Argument from reputation is poor.
If they published a proof of Fermat's last theorem,
you'd want to follow the proof, not just accept it
because the journal is old.
Similar experience here. I used to look at their real
estate ads a lot. I've almost totally replaced them with
a site run by a nationwide broker that provides open access
to MLS. Craigslist is right about not having any flash on their
site; but they're wrong about not having even the most simple
things in their DB. For example, I can't reliably separate mobile
homes from condos from SFRs. Any decent MLS-based search will do that.
These would be very simple features to implement, and CL wouldn't
have to Flash their web site to do it.
OTOH, CL still rules for apartments. It's the best way to figure
out what an "average rent for a studio" is in a town.
Profile his IP, and present what appear
to be angry responses and modded-down posts
when serving pages to that IP. Otherwise,
just don't display his posts at all. Then again... mayyyyybe
we already did that.
halivar -- It was a visceral reaction to the story.
Of course there are other uses for it, probably some very
good uses as you suggest; but the context in which it was
presented was destructive.
All those who complained about the repetition -- A lot
of writers use it. Some very good writers use it. Those
lame Levis ads that are running now? Pioneer, oh pioneer?
That's a Walt Whitman poem. And before anybody says it,
NO, I am not comparing myself to Whitman.
To those who like "frickin lasers". Whatever. That meme
just never really grabbed me.
The language of naughty schoolboys was goto-only.
However, it never fulfilled on its promise of naked
chicks if you turned to page 69. Some of the programs
written in said language were, however, quite humerous
and complex. You could implement loops in that language
of course, and perhaps even keep an idiot busy for hours.
I'm not sure if it was Turing complete though.
Destruction is easy. I'm not impressed.
We pissed away our wealth in two wars. Destruction is easy.
A bunch of brainwashed flunkies brought down 220 stories
of creation. Creation is hard. Destruction is easy.
Every day there are people wasting the precious gift
of life, drinking, shooting up, shooting. Easy. Destruction.
I'm not impressed.
...will want to roll over and yawn at 0100.
I was into astronomy when I was younger, and saw
plenty of meteors. It's fun if you go to a dark
site on a warm night (one of the best meteor outings
ever was Perseids in August, in Virginia), but no
way am I trekking out into the California desert, or even
the nearby hills at 0100. No. Older now. Dare I say it?
Get off my lawn! Also,
If you've seen one meteor, you've!%!#$% NO CARRIER
In what ways does it defer, if any, from the
techniques used in vending machines?
If it's better, patent and sell to vending companies?
Yeah... patents are evil; but maybe a novel application
of an existing technology isn't so evil in this case--provided
it really is novel and not just a poor-man's vending machine
detector, in which case the vending machine companies may
already have a patent on it...
You're right. I'd read about URNs years ago while
reading some other spec. It just seemed to get tucked
away in the back of my mind with a lot of other RFC arcana. The people who come
up with URL shorteners may or may not known about URNs.
If they knew about them, they probably decided to just go
ahead with their proprietary version rather than apply to...
ummm... wherever you'd apply. That seems like a weakness
to the URN scheme. Who has time to jump through whatever
beurocratic hoops you'd need to jump through to get the
name after the urn: ?
Not a pure rhetorical question. How about urn:goog:43255532?
Google could just automate the whole process, perhaps only assigning
numbers to URLs that are in the top N search results, or are actually
clicked, in order to keep the list from getting too big. They've also
got the staff and clout to deal with the boor-a-crats, whereas
the commercial URL shorteners don't.
Maybe we could just issue unique IDs
for everything on the Internet. I'm not sure
how many would be enough. It could be 64-bits,
or perhaps even 128, although you can be sure
that if we did that some comittee would probably
come up with a reason to gobble up bits. Then of
course you'd need some bits for private URLs.
I'm not sure what you call it, but plainly
some protocol is needed for all these URLs on the
Internet. A kind of... "Internet Protocol", or IP
for short. Yeah, that's it. Is anybody working on that?
Nope. Right from the outset, they didn't learn.
Not that I advocate dictatorhip; but China could have
been interesting. They had absolute authority, and decided
to abandon Marxist ideology in order to build the economy
and keep themselves in power. They could have done anything.
At that time, they had cities filled with bicycles. They could
have done something really creative. Invested in advanced nuclear,
Built ubiquitous highspeed rail with low-speed hubs to smaller
towns, etc. They could have had some creativity. Some vision.
They had little to stand in their way of imposing it.
Instead, they emulated late 19th and early 20th century industrialization,
with all the known flaws. They created car-centric cities and that awful dam.
What a waste.
Of course, it's also a shame that we'll never know what the crushed
democracy movement would have done. They might have been just as open to
corporate greed as the current government. OTOH, they might have been
more open to early input from environmentalists and other groups also.
A rooftop PV setup for $10k would be an unheard of deal,
so $10k/house for clean energy sounds like a bargain. I'm
not sure what fraction of the time these wind farms will
be generating vs. solar though. Of course, it depends on
the location. It's reasonable anyway. I'm paying roughly
$1000/yr to power my small house. If you finance the infrastructure,
You can buy quite a bit.
A $10k loan at 6.5% for 30 years costs $63.21/mo or $758.52/yr.
Still plenty of revenue for other costs and a modest profit, and
like I said my house is small and the local power company probably
didn't spend that much on infrastructure. They probably turn over
shorter-term bonds and pay less interest too.
The door is open on a level playing field for American companies to design and manufacture wind farm turbines
No it isn't. China manipulates its currency. I can say that, because
I'm a free American, and I'm not in office. The wimps we elect can't say
it or do anything about it.
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Argument from reputation is poor. If they published a proof of Fermat's last theorem, you'd want to follow the proof, not just accept it because the journal is old.
Another example: how much time was wasted drinking warm milk and trying to relax people, until H. Pylori was found to be the cause of ulcers?
IIRC, that won a Nobel Prize which actually meant something.
Similar experience here. I used to look at their real estate ads a lot. I've almost totally replaced them with a site run by a nationwide broker that provides open access to MLS. Craigslist is right about not having any flash on their site; but they're wrong about not having even the most simple things in their DB. For example, I can't reliably separate mobile homes from condos from SFRs. Any decent MLS-based search will do that. These would be very simple features to implement, and CL wouldn't have to Flash their web site to do it.
OTOH, CL still rules for apartments. It's the best way to figure out what an "average rent for a studio" is in a town.
Profile his IP, and present what appear to be angry responses and modded-down posts when serving pages to that IP. Otherwise, just don't display his posts at all. Then again... mayyyyybe we already did that.
There are indeed times when I think that we built the Internet, and that it taught us only one lesson:
I'm right and you're wrong.
This is not quite as concise as "42". Also, a second Internet will have to be built to determine who is "I" and who is "you".
Yes, but if a machine on your network has "already lost", you'd probably like to know that.
(to avoid the "slow down cowboy" problem)
halivar -- It was a visceral reaction to the story. Of course there are other uses for it, probably some very good uses as you suggest; but the context in which it was presented was destructive.
All those who complained about the repetition -- A lot of writers use it. Some very good writers use it. Those lame Levis ads that are running now? Pioneer, oh pioneer? That's a Walt Whitman poem. And before anybody says it, NO, I am not comparing myself to Whitman.
To those who like "frickin lasers". Whatever. That meme just never really grabbed me.
The language of naughty schoolboys was goto-only. However, it never fulfilled on its promise of naked chicks if you turned to page 69. Some of the programs written in said language were, however, quite humerous and complex. You could implement loops in that language of course, and perhaps even keep an idiot busy for hours. I'm not sure if it was Turing complete though.
Destruction is easy. I'm not impressed. We pissed away our wealth in two wars. Destruction is easy. A bunch of brainwashed flunkies brought down 220 stories of creation. Creation is hard. Destruction is easy. Every day there are people wasting the precious gift of life, drinking, shooting up, shooting. Easy. Destruction. I'm not impressed.
HFCS? You should be more scared.
Release the hounds, and let the grammar nazis lose!
...will want to roll over and yawn at 0100. I was into astronomy when I was younger, and saw plenty of meteors. It's fun if you go to a dark site on a warm night (one of the best meteor outings ever was Perseids in August, in Virginia), but no way am I trekking out into the California desert, or even the nearby hills at 0100. No. Older now. Dare I say it? Get off my lawn! Also, If you've seen one meteor, you've!%!#$% NO CARRIER
In what ways does it defer, if any, from the techniques used in vending machines?
If it's better, patent and sell to vending companies? Yeah... patents are evil; but maybe a novel application of an existing technology isn't so evil in this case--provided it really is novel and not just a poor-man's vending machine detector, in which case the vending machine companies may already have a patent on it...
Problem solved. Or, just link to "top 1000 dunderheads who tried hiding" off the Google home page.
You're right. I'd read about URNs years ago while reading some other spec. It just seemed to get tucked away in the back of my mind with a lot of other RFC arcana. The people who come up with URL shorteners may or may not known about URNs. If they knew about them, they probably decided to just go ahead with their proprietary version rather than apply to... ummm... wherever you'd apply. That seems like a weakness to the URN scheme. Who has time to jump through whatever beurocratic hoops you'd need to jump through to get the name after the urn: ?
Not a pure rhetorical question. How about urn:goog:43255532? Google could just automate the whole process, perhaps only assigning numbers to URLs that are in the top N search results, or are actually clicked, in order to keep the list from getting too big. They've also got the staff and clout to deal with the boor-a-crats, whereas the commercial URL shorteners don't.
Maybe we could just issue unique IDs for everything on the Internet. I'm not sure how many would be enough. It could be 64-bits, or perhaps even 128, although you can be sure that if we did that some comittee would probably come up with a reason to gobble up bits. Then of course you'd need some bits for private URLs.
I'm not sure what you call it, but plainly some protocol is needed for all these URLs on the Internet. A kind of... "Internet Protocol", or IP for short. Yeah, that's it. Is anybody working on that?
(end sarcasm)
That works out to $3.52 trillion in today's dollars, if you use London Good Delivery bars (400 oz./bar * $1100/oz * 8 million).
What can CS teach ECON?
How to crash routinely and have people shrug it off as normal.
Sure, it doesn't find bombs, but you're not around to complain about that.
welcome our new Rat Bastard overlords!
New?
Earn money tracking government weather balloons. Send $30 to PO Box 666, Slimetown, CA to find out how.
Place this ad all over the place. Snail-mail back a printout of the PDF to the suckers.
Nope. Right from the outset, they didn't learn. Not that I advocate dictatorhip; but China could have been interesting. They had absolute authority, and decided to abandon Marxist ideology in order to build the economy and keep themselves in power. They could have done anything. At that time, they had cities filled with bicycles. They could have done something really creative. Invested in advanced nuclear, Built ubiquitous highspeed rail with low-speed hubs to smaller towns, etc. They could have had some creativity. Some vision. They had little to stand in their way of imposing it.
Instead, they emulated late 19th and early 20th century industrialization, with all the known flaws. They created car-centric cities and that awful dam. What a waste.
Of course, it's also a shame that we'll never know what the crushed democracy movement would have done. They might have been just as open to corporate greed as the current government. OTOH, they might have been more open to early input from environmentalists and other groups also.
They'll grow one plant, then it'll be like...
...you mean I have to water this thing, and turn on the light?
That's like... work or something, man. Let's just go to the
smokeshop and buy some.
A rooftop PV setup for $10k would be an unheard of deal, so $10k/house for clean energy sounds like a bargain. I'm not sure what fraction of the time these wind farms will be generating vs. solar though. Of course, it depends on the location. It's reasonable anyway. I'm paying roughly $1000/yr to power my small house. If you finance the infrastructure, You can buy quite a bit.
A $10k loan at 6.5% for 30 years costs $63.21/mo or $758.52/yr. Still plenty of revenue for other costs and a modest profit, and like I said my house is small and the local power company probably didn't spend that much on infrastructure. They probably turn over shorter-term bonds and pay less interest too.
The door is open on a level playing field for American companies to design and manufacture wind farm turbines
No it isn't. China manipulates its currency. I can say that, because I'm a free American, and I'm not in office. The wimps we elect can't say it or do anything about it.