No, a contractor is who the Government hires because Congress want's to funnel more money to businesses (optimally in their districts.) This is usually backed up with bogus statistics and other Damned Lies that portend to show that it's actually cheaper.
Of course without good oversight the contractor becomes the only one capable of the job, knows they have the government by the short-and-curlys, and can way overbid the next time since the spin-up/learning-curve costs of replacing them is too painful.
Oh, and if its time-and-materials, they get paid to f*** things up, and paid again to fix them.
This problem has been there for YEARS. Ran into this when updating a box ~5 years ago to Mandrake 10 or some-such. I don't mind the desktop icons, but I want Enlightenment (which I'd been using 9 years ago) to handle the background and desktop switching. The ONLY reference to an overly obscure option to switch it off I found on, get this, a KDE rant site describing why Gnome was so awful. Of course the option still turned the icons off too. F**k Gnome, E is prettier.
Wiping the slate clean is good. I like to believe that Sybok didn't make it off Vulcan, and hence the fifth movie can be erased from cannon for good (not just by the Word of Gene Roddenberry outside of the films.)
As for the plots we liked, think: The Botany Bay is still drifting through space.... Whales are already extinct on Earth.... The Klingons still hate the Federation.... the possibilities are still there.
That's a great article (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/04/water-vapour-feedback-or-forcing/) though you didn't get to the best part in your post: water vapor is a feedback not a forcing of temperature. I love throwing this article at denialists who crow that water is 20x more potent than CO2. CO2 will accumulate in the air for hundreds of years causing increased warming. H20 of any concentration will come out of the air in about 10 days and reach an equilibrium based on the true temp forcings.
I have an old Ford Probe. Talk about cramped. To cram all that crap under the hood of such a streamlined body. Not sure how I'm going to get my fingers on the rear O2 sensor/connector that needs to be replaced soon. I hate being unable to follow wiring even with a flashlight from both above and below the car.
At least they pay security lip service. My mother was having trouble enabling online Suntrust banking from her OS X machine months back (we tried three browser types, all failed differently.) The Suntrust rep on the phone actualy made the suggestion that my mother go to a public library with a Windows machine since it would work there*. It's at this point I went from anoyed to extremely cross and chewed the person out. I wonder how many other customers with out Windows PCs and tech-savy children were following this advice.
*For some reason the software lets you manage your account fine from a Mac, but won't let you do the first time setup.
They are a utility. They could give a rats ass what your confidence in their online bill-pay is. What are you going to do, switch water companies?
But yes, there is nothing like a stapled and filed stack of paper statements from all utilities/CC/morgage when Arp 15th rolls arround. So I'm in the stoneage too and like it.
According to the authority of the Car Talk guys, once you report a problem to the dealer while under waranty, repairing it is under waranty no matter how long (or how many tries) it takes them to fix it. Sounds like you got them to admit this eventualy, but yes, car dealers are slimy.
I wonder if a similar argument would apply, even though you aren't sending the laptop in for service. It's a 'known issue' of a pre-waranty-expiring condition that they are _attempting_ to service with the patch. If it fails later in life, can you claim that it was an unsuccessful attempt to fix a previous, covered problem and should still be covered?
So as long as your orbital trajectory intersects a space body (earth, moon, sun, etc.) you are OK? You are also OK if you have reached escape velocity? Any other trajectory is in orbit arround something in the solar system and hence a satellite of that something. Also, I guess no pictures from the moon, which is a natrual and (one would hope) unclassified satellite of earth.
What keeps an employer from saying "bring in your ballots, let me watch you fill it out for X, and give them to me to mail....or you are fired."? Feel free to replace 'employer' and 'fired' with other nasties.
You do realize that QC is just a method of securly distributing a one-time-pad between two endpoints, right? They don't use the photons to send the message data, that gets XORed later and sent via normal channels. So if everyone is wrong about quantum mechanics translates directly to "the OTP implementation is flawed".
While OTPs are hard to implement (Where did I put that onionpaper again?) the whole point of developing QC is to get to the point someday where it IS practical/hasslefree to distribute the "pad". Ever faster and over longer distances.
Southwest obviously couldn't do this because they don't assign seats. However they have recently switched to a strict-order for boarding from the old A,B,C 'corrals'. (don't let the letters fool you, B1 is just A60+1.) Of course the order of filling is likely to go window-aisle-middle when you pick-your-own.
How does it teach complex verb tenses / conjugation with pictures? I mean how does one illustrate third-person-plural-future-perfect? That was always my beef with learning other languages.
Made harder by the fact that the most basic verbs (which tend to be taught first year) in many languages (including English) have a tendency to be the most irregular. Probably because conjugation tends to become more regular for late-arriving words in a language, after rules have been established, while the most basic concepts were arround while the language was still being formed.
I mean you first teach kids 'tener' and 'estar' and then try to teach them the -ar -er- and -ir verbs. WTF?
Power tends to be proportional to fCV^2, yes. But the achievable clock frequency f is actualy a function of V. Higher voltages = lower gate delay = higher freq, as many overclockers have discovered. So power tends to scale with V^3. (Assuming you are getting the optimal performance out of your process technology. I mean you could increase V and not take advantage of the bonus in f and only use ~V^2 more power, or decrease f wihtout decreasing V to use ~V less power, but that would mean you were wasting power for equivalent performance.)
I've ignored where V gets small and static power starts to dominate dynamic power.
Isn't this what the System Management Bus (SMBus) is for? SMB also has the advantage of not requiring hubs to provide multiple ports since its a true multi-slave two wire bus. (Multi master, too.) Why not just provide a breakout connector on the motherboard to chain more devices? It is 100-400kbps but most of the peripherals don't need to report more than a few bits per second of diagnostic info anyway.
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No, a contractor is who the Government hires because Congress want's to funnel more money to businesses (optimally in their districts.) This is usually backed up with bogus statistics and other Damned Lies that portend to show that it's actually cheaper.
Of course without good oversight the contractor becomes the only one capable of the job, knows they have the government by the short-and-curlys, and can way overbid the next time since the spin-up/learning-curve costs of replacing them is too painful.
Oh, and if its time-and-materials, they get paid to f*** things up, and paid again to fix them.
This problem has been there for YEARS. Ran into this when updating a box ~5 years ago to Mandrake 10 or some-such. I don't mind the desktop icons, but I want Enlightenment (which I'd been using 9 years ago) to handle the background and desktop switching. The ONLY reference to an overly obscure option to switch it off I found on, get this, a KDE rant site describing why Gnome was so awful. Of course the option still turned the icons off too. F**k Gnome, E is prettier.
Yet you continue to argue with other people on the internet. Fascinating.
Wiping the slate clean is good. I like to believe that Sybok didn't make it off Vulcan, and hence the fifth movie can be erased from cannon for good (not just by the Word of Gene Roddenberry outside of the films.)
As for the plots we liked, think: The Botany Bay is still drifting through space.... Whales are already extinct on Earth.... The Klingons still hate the Federation.... the possibilities are still there.
He cut the gordian knot of keeping track of 40 years of canon with a masterstroke.
:-)
He cheated.
That's a great article (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/04/water-vapour-feedback-or-forcing/) though you didn't get to the best part in your post: water vapor is a feedback not a forcing of temperature. I love throwing this article at denialists who crow that water is 20x more potent than CO2. CO2 will accumulate in the air for hundreds of years causing increased warming. H20 of any concentration will come out of the air in about 10 days and reach an equilibrium based on the true temp forcings.
I have an old Ford Probe. Talk about cramped. To cram all that crap under the hood of such a streamlined body. Not sure how I'm going to get my fingers on the rear O2 sensor/connector that needs to be replaced soon. I hate being unable to follow wiring even with a flashlight from both above and below the car.
So you taught him the universal life lesson of "don't get caught."
Actually I see more of an SR-71 Blackbird with a fat tail. Can really see it here from above.
...we must make every effort to "lean forward"....
Isn't "leaning forward" the exact opposite of bending over backwards?
At least they pay security lip service. My mother was having trouble enabling online Suntrust banking from her OS X machine months back (we tried three browser types, all failed differently.) The Suntrust rep on the phone actualy made the suggestion that my mother go to a public library with a Windows machine since it would work there*. It's at this point I went from anoyed to extremely cross and chewed the person out. I wonder how many other customers with out Windows PCs and tech-savy children were following this advice.
*For some reason the software lets you manage your account fine from a Mac, but won't let you do the first time setup.
They are a utility. They could give a rats ass what your confidence in their online bill-pay is. What are you going to do, switch water companies? But yes, there is nothing like a stapled and filed stack of paper statements from all utilities/CC/morgage when Arp 15th rolls arround. So I'm in the stoneage too and like it.
They got some grainy camera shots of Decepticons right before they lost the signal.
According to the authority of the Car Talk guys, once you report a problem to the dealer while under waranty, repairing it is under waranty no matter how long (or how many tries) it takes them to fix it. Sounds like you got them to admit this eventualy, but yes, car dealers are slimy. I wonder if a similar argument would apply, even though you aren't sending the laptop in for service. It's a 'known issue' of a pre-waranty-expiring condition that they are _attempting_ to service with the patch. If it fails later in life, can you claim that it was an unsuccessful attempt to fix a previous, covered problem and should still be covered?
So as long as your orbital trajectory intersects a space body (earth, moon, sun, etc.) you are OK? You are also OK if you have reached escape velocity? Any other trajectory is in orbit arround something in the solar system and hence a satellite of that something. Also, I guess no pictures from the moon, which is a natrual and (one would hope) unclassified satellite of earth.
What keeps an employer from saying "bring in your ballots, let me watch you fill it out for X, and give them to me to mail....or you are fired."? Feel free to replace 'employer' and 'fired' with other nasties.
You do realize that QC is just a method of securly distributing a one-time-pad between two endpoints, right? They don't use the photons to send the message data, that gets XORed later and sent via normal channels. So if everyone is wrong about quantum mechanics translates directly to "the OTP implementation is flawed". While OTPs are hard to implement (Where did I put that onionpaper again?) the whole point of developing QC is to get to the point someday where it IS practical/hasslefree to distribute the "pad". Ever faster and over longer distances.
Of course this is /. so I didn't RTFA. Doh. Oops. :-)
Southwest obviously couldn't do this because they don't assign seats. However they have recently switched to a strict-order for boarding from the old A,B,C 'corrals'. (don't let the letters fool you, B1 is just A60+1.) Of course the order of filling is likely to go window-aisle-middle when you pick-your-own.
How does it teach complex verb tenses / conjugation with pictures? I mean how does one illustrate third-person-plural-future-perfect? That was always my beef with learning other languages.
Made harder by the fact that the most basic verbs (which tend to be taught first year) in many languages (including English) have a tendency to be the most irregular. Probably because conjugation tends to become more regular for late-arriving words in a language, after rules have been established, while the most basic concepts were arround while the language was still being formed.
I mean you first teach kids 'tener' and 'estar' and then try to teach them the -ar -er- and -ir verbs. WTF?
Power tends to be proportional to fCV^2, yes. But the achievable clock frequency f is actualy a function of V. Higher voltages = lower gate delay = higher freq, as many overclockers have discovered. So power tends to scale with V^3. (Assuming you are getting the optimal performance out of your process technology. I mean you could increase V and not take advantage of the bonus in f and only use ~V^2 more power, or decrease f wihtout decreasing V to use ~V less power, but that would mean you were wasting power for equivalent performance.) I've ignored where V gets small and static power starts to dominate dynamic power.
The Romulans.
Never mistake efficiency for effectiveness. People often think they need the former when really they need the later.
Isn't this what the System Management Bus (SMBus) is for? SMB also has the advantage of not requiring hubs to provide multiple ports since its a true multi-slave two wire bus. (Multi master, too.) Why not just provide a breakout connector on the motherboard to chain more devices? It is 100-400kbps but most of the peripherals don't need to report more than a few bits per second of diagnostic info anyway.