Accent and content. The one that really stands out in my memory is the woman talking loudly about the expensive diamond ring she was wearing that her husband bought her when they were in Aspen. And, apart from the rudeness, how stupid do you have to be to talk loudly about how expensive your jewelry is in a public place far from home. (Or even close to home, but at least there you speak the language and know people who might care enough to stop a thief.)
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It amazes me how LOUDLY some people seem to think they have to talk when their conversational partner is seated three feet away from them.
This seems to be an American thing. When I was in France a couple of years ago it seemed that everyone spoke quite softly. Whatever restaurant we went into it seemed that the loudest voice was an American. And when it wasn't I'm concerned that it might have been us.
This system seems open to a Coordinated Denial of Service type attack:
Have a decent sized group of people print out two ballots with opposing votes. Each of them casts one in the computer and the other in the ballot box. Everything matches up except the totals. There is no way to determine whether this is an error in the voting machine or a deliberate act of sabotage. At that point, the entire election must be hand-counted from the printed ballots. In which case, you might as well just plan on hand-counting in the first place.
Maybe, Maybe Not. Off the top of the head solution: Require by law that the IP Address authority reserve a block of addresses for encrypted communication. Require by law that any commercial entity that desires to use encrypted communication apply for and register a TCP/IP Address from that block. Require Routers to not forward encrypted traffic if the source IP or destination IP is not in that block of addresses. (Identifying encrypted traffic is left as an excercise for the reader)
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You can't damage the machine by typing into it. The most you could do is hose the OS. Since any public terminal should be remote booted or imaged after every login this is a non-issue.
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In OSX when you "maximize" a window, that window does not fill the screen. The window gets big enough to display its contents while being constrained by the screen (The window won't grow outside of the bounds of the screen). It takes a bit to get used to and there are some quirks. (For example, if I "maximize" the window and then zoom the contents I have to "maximize" again to resize the window to make it fit.) However, with a wide screen it does make a lot of difference. If I open up a code window and a reference document, I can "maximize" both of them and put them side by side without having to grab the handle and stretch the windows.
In addition Macs have expose which allows you to view all of the open windows of one or all applications at the same time and select the one you want to see.
Both of these, as well as the universal menu, take a bit to get used to as it is a different way of working. However, as screens get bigger and multiple screens get more common it is much less useful to make a window fill ALL of the available space.
I imagine a system that has (or allows me to define) screen regions that can constrain a window and it them to fill the region.
My take on the universal menu bar is a little different from any that I've seen. Menu bars, need to go away. A full contextual menu would solve the UI problems associated with both the Universal Bar (It's a long way away on a big screen and makes focus follows mouse not practical) as well as the problem with windowed menu bars (Multiple, repetitve menus can eat up a lot of screen space if you have a lot of windows open) A full menu that is there where you click removes the mouse movement issues as well as the screen real-estate issues. I've used Linux window managers that do this and it is quite nice.
Only someone eligible to vote in a particular race can give money to a candidate in that race. Note that this excludes PACs, Political Parties, Corporations, and Unions as well as unregistered citizens.
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I'd be happy if all the stores just put a standard barcode on the receipt that had: StoreID, Date, amount so that I could scan it and have it go directly into e.g. GnuCash. Even better would be a 2d barcode that also contained category information. Going all the way to individual line item detail would be overkill for most people, but I could see the benefit if you integrated it into a menu planner.
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Tips for getting rid of a marketer once you have one on the phone are helpful, but the real question is how to stop them from disturbing the peace of your home and disrupting your concentration in the first place.
1. Remember that your telephone is a device for your own convenience, not anyone else's. Therefore...
2. Turn off the ringer on your phone
3. Don't answer the phone
4. If using a landline - Turn down the volume on the answering machine
And, if there are certain people that you must allow to interrupt you. then...
5. Use a cellphone that allows you to set the ring specific to the incoming number.
6. Don't ever let your company buy your cell phone.
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determine whether the NT documents are eyewitness accounts or not.
Well, Luke specifically states that it is a history. It states at the beginning that the author went out at the request of his patron to investigate the events that they had heard of.
Matthew doesn't show up in the book of Matthew until chapter 17 (i think, it might be 13) and doesn't show up in the other gospels at all. In fact, it seems fairly clear from just reading the gospels that Matthew wrote himself into the story in place of someone called Levi in Mark.
Paul never met Jesus therefore anything written by Paul could NOT be an eye witness account of Jesus' life.
I think my proposal of additional bars is about as simple as it gets to solving the problem for "why does the battery run out so fast". If you can think of a better solution do post it.
IMO there's a limit of what you can do. Users that don't understand something as simple as a "power consumption" or "CPU" meter should get a more limited phone or phone mode, or live with the battery running out faster.
I think the point is that if the user has to ask the question then you have already failed.
Secondly, a power consumption meter doesn't answer the question, it just moves the question to "why am I consuming so much power?" The only way to get an answer to that question is something like Top.
For the User of the phone the real question is something like "How do I get a longer battery life?" Apple answers that question by preventing background apps.
And, anyway, isn't this the way PalmOS devices have always worked, only the visible app is active and it is the applications' job to exit/suspend/resume cleanly?
I doubt it. Assuming that we count each quarter turn as a moves and that we can only move the outside slices of the cube, that would require that there be an odd-numbered move pattern that could be undone by an even numbered pattern. If you make a move, that move has to be undone to get back to your starting point. To undo an odd number of moves, should take an odd number of moves (maybe not the same odd number). As an easy visualization: If you have a solved cube and you rotate the right side 3 quarter turns clockwise, you can get back to the starting point with either 1 quarter turn clockwise of 3 quarter turns counter-clockwise.
However, if we change our assumptions and allow movement of the middle slice then it is trivial to move the right side 1 away the left side 1 away and then undo those 2 moves by moving the middle slice 1 away.
Well it's really the job of airport security to look for things that are suspicious.
No! It is the job of airport security to look for things that are dangerous enough to threaten the airplane. Just because it is unknown doesn't make it dangerous. A crimping tool, even with cutting blades, doesn't meet that level of threat.
I would expect questioning or detainment if I bring something particularly weird.
Weird isn't the criteria. Dangerous is the criteria, and in this case that means dangerous to the airplane, not potentially useable as a personal weapon.
LOL, I've still never seen such a thing... do you remember the brand? Sounds slippery. I can't imagine a major sneaker manufacturer doing this... athletes can't have their laces getting loose!
My New Balance "Cross Training" shoes that I bought about 5 years ago have round laces that are very much like nylon clothesline, e.g. a woven shell around a soft core. Being soft and pretty crushable, they aren't quite as bad as you'd expect but pretty close.
No, I'm not saying that's not important. I was responding to the thread which began with a statement that you could flip it using less energy, which isn't true.
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Not exactly.
With EftPos, you give the vendor a check and they run it through a scanner that immediately processes the check for the amount of purchase. It's like writing a check that gets instantly cashed. Some vendors can print the amount on the check for you as part of the scanning bit.
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A home is not an investment and shouldn't be treated as one. If you want to try to make money in real estate buy some income properties and get to work.
Your home is a purchase, like your car. You pretty much have to have a place to live so you might as well buy one instead of renting. No one buys their day to day car with the expectation that it is going to increase in value. If you think of your home as that thing that you're buying to live in you can start thinking about what you want out of your house instead of thinking about what it is going to be worth 30 years from now. Hopefully, in 20 years, my house will be paid for and suddenly I have a whole bunch of net income that I don't have to throw at the bank every month.
You'd think I would have learned to preview by now.
Most of us know jack about the algorithms that allow us to catch a baseball in flight, yet we can still do it.
Outrageously incorrect.
I've always hated this example because it isn't true, or even useful.
Most of us know jack about the physics equations that describe where a baseball will land.
All of us who can catch know the algorithm for catching that ball.
0. Repeat
1. Guess where the ball is going to land
2. Move to that spot.
3. Stick out gloved hand
4. Until ball is in glove or ball hits ground.
Most of us know jack about the algorithms that allow us to catch a baseball in flight, yet we can still do it.
Outrageously incorrect. I've always hated this example because it isn't true, or even useful.
Most of us know jack about the physics equations that describe where a baseball will land. All of us who can catch know the algorithm for catching that ball.
0. Repeat
1. Guess where the ball is going to land
2. Move to that spot.
3. Stick out gloved hand
4. Until ball is in glove or ball hits ground.
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I don't even have to accept the dollar as payment unless the other party already owes me money (thanks to the legal tender law). That is why it is legal for a business to not accept bills larger than a certain denomination. I've actually never been sure that it IS legal for a business not to accept larger bills. It certainly seems that, if I fill up my gas tank and try to pay with a $100 bill they can either accept the payment or forfeit the gas, not have me arrested for failure to pay.
Previously if the government wanted to go into debt, it had to sell bonds. If the government wanted to finance a war, they had to sell bonds. ...
Now all the government has to do is send a requisition to the Federal Reserve who just loans out more money And write an IOU, and account for it in the budget, etc.
Without the Federal Reserve they wouldn't even have to do that. They would send a requisition to the Treasury and spend the free money.
So, if you concede that privatization is bad, does that mean that the Federal Reserve is bad?
Oh, I don't concede that privatization is bad, per se. I think that situations need to be judged on their merits not on some ideological purity of thought. In some situations, privatization of services is the right thing, in others government control is the right thing, and in others not having the service at all is the right thing. As for the Federal Reserve, I think having some entity that forces the government to be somewhat accountable is better than no entity. I also think that fractional reserve banking is much more of a problem than the Federal Reserve.
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So, A Battery, an LED, and a capacitor (more likely a potentiometer).
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Accent and content. The one that really stands out in my memory is the woman talking loudly about the expensive diamond ring she was wearing that her husband bought her when they were in Aspen. And, apart from the rudeness, how stupid do you have to be to talk loudly about how expensive your jewelry is in a public place far from home. (Or even close to home, but at least there you speak the language and know people who might care enough to stop a thief.)
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This system seems open to a Coordinated Denial of Service type attack:
Have a decent sized group of people print out two ballots with opposing votes. Each of them casts one in the computer and the other in the ballot box. Everything matches up except the totals. There is no way to determine whether this is an error in the voting machine or a deliberate act of sabotage. At that point, the entire election must be hand-counted from the printed ballots. In which case, you might as well just plan on hand-counting in the first place.
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Maybe, Maybe Not. Off the top of the head solution: Require by law that the IP Address authority reserve a block of addresses for encrypted communication. Require by law that any commercial entity that desires to use encrypted communication apply for and register a TCP/IP Address from that block. Require Routers to not forward encrypted traffic if the source IP or destination IP is not in that block of addresses. (Identifying encrypted traffic is left as an excercise for the reader)
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You can't damage the machine by typing into it. The most you could do is hose the OS. Since any public terminal should be remote booted or imaged after every login this is a non-issue. -- JimFive
In OSX when you "maximize" a window, that window does not fill the screen. The window gets big enough to display its contents while being constrained by the screen (The window won't grow outside of the bounds of the screen). It takes a bit to get used to and there are some quirks. (For example, if I "maximize" the window and then zoom the contents I have to "maximize" again to resize the window to make it fit.) However, with a wide screen it does make a lot of difference. If I open up a code window and a reference document, I can "maximize" both of them and put them side by side without having to grab the handle and stretch the windows.
In addition Macs have expose which allows you to view all of the open windows of one or all applications at the same time and select the one you want to see.
Both of these, as well as the universal menu, take a bit to get used to as it is a different way of working. However, as screens get bigger and multiple screens get more common it is much less useful to make a window fill ALL of the available space.
I imagine a system that has (or allows me to define) screen regions that can constrain a window and it them to fill the region.
My take on the universal menu bar is a little different from any that I've seen. Menu bars, need to go away. A full contextual menu would solve the UI problems associated with both the Universal Bar (It's a long way away on a big screen and makes focus follows mouse not practical) as well as the problem with windowed menu bars (Multiple, repetitve menus can eat up a lot of screen space if you have a lot of windows open) A full menu that is there where you click removes the mouse movement issues as well as the screen real-estate issues. I've used Linux window managers that do this and it is quite nice.
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I think it should be slightly more strict:
Only someone eligible to vote in a particular race can give money to a candidate in that race. Note that this excludes PACs, Political Parties, Corporations, and Unions as well as unregistered citizens.
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Jimfive
I'd be happy if all the stores just put a standard barcode on the receipt that had: StoreID, Date, amount so that I could scan it and have it go directly into e.g. GnuCash. Even better would be a 2d barcode that also contained category information. Going all the way to individual line item detail would be overkill for most people, but I could see the benefit if you integrated it into a menu planner.
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And Computer Engineering != Computer Programming (Software Engineering)
Computer Engineering is designing and building Computers.
Computer Programming is contained within, but is not all of Computer Science.
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2. Turn off the ringer on your phone
3. Don't answer the phone
4. If using a landline - Turn down the volume on the answering machine
And, if there are certain people that you must allow to interrupt you. then...
5. Use a cellphone that allows you to set the ring specific to the incoming number.
6. Don't ever let your company buy your cell phone.
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JimFive
Matthew doesn't show up in the book of Matthew until chapter 17 (i think, it might be 13) and doesn't show up in the other gospels at all. In fact, it seems fairly clear from just reading the gospels that Matthew wrote himself into the story in place of someone called Levi in Mark.
Paul never met Jesus therefore anything written by Paul could NOT be an eye witness account of Jesus' life.
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Secondly, a power consumption meter doesn't answer the question, it just moves the question to "why am I consuming so much power?" The only way to get an answer to that question is something like Top.
For the User of the phone the real question is something like "How do I get a longer battery life?" Apple answers that question by preventing background apps.
And, anyway, isn't this the way PalmOS devices have always worked, only the visible app is active and it is the applications' job to exit/suspend/resume cleanly?
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JimFive
I doubt it. Assuming that we count each quarter turn as a moves and that we can only move the outside slices of the cube, that would require that there be an odd-numbered move pattern that could be undone by an even numbered pattern. If you make a move, that move has to be undone to get back to your starting point. To undo an odd number of moves, should take an odd number of moves (maybe not the same odd number). As an easy visualization: If you have a solved cube and you rotate the right side 3 quarter turns clockwise, you can get back to the starting point with either 1 quarter turn clockwise of 3 quarter turns counter-clockwise.
However, if we change our assumptions and allow movement of the middle slice then it is trivial to move the right side 1 away the left side 1 away and then undo those 2 moves by moving the middle slice 1 away.
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Because I'm in a nitpicking mood:
voila is French for "There it is" or literally "See There"
voici is French for "Here it is" or literally "See Here"
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No, I'm not saying that's not important. I was responding to the thread which began with a statement that you could flip it using less energy, which isn't true. -- JimFive
Sure, less force over more distance, the Energy is the same though
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Not exactly. With EftPos, you give the vendor a check and they run it through a scanner that immediately processes the check for the amount of purchase. It's like writing a check that gets instantly cashed. Some vendors can print the amount on the check for you as part of the scanning bit. -- JimFive
I've got to agree with this!
A home is not an investment and shouldn't be treated as one. If you want to try to make money in real estate buy some income properties and get to work.
Your home is a purchase, like your car. You pretty much have to have a place to live so you might as well buy one instead of renting. No one buys their day to day car with the expectation that it is going to increase in value. If you think of your home as that thing that you're buying to live in you can start thinking about what you want out of your house instead of thinking about what it is going to be worth 30 years from now. Hopefully, in 20 years, my house will be paid for and suddenly I have a whole bunch of net income that I don't have to throw at the bank every month.
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Jimfive
Outrageously incorrect.
I've always hated this example because it isn't true, or even useful.
Most of us know jack about the physics equations that describe where a baseball will land.
All of us who can catch know the algorithm for catching that ball.
0. Repeat
1. Guess where the ball is going to land
2. Move to that spot.
3. Stick out gloved hand
4. Until ball is in glove or ball hits ground.
--
JimFive
Previously if the government wanted to go into debt, it had to sell bonds. If the government wanted to finance a war, they had to sell bonds.
...
Now all the government has to do is send a requisition to the Federal Reserve who just loans out more money And write an IOU, and account for it in the budget, etc.
Without the Federal Reserve they wouldn't even have to do that. They would send a requisition to the Treasury and spend the free money.
So, if you concede that privatization is bad, does that mean that the Federal Reserve is bad?
Oh, I don't concede that privatization is bad, per se. I think that situations need to be judged on their merits not on some ideological purity of thought. In some situations, privatization of services is the right thing, in others government control is the right thing, and in others not having the service at all is the right thing. As for the Federal Reserve, I think having some entity that forces the government to be somewhat accountable is better than no entity. I also think that fractional reserve banking is much more of a problem than the Federal Reserve.
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