If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?
Yeah, I know, replying to a sig....
Practice doesn't make perfect. If the practice doesn't result in ever increasing performance, then the practice only results in creating a rut. So, it could be said that practice makes permanent.
There's a new language being formed in the bowels of Microsoft.
This may help explain Microsofts process for developing new software. How are things "formed in the bowels" anyway? A simple understanding is that good stuff is essentially chewed to pieces and then deconstructed in an acidic bath. Once the good stuff reaches the bowels then an attempt is made to remove everything that is of value. Once that has been accomplished we are, I suppose, left with a Microsoft product that is ready to (careful here now) ship (Whew! Now that was one major Freudian slip just waiting to happen....).
That's not my experience. The only fast food place I can think of that tacks on a fee is McDonalds. They don't get much of my business. Wendy's is cash only. Most everybody else takes a debit without a fee.
Ah. Subtle difference. I was still keying off the original post I'd replied to where the poster said, "I though that the F ratings were a measure of the damage caused...". The F scale is calculated by the damage caused, but is a measurement of size and intensity. You're correct in that it would be much more difficult to gauge the intensity in very rural areas. There would be exceptions where the swath cut through prairie grasses or crops is extremely wide (1/2mi?) and doesn't indicate a snaking path. Those likely would be a 'bigun'.
You can judge scale by the swath it cuts through open land. Sure it's easier to assess if the tornado is able to damage something with given properties, but lack of data does not alter the size or intensity of the funnel.
If your only means of measuring mass was a scale, you wouldn't know what the mass of something in zero-G is.
But that wouldn't be the same as the object not having mass.
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I infer from this that many/most people who live in those areas of the US are not able to move elsewhere, because they are simply too poor to do so.
Not so. Most people live there because that's where they were born. In that part of the country extended family is pretty important. Those who do move away find other parts of the country too impersonal and they miss family (and actually the storms themselves are missed - nothing like sleeping to the rhythm of a hard steady rain punctuated by rolling thunder in the distance) and often move back after a time.
The reason trailer park damage is so dramatic is because the lots are so small. You often have six to eight mobile homes (as long as they aren't double-wides) occupying what would be one to four decent new construction home lots. Death tolls are higher because individual trailers don't have basements and community shelters are sometimes locked to prevent vandalism (that practice is waning now though).
Ok, seriously, I know that they always tell you to get in a doorway, or bathtub...
Doorways are for earthquakes. Bathtubs are no longer safe (as others have pointed out) because they're now usually fiberglass. Basements are best and preferably basement areas away from masonry fireplaces as they can collapse downward into the basement once supporting structure is torn away. Climbing up under an overpass or bridge isn't really all that safe either as a direct hit from a tornado will suck you right out. In a near miss the bridge structure could shield you from some debris, but not all.
I would think you wouldn't want to be near porcelain at a time like that...
I thought NYC was the capital of New York! Where's Albany?!
Funny. The context of the post you replied to doesn't give enough information to come to the conclusion that Albany is the state capitol. Getting no help from Albany could have meant councilman Albany who promised to help raise revenues so that the city wouldn't go broke but hasn't done anything since being elected but go on taxpayer financed junkets to exotic New Jersey.
I think you need to come into the real world son and see how many places run Oracle.
That's not even pertinent to the point the parent was trying to make.
Why do companies purchase Oracle and not OSS software if the OSS software will fit the bill? Maybe, just maybe, the answer is "it won't"
Most of them buy it because of the application they need being built on it. Most of Oracle's sales go to folks who aren't developing their own databases, but to folks that are running SAP or PeopleSoft or some other package with Oracle as the back end.
And how does your neighbor just wander into your house at night. Your scenario is silly since his key won't fit my locks and the only way he can get in is to break in.
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hey, at least us drummers can make it to 4 (or 8, if we can start from 5)!
How can you tell a drummer is knocking on your front door?
A: He can't keep a steady beat and doesn't know when to come in....
Incidently, I've noticed that maps sell faster in gas stations during summer vacation months. Coincidence?
So, you just hang out near the map rack at gas stations all year making observations?
If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?
Yeah, I know, replying to a sig....
Practice doesn't make perfect. If the practice doesn't result in ever increasing performance, then the practice only results in creating a rut. So, it could be said that practice makes permanent.
Only question I have is why did Novell let it get this far? Couldn't they have issued a statement the same day as mcbride?
The longer you allow someone to bully and rant and rave about a point you know is invalid, the more stupid they look when you expose them.
Does he bill them double when he's posting to /. ?
Only when posting to a dupe...
There's a new language being formed in the bowels of Microsoft.
This may help explain Microsofts process for developing new software. How are things "formed in the bowels" anyway? A simple understanding is that good stuff is essentially chewed to pieces and then deconstructed in an acidic bath. Once the good stuff reaches the bowels then an attempt is made to remove everything that is of value. Once that has been accomplished we are, I suppose, left with a Microsoft product that is ready to (careful here now) ship (Whew! Now that was one major Freudian slip just waiting to happen....).
You can set your $HOME directory to anything you want it to be in most *nix type OS's.
They said a "crack addled" junkie didn't they?
That's not my experience. The only fast food place I can think of that tacks on a fee is McDonalds. They don't get much of my business. Wendy's is cash only. Most everybody else takes a debit without a fee.
Which is precisely why I use a debit card most places.
Ah. Subtle difference. I was still keying off the original post I'd replied to where the poster said, "I though that the F ratings were a measure of the damage caused...". The F scale is calculated by the damage caused, but is a measurement of size and intensity. You're correct in that it would be much more difficult to gauge the intensity in very rural areas. There would be exceptions where the swath cut through prairie grasses or crops is extremely wide (1/2mi?) and doesn't indicate a snaking path. Those likely would be a 'bigun'.
You can judge scale by the swath it cuts through open land. Sure it's easier to assess if the tornado is able to damage something with given properties, but lack of data does not alter the size or intensity of the funnel.
If your only means of measuring mass was a scale, you wouldn't know what the mass of something in zero-G is.
But that wouldn't be the same as the object not having mass.
I infer from this that many/most people who live in those areas of the US are not able to move elsewhere, because they are simply too poor to do so.
Not so. Most people live there because that's where they were born. In that part of the country extended family is pretty important. Those who do move away find other parts of the country too impersonal and they miss family (and actually the storms themselves are missed - nothing like sleeping to the rhythm of a hard steady rain punctuated by rolling thunder in the distance) and often move back after a time.
The reason trailer park damage is so dramatic is because the lots are so small. You often have six to eight mobile homes (as long as they aren't double-wides) occupying what would be one to four decent new construction home lots. Death tolls are higher because individual trailers don't have basements and community shelters are sometimes locked to prevent vandalism (that practice is waning now though).
Ok, seriously, I know that they always tell you to get in a doorway, or bathtub...
Doorways are for earthquakes. Bathtubs are no longer safe (as others have pointed out) because they're now usually fiberglass. Basements are best and preferably basement areas away from masonry fireplaces as they can collapse downward into the basement once supporting structure is torn away. Climbing up under an overpass or bridge isn't really all that safe either as a direct hit from a tornado will suck you right out. In a near miss the bridge structure could shield you from some debris, but not all.
I would think you wouldn't want to be near porcelain at a time like that...
What? When you're about to pee your pants?
I though that the F ratings were a measure of the damage caused...
Nope. An F5 could pass through open prairie and cause very little damage. An F3 can plow through a densly populated area and do lots of damage.
The book opens with a few anecdotes that just made me guffaw aloud...
GOL (Guffawing Out Loud)!
And how, pray tell, does one go about the silent guffaw?
Sometimes?
I thought NYC was the capital of New York! Where's Albany?!
Funny. The context of the post you replied to doesn't give enough information to come to the conclusion that Albany is the state capitol. Getting no help from Albany could have meant councilman Albany who promised to help raise revenues so that the city wouldn't go broke but hasn't done anything since being elected but go on taxpayer financed junkets to exotic New Jersey.
Scientist love them because they reproduce fast, and can tinker with their genes ( I believe they have the genome all mapped out).
Wow! Smart worms. Mapping their own genome.....
...because the shuttle becomes hot the astronauts have to be X-Men...
No. The astronauts would have become the Fantastic Four (plus) because the gamma radiation is what caused the shuttle to break up.
When they presented to our company they only mentioned Oracle and Informix (and maybe DB2 but I don't remember).
I think you need to come into the real world son and see how many places run Oracle.
That's not even pertinent to the point the parent was trying to make.
Why do companies purchase Oracle and not OSS software if the OSS software will fit the bill? Maybe, just maybe, the answer is "it won't"
Most of them buy it because of the application they need being built on it. Most of Oracle's sales go to folks who aren't developing their own databases, but to folks that are running SAP or PeopleSoft or some other package with Oracle as the back end.
Or are you so excellent as to be able to predict the future ?
No. That's why I'm not sure why the guy is in my house in the middle of the night. Is he here to take my TV or my life?
And how does your neighbor just wander into your house at night. Your scenario is silly since his key won't fit my locks and the only way he can get in is to break in.
Shouldn't that be dancing Ximians? Or would that be a story on Gnomoney....