How come Republicans can only post stupid pre-written shit like this when debating?
I think you can disregard all the 2002 quotes, since Bush was lying to them. They believed it. That doesn't make them accomplices. The previous quotes are something, but that doesn't mean that any of those same speakers would have just thrown caution to the wind, bet the farm that there are WMD's, and invaded.
It is Bush who lied to us, it is Bush who bet both his reputation and his soldier's lives that there were going to be WMD's, it is Bush who deserves to look foolish when he was wrong.
That Mozart example is not the greatest one to prove your point. The whole point of the Vatican visit was because the Vatican kept that music secret. Hence the need for someone to steal it by listening and transcribing.
I agree with your point, by the way. Just because the Vatican kept some of it's music under tight control doesn't mean that practice was widespread.
It isn't the cops that make bank robbery hard, it's the nature of the task. You have to have a gun, you have to be able to think quick, you have to have a good plan. You have to be willing to risk your life when you go into that bank. Every bank robbery is a risk.
On the other hand, spamming is easy. Once you have a computer and spamming software, it is routine. There is no risk in spamming. If you do it wrong, it simply doesn't work! Pretty much the worse thing that can happen without getting arrested or sued is losing internet access.
I can explain it. There isn't a large number of bank robbers. Robbing banks is hard and dangerous, therefore there are few bank robbers. Sending spam is easy and virtually without risk. Therefore there are many spammers.
This is all covered in the excellent book Trust Us, We're Experts. Basically, think tanks, "citizen groups", and many research centers are just another pr tool a company can use - the appearance of unbiased opinions to bolster what the company wants to do.
Yes, garbage collection could impact performance, but it might be beneficial. A good garbage collector is like a good run-time optimizing compiler - it can improve performance by making choices about garbage collection based on the system state, including history. The end result may be better than you can get by hand-coding.
Not that Java's garbage collector is quite there yet in practice. It's best garbage collection routines (not enabled by default) are a bit buggy still.
I pay the $20 for extra Yahoo email, and I have to say that their spam filtering is much better than gmail's right now. I have about 10 spams a day to clear out of gmail, where with Yahoo it's more like 1, often 0.
People that don't pay for Yahoo don't seem to get such good spam filtering, though.
Cooking is not an art, it's not a science, it's a craft. LIke all crafts you have to know what you are doing (that's where science can help), but ultimately, it's all practice.
In psychology, there is a concept of two types of memory: declarative and procedural. The declarative memory would be perfect for science - it is a list of facts, easy to communicate. The procedural memory is impossible to communicate precisely, and must be learned through trial and error. Learning to ride a bike, drive a stick shift, etc are all procedural. So is cooking. I can write a recipe down of how to create a pizza from scratch, but you can't cook it successfully until you get a feel for rolling dough, knowing what it should look like, how it responds to pressure, etc.
That is why cooking is not a science. It's a craft.
Hey! If it's that hard to build a planet-destroying bomb, That means Battlefield Earth wasn't very realistic. Damn you, L. Ron Hubbard, daaaaamnnnn yoooouuuu!!
When I was working at NASA, I was still using a very simple password consisting of a very unusual word plus a number. One day the sys admin sends me a mail and says "Hey, I cracked your password. You must be a fan of [band name who had a song by this title]". I was embarassed enough that I immediately changed my password to something much stronger, and use a strong password to this day.
It works well because many people (myself included) just didn't get how easy it is to crack simple passwords until someone does it. If it's your friendly sysadmin, a normal desire to appear less idiotic is a sufficient motivator to choose a strong password.
It seems like a good portion of the responses seem to be complaining about how annoying those loud cell phone conversations are.
If you read the article, you would know that people tended to report cell-phone conversations as annoyingly loud, even when conducted at the same volume as normal conversations. So this appears to be a perceptual problem, not an actual problem with a loud person.
Of course, Im sure all these people would swear up and down that the people they hear on the cell phones really are loud! But it's probably just an illusion.
I use Jython regularly for unit testing Java. The expressivness of jython is great for writing shorter unit tests, and the lack of compilation makes the whole write-test-debug cycle short. And, dare I say, it's just more fun to code in jython than Java.
SMS may be the real revolutionary technology. They have recently been a huge factor in the upset in the Spanish election. Flash mobs have also demonstrated their power in producing spontantenous actions that are utterly unpredictable by the people in power.
It may not serve to get foreign ideas into a populace, but it can greatly accelerate the spread of ideas in a way that is uncontrollable.
I dunno where you are getting this. These models still don't give me the time of day! Even after I tell them I'm a hacker! They just stand there looking all aloof and beautiful. Maybe I just haven't run into the new kind yet.
On the subject of the second article, I live in downtown San Mateo myself, and am surprised that so many buttons are non-operative. But some that I use do indeed provide a longer time to cross. They also will give you the walk signal, while if you don't press the button, you don't get it. So many of these buttons in downtown San Mateo do actually do something. My guess is that most of the downtown ones don't do anything, but the ones along El Camino Real (one side of downtown) do actually work.
I disagree, I think if X somehow magically got antialiasing built in (or X was replaced by a compatible thing that had antialiasing), old apps are going to "magically" have these capabilities. Emacs relies on X to make characters appear on the screen. How these characters appear depends on X. X can make them be antialiased if it had that capability, just as now it makes them appear different based on font, size, etc.
-In 1997 UCS organized a petition that warned of "global warming" and advocated U.S. ratification of the Kyoto treaty. It was signed by 1,600 scientists, and so UCS declared that "the scientific community has reached a consensus." But when a counter-petition that questioned this so-called "consensus" was signed by more than 17,000 other scientists, UCS declared it a "deliberate attempt to deceive the scientific community with misinformation."
Sorry the petition you mention with 17,000 other scientists has been widely discredited for years now. It used deceptive techniques (including a paper seemingly made to look like it was published in Nature), and made no effort to verify results. If you look at who signed up, you find all sorts of joke names and such. So it's basically bullshit.
Again, that's something you have to compile into (see this message for an example). So, even if I have XRender, i will not have antialiasing unless my apps support it. This isn't the case for modern windowing systems like Windows / Mac, etc.
Your point (b) is wrong. Most of the complaints I've heard, and I have, is not that it is slow and bloated. The complaints are that it is old and doesn't have the features we expect in a modern windowing system.
My pet peeve is antialiasing. You don't get it at the X-windows level, you have to build it into your app! That's why, shamefully, things like emacs look much better on Windows than on Linux.
I don't think you have an accurate picture of the fan reaction there. most fans, myself included, think the show was pretty bad for a few years around Season 10, and has now started getting better again.
Of course each season has some good episodes. But the bad seasons have a lot of bad ones. C'mon, I'd like to hear you try and defend the episode with Mel Gibson.
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Interesting point. I actually have been thinking that the Simpsons has been getting better the last few years. Perhaps it is Meyer's influence after all.
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How come Republicans can only post stupid pre-written shit like this when debating?
I think you can disregard all the 2002 quotes, since Bush was lying to them. They believed it. That doesn't make them accomplices. The previous quotes are something, but that doesn't mean that any of those same speakers would have just thrown caution to the wind, bet the farm that there are WMD's, and invaded.
It is Bush who lied to us, it is Bush who bet both his reputation and his soldier's lives that there were going to be WMD's, it is Bush who deserves to look foolish when he was wrong.
No thanks. I had Indian for lunch.
That Mozart example is not the greatest one to prove your point. The whole point of the Vatican visit was because the Vatican kept that music secret. Hence the need for someone to steal it by listening and transcribing.
I agree with your point, by the way. Just because the Vatican kept some of it's music under tight control doesn't mean that practice was widespread.
It isn't the cops that make bank robbery hard, it's the nature of the task. You have to have a gun, you have to be able to think quick, you have to have a good plan. You have to be willing to risk your life when you go into that bank. Every bank robbery is a risk.
On the other hand, spamming is easy. Once you have a computer and spamming software, it is routine. There is no risk in spamming. If you do it wrong, it simply doesn't work! Pretty much the worse thing that can happen without getting arrested or sued is losing internet access.
I can explain it. There isn't a large number of bank robbers. Robbing banks is hard and dangerous, therefore there are few bank robbers. Sending spam is easy and virtually without risk. Therefore there are many spammers.
This is all covered in the excellent book Trust Us, We're Experts. Basically, think tanks, "citizen groups", and many research centers are just another pr tool a company can use - the appearance of unbiased opinions to bolster what the company wants to do.
I highly recommend this book.
Yes, garbage collection could impact performance, but it might be beneficial. A good garbage collector is like a good run-time optimizing compiler - it can improve performance by making choices about garbage collection based on the system state, including history. The end result may be better than you can get by hand-coding.
Not that Java's garbage collector is quite there yet in practice. It's best garbage collection routines (not enabled by default) are a bit buggy still.
Very true. My point is not necessarily that it is a better value, but that it is possible to do better than Google currently is.
I should have mentioned that Yahoo does occasionally have false positives, and several people seem to have their otherwise normal mail tagged as spam.
I pay the $20 for extra Yahoo email, and I have to say that their spam filtering is much better than gmail's right now. I have about 10 spams a day to clear out of gmail, where with Yahoo it's more like 1, often 0.
People that don't pay for Yahoo don't seem to get such good spam filtering, though.
Google can definitely do better.
Cooking is not an art, it's not a science, it's a craft. LIke all crafts you have to know what you are doing (that's where science can help), but ultimately, it's all practice.
In psychology, there is a concept of two types of memory: declarative and procedural. The declarative memory would be perfect for science - it is a list of facts, easy to communicate. The procedural memory is impossible to communicate precisely, and must be learned through trial and error. Learning to ride a bike, drive a stick shift, etc are all procedural. So is cooking. I can write a recipe down of how to create a pizza from scratch, but you can't cook it successfully until you get a feel for rolling dough, knowing what it should look like, how it responds to pressure, etc.
That is why cooking is not a science. It's a craft.
Hey! If it's that hard to build a planet-destroying bomb, That means Battlefield Earth wasn't very realistic. Damn you, L. Ron Hubbard, daaaaamnnnn yoooouuuu!!
When I was working at NASA, I was still using a very simple password consisting of a very unusual word plus a number. One day the sys admin sends me a mail and says "Hey, I cracked your password. You must be a fan of [band name who had a song by this title]". I was embarassed enough that I immediately changed my password to something much stronger, and use a strong password to this day.
It works well because many people (myself included) just didn't get how easy it is to crack simple passwords until someone does it. If it's your friendly sysadmin, a normal desire to appear less idiotic is a sufficient motivator to choose a strong password.
It seems like a good portion of the responses seem to be complaining about how annoying those loud cell phone conversations are.
If you read the article, you would know that people tended to report cell-phone conversations as annoyingly loud, even when conducted at the same volume as normal conversations. So this appears to be a perceptual problem, not an actual problem with a loud person.
Of course, Im sure all these people would swear up and down that the people they hear on the cell phones really are loud! But it's probably just an illusion.
I use Jython regularly for unit testing Java. The expressivness of jython is great for writing shorter unit tests, and the lack of compilation makes the whole write-test-debug cycle short. And, dare I say, it's just more fun to code in jython than Java.
SMS may be the real revolutionary technology. They have recently been a huge factor in the upset in the Spanish election. Flash mobs have also demonstrated their power in producing spontantenous actions that are utterly unpredictable by the people in power.
It may not serve to get foreign ideas into a populace, but it can greatly accelerate the spread of ideas in a way that is uncontrollable.
I'm optimistic for the future.
I dunno where you are getting this. These models still don't give me the time of day! Even after I tell them I'm a hacker! They just stand there looking all aloof and beautiful. Maybe I just haven't run into the new kind yet.
Here's hoping the mysterious freezing bug a lot of people have experienced, including me, is fixed. It was evidently introduced in 10.3.2.
Yeah, next thing you know, the Elves will be singing "tra la la lolly". Oh, wait a sec, that was in The Hobbit.
Cecil Adams has the Straight Dope on what these things do when they work.
On the subject of the second article, I live in downtown San Mateo myself, and am surprised that so many buttons are non-operative. But some that I use do indeed provide a longer time to cross. They also will give you the walk signal, while if you don't press the button, you don't get it. So many of these buttons in downtown San Mateo do actually do something. My guess is that most of the downtown ones don't do anything, but the ones along El Camino Real (one side of downtown) do actually work.
I disagree, I think if X somehow magically got antialiasing built in (or X was replaced by a compatible thing that had antialiasing), old apps are going to "magically" have these capabilities. Emacs relies on X to make characters appear on the screen. How these characters appear depends on X. X can make them be antialiased if it had that capability, just as now it makes them appear different based on font, size, etc.
Sorry the petition you mention with 17,000 other scientists has been widely discredited for years now. It used deceptive techniques (including a paper seemingly made to look like it was published in Nature), and made no effort to verify results. If you look at who signed up, you find all sorts of joke names and such. So it's basically bullshit.
Again, that's something you have to compile into (see this message for an example). So, even if I have XRender, i will not have antialiasing unless my apps support it. This isn't the case for modern windowing systems like Windows / Mac, etc.
Your point (b) is wrong. Most of the complaints I've heard, and I have, is not that it is slow and bloated. The complaints are that it is old and doesn't have the features we expect in a modern windowing system.
My pet peeve is antialiasing. You don't get it at the X-windows level, you have to build it into your app! That's why, shamefully, things like emacs look much better on Windows than on Linux.
I don't think you have an accurate picture of the fan reaction there. most fans, myself included, think the show was pretty bad for a few years around Season 10, and has now started getting better again.
Of course each season has some good episodes. But the bad seasons have a lot of bad ones. C'mon, I'd like to hear you try and defend the episode with Mel Gibson.
Interesting point. I actually have been thinking that the Simpsons has been getting better the last few years. Perhaps it is Meyer's influence after all.