As for thinking people just Apples because they want to brag
I think you a word.
And comparing Mac OS X to Windows (price) by the same standard as Windows to Linux, you're forgetting a rather crucial detail - where as you can buy/download a copy of Windows/Linux and install it on any computer you want and not be in some kind of bind (according to various EULAs etc), that doesn't hold true for Mac OS X. Which is quite a shame, but besides the point.
Thermal conductivity is a function of the materials in use, not what it's pushed up against.
Copper rates at 401 W/(m-K), diamond rates at between 900 - 2320 W/(m-K). 2320/401 = 5.79.
Now, we're not comparing pure copper to diamond, but it's entirely possible that the compound they're comparing to is that much "worse" than their own.
How can a literary geek not realize that "(neglect due to interest in sports, etc.)." has an etc. in it?
Neglect due to over fixating on any one thing for a length of time, be it sports, books, linux, gaming, work, hanging out with friends and whatever else might come between you is what they're talking about.
When reading those kinds of books and articles, don't think "This doesn't apply to me because $reason" think "what would make this apply to me"
As has been shown time and time again (including by the Mythbusters) eating poppy seed bread can set off a false positive. How sensitive is this thing? I.e. will it discard anything below a certain level or just flag you for the tiniest amount of opiates (I think it's opiates in the poppy seeds)?
More people need to stop thinking politics is a one dimensional spectrum. The Political Compass is a decent place to start.
I'll readily admit to weighing in heavily on to side of socialism, but at the same time I'm also weighing in heavily on the side of liberalism. Once you make people give serious thought about the concept of a "liberal commie bastard" you can almost see their heads implode, as they try to console their own ideas of communism (authoritarian socialism) and liberalism.
And if you think about it, it's quite apt, considering that turning raw wool into any kind of modern clothing is a very demanding process if you do it all by hand, yet you can probably go from sheep to sweater in an hour or less today, making a tedious process (manually adjusting the focus) into a highly automated one.
Off topic, but I couldn't help but notice your signature
Orwell's "1984" is not about socialism gone wrong. It is about socialism gone right.
Socialism has nothing to do with changing history, watching everybody, thought crimes etc. Socialism is about (brace yourself) social issues. The idea that as a society we help those less fortunate who need help. Be it because they're young or old, men or women, rich or poor. If you break your leg, you get helped and you don't get billed for it. If you need or want an education, we'll pay for it - which benefits society as a whole.
Then one can start to argue that it's not better for society as a whole to let people over say 50 live on, but in a democratic society that's unlikely to be approved, given the large number of voters who are 50+. Or that in order to curb crime for the betterment of society we need to install cameras everywhere.
Sure, but where most people see the opposite of socialism (capitalism) it'll be the same, but for different reasons: "Everybody must be monitored, to protect everybody's property". It's the same goal, just different arguments.
1984 isn't about socialism. It's not about capitalism either. It's about a society where authoritarian rule has run amok. And authoritarianism is opposed liberalism (but not in the way it's seen by most people in the US).
Socialism "done right" is what you see in most Scandinavian countries. Healthy democracies, stable rule (ignoring World War II), high taxes but with a high level of social benefits.
Well, a lot can be said for sending a steady stream of supplies to the surface of Mars in preparation of a landing.
It'd be simpler and probably safer to send stuff in small clusters. That way if something goes wrong you haven't put all your eggs in one basket. You'd have to space out your delivery sites so you don't crush everything by something smashing into it, including your own stuff.
Expensive, sure. But you'd learn a lot, merely in terms of the number of launches needed.
Here's a thought: Make the characters random in appearance.
You draw on statistical information and whenever you need a new background character. It won't work for all characters in a game, as you'd need to have a ton of extra voice work done, but for people to fill in the background or non-speaking parts, why not?
It'll take a bit of extra work for the animators and modelers, but wouldn't it be sort of cool to get to mow down a random group of people in GTA and notice, just before you plow into them with a truck, that you're about to paint a sidewalk mural with three generations of a mixed race family. Old, young, middle aged, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white, male and female.
Seriously people, instead of blaming the world for your problems, take some responsibility and *DO* something about it.
I doubt this was aimed at me, but I am actually doing something about it, and I'm quite proud that I'm currently averaging just under a kg/week in weight loss.
Different gyms... depends on where you live. Where I live, there is 1 (one) gym inside of 50 kms. Makes it kinda hard to go elsewhere.
As for getting chatted up by the hot but sweaty chick - of course you'd go for it. But we're not the hot sweaty people. We're the fat sweaty people, and hot people don't try to chat us up. And when's the last time you've seen a sexy guy go out with a fat chick?
3) Some of us actually go to workout and don't care that ur fat and sweaty. I used to be you, but now I'm not. It takes time.
So... you're saying that back when you were the fat and out of shape guy/girl, you were concerned that people would laugh at you, but now that you're in much better shape, you don't worry about it anymore? Wasn't that my point?
Obviously, when you feel better about yourself (for whatever reason) you don't worry what other people think.
Or to put it another way - if you're walking around in a crowded location and you accidentally fart, you're hugely embarrassed because you think other people notice and think you're gross. But, farting is a natural thing, happens to all of us several times a day, often time in public, and when's the last time you spent more than maybe half a second worrying about someone you heard farting?
Of course no one else really cares what you look like in a gym, but that's not the point. The point is that you worry about what you look like, and you're always going to compare yourself to the people you think are the best looking people there. That's how we work as a species. It's why young girls are constantly trying to look like ironing boards and why men feel inadequate if they aren't hung like porn stars.
Plus the WiiFit is no fun if nobody if you're single and nobody can see you sweat. [Best place to pickup a date short of inter-office dating]
This works fine, if you're in shape to begin with.
Nobody's going to want to date the fattie with huge sweat pits under their arms and loose long sleeved t-shirt and baggy pants that we use to cover up with. And even fewer than that wants to date the fattie who dresses in tight lycra and sweats profusely.
And if you're that person, you're really not looking forward to showing yourself to the fit people either.
I know this because I am that person, and I know plenty of people who are or were that person. It's bad enough going to the gym to start building muscles without having to worry about the lifestylers laughing at you because you can't do a single push-up. And the cute fit people in the gym aren't going to throw you a pity-date either.
Now, once you're in decent shape, yes, it becomes an interesting place to pick up dates, but until then you're just a big sweaty lump of lard.
Gyms aren't made for those of us who are overweight and need to get into shape. We already know that it's not the prettiest sight to behold, when your man-tits leaves sweat marks on your t-shirt. And watching a bunch of really fit people working out isn't much of a motivator. We don't want to see Mr. or Ms. Fitness World working out next to us. What we really want to see is someone who's just slightly fatter or thinner than we are, so we are properly motivated to outdo them.
Think about it - do you really want to be doing bench presses next to the world's strongest men when you can barely do 50 push-ups? Sure, they're unlikely to laugh at your feeble efforts, but deep down we all fear that they will. If we didn't care about their opinions, why would we be in the gym in the first place?
I don't want to do my workouts next to Vin Diesel. I want to do mine next to Jason Alexander, a rotund, out of breath, balding guy who's likely to keel over with a heart attack before I do.
As long as the instruction sets are compatible in such a way that I can take all my programs from platform A and move it to platform Q, how can we not be the winners in this competition?
In Denmark the former tax minister Peter Brixtofte was mayor in the Farum municipality (he's apparently infamous enough to get his own Wiki page in English).
He implemented a similar scheme in Denmark (now called "Farummodellen"). If we ignore the fact that this was and still is against the law in Denmark, Farum municipality has ended up with the worst economy in any municipality in the country, despite the fact that it used to be one of the richest and most prosperous ones.
To give you an idea of the state it left them in: In Denmark we have several types of taxes, the municipalities set two types: Municipaly/council tax and property tax. All non-calculated numbers below taken from here And compare these two for two fairly close and I think fairly comparable municipalities: In 1995 it was 17.30 and 0.60 percent respectively for Farum (sell and lease back) In 1995 it was 19.20 and 0.88 percent respectively for Lyngby Taarbæk
In 2005 it was 22.80 and 1.80 percent respectively for Farum (sell and lease back) (total increase of 5.94%) In 2005 it was 19.90 and 0.83 percent respectively for Lyngby Taarbæk (total increase of 0.54%)
Taxes doesn't tell the whole story of course. So let's look at expenses for the two, calculated pr resident: In 1995 it was (Euro)4,256 for 17,835 residents in Farum (sell and lease back) In 1995 it was (Euro)4,526 for 49,578 residents in Lyngby Taarbæk
In 2005 it was (Euro)8,949 for 18,662 residents in Farum (sell and lease back) In 2005 it was (Euro)7,572 for 51,611 residents in Lyngby Taarbæk
So, an increase in expenses of 110% and an increase of 4.6% of the population for the sell and lease back municipality And, an increase in expenses of 67% and an increase of 4.1% of the population for the other one
Now, I'll be honest and say that economics is tricky, and it doesn't get easier when you factor in Brixtofte's convictions for corruption and criminal breach of trust and the still unresolved main case against him partly involving the sale and lease back issues, but all in all it really really didn't pan out in Farum, despite the municipality getting a huge (Euro)268M subsidy paid out over 15 years from the government.
Even without looking elsewhere, think of it like this:
The only way that (maintenance_p + profit) < (maintenance_g) is if maintenance_p << maintenance_g, in which case you'll either end up with a horribly maintained building, possibly unsuitable for people to work in, OR you're paying low level government employees way too much. Last I checked that the latter has never been the case. When's the last time you heard someone say "I'll get a nice cozy government job - it pays a lot better"?
What is it with you guys? Have you TRIED asking his mommy and daddy if he had permission to go outside and play? Is he locked up in some institution and not allowed out without permission?
He's a fucking adult. If no one has seen him for two weeks he's missing. Call the local police department (where the guy lives) and have them look into it.
Around here, if you do that, a few possible outcomes will happen: 1) Police finds person at their work or residence and they say that so and so was looking for them 1a) Person says "tell them I'm fine", and the police calls you back and says he's fine 1b) Person says "it's none of person's business" and the police will tell you they couldn't find him or just don't call back 2) Police doesn't find person, so they check family, neighbours, coworkers, hospitals, jails, prisons, morgues etc and find out where he is 2a) Person says "tell them I'm fine", and the police calls you back and says he's fine 2b) Person says "it's none of person's business" and the police will tell you they couldn't find him or just don't call back 3) Police doesn't find person anywhere and will start an actual manhunt.
and then there is a third category: certain industries where a regulated OLIGOPOLY makes sense (cable) and competition beyond a select few actually decreases consumer value, and at the same time dominance by one player decreases consumer value as well
Are you really arguing that the current market for cable in the US is in a good position?
Far as I can tell from watching Slashdot (I don't live in the US) it's an oligopoly, it's regulated (FCC) and it's about as good as voting is in Belarus...
And how about the oligopoly of cellphone providers? When is that oligopoly going to stop gouging your wallets for sending text messages, stop binding you to two year contracts and join the civilized world where we, the consumers, have it so much better?
And I'm pretty sure that the current music industry world wide represents an oligopoly regulated by copyright (though one could argue that the media companies regulate copyright). That sure as hell worked out perfectly for us consumers, right?
I'm not saying you're right or wrong with regards to domain registrars, just that oligopolies can be just as bad as monopoly if you let them get their hands in the cookie jar, i.e. make the rules that screw over the "consumer". We're not consumers, we're not customers. We're fucking citizens and we should have more rights than the companies...
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It's not exactly difficult to set up a system that kills the tags once they've been used by the store.
Counter them by keeping and arming bears!
Will teach those pesky burglars and trespassers a thing or two as well.
I think you a word.
And comparing Mac OS X to Windows (price) by the same standard as Windows to Linux, you're forgetting a rather crucial detail - where as you can buy/download a copy of Windows/Linux and install it on any computer you want and not be in some kind of bind (according to various EULAs etc), that doesn't hold true for Mac OS X. Which is quite a shame, but besides the point.
Thermal conductivity is a function of the materials in use, not what it's pushed up against.
Copper rates at 401 W/(m-K), diamond rates at between 900 - 2320 W/(m-K). 2320/401 = 5.79.
Now, we're not comparing pure copper to diamond, but it's entirely possible that the compound they're comparing to is that much "worse" than their own.
When I saw this, I couldn't help but think about the classical Rowan Atkinson sketch.
What good will that do?
0, 1, 10 ...
How can a literary geek not realize that "(neglect due to interest in sports, etc.)." has an etc. in it?
Neglect due to over fixating on any one thing for a length of time, be it sports, books, linux, gaming, work, hanging out with friends and whatever else might come between you is what they're talking about.
When reading those kinds of books and articles, don't think "This doesn't apply to me because $reason" think "what would make this apply to me"
Geez ... and you guys call yourselves geeks?
Far as I know the Google Mini Enterprise comes with all of the apps you need.
And since it's a local server, I suspect it'd still qualify for your confidentiality needs the same way any other local server would.
As has been shown time and time again (including by the Mythbusters) eating poppy seed bread can set off a false positive. How sensitive is this thing? I.e. will it discard anything below a certain level or just flag you for the tiniest amount of opiates (I think it's opiates in the poppy seeds)?
More people need to stop thinking politics is a one dimensional spectrum. The Political Compass is a decent place to start.
I'll readily admit to weighing in heavily on to side of socialism, but at the same time I'm also weighing in heavily on the side of liberalism. Once you make people give serious thought about the concept of a "liberal commie bastard" you can almost see their heads implode, as they try to console their own ideas of communism (authoritarian socialism) and liberalism.
It was the first thing that sprang to mind.
And if you think about it, it's quite apt, considering that turning raw wool into any kind of modern clothing is a very demanding process if you do it all by hand, yet you can probably go from sheep to sweater in an hour or less today, making a tedious process (manually adjusting the focus) into a highly automated one.
Off topic, but I couldn't help but notice your signature
Socialism has nothing to do with changing history, watching everybody, thought crimes etc. Socialism is about (brace yourself) social issues. The idea that as a society we help those less fortunate who need help. Be it because they're young or old, men or women, rich or poor. If you break your leg, you get helped and you don't get billed for it. If you need or want an education, we'll pay for it - which benefits society as a whole.
Then one can start to argue that it's not better for society as a whole to let people over say 50 live on, but in a democratic society that's unlikely to be approved, given the large number of voters who are 50+. Or that in order to curb crime for the betterment of society we need to install cameras everywhere.
Sure, but where most people see the opposite of socialism (capitalism) it'll be the same, but for different reasons: "Everybody must be monitored, to protect everybody's property". It's the same goal, just different arguments.
1984 isn't about socialism. It's not about capitalism either. It's about a society where authoritarian rule has run amok. And authoritarianism is opposed liberalism (but not in the way it's seen by most people in the US).
Socialism "done right" is what you see in most Scandinavian countries. Healthy democracies, stable rule (ignoring World War II), high taxes but with a high level of social benefits.
What you're failing to realize is that this is the first step towards glasses that adjust their focus automatically.
Right now it's done manually. Just like we used to manually card wool.
Given time, the electronics needed to measure where you're looking, the distance to it and adjusting the focus will be built in to the glasses.
Well, a lot can be said for sending a steady stream of supplies to the surface of Mars in preparation of a landing.
It'd be simpler and probably safer to send stuff in small clusters. That way if something goes wrong you haven't put all your eggs in one basket. You'd have to space out your delivery sites so you don't crush everything by something smashing into it, including your own stuff.
Expensive, sure. But you'd learn a lot, merely in terms of the number of launches needed.
Damn, that's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
Here's a thought: Make the characters random in appearance.
You draw on statistical information and whenever you need a new background character. It won't work for all characters in a game, as you'd need to have a ton of extra voice work done, but for people to fill in the background or non-speaking parts, why not?
It'll take a bit of extra work for the animators and modelers, but wouldn't it be sort of cool to get to mow down a random group of people in GTA and notice, just before you plow into them with a truck, that you're about to paint a sidewalk mural with three generations of a mixed race family. Old, young, middle aged, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white, male and female.
It can't be all that difficult.
I doubt this was aimed at me, but I am actually doing something about it, and I'm quite proud that I'm currently averaging just under a kg/week in weight loss.
Different gyms ... depends on where you live. Where I live, there is 1 (one) gym inside of 50 kms. Makes it kinda hard to go elsewhere.
As for getting chatted up by the hot but sweaty chick - of course you'd go for it. But we're not the hot sweaty people. We're the fat sweaty people, and hot people don't try to chat us up. And when's the last time you've seen a sexy guy go out with a fat chick?
So ... you're saying that back when you were the fat and out of shape guy/girl, you were concerned that people would laugh at you, but now that you're in much better shape, you don't worry about it anymore? Wasn't that my point?
Obviously, when you feel better about yourself (for whatever reason) you don't worry what other people think.
Or to put it another way - if you're walking around in a crowded location and you accidentally fart, you're hugely embarrassed because you think other people notice and think you're gross. But, farting is a natural thing, happens to all of us several times a day, often time in public, and when's the last time you spent more than maybe half a second worrying about someone you heard farting?
Of course no one else really cares what you look like in a gym, but that's not the point. The point is that you worry about what you look like, and you're always going to compare yourself to the people you think are the best looking people there. That's how we work as a species. It's why young girls are constantly trying to look like ironing boards and why men feel inadequate if they aren't hung like porn stars.
This works fine, if you're in shape to begin with.
Nobody's going to want to date the fattie with huge sweat pits under their arms and loose long sleeved t-shirt and baggy pants that we use to cover up with. And even fewer than that wants to date the fattie who dresses in tight lycra and sweats profusely.
And if you're that person, you're really not looking forward to showing yourself to the fit people either.
I know this because I am that person, and I know plenty of people who are or were that person. It's bad enough going to the gym to start building muscles without having to worry about the lifestylers laughing at you because you can't do a single push-up. And the cute fit people in the gym aren't going to throw you a pity-date either.
Now, once you're in decent shape, yes, it becomes an interesting place to pick up dates, but until then you're just a big sweaty lump of lard.
Gyms aren't made for those of us who are overweight and need to get into shape. We already know that it's not the prettiest sight to behold, when your man-tits leaves sweat marks on your t-shirt. And watching a bunch of really fit people working out isn't much of a motivator. We don't want to see Mr. or Ms. Fitness World working out next to us. What we really want to see is someone who's just slightly fatter or thinner than we are, so we are properly motivated to outdo them.
Think about it - do you really want to be doing bench presses next to the world's strongest men when you can barely do 50 push-ups? Sure, they're unlikely to laugh at your feeble efforts, but deep down we all fear that they will. If we didn't care about their opinions, why would we be in the gym in the first place?
I don't want to do my workouts next to Vin Diesel. I want to do mine next to Jason Alexander, a rotund, out of breath, balding guy who's likely to keel over with a heart attack before I do.
It's a shame it breeds more tritium and no di-lithium ...
Just tell the lawyer from Amazon that if he can read out the TOS in three breaths of air or less, he'll get to argue that it was in the TOS.
Should make for an interesting spectacle at least.
Well, from what I've seen I don't really blame you!
You say this as if it would be a bad thing?
As long as the instruction sets are compatible in such a way that I can take all my programs from platform A and move it to platform Q, how can we not be the winners in this competition?
In Denmark the former tax minister Peter Brixtofte was mayor in the Farum municipality (he's apparently infamous enough to get his own Wiki page in English).
He implemented a similar scheme in Denmark (now called "Farummodellen"). If we ignore the fact that this was and still is against the law in Denmark, Farum municipality has ended up with the worst economy in any municipality in the country, despite the fact that it used to be one of the richest and most prosperous ones.
To give you an idea of the state it left them in:
In Denmark we have several types of taxes, the municipalities set two types: Municipaly/council tax and property tax. All non-calculated numbers below taken from here
And compare these two for two fairly close and I think fairly comparable municipalities:
In 1995 it was 17.30 and 0.60 percent respectively for Farum (sell and lease back)
In 1995 it was 19.20 and 0.88 percent respectively for Lyngby Taarbæk
In 2005 it was 22.80 and 1.80 percent respectively for Farum (sell and lease back) (total increase of 5.94%)
In 2005 it was 19.90 and 0.83 percent respectively for Lyngby Taarbæk (total increase of 0.54%)
Taxes doesn't tell the whole story of course. So let's look at expenses for the two, calculated pr resident:
In 1995 it was (Euro)4,256 for 17,835 residents in Farum (sell and lease back)
In 1995 it was (Euro)4,526 for 49,578 residents in Lyngby Taarbæk
In 2005 it was (Euro)8,949 for 18,662 residents in Farum (sell and lease back)
In 2005 it was (Euro)7,572 for 51,611 residents in Lyngby Taarbæk
So, an increase in expenses of 110% and an increase of 4.6% of the population for the sell and lease back municipality
And, an increase in expenses of 67% and an increase of 4.1% of the population for the other one
Now, I'll be honest and say that economics is tricky, and it doesn't get easier when you factor in Brixtofte's convictions for corruption and criminal breach of trust and the still unresolved main case against him partly involving the sale and lease back issues, but all in all it really really didn't pan out in Farum, despite the municipality getting a huge (Euro)268M subsidy paid out over 15 years from the government.
Even without looking elsewhere, think of it like this:
Government owned: expenses = Maintenance_g
Privately owned: expenses = Maintenance_p + profit
The only way that (maintenance_p + profit) < (maintenance_g) is if maintenance_p << maintenance_g, in which case you'll either end up with a horribly maintained building, possibly unsuitable for people to work in, OR you're paying low level government employees way too much. Last I checked that the latter has never been the case. When's the last time you heard someone say "I'll get a nice cozy government job - it pays a lot better"?
Again with the AWOL!
What is it with you guys? Have you TRIED asking his mommy and daddy if he had permission to go outside and play? Is he locked up in some institution and not allowed out without permission?
He's a fucking adult. If no one has seen him for two weeks he's missing. Call the local police department (where the guy lives) and have them look into it.
Around here, if you do that, a few possible outcomes will happen:
1) Police finds person at their work or residence and they say that so and so was looking for them
1a) Person says "tell them I'm fine", and the police calls you back and says he's fine
1b) Person says "it's none of person's business" and the police will tell you they couldn't find him or just don't call back
2) Police doesn't find person, so they check family, neighbours, coworkers, hospitals, jails, prisons, morgues etc and find out where he is
2a) Person says "tell them I'm fine", and the police calls you back and says he's fine
2b) Person says "it's none of person's business" and the police will tell you they couldn't find him or just don't call back
3) Police doesn't find person anywhere and will start an actual manhunt.
It's not that difficult.
Are you really arguing that the current market for cable in the US is in a good position?
Far as I can tell from watching Slashdot (I don't live in the US) it's an oligopoly, it's regulated (FCC) and it's about as good as voting is in Belarus ...
And how about the oligopoly of cellphone providers? When is that oligopoly going to stop gouging your wallets for sending text messages, stop binding you to two year contracts and join the civilized world where we, the consumers, have it so much better?
And I'm pretty sure that the current music industry world wide represents an oligopoly regulated by copyright (though one could argue that the media companies regulate copyright). That sure as hell worked out perfectly for us consumers, right?
I'm not saying you're right or wrong with regards to domain registrars, just that oligopolies can be just as bad as monopoly if you let them get their hands in the cookie jar, i.e. make the rules that screw over the "consumer". We're not consumers, we're not customers. We're fucking citizens and we should have more rights than the companies ...