I'm married, and thusly implications about my having sex could probably go either way
I'm married, 29, and have an eight-year-old son, so I can prove I was having sex at 20! And also that sex the day after her period ends isn't as safe as you think...
Heated floors, via hot water pipes. If we've got the boiler, anyway, maybe a hot tub. Is it possible to heat waterbeds from the same boiler?
Solar wherever it's feasible. The roof could be either photovoltaics, or a mirror and black pipe water heating system (should be a natural match to the heated floors). If the mirrored concave dishes that capture sunlight into fiber optics (there was a Slashdot article on them a few months ago) are ready yet, put one or two next to the house, where they won't interfere with what's on the roof. Big windows and/or sliding glass doors on the south side, into rooms with black carpet.
Good soundproofing and good insulation.
Floors that are attached by screws, so they don't squeak.
Lots of conduit, as long as it doesn't interfere with the soundproofing.
Kitchen: Butcher block island. Fairly low ceiling with an exposed beam style, so that pots and pans can be hung from the beams. Dishwasher and double sink. Long counters with plenty of outlets and lighting under the cabinets, for things like bread makers, deep fryers, mixers, etc. Walk-in pantry. Filtered water hot enough to make tea, on-tap (my in-laws have this -- I think there's an electric pass-through heater under the sink).
A theater room: hardwood floors and no windows. Don't build the TV and stereo in, but leave room for a big TV and various speakers, with plenty of power. Built-in bookshelves on the sides and back of the room would be nice.
A bathtub with walls on both sides that you enter from the end opposite the shower. I saw one of those on Queer Eye, and the comment that it would be good for sex was dead-on. Decent sized-ledges in the shower for shampoo, razor, etc.
Misc: trees, courtyard, ceiling fans in most rooms and all bedrooms, attic fan (can you make something like that leading out of the kitchen?), built-in shelving wherever feasible, somewhere to exercise with fans and music, bathrooms off every bedroom, a half-bath somewhere near the entrance, brick exterior, something that doesn't burn well for the main structure (concrete or cinder-block?), a small workshop suitable to both woodworking and computer work.
I agree. But you want to know something? I support their right to be idiots! It's called freedom.
I want the government out of my own personal fucking affairs...including *my* right to be an idiot at times.
I support people's right to be idiots, too, as long as it's just them. We were talking about kids, though, and I don't think the rights of the parents are terribly significant in that case. I support the right of the kids to be properly vaccinated, to pick their own religion when they're old enough to make an informed choice, and to get sex ed. no matter what their parents think about it.
Weaknees sold me a model R10 DirecTiVo about three weeks ago, after DirecTV themselves and Circuit City were down to only the DirecTV in-house R15. Depending on when you switch, you might still be able to get the HD DirecTiVo from a smaller place like them.
A cause is a good motivator. I think Stallman's mostly off-base (using Windows doesn't affect my freedom to see Linux source code, nor would using Linux give me the freedom to see Windows source code), but his cause motivated him and some other people to put GNU together, making Linux feasible.
It's not ad hominem to point out that someone may have been paid to hold a certain opinion Just so long as you're not going on to say that what that person's saying should be ignored because of it. He could still be right, even if he's saying something in his employer's best interest.
Besides, in this case, he appears to be arguing against something that would benefit Microsoft.
Although people keep bringing up the loss of DirecTV over and over and over and over again, personally I do not think that this is as great of an issue as people make it out to be. ... TiVo makes far more money on their standalone boxes than the pittance that they receive on their DirecTV boxes. The reduction in DirecTV business is perhaps one of the most overhyped stories out there on TiVo today. It may be overhyped from the business side, but there are a lot of customers who really love our DirecTiVo units, and it *is* a big deal to us.
In fact, if some of DirecTV's customers have such bad experiences with DirecTV's generic PVRs it would not surprise me to see these same people buy Series 3 standalone TiVo's due out later this year Sorry, no. DirecTiVo is both cheaper than stand-alone and better quality, due to the lack of the superfluous digital-to-analog-to-digital conversions. I might be willing to pay an extra $10/month to keep the TiVo interface over DirecTV's new one, but I will always take a DVR that's integrated with satellite or digital cable over a stand-alone.
What I do think might be more of a draw to the DirecTiVo people is the Comcast DVRs with TiVo software that's supposed to come out later this year. As for me, though, I just got an R10 DirecTivo from Weaknees (215 hours!) while I still could, and I expect to use it for the next several years.
The hard drives on your Series 1 will fail someday. Weaknees sells replacement drives (with the TiVo image), though, and you can pick up some more capacity, too.
I think that the book should start off by trying to explain to me WHY I should move from VB6 to VB2005. Probably because you'd like to get another job sometime.
I cannot see that vb syntax, for someone coming in with no prior experience, would be better than c# syntax. Some of us like words better than symbols, and I hate all the ways C and its descendants encourage people to combine multiple lines of code into one.
On the other hand, I also like lines that end with semicolons, so unless Pascal makes a comeback, I'm probably SOL for general-purpose languages. For specialized languages, PL/SQL is okay, but it would be nice if they had decided whether they wanted a BASIC If/End If style, or a Pascal Begin/End style.
When we reach the level of automation that anyone can simply tell the system what they need in a progam, and it spits it out well optimized That happened in the 1950's, with FORTRAN. Since then, we've been tinkering with the ways to tell the system what we need.
The fact is, people who don't play video games aren't going to buy a console. Perhaps, but I've never had much interest in console games (I like strategy and sometimes RPG), and I'm planning to buy a Revolution. That will be my first console ever, and I turn 30 in June.
You are so right, my rights-oppressed friend. But *AAs are culpable for buying the laws; Congress is culpable for selling them.
Both should be punished severely, and I'm not talking swatted across the bare backside by Mistress Trish in her beautiful leather attire, either. I'm talking Smite.
That already happened on Congress's side. Sonny Bono was smote by a tree.
I probably would've, but it's pretty common for the judge to make the jury stay together until the holdout gets talked into submission, and it's not unheard of for jury members to go to jail for contempt of court.
Both (a) and (b) will need to be proved beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law for a person to be convicted.
Maybe things are better in the UK, but here in the US, reasonable doubt is pretty much ignored. My wife was on a murder jury a couple of years ago, where they all agreed that they had no idea what really happened, and everyone from both sides, except the pathologist, was probably lying. She was able to talk the rest of the jury down to second-degree murder, but the guy was still convicted. Not even the defense attorney ever brought up reasonable doubt.
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I hate when they won't just leave the package. I hate it when the web store won't let me ship packages to my parents, or one of my coworkers who lives in a better neighborhood. At either of those places, UPS and FedEx will both just leave it, with no problem.
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They even say "have a nice day!" UPS never does that, and trust me, I've dealt with UPS many thousands of time, at my residence and at work. I used to work a mile from my house, so I was home for lunch and frequently saw the UPS guy; he was always friendly, and even gave a little wave when we passed on the street. On the other hand, when my wife answered the door, he always hit on her.
Atheist, communist China does not want pr0n on the Internet. Religious wingnuts don't want pr0n on the Internet. Why those two who are at extremely opposed political positions don't want pr0n on the Internet???
That's actually pretty common. Back in my first time through college, two groups worked together to protest the fact that the college newspaper would accept ads from Deja Vu (strip club). One was the left-wing campus feminist group, and the other was the right-wing Kalamazoo Concerned Citizens Against Pornography. On the newspaper's side was the campus libertarian group.
To make things completely weird, I was a member of both the feminist group and the libertarian group.
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I'm married, and thusly implications about my having sex could probably go either way
I'm married, 29, and have an eight-year-old son, so I can prove I was having sex at 20! And also that sex the day after her period ends isn't as safe as you think...
I'm reasonably certain that's not the real Andrew Tanenbaum.
Heated floors, via hot water pipes. If we've got the boiler, anyway, maybe a hot tub. Is it possible to heat waterbeds from the same boiler?
Solar wherever it's feasible. The roof could be either photovoltaics, or a mirror and black pipe water heating system (should be a natural match to the heated floors). If the mirrored concave dishes that capture sunlight into fiber optics (there was a Slashdot article on them a few months ago) are ready yet, put one or two next to the house, where they won't interfere with what's on the roof. Big windows and/or sliding glass doors on the south side, into rooms with black carpet.
Good soundproofing and good insulation.
Floors that are attached by screws, so they don't squeak.
Lots of conduit, as long as it doesn't interfere with the soundproofing.
Kitchen: Butcher block island. Fairly low ceiling with an exposed beam style, so that pots and pans can be hung from the beams. Dishwasher and double sink. Long counters with plenty of outlets and lighting under the cabinets, for things like bread makers, deep fryers, mixers, etc. Walk-in pantry. Filtered water hot enough to make tea, on-tap (my in-laws have this -- I think there's an electric pass-through heater under the sink).
A theater room: hardwood floors and no windows. Don't build the TV and stereo in, but leave room for a big TV and various speakers, with plenty of power. Built-in bookshelves on the sides and back of the room would be nice.
A bathtub with walls on both sides that you enter from the end opposite the shower. I saw one of those on Queer Eye, and the comment that it would be good for sex was dead-on. Decent sized-ledges in the shower for shampoo, razor, etc.
Misc: trees, courtyard, ceiling fans in most rooms and all bedrooms, attic fan (can you make something like that leading out of the kitchen?), built-in shelving wherever feasible, somewhere to exercise with fans and music, bathrooms off every bedroom, a half-bath somewhere near the entrance, brick exterior, something that doesn't burn well for the main structure (concrete or cinder-block?), a small workshop suitable to both woodworking and computer work.
I agree. But you want to know something? I support their right to be idiots! It's called freedom.
I want the government out of my own personal fucking affairs...including *my* right to be an idiot at times.
I support people's right to be idiots, too, as long as it's just them. We were talking about kids, though, and I don't think the rights of the parents are terribly significant in that case. I support the right of the kids to be properly vaccinated, to pick their own religion when they're old enough to make an informed choice, and to get sex ed. no matter what their parents think about it.
That seems to be what the poster above you is saying, yes. I hadn't heard that before today, but it seems feasible.
Weaknees sold me a model R10 DirecTiVo about three weeks ago, after DirecTV themselves and Circuit City were down to only the DirecTV in-house R15. Depending on when you switch, you might still be able to get the HD DirecTiVo from a smaller place like them.
A cause is a good motivator. I think Stallman's mostly off-base (using Windows doesn't affect my freedom to see Linux source code, nor would using Linux give me the freedom to see Windows source code), but his cause motivated him and some other people to put GNU together, making Linux feasible.
It's not ad hominem to point out that someone may have been paid to hold a certain opinion
Just so long as you're not going on to say that what that person's saying should be ignored because of it. He could still be right, even if he's saying something in his employer's best interest.
Besides, in this case, he appears to be arguing against something that would benefit Microsoft.
Although people keep bringing up the loss of DirecTV over and over and over and over again, personally I do not think that this is as great of an issue as people make it out to be.
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TiVo makes far more money on their standalone boxes than the pittance that they receive on their DirecTV boxes. The reduction in DirecTV business is perhaps one of the most overhyped stories out there on TiVo today.
It may be overhyped from the business side, but there are a lot of customers who really love our DirecTiVo units, and it *is* a big deal to us.
In fact, if some of DirecTV's customers have such bad experiences with DirecTV's generic PVRs it would not surprise me to see these same people buy Series 3 standalone TiVo's due out later this year
Sorry, no. DirecTiVo is both cheaper than stand-alone and better quality, due to the lack of the superfluous digital-to-analog-to-digital conversions. I might be willing to pay an extra $10/month to keep the TiVo interface over DirecTV's new one, but I will always take a DVR that's integrated with satellite or digital cable over a stand-alone.
What I do think might be more of a draw to the DirecTiVo people is the Comcast DVRs with TiVo software that's supposed to come out later this year. As for me, though, I just got an R10 DirecTivo from Weaknees (215 hours!) while I still could, and I expect to use it for the next several years.
The hard drives on your Series 1 will fail someday. Weaknees sells replacement drives (with the TiVo image), though, and you can pick up some more capacity, too.
If anything pushes me out, I think it's going to be coding standards that I disagree with. I *hate* writing ugly code.
I think that the book should start off by trying to explain to me WHY I should move from VB6 to VB2005.
Probably because you'd like to get another job sometime.
I cannot see that vb syntax, for someone coming in with no prior experience, would be better than c# syntax.
Some of us like words better than symbols, and I hate all the ways C and its descendants encourage people to combine multiple lines of code into one.
On the other hand, I also like lines that end with semicolons, so unless Pascal makes a comeback, I'm probably SOL for general-purpose languages. For specialized languages, PL/SQL is okay, but it would be nice if they had decided whether they wanted a BASIC If/End If style, or a Pascal Begin/End style.
When we reach the level of automation that anyone can simply tell the system what they need in a progam, and it spits it out well optimized
That happened in the 1950's, with FORTRAN. Since then, we've been tinkering with the ways to tell the system what we need.
Classic VB has fixed-point math in the 64-bit Currency type. I believe .Net has it in a 96-bit Decimal type.
The fact is, people who don't play video games aren't going to buy a console.
Perhaps, but I've never had much interest in console games (I like strategy and sometimes RPG), and I'm planning to buy a Revolution. That will be my first console ever, and I turn 30 in June.
Do you still have the specs from the original box?
You are so right, my rights-oppressed friend. But *AAs are culpable for buying the laws; Congress is culpable for selling them.
Both should be punished severely, and I'm not talking swatted across the bare backside by Mistress Trish in her beautiful leather attire, either. I'm talking Smite.
That already happened on Congress's side. Sonny Bono was smote by a tree.
Or Weird Al's Peter and the Wolf.
I probably would've, but it's pretty common for the judge to make the jury stay together until the holdout gets talked into submission, and it's not unheard of for jury members to go to jail for contempt of court.
Both (a) and (b) will need to be proved beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law for a person to be convicted.
Maybe things are better in the UK, but here in the US, reasonable doubt is pretty much ignored. My wife was on a murder jury a couple of years ago, where they all agreed that they had no idea what really happened, and everyone from both sides, except the pathologist, was probably lying. She was able to talk the rest of the jury down to second-degree murder, but the guy was still convicted. Not even the defense attorney ever brought up reasonable doubt.
I hate when they won't just leave the package.
I hate it when the web store won't let me ship packages to my parents, or one of my coworkers who lives in a better neighborhood. At either of those places, UPS and FedEx will both just leave it, with no problem.
They even say "have a nice day!" UPS never does that, and trust me, I've dealt with UPS many thousands of time, at my residence and at work.
I used to work a mile from my house, so I was home for lunch and frequently saw the UPS guy; he was always friendly, and even gave a little wave when we passed on the street. On the other hand, when my wife answered the door, he always hit on her.
Atheist, communist China does not want pr0n on the Internet. Religious wingnuts don't want pr0n on the Internet. Why those two who are at extremely opposed political positions don't want pr0n on the Internet???
That's actually pretty common. Back in my first time through college, two groups worked together to protest the fact that the college newspaper would accept ads from Deja Vu (strip club). One was the left-wing campus feminist group, and the other was the right-wing Kalamazoo Concerned Citizens Against Pornography. On the newspaper's side was the campus libertarian group.
To make things completely weird, I was a member of both the feminist group and the libertarian group.
You know, if the so-called "strict constructionists" were strict about "Congress shall make no law", I might actually like them.