as if it is a bad thing. I for one welcome being able to browse among the TVs to find one I like and then to buy it at the biggest discount possible right there and then because the retailer plans to make up the margin by selling cables. It's not as if the cables are a mandatory part of the deal, you can always order them online or buy them at a different store.
that the reasoning behind restricting pornography is being driven less by a reasonable desire to avoid spurring an abusive porn industry than it is by the kind of thinking that led to Burqas, hijabs and niqabs. Apparently iconodulism holds that exploitation of any kind is less shameful than being caught leering at women's bodies and rather than stop the leering, it is easier to shroud the flesh. I can't think of a better case of "blame the victim".
They clearly only need one fiber to deliver the energy, but would need two copper conductors. I wonder if there's a way to deliver the energy over one copper wire.
that it is commonly believed that specifying software is easy. It is very hard even for smart people and to my mind should be avoided if at all possible. What NYC should have done was to find a payroll system they liked, perhaps had it tweaked a little by the vendor where there were irreconcilable differences and then changed their own payroll practices to fit the capabilities of the software. As others have said, it's not as if New York is the only state with a payroll to process. SAIC make their living out of poorly written specs, they have no interest in getting a decent spec. Furthermore, this is an area where open source excels, one can generally quickly make a decent prototype and once you have discovered what you like through trial and error you can either use the working prototype as a specification or simply scale-up the software you have and use it for whatever period you choose, you won't be forced to upgrade on a vendor's timetable (another source of "perpetual gravy").
many of us would be out of a job. No, the right approach is to market items that address this need. USB condoms, holographically-marked trustworthy USB drives for IT departments to hand out, expoxy-on USB port adaptors that change the PC's USB port to a different connector and a range of keyboards, thumb drives and mice that use the non-standard connector. come on people, stupidity --> profit.
In general, people will want clocks that pretty much point to noon at the sun's zenith where they live, where it gets dark at around the wall-clock time they remember as being bed time and where the alarm goes off just slightly before the time of day that they wish it would. These are all synced to the Earth's motion and anyway...
Powerline frequency stability isn't what it once was, and being allowed to drift more recently, especially outside of Texas (I don't know why Texas...)
Wall clocks (and by extension syslog clocks etc.) can generally stand to be gently corrected every now and again so the smooth progression of time is not as important for those purposes (ie. >99% of all purposes I would guess) as it might be to a hyper-accurate physics experiment
it's a great way to draw attention to a real problem. There are a lot of unwanted animals in this world and a little public debate on where pet animals come from is a good thing to my mind. I am the proud owner of a pound puppy and I can't think of any circumstance where I would want to purchase a dog from a breeder. Some of the breeders are downright shady. I'm not saying I would want all pet sales banned, but I welcome the discussion.
will simply ignore UTC and continue to show the time based on the earth's rotation. All this means is that UTC loses any small shred of relevance that it once may have had to the common man. So go ahead, redefine UTC and we can all just go back to using GMT for our reports, syslog messages, traps etc. that all have far more to do with the time as experienced by users than the time as experienced by a cesium atom. I expect that soon after the decision is made someone will start gmt.pool.ntp.org and utc.pool.ntp.org and we'll have a choice.
Presumably this is only so that congressmen can talk to non-congressmen. They would surely use their own internal system to talk to each other. In general, I would have thought that most non-congressmen would jump at the chance to travel to meet a congressman. So who's travel is being saved here ?
I'd be surprised if officers would be allowed to wear them if they purchased one. Wouldn't want to alarm the public, and besides the TSA might find out something it doesn't want to know; same reason they don't hand out "satisfaction surveys" to travellers.
It's always interesting to learn more about what "liberal" and "conservative" mean. In this case the line seems to be drawn based on whether sex or violence is the greater evil.
The reasoning over banning guns is far more nuanced than you make out. For example, preventing accidental gun-related injuries or reducing low-level crime with guns involved.
I agree, there is already a law to make murder illegal as there should be, but not all gun deaths are murder. There is also a law to make robbing a 7-11 illegal, but because guns are so prevalent, practically every 7-11 robbery involves one.
Also there is not just criminal law, but I don't hear of so many people that were financially ruined permanently when they accidentally shot someone by dropping their concealed-carry gun that they just had to have to make then feel safer.
after it was recommended to me on/. The results were great. The kids really enjoyed it and the presentation where I introduced it was well attended and generated a lot of enthusiasm. Many of the kids went on to download scratch and use it at home.
I hope I can get some of these boards to do a follow-on presentation. they seem to be much better than the other scratch boards that I have seen.
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as if it is a bad thing. I for one welcome being able to browse among the TVs to find one I like and then to buy it at the biggest discount possible right there and then because the retailer plans to make up the margin by selling cables. It's not as if the cables are a mandatory part of the deal, you can always order them online or buy them at a different store.
is that seriously the turd post ?
that the reasoning behind restricting pornography is being driven less by a reasonable desire to avoid spurring an abusive porn industry than it is by the kind of thinking that led to Burqas, hijabs and niqabs. Apparently iconodulism holds that exploitation of any kind is less shameful than being caught leering at women's bodies and rather than stop the leering, it is easier to shroud the flesh. I can't think of a better case of "blame the victim".
They clearly only need one fiber to deliver the energy, but would need two copper conductors. I wonder if there's a way to deliver the energy over one copper wire.
that it is commonly believed that specifying software is easy. It is very hard even for smart people and to my mind should be avoided if at all possible. What NYC should have done was to find a payroll system they liked, perhaps had it tweaked a little by the vendor where there were irreconcilable differences and then changed their own payroll practices to fit the capabilities of the software. As others have said, it's not as if New York is the only state with a payroll to process.
SAIC make their living out of poorly written specs, they have no interest in getting a decent spec.
Furthermore, this is an area where open source excels, one can generally quickly make a decent prototype and once you have discovered what you like through trial and error you can either use the working prototype as a specification or simply scale-up the software you have and use it for whatever period you choose, you won't be forced to upgrade on a vendor's timetable (another source of "perpetual gravy").
many of us would be out of a job. No, the right approach is to market items that address this need. USB condoms, holographically-marked trustworthy USB drives for IT departments to hand out, expoxy-on USB port adaptors that change the PC's USB port to a different connector and a range of keyboards, thumb drives and mice that use the non-standard connector.
come on people, stupidity --> profit.
Dear AC. Please be sure to use contraception, as I'm not sure that you know what the word circumcised means.
it's a great way to draw attention to a real problem. There are a lot of unwanted animals in this world and a little public debate on where pet animals come from is a good thing to my mind. I am the proud owner of a pound puppy and I can't think of any circumstance where I would want to purchase a dog from a breeder. Some of the breeders are downright shady. I'm not saying I would want all pet sales banned, but I welcome the discussion.
will simply ignore UTC and continue to show the time based on the earth's rotation. All this means is that UTC loses any small shred of relevance that it once may have had to the common man. So go ahead, redefine UTC and we can all just go back to using GMT for our reports, syslog messages, traps etc. that all have far more to do with the time as experienced by users than the time as experienced by a cesium atom. I expect that soon after the decision is made someone will start gmt.pool.ntp.org and utc.pool.ntp.org and we'll have a choice.
Presumably this is only so that congressmen can talk to non-congressmen. They would surely use their own internal system to talk to each other. In general, I would have thought that most non-congressmen would jump at the chance to travel to meet a congressman. So who's travel is being saved here ?
Do you have enough to post one on every peak between the camp and the nearest internet cafe ?
I'd be surprised if officers would be allowed to wear them if they purchased one. Wouldn't want to alarm the public, and besides the TSA might find out something it doesn't want to know; same reason they don't hand out "satisfaction surveys" to travellers.
in assuming it's the scanners before having properly ruled out Voodoo.
if only we could find a way of connecting to all of these electricity meters with wires somehow...
It's always interesting to learn more about what "liberal" and "conservative" mean. In this case the line seems to be drawn based on whether sex or violence is the greater evil.
Were they able to find any body fluids, did he cumeth ?
and I still don't understand it. Is the legislation stalled or about to be approved ?
or only at noon ?
The in-app upgrade to replace Chambliss with Cleland is patent encumbered.
The reasoning over banning guns is far more nuanced than you make out. For example, preventing accidental gun-related injuries or reducing low-level crime with guns involved.
I agree, there is already a law to make murder illegal as there should be, but not all gun deaths are murder. There is also a law to make robbing a 7-11 illegal, but because guns are so prevalent, practically every 7-11 robbery involves one.
Also there is not just criminal law, but I don't hear of so many people that were financially ruined permanently when they accidentally shot someone by dropping their concealed-carry gun that they just had to have to make then feel safer.
or make bullet proof vests illegal
Does Norway not have vast quantities of high quality oil to export ? Surely the benefit of that must help the whole Norwegian system, even companies.
after it was recommended to me on /. The results were great. The kids really enjoyed it and the presentation where I introduced it was well attended and generated a lot of enthusiasm. Many of the kids went on to download scratch and use it at home.
I hope I can get some of these boards to do a follow-on presentation. they seem to be much better than the other scratch boards that I have seen.
Why wait for it to ring ?