Nonsense. There's relatively little appreciable cultural difference between the states. Besides which, people are pretty fluid about state lines. You're born in Georgia, you've lived most your life in New Mexico, and now you live in Oregon. What are you? Answer: An American. With a Midwestern accent.
I am currently reading a novel called "Rollback." In the story, Earth received a message from alien life forms on a distant planet in 2010. One of the main characters, a SETI researcher, doesn't find out about it until after the news has been leaked publicly. Her husband breaks it to her: "It's all over the Internet, including Slashdot!"
And my reaction was, "What? Slashdot already has it on the frontpage? She must really be the last person to find out!"
I was thinking, not to beat a dead horse or anything, but perhaps iPhone users tend to be less technically inclined, and/or more interested in trendiness.
You: "Alright, I'll unhook the wood nymph's bra." DM: "Okay, how do you do that?" [rest of gaming group listens intently] You: "Umm...I just, you know, unhook it?" DM: "Okay, we'll say it takes three rounds." You: "It doesn't take three rounds to unhook a bra!" DM: "Well, it takes your character three rounds." You: "That's bullshit. Have you ever done it?" DM: "SILENCE! YOU ARE BANISHED FROM DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS FOREVER!"
Errr....really I meant you can represent rational numbers as a fraction. You can't represent irrational numbers as a fraction for all the obvious reasons.
I don't think that's true. As far as I see, you can't represent the last digit of pi at all in unary. You can represent the positive integers in unary. I suppose you could represent the negative integers. You cannot represent zero. You can represent real numbers as a fraction, but as far as I know, not as a decimal (sic).
Think of the military applications! The Army should start putting every soldier in a new Volvo. You can shoot at them, you can bomb them, you can even throw tactical nukes at them...but they keep coming!
Should we be worried about the coming Swedish blitzkrieg?
Yes, but, the $300 billion comes from tax dollars, and the $20 billion goes to friends of George Bush and Dick Cheney. (A lot of the $300 does, too, for that matter.) Granted, it's not a perfectly efficient system. But oil executives and defense contractors are not the ones shelling out.
It does seem counterintuitive that, if you have a war, and one side goes home and has a sandwich, there will be less violence. Sociologists will be arguing about that one for years.
Verizon has set this as a policy, but the Actiontec routers themselves aren't any different. If you reset one of them, the username is still admin and the password goes back to password1.
If you don't want Verizon getting all up in your shit, get a third-party router. They'll all work (provided you use a MoCA router if you're MoCA). Technically, if your Actiontec were set as "unmanaged" they would require permission to change or view router settings, but that's more of a scout's pledge than anything.
When I was working for them, I always got a kick of of looking at the router's DHCP table and saying stuff like, "Oh, you've got an XBOX, you play a lot of games?" Front line tech support can't do everything to the router remotely, but it's a feeling of power in an environment where you're otherwise powerless.
I remember on my AP Calculus test, I had a full range of precompiled calculus problem-solving software on my TI-89 that I had gotten from another student. I wasn't cheating---I didn't end up actually using it on the test, but it was there. I'd have had a hard time finding software like that for a Windows machine at the time.
Fair enough. The sample size is small. There were zero hovercars stolen, also, and I'll offer that if I saw a hovercar in a parking lot, hell, I'd probably try to steal it. My post was a response to the AC who thought that what we really needed were absolute numbers, and, having RTFA, provided them.
Zero. There were exactly zero pink cars stolen. (The study, if you had bothered to look at it, includes all reported thefts of all cars less than 3 years old in the Netherlands from 2004-2008).
I really hate it when people start prattling along about errors with statistics when they don't bother looking at the actual statistics.
I'm going to say, before any of those, "embattled news source."
If you are someone who hates Wikileaks and has a lot of media time, it's fairly easy to plant seeds of destruction.
"Our question today: did Wikileaks deliberately publish false evidence about [such and such]? Now, I'm not saying they did, but why is no one else asking these questions?"
"What, if any, are Wikileaks' ties to the Taliban? They have a lot of informants on that side of the world. You wonder where they get their donations, their stories from. You wonder if maybe they're getting too close to the wrong people."
"You know, I don't think it was appropriate for them to publish classified military information. There are brave men and women out their have given their lives protecting us from the terrorists. And Wikileaks is releasing these documents, putting them in danger...for what? To get a few extra hits to their website?"
I'm making these up as I go along, but I'm sure the Fox News copywriters already have them written down.
The Daily Show is television's finest editorial column, we all agree. The fact that there's even an argument as to whether it counts as journalism is a testament to how editorialized and lowbrow TV journalism has become.
Here's the bottom line: * Researchers, investigative journalists = expensive * Talking heads with talking points = cheap
* Nuanced, in-depth analysis = intellectual appeal = let's watch cartoons instead * Hyperbolic, souped-up diatribe and rant with a side of sex scandal and allusions to 1984 = appeals to the emotions = I'll be damned if I let those Nazi Republicrats take away my guns/abortions! I'm so angry I could watch this all night!
The news organizations know they suck at informing the public. At least as far as television's concerned, they just don't give a crap. They are quite good at their jobs, however: they are profitable businesses.
Also second the guy who says to get a newspaper...before they're all gone! They may not be perfect, but at least they're not as cynical as the networks.
The only thing worse than having a call center job is suddenly not having a call center job.
Only marginally. I actually got fired from that job a couple of weeks ago, and I was thrilled. But then, I don't have kids to feed, am going back to school in the fall, etc.
I cannot tell you how many times I've gotten this call (or a call like it):
Customer: Yeah, my TV doesn't work. Me: Well, I aplogize for the inconvenience, I can help--- Customer: You Verizon people! Always apologizing, but you never do anything! Me: Well, I can help you out...Okay, what happens when you try to watch TV? Customer: Nothing! Me: [waits patiently] Customer: It says, "this channel is currently unavailable..." Customer: Why is this happening? Me: I don't know yet. It's usually a cabling issue. Let's find out. Customer: Oh, God. This never happened with Comcast. Verizon sucks. Why does Verizon suck so much? Me: Uhhh....okay, can you pull up the menu... Customer: Why do I have to do this? You need to send somebody out. Verizon sucks. Me: Okay, let's just try this...[more stuff]...and can you tell me what the OOB S/N ratio is? Customer: It says O-D-B. Me: Your cable box is unplugged.
It doesn't take long to burn out on that. And believe it or not, the customers aren't even the worst part about a call center job; it's the management. The one thing I had going for me is that I don't have a foreign accent---I don't even want to think about the crap that those poor bastards in India and the Philippines have to put up with. So I want to say, on behalf of all the call center workers of the world: thank you for being polite on the phone. It makes our shitty jobs that much less unpleasant.
Slashdot Mirror
Nonsense. There's relatively little appreciable cultural difference between the states. Besides which, people are pretty fluid about state lines. You're born in Georgia, you've lived most your life in New Mexico, and now you live in Oregon. What are you? Answer: An American. With a Midwestern accent.
I am currently reading a novel called "Rollback." In the story, Earth received a message from alien life forms on a distant planet in 2010. One of the main characters, a SETI researcher, doesn't find out about it until after the news has been leaked publicly. Her husband breaks it to her: "It's all over the Internet, including Slashdot!" And my reaction was, "What? Slashdot already has it on the frontpage? She must really be the last person to find out!"
I take the view that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively; life is just a dream and we are all imaginations of ourselves.
Here's Tom with the weather.
I was thinking, not to beat a dead horse or anything, but perhaps iPhone users tend to be less technically inclined, and/or more interested in trendiness.
Police raids?
I thought they nuked Japan.
I'm imagining this game session.
You: "Alright, I'll unhook the wood nymph's bra."
DM: "Okay, how do you do that?"
[rest of gaming group listens intently]
You: "Umm...I just, you know, unhook it?"
DM: "Okay, we'll say it takes three rounds."
You: "It doesn't take three rounds to unhook a bra!"
DM: "Well, it takes your character three rounds."
You: "That's bullshit. Have you ever done it?"
DM: "SILENCE! YOU ARE BANISHED FROM DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS FOREVER!"
Oh, shit.
Anyone know of a good way to learn Mandarin?
You've convinced me.
No, it's not. Your answer is 10.
Errr....really I meant you can represent rational numbers as a fraction. You can't represent irrational numbers as a fraction for all the obvious reasons.
I don't think that's true. As far as I see, you can't represent the last digit of pi at all in unary. You can represent the positive integers in unary. I suppose you could represent the negative integers. You cannot represent zero. You can represent real numbers as a fraction, but as far as I know, not as a decimal (sic).
Think of the military applications! The Army should start putting every soldier in a new Volvo. You can shoot at them, you can bomb them, you can even throw tactical nukes at them...but they keep coming!
Should we be worried about the coming Swedish blitzkrieg?
Yes, but, the $300 billion comes from tax dollars, and the $20 billion goes to friends of George Bush and Dick Cheney. (A lot of the $300 does, too, for that matter.) Granted, it's not a perfectly efficient system. But oil executives and defense contractors are not the ones shelling out.
It does seem counterintuitive that, if you have a war, and one side goes home and has a sandwich, there will be less violence. Sociologists will be arguing about that one for years.
Mmm. I suggest working out in the call center trenches for a few months before you call anything a tier 1 agent does a "power trip."
On the other hand, good for you, with your router.
Verizon has set this as a policy, but the Actiontec routers themselves aren't any different. If you reset one of them, the username is still admin and the password goes back to password1.
If you don't want Verizon getting all up in your shit, get a third-party router. They'll all work (provided you use a MoCA router if you're MoCA). Technically, if your Actiontec were set as "unmanaged" they would require permission to change or view router settings, but that's more of a scout's pledge than anything.
When I was working for them, I always got a kick of of looking at the router's DHCP table and saying stuff like, "Oh, you've got an XBOX, you play a lot of games?" Front line tech support can't do everything to the router remotely, but it's a feeling of power in an environment where you're otherwise powerless.
I remember on my AP Calculus test, I had a full range of precompiled calculus problem-solving software on my TI-89 that I had gotten from another student. I wasn't cheating---I didn't end up actually using it on the test, but it was there. I'd have had a hard time finding software like that for a Windows machine at the time.
Fair enough. The sample size is small. There were zero hovercars stolen, also, and I'll offer that if I saw a hovercar in a parking lot, hell, I'd probably try to steal it. My post was a response to the AC who thought that what we really needed were absolute numbers, and, having RTFA, provided them.
Maybe he was just using the same keylogger.
Zero. There were exactly zero pink cars stolen. (The study, if you had bothered to look at it, includes all reported thefts of all cars less than 3 years old in the Netherlands from 2004-2008).
I really hate it when people start prattling along about errors with statistics when they don't bother looking at the actual statistics.
All of them. At least, new-ish cars in the Netherlands, in 2004-2008. ...you could have easily looked that up, TFA links to its sources.
I'm going to say, before any of those, "embattled news source."
If you are someone who hates Wikileaks and has a lot of media time, it's fairly easy to plant seeds of destruction.
"Our question today: did Wikileaks deliberately publish false evidence about [such and such]? Now, I'm not saying they did, but why is no one else asking these questions?"
"What, if any, are Wikileaks' ties to the Taliban? They have a lot of informants on that side of the world. You wonder where they get their donations, their stories from. You wonder if maybe they're getting too close to the wrong people."
"You know, I don't think it was appropriate for them to publish classified military information. There are brave men and women out their have given their lives protecting us from the terrorists. And Wikileaks is releasing these documents, putting them in danger...for what? To get a few extra hits to their website?"
I'm making these up as I go along, but I'm sure the Fox News copywriters already have them written down.
The Daily Show is television's finest editorial column, we all agree. The fact that there's even an argument as to whether it counts as journalism is a testament to how editorialized and lowbrow TV journalism has become.
Here's the bottom line:
* Researchers, investigative journalists = expensive
* Talking heads with talking points = cheap
* Nuanced, in-depth analysis = intellectual appeal = let's watch cartoons instead
* Hyperbolic, souped-up diatribe and rant with a side of sex scandal and allusions to 1984 = appeals to the emotions = I'll be damned if I let those Nazi Republicrats take away my guns/abortions! I'm so angry I could watch this all night!
The news organizations know they suck at informing the public. At least as far as television's concerned, they just don't give a crap. They are quite good at their jobs, however: they are profitable businesses.
Also second the guy who says to get a newspaper...before they're all gone! They may not be perfect, but at least they're not as cynical as the networks.
The only thing worse than having a call center job is suddenly not having a call center job.
Only marginally. I actually got fired from that job a couple of weeks ago, and I was thrilled. But then, I don't have kids to feed, am going back to school in the fall, etc.
I cannot tell you how many times I've gotten this call (or a call like it):
Customer: Yeah, my TV doesn't work.
Me: Well, I aplogize for the inconvenience, I can help---
Customer: You Verizon people! Always apologizing, but you never do anything!
Me: Well, I can help you out...Okay, what happens when you try to watch TV?
Customer: Nothing!
Me: [waits patiently]
Customer: It says, "this channel is currently unavailable..."
Customer: Why is this happening?
Me: I don't know yet. It's usually a cabling issue. Let's find out.
Customer: Oh, God. This never happened with Comcast. Verizon sucks. Why does Verizon suck so much?
Me: Uhhh....okay, can you pull up the menu...
Customer: Why do I have to do this? You need to send somebody out. Verizon sucks.
Me: Okay, let's just try this...[more stuff]...and can you tell me what the OOB S/N ratio is?
Customer: It says O-D-B.
Me: Your cable box is unplugged.
It doesn't take long to burn out on that. And believe it or not, the customers aren't even the worst part about a call center job; it's the management. The one thing I had going for me is that I don't have a foreign accent---I don't even want to think about the crap that those poor bastards in India and the Philippines have to put up with. So I want to say, on behalf of all the call center workers of the world: thank you for being polite on the phone. It makes our shitty jobs that much less unpleasant.