He was talking about the construction of the cup. This also addresses the "cooldown" problem - if the cup were better insulated, this would be avoided.
Also, it may be difficult to strip off in the middle of traffic yes? Further, coffee like this can cause some wicked burns even after 10 seconds of contact.
But seriously, this case offended me more before I realized that obscenely large settlements are just how America says "this is a matter of some importance"; it's corrupt, sure, but it's a cultural corruption and not a proof of idiocracy (there are other proofs of course). As it is, I see a corporation balancing efficiency on the one hand and customer safety on the other. You may call the former stinginess, but isn't it also environmentally responsible to use as little material as possible? What happened was that society, in the only way it could, told McD that they were out of balance in this tradeoff.
These are Apple products anyway. Out of the past 100 distinct Apple notebooks I've seen (trust me, I am not exaggerating here) in the past year, maybe five of them were not brand new MacBooks or MBPs. Admittedly, the G4s are extra-old-and-busted (biggest waste of my money ever...), but it seems that people buy new Apple computers with their spring shopping anyway.
And they can finally get full benefit from their inflated RAM and HD prices. Ballsy move, if true, but it will probably work out.
It sounds a bit more heavyweight than I'd like, but I've been curious about the network streaming of jackd. Interesting, maybe I'll get off my duff and set it up. Thanks for the tip.
I live in a metropolitan area so there's only so much I can do about ambient sound. But seriously, it doesn't take much more than quiet background conversation or a standard room A/C to drown out my laptop. Thanks for the tip, I'll look through the miasma of VLC's options again - I guess that it preprocesses the whole file instead of doing it on-the-fly? That'd be better.
I can understand why youtube does this (apart from the scream videos...) - a lot of people browse on laptops which have terrible audio. Thinkpads are especially awful; when I play video on VLC without headphones, I set the volume at 1600% and suffer the clipping - at least I can hear it over, say, a room A/C.
Is anyone aware of a lower-level playback compressor on Windows and/or Linux, perhaps a virtual device driver, which lets you mangle your sound this way? VLC doesn't work for everything after all.
Yes, I have a cat. I have noticed that it is quite unlike human beings in many ways (although there are similarities yes - that's why I find it cute).
Open-book tests don't stop collaboration, and there is still the HW issue.
To understand the rest, I hope you are American. Otherwise, fuck it.
The funny thing is, I came from an intellectually honest and nurturing environment like you describe; they are called "small liberal arts colleges" and, not a coincidence, they are widely and wrongly derided as flaky for much the same reason.
By contrast we seem to be promoting the influx of amoral and ruthless ------- students. I am fairly convinced that on some level we have decided that intellectual honesty is counterproductive to our national goals and, ironically, are willing to import foreign nationals just to stock middle-level intellectual positions with the desperate and hungry. That is, we have solved the honesty problem ourselves but almost simultaneously realized that we don't actually want it solved.
One way to ameliorate the problem is obvious but politically unacceptable: deport anyone on a student Visa who is caught cheating.
I think it looks neat; reminiscent (to me) of those walls with shards of heavy wine bottles stucco'ed into the top as a makeshift intrusion deterrent. Europe is full of a mix of majestic architecture and ugly-hacks-through-the-ages, reflecting the materials and skillsets available at the time.
I'm in a doctoral program in a technical field at an Ivy League university. My department stopped doing take-home exams for the quals because students were cheating (by the way, the cheaters show a strong and significant trend toward a certain nationality; you may speculate at will). It's still common to cheat on the homework and, well, any other exam where you can possibly get away with it.
I agree that the faculty don't care, but really the only people who are insulted by this are honest people like me. And yeah, I'm pretty fucking disappointed and disillusioned that this is purportedly the creme de la creme of the future. Equally, to be honest, I'm afraid for my future to a certain extent since I refuse to lie - what happens when it becomes a cultural norm and paramount to progress? The further I get ahead in life, the more wretched and petty everyone seems to be. I was in industry before this, and I still marvel at how much more honest it was back then.
How remarkable! We're talking about overrated works and you bring up Cryptonomicon? Whatever your intention, sir, nothing could be more apropos... Alan Moore, whatever his faults, is agonizingly sincere, and this is the core of insight. Neal Stephenson, although I enjoy his works, smacks of having learned to write by adaptation to a fitness function provided by a publisher and a cynical (but effective) model of his audience. Whatever ideas he has are smothered by an arrogant touch of "history" and heavy-handed metaphor.
Well, yeah. It's just harder to exercise what with the waterboarding and the electric shocks and the dogs and the deprivation, but you can still go ahead and try to remain silent.
But presumably they (or the majority thereof) go to church/temple, and at this location they presumably "pray" to some sky-fairy. Is this also part of the guideline for living a rational life?
More seriously, the popularity of religion even among the intelligent suggests to me, that rationality and kindness are truly immiscible (since the Christians I have met even in academia have had little trouble with cheating and lying for their own benefit).
If we consider a system whereby we can purportedly increase the commercial output of vegetables by banning the practice of gardening, we would be closer to a valid analogy.
Also: far-left? Please don't drag the ever-tedious left/right distinction in, troll. I have found that someone's technical knowledge and working field (among other things) are a much better predictor for their attitudes toward patents than being (D) or (R). Patents are mostly an orthogonal issue, thankfully, because it's about implementation details.
Not really. Just read the second as saying that "they'll have to dumb down science to give the new women a leg up." Since the interested women are already in science, you can just imagine how motivated the new influx is going to be. There is just no way you can boost this kind of demographic in the short term without reducing quality; education and preparation are going to lag.
Don't make the mistake that these justices act independently of each other. For better or worse, they are human beings, so there is a lot of group dynamics. It's quite plausible that the dissenting four (in each case) were doing so just to express their own opinions more strongly in dissent, secure in knowing that the correct interpretation would win out.
Of course this may be "wrong", but it's also human nature. At any rate, it does not follow that simply replacing one of the five would cause the vote to tick over to the other side. It doesn't take into account a whole lot of human behavior.
Since we feel similarly about Obama, perhaps we can see eye to eye on this. I felt like Ron Paul had something going - a bit crazy, but capable of being reasonable; compromising (for a libertarian) and with strong character. I think that the racist stuff is a bit exaggerated; even if true to the extent shown, I'm willing to believe it was an "any port in a storm" type of thing, where people supporting his other ideas happened to tend to be racist.
Having read a few articles and wikipedia on Bob Barr, he just seems like an extremist nut blowing in the wind. Democrat/left activist until his mother gave him some Ayn Rand. OK... I've known a few people like that (going either direction), and I wouldn't want one for a boss let alone president. But this was so long ago, you may say.
Let's ram through some ridiculous anti-drug legislation while ranting about "witchcraft"... and then change our mind a few years later and lobby for the drug reform policy to get it repealed! Maybe if he'd not suppressed the 68% majority AGAINST his legislation in the first place, this hullabaloo wouldn't be necessary.
And speaking of witchcraft, what was up with banning wicca in the military? While I wouldn't mind banning religion en toto in the services (except for the fact that it would dissolve the military overnight), it doesn't seem like a support of personal liberties to ban one and only one.
One of the big problems with the "conservatives" now is the religious right; this guy seems to have... an interesting allegiance with their ideals.
Maybe he's had an epiphany since all that - well, what kind of epiphany would he have when Rumsfeld gives him Leo Strauss to read? Serious question - he seems to exhibit a total lack of consistency, disturbing in any candidate but especially a libertarian.
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He was talking about the construction of the cup. This also addresses the "cooldown" problem - if the cup were better insulated, this would be avoided.
Also, it may be difficult to strip off in the middle of traffic yes? Further, coffee like this can cause some wicked burns even after 10 seconds of contact.
But seriously, this case offended me more before I realized that obscenely large settlements are just how America says "this is a matter of some importance"; it's corrupt, sure, but it's a cultural corruption and not a proof of idiocracy (there are other proofs of course). As it is, I see a corporation balancing efficiency on the one hand and customer safety on the other. You may call the former stinginess, but isn't it also environmentally responsible to use as little material as possible? What happened was that society, in the only way it could, told McD that they were out of balance in this tradeoff.
Well, really it's called \LaTeX, which renders all in caps with A a raised smallcap; the E subscripted; and the "X" a $\Chi$.
But who gives a shit anyway?
These are Apple products anyway. Out of the past 100 distinct Apple notebooks I've seen (trust me, I am not exaggerating here) in the past year, maybe five of them were not brand new MacBooks or MBPs. Admittedly, the G4s are extra-old-and-busted (biggest waste of my money ever...), but it seems that people buy new Apple computers with their spring shopping anyway.
And they can finally get full benefit from their inflated RAM and HD prices. Ballsy move, if true, but it will probably work out.
Yes, isn't it amusing how regulating a regulation counts as "more regulation" instead of less?
Very nice. I knew there had to be something like this; I'll check it out. Thanks.
It sounds a bit more heavyweight than I'd like, but I've been curious about the network streaming of jackd. Interesting, maybe I'll get off my duff and set it up. Thanks for the tip.
I live in a metropolitan area so there's only so much I can do about ambient sound. But seriously, it doesn't take much more than quiet background conversation or a standard room A/C to drown out my laptop. Thanks for the tip, I'll look through the miasma of VLC's options again - I guess that it preprocesses the whole file instead of doing it on-the-fly? That'd be better.
I can understand why youtube does this (apart from the scream videos...) - a lot of people browse on laptops which have terrible audio. Thinkpads are especially awful; when I play video on VLC without headphones, I set the volume at 1600% and suffer the clipping - at least I can hear it over, say, a room A/C.
Is anyone aware of a lower-level playback compressor on Windows and/or Linux, perhaps a virtual device driver, which lets you mangle your sound this way? VLC doesn't work for everything after all.
And all of your examples are due to the evils of government regulation.
Even the ISPs reading email, except you added a "don't" for some strange reason.
Yes, I have a cat. I have noticed that it is quite unlike human beings in many ways (although there are similarities yes - that's why I find it cute).
Open-book tests don't stop collaboration, and there is still the HW issue.
To understand the rest, I hope you are American. Otherwise, fuck it.
The funny thing is, I came from an intellectually honest and nurturing environment like you describe; they are called "small liberal arts colleges" and, not a coincidence, they are widely and wrongly derided as flaky for much the same reason.
By contrast we seem to be promoting the influx of amoral and ruthless ------- students. I am fairly convinced that on some level we have decided that intellectual honesty is counterproductive to our national goals and, ironically, are willing to import foreign nationals just to stock middle-level intellectual positions with the desperate and hungry. That is, we have solved the honesty problem ourselves but almost simultaneously realized that we don't actually want it solved.
One way to ameliorate the problem is obvious but politically unacceptable: deport anyone on a student Visa who is caught cheating.
I think it looks neat; reminiscent (to me) of those walls with shards of heavy wine bottles stucco'ed into the top as a makeshift intrusion deterrent. Europe is full of a mix of majestic architecture and ugly-hacks-through-the-ages, reflecting the materials and skillsets available at the time.
What if I thought the best way to do it was with a blowtorch and pliers?
I'm in a doctoral program in a technical field at an Ivy League university. My department stopped doing take-home exams for the quals because students were cheating (by the way, the cheaters show a strong and significant trend toward a certain nationality; you may speculate at will). It's still common to cheat on the homework and, well, any other exam where you can possibly get away with it.
I agree that the faculty don't care, but really the only people who are insulted by this are honest people like me. And yeah, I'm pretty fucking disappointed and disillusioned that this is purportedly the creme de la creme of the future. Equally, to be honest, I'm afraid for my future to a certain extent since I refuse to lie - what happens when it becomes a cultural norm and paramount to progress? The further I get ahead in life, the more wretched and petty everyone seems to be. I was in industry before this, and I still marvel at how much more honest it was back then.
Because he is willing to live in a total shithole (read: worse than an American white-collar prison) and has a fanatical network of support.
How remarkable! We're talking about overrated works and you bring up Cryptonomicon? Whatever your intention, sir, nothing could be more apropos... Alan Moore, whatever his faults, is agonizingly sincere, and this is the core of insight. Neal Stephenson, although I enjoy his works, smacks of having learned to write by adaptation to a fitness function provided by a publisher and a cynical (but effective) model of his audience. Whatever ideas he has are smothered by an arrogant touch of "history" and heavy-handed metaphor.
Well, yeah. It's just harder to exercise what with the waterboarding and the electric shocks and the dogs and the deprivation, but you can still go ahead and try to remain silent.
Except for a little something we call the Fifth Amendment: it wasn't the cops' GPS data, was it?
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
This is the only thing Bruce and I have in common it seems...
But presumably they (or the majority thereof) go to church/temple, and at this location they presumably "pray" to some sky-fairy. Is this also part of the guideline for living a rational life?
More seriously, the popularity of religion even among the intelligent suggests to me, that rationality and kindness are truly immiscible (since the Christians I have met even in academia have had little trouble with cheating and lying for their own benefit).
If we consider a system whereby we can purportedly increase the commercial output of vegetables by banning the practice of gardening, we would be closer to a valid analogy.
Also: far-left? Please don't drag the ever-tedious left/right distinction in, troll. I have found that someone's technical knowledge and working field (among other things) are a much better predictor for their attitudes toward patents than being (D) or (R). Patents are mostly an orthogonal issue, thankfully, because it's about implementation details.
Thanks a lot. I read that article and a few others; as a completely disillusioned halfway-to-Ph.D., I'm going to hit the bottle early tonight.
Not really. Just read the second as saying that "they'll have to dumb down science to give the new women a leg up." Since the interested women are already in science, you can just imagine how motivated the new influx is going to be. There is just no way you can boost this kind of demographic in the short term without reducing quality; education and preparation are going to lag.
The best piece of evidence yet that women are more honest than men...
Don't make the mistake that these justices act independently of each other. For better or worse, they are human beings, so there is a lot of group dynamics. It's quite plausible that the dissenting four (in each case) were doing so just to express their own opinions more strongly in dissent, secure in knowing that the correct interpretation would win out.
Of course this may be "wrong", but it's also human nature. At any rate, it does not follow that simply replacing one of the five would cause the vote to tick over to the other side. It doesn't take into account a whole lot of human behavior.
Since we feel similarly about Obama, perhaps we can see eye to eye on this. I felt like Ron Paul had something going - a bit crazy, but capable of being reasonable; compromising (for a libertarian) and with strong character. I think that the racist stuff is a bit exaggerated; even if true to the extent shown, I'm willing to believe it was an "any port in a storm" type of thing, where people supporting his other ideas happened to tend to be racist.
Having read a few articles and wikipedia on Bob Barr, he just seems like an extremist nut blowing in the wind. Democrat/left activist until his mother gave him some Ayn Rand. OK... I've known a few people like that (going either direction), and I wouldn't want one for a boss let alone president. But this was so long ago, you may say.
Let's ram through some ridiculous anti-drug legislation while ranting about "witchcraft"... and then change our mind a few years later and lobby for the drug reform policy to get it repealed! Maybe if he'd not suppressed the 68% majority AGAINST his legislation in the first place, this hullabaloo wouldn't be necessary.
And speaking of witchcraft, what was up with banning wicca in the military? While I wouldn't mind banning religion en toto in the services (except for the fact that it would dissolve the military overnight), it doesn't seem like a support of personal liberties to ban one and only one.
One of the big problems with the "conservatives" now is the religious right; this guy seems to have... an interesting allegiance with their ideals.
Maybe he's had an epiphany since all that - well, what kind of epiphany would he have when Rumsfeld gives him Leo Strauss to read? Serious question - he seems to exhibit a total lack of consistency, disturbing in any candidate but especially a libertarian.