As the original poster said, it's akin to writing erotic literature. The main difference being that you have to be quick thinking.
And as for "im taking off ur shirt. ur sooo hott." that IS what a lot of people write. But that's really not what I was talking about - I was objecting to the sans skills that was mentioned, as it's suggesting that noone can make something that doesn't make you want to gouge your eyes out. Learn to read what other people write before commenting.
Aditionally, not everyone sees a need to do one handed typing. Primarily because anything worth reading takes a while to write, and having to wait three plus minutes for a response from your partner tends to kill that particular urge.
I don't agree with your "(sans skill)" assessment. Sure, most people couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag (actually an interesting exercise), but that's true of most erotic poetry as wel.
I predict that [H]ard|OCP will start posting all pissy news items about this, bitching that it's unfair that a US company has to abide by the laws of the EU, just because they do business there.
Granted, they'll phrase it differently and less obviously, but they've kept it up for Microsoft the entire time since they were first fined for breaking the law, so I doubt it'll be different for Intel.
I.e., wouldn't pollution increase the death rate by the same factor for children, young adults, middle-aged adults and the elderly?
Maybe? I have no idea - I pulled the hypothesis out of my ass just to come up with something that sounds plausible, would explain why the deaths seem to hit in the 18-40 group and would explain why it's bad in Mexico but not elsewhere.
They are emitters with a precisely known coordinate that aid your device in constructing its own location.
If the pseudolites are set up properly you can avoid using GPS satellites at all and still get better precision as you're avoiding all the atmospheric intereferense. You still get scattering though, but the more pseudolites you use, the better accuracy.
Since the signal doesn't have to travel through 200 km of atmosphere, you get better signals as well. Powering them directly off the mains helps in this regard as well.
Indoors isn't the only place they're usefull. If you set up pseudolites on say every 10 or 20 lamp posts in cities with big sky scrapers, you'd get much better GPS coverage there as well, even with regular hand held units
The reason they're talking about "satellite navigation" is that you can easily use a regular GPS receiver. Add a custom map for your store, and you're good to go. The reason they're talking about "satellite navigation" is that you can easily use a regular GPS receiver. Add a custom map for your store, and you're good to go.
At this point we're just using hypotheses and another one that I just dreamed up is that ths strain needs a certain industrial polutants to be between certain points (sweet spot) for it to be lethal.
Since more people have caught it, and more people have died from it in Mexico, this is also plausible, since the polution levels are easily higher there than in the US and Europe.
I say plausible, but very unlikely, as I just came up with this halfassed idea. But if it ends up being true, I want credit!
They built the infrastructure nescesary and then went to the incumbants saying "we built this nice fat infrastructure, and we'd like to let you use it if you give us a better service than we're getting right now".
The companies declined this offer and then gut pissed that the city decided to use the infrastructure anyway.
Okular has no chance there. Not amongst regular Windows users at least.
Step 1 - Go to PDFreaders.org - no issue Step 2 - Click on "Download" on the intersection between Okular and Windows - no issue Step 3 - Click "Download latest installer for immediate installation. - no issue Step 4 - Run the KDE installer - not so much an issue, as what it does is Step 5 - Click Next - "install from Internet" is the default setting, sounds reasonable Step 6 - Select a download server - "What the hell did I just download then?" Step 7 - Select an available release - Ehh? Whut? Step 8 - Select the package you want to install - Well, that's just fucked up. 140+ packages to choose from. They're sorted by package name ONLY, cannot sort by package notes. Step 9 - Look for something called Okular as package name. None found Step 10 - "Oh, well, maybe these are packages I want in addition to Okular. I mean, I downloaded the Okular installer, right?" Step 11 - Click Next Step 12 - Installation/Update finished Step 13 - Realise that NOTHING has been installed. Step 14 - Get annoyed Step 15 - Call tech support (realise this is a free program and there's noone to yell at) Step 16 - Download and run the installer again (because they forgot where they downloaded it to) Step 17 - Get to the package list and start reading very carefully Step 18 - Wonder why the hell the package list goes Czech, Kashubian, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian [spelling package] Step 19 - Realise there's still no Okular package anywhere Step 20 - Read the list for the 3rd time and note that "Graphics applications" has a note "(including Okular)" Step 21 - Wonder why the hell the download Okular link from before doesn't give you the fucking package to begin with Step 22 - Notice that you're now downloading 40 (forty!) packages from the servers Step 23 - Notice that one of these files are 60+ MB Step 24 - Wonder why they call Acrobat Reader bloated and slow when that installer is less than 25 MB and takes about 30 seconds to install, just by clicking Next until you're done. Step 25 - Notice that you now have a folder called "Programs" in your Start menu's program folder, which is aparently a sym-link to the program folder (doesn't point to itself though) Step 26 - Find the "KDE 4.22 Release" folder in Programs and notice these programs:
Step 27 - Wonder once more why the hell people call Acrobat Reader bloated when this program installs with 5 extra programs. Step 28 - Start the bloody program! Step 29 - KConf_update.exe would like to run. So, Acrobat Reader running its updater - Bad! This - GOOD! Step 30 - TRY to put frustrations aside and use the program
That installer REALLY needs some work.
And if you are going to have a Windows program, be as kind as to have an actual uninstaller. NONE of the KDE programs installed are listed in (Add/Remove)Programs(and Features). No uninstallers in the start menu either. I realise a lot of vocal FOSS supporters don't like Windows, but please - if you're going to advocate FOSS, at least make it live up to the LOW standards of Windows software (the non-malicious part of that group).
Well, aparently being openly socialist means the preview button changed its name to "Submit". Let's try it again with proper formatting:
the socialist notion that the men of ideas are of no importance
First of all, stop reading Ayn Rand as it's obviously giving you very very strange ideas about socialism. Various implementations of socialism (i.e. highly authoritarian ones), sure. But not socialism as an idea. No more than being an American makes you a fat, gun toting, inbred redneck who's never been outside the county he was born in, let alone country. It's true for some Americans, but it's not a general thing.
Here's a fun fact for you: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are all very socialist countries. High taxes, high level of social security (free school, education, health care etc), and they're all very keen on getting people educated in college (i.e. making men of ideas). They see their future as one that has interlectual companies outperforming regular industry.
In fact most of Europe would be seen as socialist by US standards. So lets compare university graduates in Europe to those of the US. I found this page while searching for "university graduates" per capita:
Education and Skills: Percentage of Graduates in Science, Math, Computer Science, and Engineering
Finland and Sweden rank 2nd and 4th on that list, Denmark and Norway are 14th and 15th and the US comes in at number 16 out of 17 countries compared.
Now, if these four heavily socialist countries are still managing to produce more graduates in these fields (percentage wise from the graduate population) AND they believe that "men of ideas are of no importance", why are they wasting all that money on those educations? Keep in mind, a college degree from a Scandinavian university is probably more expensive (higher taxes), but the state pays the tuition. Some of these countries even give the students money while they're in school (actual payments, not student loans).
Either they DO belive that "men of ideas are of no importance" but they're not socialist countries... or you're completely and utterly mistaken about what makes a socialist a socialist.
the socialist notion that the men of ideas are of no importanceFirst of all, stop reading Ayn Rand as it's obviously giving you very very strange ideas about socialism. Various implementations of socialism (i.e. highly authoritarian ones), sure - but that's true of
Here's a fun fact for you: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are all very socialist countries. High taxes, high level of social security (free school, education, health care etc), and they're all very keen on getting people educated in college (i.e. making men of ideas). They see their future as one that has interlectual companies outperforming regular industry.
In fact most of Europe would be seen as socialist by US standards. So lets compare university graduates in Europe to those of the US. I found this page while searching for "university graduates" per capita:
Education and Skills: Percentage of Graduates in Science, Math, Computer Science, and Engineering
Finland and Sweden rank 2nd and 4th on that list, Denmark and Norway are 14th and 15th and the US comes in at number 16 out of 17 countries compared.
Now, if these four heavily socialist countries are still managing to produce more graduates in these fields (percentage wise from the graduate population) AND they believe that "men of ideas are of no importance", why are they wasting all that money on those educations? Keep in mind, a college degree from a Scandinavian university is probably more expensive (higher taxes), but the state pays the tuition. Some of these countries even give the students money while they're in school (actual payments, not student loans).
Either they DO belive that "men of ideas are of no importance" but they're not socialist countries... or you're completely and utterly mistaken about what makes a socialist a socialist.
1 gram of anti-matter gives you 2 × 10^13 calories/gram - and that's with a 50% energy loss! Just for kicks - that's enough to heat a cubic kilometer of water 21K. Or 1 cubic mile of water 5K.
That means that even if Methanol cost 1 cent per kg (5,420,000 calories/cent), anti-matter "only" needs to cost 39,600 dollars per gram to give you the same amount of energy/dollar. And considering the savings you'd get from not having to haul all that extra weight around (fuel tank, fuel, distribution of it etc), I wouldn't be too surprised if 400,000$/gram would be an acceptable cost.
Ask NASA what they'd consider an acceptable cost/gram if anti-matter was a viable fuel. I'm guessing they'd be willing to go for tens if not hundreds of millions per gram.
You make some very good and prudent points - except this one:
being a "Commie", while indicating a significant misunderstanding of human nature
In what way does being a "commie" do that? I'm not a member of the communist party, nor do I believe in communism, as that is a very authoritarian way of leadership which I'm very much again. I am however a believer in socialism which would label me a "commie" in most of the US.
Hell being a elected politician in most European countries would mean you believe in and support socialism (society helping the less fortunate ones), even if you're on the far right wing of our political spectrum.
Calling someone a "commie" isn't slang for "member of the communist party" any more than calling someone an "abomonation against God an nature" is slang for "homosexual". It's slur and nothing more.
You even knew that, otherwise you wouldn't put commie in quotes.
The accurate word would be closer to communist, but even then I'm not sure I'd agree with your idea of significantly misunderstanding human nature. More people live under communist rule than under "Democrat" rule.
For example, a 500kD molecule exposed to an XFEL beam focused down to 0.1[micro]m scatters ~ 4x10^(-2) photons into a detector pixel at 1.8Å resolution in each shot.
How do you manage to scatter less than 1 photon?
Do they mean that they had to create 25 shots to get a single photon to register? Or is there something else going on here?
Looking around here, I'd say shoes are better than barefoot from a pure hygiene standpoiint. Add to that that we had about half a meter of snow and ice this winter (that's 1'7"), with a nice decorative layer of pointy gravel strewn on top to give a better grip, I don't think you'd find any who'd say "fuck shoes, this is where barefoot REALLY shines" who wouldn't be considered a mental patient by everyone else.
Not everyone lives in nice, cosy climates with plenty of access to nice, comfortable areas for running barefoot. If you think stepping in heavily camouflaged dog shit is bad when you're wearing shoes, imagine how bad it'd be to have it ooze inbetween your toes. The same place where you moments earlier had a nice encounter with equally well camouflaged shards of glass.
I'm not even exagerating - that's what the general evironment hides around here at the moment. Everything that was covered up during the winter is now slowly starting to say hi, and not everything is something I'd be comfortable stepping on even when wearing heavy duty shoes.
Do they give the "horizontal" protection you get from a sole? I.e. if you bump your foot into an immovable object it's the shoe and not whatever toe you stubbed that takes the brunt of the impact?
I'm rather curious which is better, because you didn't specify in your post, and the difference sounds dramatic.
I'm in the 1 percent (aparently) that walks on the outside of the foot, and I tend to end up sliding onto my outside ancle if I'm taking corners a bit too fast. Always beeen curious if that'd be better with corrective shoes
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I take it you hated the book called "The Htchhiker's Guide Guide to the Galaxy"?
The article was published june 13, 1897 - how the fuck can copyright still be applicable to that article?
The copyright was assigned to a corporate entity, and as such there is no "life + 70 years". It becomes what - 90 years at the outside?
Trying to claim copyright on a 112 year old article is insane ...
As the original poster said, it's akin to writing erotic literature. The main difference being that you have to be quick thinking.
And as for "im taking off ur shirt. ur sooo hott." that IS what a lot of people write. But that's really not what I was talking about - I was objecting to the sans skills that was mentioned, as it's suggesting that noone can make something that doesn't make you want to gouge your eyes out. Learn to read what other people write before commenting.
Aditionally, not everyone sees a need to do one handed typing. Primarily because anything worth reading takes a while to write, and having to wait three plus minutes for a response from your partner tends to kill that particular urge.
I don't agree with your "(sans skill)" assessment. Sure, most people couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag (actually an interesting exercise), but that's true of most erotic poetry as wel.
I predict that [H]ard|OCP will start posting all pissy news items about this, bitching that it's unfair that a US company has to abide by the laws of the EU, just because they do business there.
Granted, they'll phrase it differently and less obviously, but they've kept it up for Microsoft the entire time since they were first fined for breaking the law, so I doubt it'll be different for Intel.
Maybe? I have no idea - I pulled the hypothesis out of my ass just to come up with something that sounds plausible, would explain why the deaths seem to hit in the 18-40 group and would explain why it's bad in Mexico but not elsewhere.
You use something called pseudo satellites.
They are emitters with a precisely known coordinate that aid your device in constructing its own location.
If the pseudolites are set up properly you can avoid using GPS satellites at all and still get better precision as you're avoiding all the atmospheric intereferense. You still get scattering though, but the more pseudolites you use, the better accuracy.
Since the signal doesn't have to travel through 200 km of atmosphere, you get better signals as well. Powering them directly off the mains helps in this regard as well.
Indoors isn't the only place they're usefull. If you set up pseudolites on say every 10 or 20 lamp posts in cities with big sky scrapers, you'd get much better GPS coverage there as well, even with regular hand held units
The reason they're talking about "satellite navigation" is that you can easily use a regular GPS receiver. Add a custom map for your store, and you're good to go.
The reason they're talking about "satellite navigation" is that you can easily use a regular GPS receiver. Add a custom map for your store, and you're good to go.
The bits that may have caused them to go apeshit probably starts at 9:07 in the video under the heading "Remix"
It starts with a clip from The Grey Album and then moves onto various other remixes
Very true.
At this point we're just using hypotheses and another one that I just dreamed up is that ths strain needs a certain industrial polutants to be between certain points (sweet spot) for it to be lethal.
Since more people have caught it, and more people have died from it in Mexico, this is also plausible, since the polution levels are easily higher there than in the US and Europe.
I say plausible, but very unlikely, as I just came up with this halfassed idea. But if it ends up being true, I want credit!
Hrmm, maybe that explains Harold then ...
Isn't that exactly what the city offered?
They built the infrastructure nescesary and then went to the incumbants saying "we built this nice fat infrastructure, and we'd like to let you use it if you give us a better service than we're getting right now".
The companies declined this offer and then gut pissed that the city decided to use the infrastructure anyway.
What if you're independently wealthy and don't need to have a job?
Okular has no chance there. Not amongst regular Windows users at least.
Step 1 - Go to PDFreaders.org - no issue
Step 2 - Click on "Download" on the intersection between Okular and Windows - no issue
Step 3 - Click "Download latest installer for immediate installation. - no issue
Step 4 - Run the KDE installer - not so much an issue, as what it does is
Step 5 - Click Next - "install from Internet" is the default setting, sounds reasonable
Step 6 - Select a download server - "What the hell did I just download then?"
Step 7 - Select an available release - Ehh? Whut?
Step 8 - Select the package you want to install - Well, that's just fucked up. 140+ packages to choose from. They're sorted by package name ONLY, cannot sort by package notes.
Step 9 - Look for something called Okular as package name. None found
Step 10 - "Oh, well, maybe these are packages I want in addition to Okular. I mean, I downloaded the Okular installer, right?"
Step 11 - Click Next
Step 12 - Installation/Update finished
Step 13 - Realise that NOTHING has been installed.
Step 14 - Get annoyed
Step 15 - Call tech support (realise this is a free program and there's noone to yell at)
Step 16 - Download and run the installer again (because they forgot where they downloaded it to)
Step 17 - Get to the package list and start reading very carefully
Step 18 - Wonder why the hell the package list goes Czech, Kashubian, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian [spelling package]
Step 19 - Realise there's still no Okular package anywhere
Step 20 - Read the list for the 3rd time and note that "Graphics applications" has a note "(including Okular)"
Step 21 - Wonder why the hell the download Okular link from before doesn't give you the fucking package to begin with
Step 22 - Notice that you're now downloading 40 (forty!) packages from the servers
Step 23 - Notice that one of these files are 60+ MB
Step 24 - Wonder why they call Acrobat Reader bloated and slow when that installer is less than 25 MB and takes about 30 seconds to install, just by clicking Next until you're done.
Step 25 - Notice that you now have a folder called "Programs" in your Start menu's program folder, which is aparently a sym-link to the program folder (doesn't point to itself though)
Step 26 - Find the "KDE 4.22 Release" folder in Programs and notice these programs:
Step 27 - Wonder once more why the hell people call Acrobat Reader bloated when this program installs with 5 extra programs.
Step 28 - Start the bloody program!
Step 29 - KConf_update.exe would like to run. So, Acrobat Reader running its updater - Bad! This - GOOD!
Step 30 - TRY to put frustrations aside and use the program
That installer REALLY needs some work.
And if you are going to have a Windows program, be as kind as to have an actual uninstaller. NONE of the KDE programs installed are listed in (Add/Remove)Programs(and Features). No uninstallers in the start menu either. I realise a lot of vocal FOSS supporters don't like Windows, but please - if you're going to advocate FOSS, at least make it live up to the LOW standards of Windows software (the non-malicious part of that group).
Well, aparently being openly socialist means the preview button changed its name to "Submit". Let's try it again with proper formatting:
First of all, stop reading Ayn Rand as it's obviously giving you very very strange ideas about socialism. Various implementations of socialism (i.e. highly authoritarian ones), sure. But not socialism as an idea. No more than being an American makes you a fat, gun toting, inbred redneck who's never been outside the county he was born in, let alone country. It's true for some Americans, but it's not a general thing.
Here's a fun fact for you:
Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are all very socialist countries. High taxes, high level of social security (free school, education, health care etc), and they're all very keen on getting people educated in college (i.e. making men of ideas). They see their future as one that has interlectual companies outperforming regular industry.
In fact most of Europe would be seen as socialist by US standards. So lets compare university graduates in Europe to those of the US. I found this page while searching for "university graduates" per capita:
Education and Skills:
Percentage of Graduates in Science, Math, Computer Science, and Engineering
Finland and Sweden rank 2nd and 4th on that list, Denmark and Norway are 14th and 15th and the US comes in at number 16 out of 17 countries compared.
Now, if these four heavily socialist countries are still managing to produce more graduates in these fields (percentage wise from the graduate population) AND they believe that "men of ideas are of no importance", why are they wasting all that money on those educations? Keep in mind, a college degree from a Scandinavian university is probably more expensive (higher taxes), but the state pays the tuition. Some of these countries even give the students money while they're in school (actual payments, not student loans).
Either they DO belive that "men of ideas are of no importance" but they're not socialist countries ... or you're completely and utterly mistaken about what makes a socialist a socialist.
Cost per gram of fuel tells you absolutely nothing.
If anti-matter becomes a viable fuel source (very likely to not happen), the cost would probably be astronomical per gram.
1 gram of methanol gives you 5,420 calories/gram
1 gram of anti-matter gives you 2 × 10^13 calories/gram - and that's with a 50% energy loss! Just for kicks - that's enough to heat a cubic kilometer of water 21K. Or 1 cubic mile of water 5K.
That means that even if Methanol cost 1 cent per kg (5,420,000 calories/cent), anti-matter "only" needs to cost 39,600 dollars per gram to give you the same amount of energy/dollar. And considering the savings you'd get from not having to haul all that extra weight around (fuel tank, fuel, distribution of it etc), I wouldn't be too surprised if 400,000$/gram would be an acceptable cost.
Ask NASA what they'd consider an acceptable cost/gram if anti-matter was a viable fuel. I'm guessing they'd be willing to go for tens if not hundreds of millions per gram.
D'oh!
Of course. I hadn't quite noted what I quoted.
Who here wouldn't LOVE to see Jack Thompson file a brief siding with the RIAA?
You make some very good and prudent points - except this one:
In what way does being a "commie" do that? I'm not a member of the communist party, nor do I believe in communism, as that is a very authoritarian way of leadership which I'm very much again. I am however a believer in socialism which would label me a "commie" in most of the US.
Hell being a elected politician in most European countries would mean you believe in and support socialism (society helping the less fortunate ones), even if you're on the far right wing of our political spectrum.
Calling someone a "commie" isn't slang for "member of the communist party" any more than calling someone an "abomonation against God an nature" is slang for "homosexual". It's slur and nothing more.
You even knew that, otherwise you wouldn't put commie in quotes.
The accurate word would be closer to communist, but even then I'm not sure I'd agree with your idea of significantly misunderstanding human nature. More people live under communist rule than under "Democrat" rule.
Cool. I think I'll be looking into these then.
Wonder what they're like for biking. I hate biking barefoot.
From that article:
How do you manage to scatter less than 1 photon?
Do they mean that they had to create 25 shots to get a single photon to register? Or is there something else going on here?
Well, maybe some of these cases would make for good stories as a comedian:
"And then one time, at band court, I shoved a tuba up their ass!"
Actually ... if you've done that to an RIAA lawyer, I think we'd all want pictures.
Looking around here, I'd say shoes are better than barefoot from a pure hygiene standpoiint. Add to that that we had about half a meter of snow and ice this winter (that's 1'7"), with a nice decorative layer of pointy gravel strewn on top to give a better grip, I don't think you'd find any who'd say "fuck shoes, this is where barefoot REALLY shines" who wouldn't be considered a mental patient by everyone else.
Not everyone lives in nice, cosy climates with plenty of access to nice, comfortable areas for running barefoot. If you think stepping in heavily camouflaged dog shit is bad when you're wearing shoes, imagine how bad it'd be to have it ooze inbetween your toes. The same place where you moments earlier had a nice encounter with equally well camouflaged shards of glass.
I'm not even exagerating - that's what the general evironment hides around here at the moment. Everything that was covered up during the winter is now slowly starting to say hi, and not everything is something I'd be comfortable stepping on even when wearing heavy duty shoes.
Do they give the "horizontal" protection you get from a sole? I.e. if you bump your foot into an immovable object it's the shoe and not whatever toe you stubbed that takes the brunt of the impact?
I'm rather curious which is better, because you didn't specify in your post, and the difference sounds dramatic.
I'm in the 1 percent (aparently) that walks on the outside of the foot, and I tend to end up sliding onto my outside ancle if I'm taking corners a bit too fast. Always beeen curious if that'd be better with corrective shoes