'best' directions are judged according to the results that are achieved by genuine beginners who attempt to follow the directions without help."
That is not a very good definition of "best" directions. Many people are not 'genuine beginners' at what they're working on. Instructions that are "best" for genuine beginners won't be very good for most people.
Because then there is one more day each year when I can not ship a package, make a bank deposit, etc. We don't need to have all these holidays. If Dilbert people want to take another day off let them use their personal days. There shouldn't be a federal mandate.
We seem to be talking at cross purposes here. Perhaps we are saying much the same. My work is immensely varied. I am a small farmer. I do a tremendous amount of different stuff from planting, to caring for animals, the slaughter, to butcher, to value added processing, to studying regulations, to designing and building our own super efficient home, to building our own state of the art USDA/State inspected on-farm meat processing facility (current project). Granted, if one were living in a cubicle as a cog in the machine life might be pretty dull and in need of balance but that right there is a modern phenomenon. You don't have to be a Dilbert. Be more. Do more. Integrate your life and your work so that you enjoy both.
Our you could change your work so that you do things you enjoy. You seem to consider work to be pain. It need not be that way. And I wasn't talking about the industrial revolution period.
We need fewer federal holidays. Federal holidays get observed by all those bankers and government employees and jack up the costs of doing business which means higher prices for consumers. We do not need more holidays. If you want a holiday, take a personal day. Don't have a personal day then take an unpaid day. Don't have that option (I don't) then that's just the way life is.
Sorry, Amazon, but I have pre-existing artwork on this. CSA's and standing wholesale orders for our farm products are delivered to customers on a re-occuring basis.
Since I'm a generous and reasonable farmer I'll settle out of court with Amazon for a mere Billion dollars for their attempt to infringe on my business model.
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Well, that is wonderful news since about that long ago was the 'end' of the last ice age when temperatures were so low we were having massive die offs due to the cold climate.
Warming is good for life. You might not be acclimated to it but the reality is when we have periods of cooling we have die offs and when we have periods of warming there is an expansion of species, of biodiversity. The Earth has been much warmer in the past and that was good for life.
I welcome warmer temperatures. It has been too cold in the last thousands of years.
All this fussing about warming is ignoring the real problem. Global Warming is just a distraction from the real issue of toxic pollution.
If we were to tax stupid politicians like this one then we would be able to easily fund the entire government without any other taxes.
I've kept Java turned OFF on all of our computers for a long, long time. It's a pig. It hogs computer resource units. I have not not once run into anything that requires it. Just say no to Java.
"a company needs investors."
Not really. That is a common mythconception. Grow slowly and borrow instead of getting investors. That means you benefit more from your innovation. There is no better place for you to invest your own money, and time, than in your own creations where you have control.
The trick is vertical in-house integration. That is what our family has done with our businesses. The more we do in-house the more control we have the lower the costs and the more money stays in our pocket. This gives us better resilience for surviving and even thriving through economic downturns. Own the tools of manufacturing as much as possible.
These report writers need to get out of their air conditioned office and experience the real world where the temperatures vary from -45ÂF to over 100ÂF and I'm not even in an extreme climate. The real world is not a climate controlled 72ÂF 24/7. We have seasons.
People actually pay attention to the NYTimes best seller list??? I never have. I find an author I like and read their books. Occasionally I'll look at reviews on Amazon but those have to be taken with a table spoon of salt. I read a lot of books and I've never looked at the NYTimes rating. Best is to be able to read a few pages randomly in the book. That tells me more than any review.
"The holy grail of self driving cars is a situation where cars are driving 70MPH with about 2 feet between them."
I will read the newspaper stories in the future about the incredibly massive pileups of enormous numbers of self-driving cars on your highways.
Self-driving cars need to also be using vision, radar, sonar - all their senses. Relying on just one sense is folly. The reality of the world is that not everyone will play nice and they'll have to be able to adapt to that, or die.
Any self-driving cars can't adapt to radio interference then they will die off, litter along the road of technological progress. The driving force will be the litigation against the self-driving cars that crash.
The IP address is indeed one way of identifying computers but falls down. That is why I said, 'identify the computer' rather than the IP. IP's fall down because they may be dynamically assigned like yours or they may be used by many computers such as behind a router or WiFi point. Identifying the individual computers can be done in a number of ways.
The zombies would do bad things and web masters like me who flag them would mark those zombies as spammers. A single flag should not be enough to nail them but several would demote them to a 'proved not valid' status from which it is much harder to get back to both 'unknown' and then 'valid'. This sort of thing is already done with some software. The addition I'm suggesting is combining it with the Captcha which suggests 'valid' and at some point doesn't need to be done (no more Captcha) if the user/computer obtains the status of 'valid'. This way zombies dig themselves into deep graves while valid users get elevated above the fray. If you're letting your computer be a zombie then you go down with it. Incentive to kill zombie in your control.
It would be better to simply prove that the computer is used reasonably and then stop presenting the captcha's after the initial few tests. If the computer starts being detected as a spammer then it must prove again, harder this time, that it is a valid user to become reaccepted. This would save time and processing power.
SJames, if you want to take off time so much than do so. But don't be so greedy as to force the rest of us to pay for your holiday.
You just don't get it. The problem is they're creating more and more federal holidays which are almost always on a Monday or a Friday so that creates a long weekend. Great for people like you who are just cogs in the system, mere pion workers. But it is a waste of time for the rest of us that don't observe bank holidays and federal holidays. For us it is an annoying waste of time and money.
What is your problem? You can't wait to have your holiday on the weekend or an existing holiday? No need to make more federal holidays. If you want to take a day off, fine, do that, but don't force it on the rest of us, sJames. Take responsibility for yourself.
This a joke right? The USPS needs to focus on doing their job well. They loose and damage all too many packages. Their postal clerks are all too often poorly trained and give wrong advice. They make excuses for their poor service citing regulations. Then they wonder why people are switching to UPS and FedEx for packages and email for letters. Service.
"where the 'best' directions are judged according to the results that are achieved by genuine beginners who attempt to follow the directions without help."
That is not a very good definition of "best" directions. Many people are not 'genuine beginners' at what they're working on. Instructions that are "best" for genuine beginners won't be very good for most people.
Duh.
Because then there is one more day each year when I can not ship a package, make a bank deposit, etc. We don't need to have all these holidays. If Dilbert people want to take another day off let them use their personal days. There shouldn't be a federal mandate.
We seem to be talking at cross purposes here. Perhaps we are saying much the same. My work is immensely varied. I am a small farmer. I do a tremendous amount of different stuff from planting, to caring for animals, the slaughter, to butcher, to value added processing, to studying regulations, to designing and building our own super efficient home, to building our own state of the art USDA/State inspected on-farm meat processing facility (current project). Granted, if one were living in a cubicle as a cog in the machine life might be pretty dull and in need of balance but that right there is a modern phenomenon. You don't have to be a Dilbert. Be more. Do more. Integrate your life and your work so that you enjoy both.
Cheers,
-Walter
on Sugar Mountain
in Vermont
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/
Our you could change your work so that you do things you enjoy. You seem to consider work to be pain. It need not be that way. And I wasn't talking about the industrial revolution period.
"Why are you so anxious to work more days than any other Western country at any time in history?"
1) Perhaps because I enjoy my work.
2) Perhaps because you have an odd perspective, a false memory of history. The fact is, people work far less than they did in the past.
We need fewer federal holidays. Federal holidays get observed by all those bankers and government employees and jack up the costs of doing business which means higher prices for consumers. We do not need more holidays. If you want a holiday, take a personal day. Don't have a personal day then take an unpaid day. Don't have that option (I don't) then that's just the way life is.
Push for less holidays, not more.
This is going to upset the alarmists.
I don't have a cell phone and I don't envy the users of cell phones, no matter what operating system or model.
They should have built the telescope on the back side moon if they wanted quiet.
Sorry, Amazon, but I have pre-existing artwork on this. CSA's and standing wholesale orders for our farm products are delivered to customers on a re-occuring basis.
Since I'm a generous and reasonable farmer I'll settle out of court with Amazon for a mere Billion dollars for their attempt to infringe on my business model.