I was responding to a post that questioned using nuns, assuming the poster was objecting to the 'abnormality' of religious belief.
You respond by saying, that's not it at all, nuns make better test subjects. But he wasn't implying they were better, he was implying they were worse. I assumed he was referring to nuns religious beliefs as the reason not to use them. I guess I just don't understand your reply. You do not address my question: why did the original poster claim nuns would make bad test subjects? Your answer explains why they are good test subjects.
Why not? Like it or not, it is fairly normal to believe in religion.
I don't think that has anything to do with it. I remember reading elsewhere that nuns are ideal test subjects for longitudinal studies because the affect of a lot of independent variables can be eliminated or reduced when compared to people who have a more normal lifestyle.
My parents have it in their home and it has a pretty high upfront cost. Because my parents live in a rural area, the cost of piping was a lot less as the pipes didn't have to straight down but rather approximately 700 meters of pipes that are only a couple of meters underground. The local energy company (Manitoba Hydro) had / has? a financing plan they use for pushing this kind of thing forward and made it possible for my parents to have it (they really like selling excess power south of the border).
According to my experience there are a few downsides to geothermal heating / cooling. In the middle of winter, the geothermal heating unit can't keep up and the electric furnace which is kept as backup kicks in to keep the house warm (albeit only in -40 type weather). The whole unit takes a fair amount of space in piping and equipment. Space in large cities is much more valuable resource which raises the upfront cost.
But even given these few downsides, I see geothermal as the future way of heating and cooling our homes.
So later in the article when it says that "The congestion was expected to last into mid-September as the road project will not be finished until then" you actually think the same cars will be stuck in traffic until mid-september?
Programming is supposed to make life easier, not harder. Microsoft is the expert in obfuscated standards, obfuscated libraries, and especially obfuscated documentation. It's a wonder they get anything done at all.
I agree and for proof I will direct anyone who contests this point to try to automate Microsoft MapPoint with.NET. *shudder* That was much more difficult than it needed to be.
Where I disagree with you is that you seem to think Microsoft killed old-school VB/VBA development and forced a generation of terrible developers to move, however relucantly, towards object oriented programming by accident.
I just need to tell you that it takes more than programming in an object-oriented language to change a programmer's code style.
I clicked on the article and couldn't find any mention of standard deviation. Knowing the standard deviation would make statistics like this far more interesting and meaningful.
Why does anyone use a proprietary system like Skype, when open standards such as SIP and Jingle (used by google talk) exist? Isn't skype just another closed system to get locked into?
I have a pretty slow internet connection and audio quality is quite a bit better on Skype then on Google Talk. I hate the Linux Skype client as it crashes very frequently (pretty much every second time I click on the start my video button) and it hogs memory so I will only open when it is time to make a call. Skype releasing an "open" sdk raises my hopes of having a nice Skype client that won't crash and that I can permanently leave open on my computer.
Let me known when they figure out how to add a menu bar. Until then, I'll be sticking with Firefox.
LK
This.
I moved from Firefox to Chrome for speed and from Chrome to Ephiphany for a menu bar. I've lost a lot of features in the moves but now I have a fast, stable broswer with a menu bar.
Judging a site based on the thinking that "YOU" are the target audience is the wrong way to judge it. Disney.com does a fabulous job for its target market using flash. I'd argue one of the best flash web sites around.
I see your point but flash sites in general fail at accessibility. I'm not the only one who appreciates changing font sizes on web sites.
I don't have good eyesight and I regularily make use of my Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts to read text. That is obviously impossible on flash sites.
Odd, this works for me with Google Chrome, what OS and browser are you using?
I am on Google Chrome but I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with it. I haven't ever been on a flash-only site where the text would resize when I press ctrl + and ctrl -. Which sites does it work for you?
I'll take you up on your challenge and visit each site to see what I think about it. Note that my laptop has a 10" screen so I'm not expecting many of these sites to work at this resolution.
This site nicely provides the scroll bar on the side so I can still see any content that has gotten clipped off of the screen. Fonts on the bottom are too small and because it is flash I either lean forward and squint or choose not to read the text.
I just about barfed all over my laptop. That is an awful site. Everything is moving around following my cursor, menu will drop down over my cursor when attempting to move the screen to the top because there appears to be content out of reach. I attempted to contact them to share my opinion but I clicked on a link which downloaded a pdf and so I gave up. Maybe it isn't flash that should die but flash developers shouldn't be allowed onto the internet.
This looks cool but again, it cuts off at the bottom the screen so I can't read the button labels (although I know that they are there) and going fullscreen doesn't help for some reason as the portion of the words that is off of the screen doesn't get drawn even when the screen size changes.
This one is especially bad on my small screen. Half of the text is missing unless I'm viewing it in full screen. Links are overlapping. And even after everything is loaded, getting anywhere is slow. And I hate the design.
I had hope for this one when I saw the scroll bar but the font is too small, annoying sound effects mean that I leave this site even though I can see some nice looking art
Well that is a mesmarizingly useless loading bar. And navigation is hidden unless I go to fullscreen. I hate the navigation and again with the overlapping links.
Hey they have scroll bars! So at least I can see everything if I try. However, fonts are too small and at least one of them looks quite a bit worse than Comic Sans and the navigation is annoying. There is no way to quickly see what options are available. To get to know all of the options I would need to carefully move my mouse over the entier area, starting from the left and mentally creating a grid on the screen and making sure that I mouse over everything. That is just plain stupid.
And my conclusion is that flash should die. Of course, I'm hardly unbiased. I'm on a netbook so nearly every flash site breaks. I'm on a slow internet connection so I always need to wait to view the site. I don't have good eyesight and I regularily make use of my Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts to read text. That is obviously imopssible on flash sites. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and flash sites break my browser based keyboard shortcuts like page up and down, f11 for fullscreen, Ctrl t for n
Most notably in my case, was the use of an external monitor at a different resolution than my netbook.
That was horribly broken in 9.04.
I had the same problem in 9.04 on my netbook. 10.04 doesn't work perfectly for me though as desktop effects get disabled when an external monitor is plugged in.
Honestly now, I'm talking about home users, the other people who use firewalls, even though they don't know it. Make it a standard on routers where on the router's config page, it can accept a small text file with ports to be routed to the current connection. Even better, have the program send that information when the game starts, and have the ports un-routed when the game ends. It's a relatively simple, easy fix for the headache that is "finding out the proper ports for XBox Live to work" and entering them manually.
How is that different from not using a firewall? I don't mean that to sound rhetorical, I'm genuinely wondering. If a firewall opens ports whenever is requested to do so, why have a firewall at all?
Yes, it sucks. To the tune of hundreds of millions of $$ per day. But this stuff can and will kill an engine. I wouldn't want to depend on a lucky restart.
You're wrong, I watched 2012 and ash doesn't harm the engine only it only makes it harder for the pilot to see.
The new release also includes much better integration with social networking services such as Twitter, identi.ca and Facebook
Why should an operating system "integrate" with a social networking service?
Ubuntu provides not just the Linux operating system but also the package of applications that they deem people may find useful. Applications which provide social networking integration will be put to use for a lot of people so they are included.
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I was expecting fancy lasers, but this is just a neon light tube attached to a metal cylinder.
You might want to take a closer look at some of the pictures. The details on the "metal cylinder" are phenomenal.
This. It's frustrating having to work around 4 year old bugs.
I was responding to a post that questioned using nuns, assuming the poster was objecting to the 'abnormality' of religious belief.
You respond by saying, that's not it at all, nuns make better test subjects. But he wasn't implying they were better, he was implying they were worse. I assumed he was referring to nuns religious beliefs as the reason not to use them. I guess I just don't understand your reply. You do not address my question: why did the original poster claim nuns would make bad test subjects? Your answer explains why they are good test subjects.
Ummm, yes...
Why not? Like it or not, it is fairly normal to believe in religion.
I don't think that has anything to do with it. I remember reading elsewhere that nuns are ideal test subjects for longitudinal studies because the affect of a lot of independent variables can be eliminated or reduced when compared to people who have a more normal lifestyle.
I'd like to know more about geothermal heating and cooling. This technology seems relatively affordable, durable, and best of all - simple. Why don't more people use it?
My parents have it in their home and it has a pretty high upfront cost. Because my parents live in a rural area, the cost of piping was a lot less as the pipes didn't have to straight down but rather approximately 700 meters of pipes that are only a couple of meters underground. The local energy company (Manitoba Hydro) had / has? a financing plan they use for pushing this kind of thing forward and made it possible for my parents to have it (they really like selling excess power south of the border).
According to my experience there are a few downsides to geothermal heating / cooling. In the middle of winter, the geothermal heating unit can't keep up and the electric furnace which is kept as backup kicks in to keep the house warm (albeit only in -40 type weather). The whole unit takes a fair amount of space in piping and equipment. Space in large cities is much more valuable resource which raises the upfront cost.
But even given these few downsides, I see geothermal as the future way of heating and cooling our homes.
So later in the article when it says that "The congestion was expected to last into mid-September as the road project will not be finished until then" you actually think the same cars will be stuck in traffic until mid-september?
Those poor people...
I see what you referenced there.
And here is a nice looking countdown until the moment the sky finishes falling. http://inetcore.com/project/ipv4ec/en-us/index.html I don't know how accurate it is but it is fun to watch.
Programming is supposed to make life easier, not harder. Microsoft is the expert in obfuscated standards, obfuscated libraries, and especially obfuscated documentation. It's a wonder they get anything done at all.
I agree and for proof I will direct anyone who contests this point to try to automate Microsoft MapPoint with .NET. *shudder* That was much more difficult than it needed to be.
Where I disagree with you is that you seem to think Microsoft killed old-school VB/VBA development and forced a generation of terrible developers to move, however relucantly, towards object oriented programming by accident.
I just need to tell you that it takes more than programming in an object-oriented language to change a programmer's code style.
Good try. With the quote tag thing. I didn't actually read your comment.
I clicked on the article and couldn't find any mention of standard deviation. Knowing the standard deviation would make statistics like this far more interesting and meaningful.
My baseball bat is a murder weapon. The fact that I can use it to play baseball is not a defense.
Guns for hunting/murder.
Recording devices for reminders/spying.
Tacos for eating/poison delivery.
I'm going to go ahead and play devil's advocate here.
The baseball bat is designed for something other than murder and is frequently used for something other than murder.
The R4 is not designed for homebrew and is very infrequently used for homebrew.*
Just because an argument can be taken the nth degree to prove your own point doesn't mean that it should.
*This is my anecdotal experience. I have seen R4 chips very often and I have never seen them being used for homebrew.
Why does anyone use a proprietary system like Skype, when open standards such as SIP and Jingle (used by google talk) exist? Isn't skype just another closed system to get locked into?
I have a pretty slow internet connection and audio quality is quite a bit better on Skype then on Google Talk. I hate the Linux Skype client as it crashes very frequently (pretty much every second time I click on the start my video button) and it hogs memory so I will only open when it is time to make a call. Skype releasing an "open" sdk raises my hopes of having a nice Skype client that won't crash and that I can permanently leave open on my computer.
Let me known when they figure out how to add a menu bar. Until then, I'll be sticking with Firefox.
LK
This. I moved from Firefox to Chrome for speed and from Chrome to Ephiphany for a menu bar. I've lost a lot of features in the moves but now I have a fast, stable broswer with a menu bar.
Judging a site based on the thinking that "YOU" are the target audience is the wrong way to judge it. Disney.com does a fabulous job for its target market using flash. I'd argue one of the best flash web sites around.
I see your point but flash sites in general fail at accessibility. I'm not the only one who appreciates changing font sizes on web sites.
I don't have good eyesight and I regularily make use of my Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts to read text. That is obviously impossible on flash sites.
Odd, this works for me with Google Chrome, what OS and browser are you using?
I am on Google Chrome but I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with it. I haven't ever been on a flash-only site where the text would resize when I press ctrl + and ctrl -. Which sites does it work for you?
I'll take you up on your challenge and visit each site to see what I think about it. Note that my laptop has a 10" screen so I'm not expecting many of these sites to work at this resolution.
1 Moodstream
Yep, didn't fit in my screen. The controls were cut off on top and bottom.
2 monoface
Top of the person's head was cut off but the site was still usable... and hilarious. Thanks for that.
3 WATERLIFE
This site nicely provides the scroll bar on the side so I can still see any content that has gotten clipped off of the screen. Fonts on the bottom are too small and because it is flash I either lean forward and squint or choose not to read the text.
4 Mark Ecko
I just about barfed all over my laptop. That is an awful site. Everything is moving around following my cursor, menu will drop down over my cursor when attempting to move the screen to the top because there appears to be content out of reach. I attempted to contact them to share my opinion but I clicked on a link which downloaded a pdf and so I gave up. Maybe it isn't flash that should die but flash developers shouldn't be allowed onto the internet.
5 HBO
In my opinion this site could use html5. I don't see how this site uses flash that couldn't more easily be done in html5.
6 Get the Glass
This looks cool but again, it cuts off at the bottom the screen so I can't read the button labels (although I know that they are there) and going fullscreen doesn't help for some reason as the portion of the words that is off of the screen doesn't get drawn even when the screen size changes.
7 http://www.agencynet.com/
This one is especially bad on my small screen. Half of the text is missing unless I'm viewing it in full screen. Links are overlapping. And even after everything is loaded, getting anywhere is slow. And I hate the design.
8 2Advanced Studios
I had hope for this one when I saw the scroll bar but the font is too small, annoying sound effects mean that I leave this site even though I can see some nice looking art
9 SectionSeven
Well that is a mesmarizingly useless loading bar. And navigation is hidden unless I go to fullscreen. I hate the navigation and again with the overlapping links.
10 Dave Werner
Hey they have scroll bars! So at least I can see everything if I try. However, fonts are too small and at least one of them looks quite a bit worse than Comic Sans and the navigation is annoying. There is no way to quickly see what options are available. To get to know all of the options I would need to carefully move my mouse over the entier area, starting from the left and mentally creating a grid on the screen and making sure that I mouse over everything. That is just plain stupid.
And my conclusion is that flash should die. Of course, I'm hardly unbiased. I'm on a netbook so nearly every flash site breaks. I'm on a slow internet connection so I always need to wait to view the site. I don't have good eyesight and I regularily make use of my Ctrl+ and Ctrl- keyboard shortcuts to read text. That is obviously imopssible on flash sites. I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and flash sites break my browser based keyboard shortcuts like page up and down, f11 for fullscreen, Ctrl t for n
Mod parent up. I have karma to burn.
They fixed some things too.
Most notably in my case, was the use of an external monitor at a different resolution than my netbook.
That was horribly broken in 9.04.
I had the same problem in 9.04 on my netbook. 10.04 doesn't work perfectly for me though as desktop effects get disabled when an external monitor is plugged in.
Honestly now, I'm talking about home users, the other people who use firewalls, even though they don't know it. Make it a standard on routers where on the router's config page, it can accept a small text file with ports to be routed to the current connection. Even better, have the program send that information when the game starts, and have the ports un-routed when the game ends. It's a relatively simple, easy fix for the headache that is "finding out the proper ports for XBox Live to work" and entering them manually.
How is that different from not using a firewall? I don't mean that to sound rhetorical, I'm genuinely wondering. If a firewall opens ports whenever is requested to do so, why have a firewall at all?
Looks like I have some competition.
Yes, it sucks. To the tune of hundreds of millions of $$ per day. But this stuff can and will kill an engine. I wouldn't want to depend on a lucky restart.
You're wrong, I watched 2012 and ash doesn't harm the engine only it only makes it harder for the pilot to see.
... of public money well spent. Thumbs up, Toronto !
Public money? Nah, this'll be my money if I every pay my late fees.
I already read books while driving. Audiobooks, of course.
I can't stand how slow the people read.
The new release also includes much better integration with social networking services such as Twitter, identi.ca and Facebook
Why should an operating system "integrate" with a social networking service?
Ubuntu provides not just the Linux operating system but also the package of applications that they deem people may find useful. Applications which provide social networking integration will be put to use for a lot of people so they are included.