A gallon of gasoline is much cheaper than a tablet, and will actually get you someplace if you have a vehicle to put it in. That doesn't mean that gas is too cheap.
AFAIK mine didn't do that. I recall a number of informal dirt paths there. I always used to think, "they should formalize these paths by paving them" and IIRC, I used to think they should also do what you're describing. I always assumed that regulatory approval required all elements, including walkways, to be on the plans.
It's nice to know they are doing it right somewhere.
FWIW, I check the social aspects of Slashdot every few months or so. Whatever. Say what you will about the changes to Slashdot, but they integrated those social features long before it was a household word. They also did it in such a way that you can just ignore it. If it were something other than a bolt-on, it might be more important. Then again, that's not how Slashdot started, and it wasn't really hurting before all that came to pass. It would have been foolish to trash the whole focus of Slashdot (the articles and comments) and jump on some bandwagon because of a perceived threat. It'd be almost as stupid as changing a nice clean interface for the same reason CoughGoogleImageSearchCough.
If it's really important, don't put it on the Internet. If routing over another physical network is too expensive, encrypt it.
There. Problem solved. All I ask is 10% of what they are planning to spend on this problem. I think that's reasonable. I'll be by the Treasury to pick up my money on Tuesday. I'll be the one in the Bugatti Veyron, which the dealers will happily front me when I explain to them what I've done.
The first thing that comes to mind is, how will they prevent this from being abused by the very people who are farming in the first place?
It could just spark yet another scriptwar.
I've run into a lot of duplicate content out there. Obviously, somebody is the originator of the content. It ought to be possible to filter out the dupes.
For link farms, It should also be possible to characterize the signal:noise ratio of a website somehow, and to offer an SNR choice in the advanced search options.
I'm not sure how much this effort to improve the quality of their results will work; but I must applaud it since at least it's not another Bing-envy feature.
Now, Dear Google, will you please un-Bing your image searches? Please? Pretty-please?
This is the first I've heard of him. Just reading over the article, being the leader of Congress under the Articles of Confederation doesn't make you the first POTUS. The office of POTUS is defined in the Constitution. He could not have held an office that didn't yet exist. The States were much more independant then. This is a bit like saying that the first head of the European Union is the first President of Europe (assuming that Europe unites in the future).
How does it do on the ACID 3 Test which Chrome passes 100/100 and IE8 gets 20/100 (although maybe I could make it pass by droping my IE security pants, which I'm reluctant to do).
Oh wow... I'd totally forgotten this. Thanks for bringing back the memory. IIRC, the DD dragonfly had sensory feedback too. There was a part where it got into somethat that was too hot, and he had to let go.
I don't think a wild turkey thrown out of a chopper would die. Gliding is easier than flying. Then again, it may not have a gliding instinct since the flying that I've seen on YouTube vids I pulled up is all of the "escape into a tree" variety. Just because gliding is easier than gaining altitude, doesn't mean they know how to do it.
In this vid there does appear to be some gliding, although it's not very clear (towards the end).
Without actually putting the helicopter scenario to the test, it's all just a matter of opinion.
Wild turkeys can fly. I didn't believe it until I saw one in a tree just a few weeks ago. Then, it got a bit scared of us and fluttered over to another branch.
OTOH, plump, farm-raised, hormone-injected turkeys? I guess they can't fly. Given that the wild version prefers to walk or skip-hop, the domesticated version probably loses flight due to the way it's treated.
Pigs are like this too. Wild boar vs. farm pig? No comparison. The boar has to coexist with mountain lions. 'nuff said.
I'm on Comcast. I don't think I'll have too many problems. I ran a simple online test with results reproduced below. I didn't have to lift a finger to do this. Any modern OS that's up to date on patches should not have too many problems. Still though, the article makes a good point. Organization that really depend on things working properly, and that don't want a nasty surprise? They should do a dry run of IPv6-only conditions, and fix any problems. I noticed that Comcast isn't giving me IPv6 DNS yet. Hopefully they'll fix that before June, otherwise all the tests passed.
Surely there must be some stable country with a young workforce that wouldn't mind caring for elderly Japanese?
What local government official wouldn't lick their chops at the prospect of a bunch of people with pensions guaranteed by a government, creating service and construction jobs nearby?
There are many Japanese already living in California, and a glut of real estate in certain areas--particulary the "Inland Empire". Even some parts of the Bay Area are in trouble, although some of them are virtually irredemable due to the presence of heavy industry over a seismic zone.
This is just one small example. I bet other parts of the US, and other countries would have suitable accomodations.
The last great Japanese export could be elderly people with streams of pension income.
Mailinator has been providing me this service for years. AFAICT they get by on a very unobtrusive banner at the top of their home page, donations, and perhaps some funding from their corporate parent which presumeably also finds the service useful. I guess it doesn't take too much money to run such a service. They're obviously dumping spams into the bitbucket after a timeout, and limiting the size of the messages (most spam is small anyway). The only problem I've had is that a few parties filter them; but most don't. IIRC, they have some alternative domains anyway...
After reading TFA (it was actually quite interesting) I think you hit the nail on the head. The scratch-off material was opaque; but the singletons leaked data past the physical barrier.
When I said "series", I meant "series of tickets" as in "series of games to determine who is the champion of baseball". In the case of the former, the number is at most 7. In any case, the word "series" does not, to me, imply astronomical numbers.
They must be dumbing the explanation down. You don't have to be non-random to control the number of winners. You can use a deterministic process to generate all the tickets in a series, and then a true random process to control the order in which the tickets are printed. If they're not doing that, they're really screwing up. Even a fairly dinky computer should be able to store patterns for all the tickets in a Big F'n Array, and use real random numbers to shuffle the Array. Then hit "print".
A midshipman at the US Naval Academy was asked what the difference was between being in the Navy or a gang. He thought for a moment and said, "we have uniforms". It was the Washington Post, IIRC, and for all I know it may have been fabricated by the same reporter who wrote "Jimmy's World, the story of a 9 year old heroin addict".
It still has a ring of truth to it though.
So yeah, every social order is gang if you want to look at it that way. Did any of these people making the call actually, you know, check to see if DD players in prison were getting into more trouble, or less trouble?
At first I focused on the sharp corners; but I think the white that everybody is talking about is a big part of it too. I'm not a big fan of overly designed sites; but I have to admit that little bits of design flair in the old Slashdot made it a lot easier to read.
Between the whitespace and the sharp corners, it reminds me of the sparse little web frontends you get when setting up cheapo routers. Is this a comment, or a MIB setting?:)
Sharp corners on everything. Kinda harsh. Maybe I'll get used to it. At least the threading isn't all messed up like that one they beta'd a few months ago... the one they called "dynamic discussions". That was an utter trainwreck. This might be useable...
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Yes! Use the resources of the empire to establish colonies. No more war--wait... ummm... we might have a problem here...
A gallon of gasoline is much cheaper than a tablet, and will actually get you someplace if you have a vehicle to put it in. That doesn't mean that gas is too cheap.
AFAIK mine didn't do that. I recall a number of informal dirt paths there. I always used to think, "they should formalize these paths by paving them" and IIRC, I used to think they should also do what you're describing. I always assumed that regulatory approval required all elements, including walkways, to be on the plans.
It's nice to know they are doing it right somewhere.
FWIW, I check the social aspects of Slashdot every few months or so. Whatever. Say what you will about the changes to Slashdot, but they integrated those social features long before it was a household word. They also did it in such a way that you can just ignore it. If it were something other than a bolt-on, it might be more important. Then again, that's not how Slashdot started, and it wasn't really hurting before all that came to pass. It would have been foolish to trash the whole focus of Slashdot (the articles and comments) and jump on some bandwagon because of a perceived threat. It'd be almost as stupid as changing a nice clean interface for the same reason CoughGoogleImageSearchCough.
Got humor?
If it's really important, don't put it on the Internet. If routing over another physical network is too expensive, encrypt it.
There. Problem solved. All I ask is 10% of what they are planning to spend on this problem. I think that's reasonable. I'll be by the Treasury to pick up my money on Tuesday. I'll be the one in the Bugatti Veyron, which the dealers will happily front me when I explain to them what I've done.
Well, if anybody is still watching this show (I went on a long weekend) they might want to read this.
The first thing that comes to mind is, how will they prevent this from being abused by the very people who are farming in the first place?
It could just spark yet another scriptwar.
I've run into a lot of duplicate content out there. Obviously, somebody is the originator of the content. It ought to be possible to filter out the dupes.
For link farms, It should also be possible to characterize the signal:noise ratio of a website somehow, and to offer an SNR choice in the advanced search options.
I'm not sure how much this effort to improve the quality of their results will work; but I must applaud it since at least it's not another Bing-envy feature.
Now, Dear Google, will you please un-Bing your image searches? Please? Pretty-please?
This is the first I've heard of him. Just reading over the article, being the leader of Congress under the Articles of Confederation doesn't make you the first POTUS. The office of POTUS is defined in the Constitution. He could not have held an office that didn't yet exist. The States were much more independant then. This is a bit like saying that the first head of the European Union is the first President of Europe (assuming that Europe unites in the future).
How does it do on the ACID 3 Test which Chrome passes 100/100 and IE8 gets 20/100 (although maybe I could make it pass by droping my IE security pants, which I'm reluctant to do).
Oh wow... I'd totally forgotten this. Thanks for bringing back the memory. IIRC, the DD dragonfly had sensory feedback too. There was a part where it got into somethat that was too hot, and he had to let go.
I don't think a wild turkey thrown out of a chopper would die. Gliding is easier than flying. Then again, it may not have a gliding instinct since the flying that I've seen on YouTube vids I pulled up is all of the "escape into a tree" variety. Just because gliding is easier than gaining altitude, doesn't mean they know how to do it.
In this vid there does appear to be some gliding, although it's not very clear (towards the end).
Without actually putting the helicopter scenario to the test, it's all just a matter of opinion.
Wild turkeys can fly. I didn't believe it until I saw one in a tree just a few weeks ago. Then, it got a bit scared of us and fluttered over to another branch.
OTOH, plump, farm-raised, hormone-injected turkeys? I guess they can't fly. Given that the wild version prefers to walk or skip-hop, the domesticated version probably loses flight due to the way it's treated.
Pigs are like this too. Wild boar vs. farm pig? No comparison. The boar has to coexist with mountain lions. 'nuff said.
I love the parodies in that article.
Somebody needs to write I Started a Cheese Moving Company, Lobbied the Government with my Profits, and now it's Too Big to Fail.
I'm on Comcast. I don't think I'll have too many problems. I ran a simple online test with results reproduced below. I didn't have to lift a finger to do this. Any modern OS that's up to date on patches should not have too many problems. Still though, the article makes a good point. Organization that really depend on things working properly, and that don't want a nasty surprise? They should do a dry run of IPv6-only conditions, and fix any problems. I noticed that Comcast isn't giving me IPv6 DNS yet. Hopefully they'll fix that before June, otherwise all the tests passed.
Surely there must be some stable country with a young workforce that wouldn't mind caring for elderly Japanese?
What local government official wouldn't lick their chops at the prospect of a bunch of people with pensions guaranteed by a government, creating service and construction jobs nearby?
There are many Japanese already living in California, and a glut of real estate in certain areas--particulary the "Inland Empire". Even some parts of the Bay Area are in trouble, although some of them are virtually irredemable due to the presence of heavy industry over a seismic zone.
This is just one small example. I bet other parts of the US, and other countries would have suitable accomodations.
The last great Japanese export could be elderly people with streams of pension income.
Last poster isn't pricing risk.
Mailinator has been providing me this service for years. AFAICT they get by on a very unobtrusive banner at the top of their home page, donations, and perhaps some funding from their corporate parent which presumeably also finds the service useful. I guess it doesn't take too much money to run such a service. They're obviously dumping spams into the bitbucket after a timeout, and limiting the size of the messages (most spam is small anyway). The only problem I've had is that a few parties filter them; but most don't. IIRC, they have some alternative domains anyway...
After reading TFA (it was actually quite interesting) I think you hit the nail on the head. The scratch-off material was opaque; but the singletons leaked data past the physical barrier.
When I said "series", I meant "series of tickets" as in "series of games to determine who is the champion of baseball". In the case of the former, the number is at most 7. In any case, the word "series" does not, to me, imply astronomical numbers.
They must be dumbing the explanation down. You don't have to be non-random to control the number of winners. You can use a deterministic process to generate all the tickets in a series, and then a true random process to control the order in which the tickets are printed. If they're not doing that, they're really screwing up. Even a fairly dinky computer should be able to store patterns for all the tickets in a Big F'n Array, and use real random numbers to shuffle the Array. Then hit "print".
Egypt's problem is multidimensional. The Internet is our dimension.
A midshipman at the US Naval Academy was asked what the difference was between being in the Navy or a gang. He thought for a moment and said, "we have uniforms". It was the Washington Post, IIRC, and for all I know it may have been fabricated by the same reporter who wrote "Jimmy's World, the story of a 9 year old heroin addict".
It still has a ring of truth to it though.
So yeah, every social order is gang if you want to look at it that way. Did any of these people making the call actually, you know, check to see if DD players in prison were getting into more trouble, or less trouble?
At first I focused on the sharp corners; but I think the white that everybody is talking about is a big part of it too. I'm not a big fan of overly designed sites; but I have to admit that little bits of design flair in the old Slashdot made it a lot easier to read.
Between the whitespace and the sharp corners, it reminds me of the sparse little web frontends you get when setting up cheapo routers. Is this a comment, or a MIB setting? :)
Sharp corners on everything. Kinda harsh. Maybe I'll get used to it. At least the threading isn't all messed up like that one they beta'd a few months ago... the one they called "dynamic discussions". That was an utter trainwreck. This might be useable...