You must have a great relationship with your parents...;) Sounds like you could have benefited from more lectures, not fewer.
And actually, it is ironic that someone who planned so poorly is rescued by the good planning of another.
2: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
The sun is the source of all of our energy. Every energy cycle on Earth is ultimately perpetuated by the light we get from the sun. 10% is a huge difference. I wouldn't just be concerned about less crop growth, I would be concerned about what exactly that means.
Some of the Earth's heat is internally generated by radioactive decay, but I don't know how much.
1. Unconstitutional - Dormant Commerce Clause. If a state can't regulate the type of mudflaps used by 18-wheelers on its own freeways, it doesn't make sense that it could prosecute someone who might not even know they were sending email through the state.
Well, of course you know... if you are "legitimate", then it is all opt-in, right? How could you not know what state the person you are sending email to is in?
I guess your "previous business relationship" must not have been that strong...
It's very instructive to read a/. story about something I actually know. Is the pack always this boneheaded? I know, I know "you must be new here";)
XUL is not prior art, or even the same thing, other than they both have something to do with browsers. XUL let you customize Mozilla's chrome (basically), which is really cool for specialized WEB applications, like an Amazon browser. HTAs let you dispense with IE's chrome entirely, and access the LOCAL system like any local app.
This has nothing to do with exploits, popups, etc. HTAs are intended to be local apps - they have no more access than any other local app you install (which is basically, full access, practically speaking in most cases). If you come across one hosted at a website and keep clicking Yes, well, you don't need an HTA for that...
XUL and HTA are for different problem spaces. Yeah, Mozilla probably has some kind of signed scripting mode that could access local resources, you probably could dispense with most or all chrome and build the interface in the content viewport, etc. Or you could just rename an.html file to.hta, add one special tag with some attributes (if I recall correctly, and even that might be optional) and you're there.
Politics is the only answer, coming up with some final solutions in the middle east...
(emph. added)
Er, I hope that is just a poor choice of words...
Anyway, I don't know what "political" solution you think will work. The Arabs have been offered everything that is reasonably possible multiple times, and they don't want it. "Well, go ahead and slaughter the people you hate" really isn't an acceptable bargaining chip, so I'm not sure what you want the West to do, non-militarily.
>You rent won't go down, nor will the tax on your >house (if you own). The price of food is propped >up by tariffs, and the price of oil and therefore >electricity will keep going up. But it's ok, >since you have cheaper widgets, which you can't >buy because a larger and larger percentage of >your paycheck will be eaten up by the above.
Everything you describe except rent and oil are government, not capitalism, which I believe you were originally ranting against.
Rents actually do go down sometimes, at least in real terms. Oil fluctuates up and down, and long term has most certainly dropped over the last few decades.
In any case, Chinese slave labor exists because of communist dictatorship, not international trade. But the same people who want protectionism also hate Taiwan and think that the mainland is just spiffy.
>And the original Wal-Mart workers move down a >notch to homelessness. Wal-Mart can afford a race >to the bottom because poor Americans can't >afford to shop elsewhere. The poorer Americans >get the more customers Wal-Mart has. They are >happy to see the standard of living drop hard >and fast.
What an odd way of looking at the world. Another way of looking at it would be - "I need less money because the things I buy are less expensive."
>Production of cheap goods is high and getting >higher. Who is going to buy the goods? Especially >when many of these goods, eg cell phones, are >worthless after a season, or a trend and just >pile up in warehouses until they can be bundled >in a package below cost of production.
Which is why, of course, this is an equilibrium equation, and the long, *long*, forcasted vanishing of the middle class never actually happens.
I do not know how the government will tax this, but I am certain that it will not be well thought out or fair. It will be decided by who gets the most money and/or has the best lobby. In both cases, the average citizen will lose. This is how capitalism works: extract the most money you can from everyone. Kind of like a vacation at Disneyland without the fun.
Er, the government will apply an ill-thought-out and unfair tax, and you say that is how capitalism works? Don't you mean socialism?
>>It's really anoying when people with very little >>english answer phones
>That's just what I think. Except that more often >than not it's when there are Americans at the >other end of the phone. I find that Indians at >least make an effort to enunciate all of the >syllables in their words.
Really? Is that really true, or do you just feel a PC need to say that?
I'm genuinely asking, because comments like this are made every time this subject comes up.
Have you genuinely experienced better communication from non-native English speakers (or those with a very, very different dialect from your own) than from native speakers? On average? Really?
South Africa, the country where Eskom resides, is a country in Africa (easily confused with South America by Americans. South America is a continent south of North America, the continent with three different countries on it, including the USA).
Er, so it isn't ignorant to confuse a Slashdot story poster with "Americans"?
I've never confused South America with South Africa, nor has anybody I know.
Would you do this, to contact anyone you actually cared about? Versus a personal letter left behind for them?
And if you didn't really care about them, why bother?
I have the mental image here of some poor bastard who never had any real human contact in his life, just a bunch of online "friends". It's making me sad just thinking about it.
we would occasionally get these strange pickups on our underwater acoustics and generally we just looked at each other and said "U.S. Sub" or "Russian Sub" depending on the harmonics and continue on our work.
The whole "silent running" thing is a myth... you can pick up the sounds of subs MILES away.
Hmm...
How did you really know who's they were? Did you ask them on the underwater telephone?
Did you hear them well enough to target them? That's what matters, typically.
"Miles" isn't really that far, when we're talking open sea, underwater.
Creationists would point to the eyes, and ask how such a marvelous and complex device could be the product of "random" evolution; but now scientists have simulated the development of the eye and shown it actually doesn't take that any forethought or much time (in evolutionary terms).
Who has simulated the development of the eye and found the results you describe? What were the conditions of the simulation?
Here is the cause. Taiwan recently conducted military exercises simulating a Chinese invasion despite Chinese protests. I would imagine that this is China's response.
I've never understood this backassward logic.
China claims they are the rightful owners of Taiwan, and threatens them with actual attack and invasion all the time.
Taiwan just wants to be left alone, and they conduct exercises to be ready if China attacks.
So clearly, the "cause" of any nasty thing China does to Taiwan is this just horrible, awful provocation, of Taiwan practicing defensive activity.
It really must take a lot of brainwashing in Poly Sci class, a lot of New York Times reading, or just a lot of good old fashioned Communist sympathizing, to wrap your head around that.
And it is known by many names... business analyst, communications {whatever}, web developer (who also does content), sometimes even technical writer:) And sometimes by no name at all... I think I'm officially a "Systems Analyst".
Tools? Word, Framemaker, RoboHelp primarily. Dreamweaver is popular. Tools are relatively secondary - be flexible and adapt to whatever tool you need to use.
Programmer opinions of technical communicators? All over the map. If they are competent, decent individuals, and if they have enough contact with you, they give you the respect you deserve (whatever that may be).
Pay varies wildly, depending on where you live, what your title happens to be, etc. Sell your skills and get as much as you can.
I've been doing this for five years (as a civilian) and I love it. My number one piece of advice is: don't be afraid to take risks, and to step up to provide solutions for communication needs in whatever organization you are in. Be the "go to" person (or department) when anyone wants to communicate anything.
Pick either side, and they are using the same tactics. The Palestinians are blowing up civilians in the hope that the civilians left alive will do something about their problems. And the Israelli government is firing missiles into crowded cities to kill some suspected criminals and anyone else who happens to be within 100 meters of these guys...
Um, those aren't the same tactics... oh, never mind.
That may be true where you are, such as the technological backwater that is the US [fx: ducks]; here in Europe mobile phones have all supported texting pretty much since they started becoming popular something like 4 years ago.
OK, this is actually a serious question. Did it ever occur to you that there might be other factors involved, such as the US already having a fantastic wired infrastructure? Wide open spaces? Or having an installed base of things before you even got them (i.e., I already have a cell phone, and have no particular desire to email or IM with it).
Just wondering if this possibility had ever even occured to you.
And lots of folk use it; even my mum knows how. It's certainly become popular enough not to need quotes every time you mention it!
"Knows how" isn't really a factor. I want to make calls with my phone, not email with it (yes, I know that's not what you call it, but that's what it is).
We've already decided we're going to homeshcool, but stuff like this just cements it.
I find myself feeling like I'm waking up... why would you send your child to a government institution for 8 hours a day, if you didn't have to for some reason? Yet it is considered utterly normal, to the point where schemes like this monitoring scheme are actually seen as workable and necessary.
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You must have a great relationship with your parents ... ;) Sounds like you could have benefited from more lectures, not fewer.
And actually, it is ironic that someone who planned so poorly is rescued by the good planning of another.
2: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
The sun is the source of all of our energy. Every energy cycle on Earth is ultimately perpetuated by the light we get from the sun. 10% is a huge difference. I wouldn't just be concerned about less crop growth, I would be concerned about what exactly that means.
Some of the Earth's heat is internally generated by radioactive decay, but I don't know how much.
He'd look into the ongoing research into something called "Slashdot comment preview".
They're trying to come up with something that isn't a blank templated page 4 out of 5 tries (latest stable Mozilla release, if the client matters).
Hoo-haa! A chance for /. to slam spammers and religion!! In one story :)
Next up: Mother Teresa, and her sinister link with popup ads ...
1. Unconstitutional - Dormant Commerce Clause. If a state can't regulate the type of mudflaps used by 18-wheelers on its own freeways, it doesn't make sense that it could prosecute someone who might not even know they were sending email through the state.
Well, of course you know ... if you are "legitimate", then it is all opt-in, right? How could you not know what state the person you are sending email to is in?
I guess your "previous business relationship" must not have been that strong ...
It's very instructive to read a /. story about something I actually know. Is the pack always this boneheaded? I know, I know "you must be new here" ;)
Politics is the only answer, coming up with some final solutions in the middle east... (emph. added)
Er, I hope that is just a poor choice of words ...
Anyway, I don't know what "political" solution you think will work. The Arabs have been offered everything that is reasonably possible multiple times, and they don't want it. "Well, go ahead and slaughter the people you hate" really isn't an acceptable bargaining chip, so I'm not sure what you want the West to do, non-militarily.
>You rent won't go down, nor will the tax on your
>house (if you own). The price of food is propped
>up by tariffs, and the price of oil and therefore
>electricity will keep going up. But it's ok,
>since you have cheaper widgets, which you can't
>buy because a larger and larger percentage of
>your paycheck will be eaten up by the above.
Everything you describe except rent and oil are
government, not capitalism, which I believe you
were originally ranting against.
Rents actually do go down sometimes, at least in
real terms. Oil fluctuates up and down, and long
term has most certainly dropped over the last few
decades.
In any case, Chinese slave labor exists because
of communist dictatorship, not international
trade. But the same people who want
protectionism also hate Taiwan and think that
the mainland is just spiffy.
>And the original Wal-Mart workers move down a
>notch to homelessness. Wal-Mart can afford a race
>to the bottom because poor Americans can't
>afford to shop elsewhere. The poorer Americans
>get the more customers Wal-Mart has. They are
>happy to see the standard of living drop hard
>and fast.
What an odd way of looking at the world. Another
way of looking at it would be - "I need less money
because the things I buy are less expensive."
>Production of cheap goods is high and getting
>higher. Who is going to buy the goods? Especially
>when many of these goods, eg cell phones, are
>worthless after a season, or a trend and just
>pile up in warehouses until they can be bundled
>in a package below cost of production.
Which is why, of course, this is an equilibrium
equation, and the long, *long*, forcasted
vanishing of the middle class never actually
happens.
Hee, hee ... I just love the wtf, she must be , like, 27 or even 30 now! Of course she has to quit! posts ...
Yes, egads, how could a 27-30 year old woman possibly be attractive? :o
Hmm, maybe I should just be glad that there is a whole segment of the population too stupid to give me any competition ;)
Some are reasonable predictions, like the introduction of ID cards in the UK by 2010, or the rise of an American dictator in 2000.
Sigh ... repeating something often enough still does not make it true.
You lost. Just deal with it. It was close, but you lost.
I do not know how the government will tax this, but I am certain that it will not be well thought out or fair. It will be decided by who gets the most money and/or has the best lobby. In both cases, the average citizen will lose. This is how capitalism works: extract the most money you can from everyone. Kind of like a vacation at Disneyland without the fun.
Er, the government will apply an ill-thought-out and unfair tax, and you say that is how capitalism works? Don't you mean socialism?
>>It's really anoying when people with very little
>>english answer phones
>That's just what I think. Except that more often
>than not it's when there are Americans at the
>other end of the phone. I find that Indians at
>least make an effort to enunciate all of the
>syllables in their words.
Really? Is that really true, or do you just feel
a PC need to say that?
I'm genuinely asking, because comments like this
are made every time this subject comes up.
Have you genuinely experienced better
communication from non-native English speakers
(or those with a very, very different dialect
from your own) than from native speakers? On
average? Really?
South Africa, the country where Eskom resides, is a country in Africa (easily confused with South America by Americans. South America is a continent south of North America, the continent with three different countries on it, including the USA).
Er, so it isn't ignorant to confuse a Slashdot story poster with "Americans"?
I've never confused South America with South Africa, nor has anybody I know.
Would you do this, to contact anyone you actually cared about? Versus a personal letter left behind for them?
And if you didn't really care about them, why bother?
I have the mental image here of some poor bastard who never had any real human contact in his life, just a bunch of online "friends". It's making me sad just thinking about it.
we would occasionally get these strange pickups on our underwater acoustics and generally we just looked at each other and said "U.S. Sub" or "Russian Sub" depending on the harmonics and continue on our work.
The whole "silent running" thing is a myth... you can pick up the sounds of subs MILES away.
Hmm ...
And BTW, the Canadian Forces routinely detects the US Los Angles-class nuclear subs while they're supposedly running in "quiet" mode :).
Just out of curiousity, how about Sturgeon class (when there were stil some around)?
If you were black and lived in Florida this might just allow you to vote instead of being turned away from the voting booths
Provide one single, actual instance, please.
What's that? None? That's what I thought.
Creationists would point to the eyes, and ask how such a marvelous and complex device could be the product of "random" evolution; but now scientists have simulated the development of the eye and shown it actually doesn't take that any forethought or much time (in evolutionary terms).
Who has simulated the development of the eye and found the results you describe? What were the conditions of the simulation?
Here is the cause. Taiwan recently conducted military exercises simulating a Chinese invasion despite Chinese protests. I would imagine that this is China's response.
I've never understood this backassward logic.
It really must take a lot of brainwashing in Poly Sci class, a lot of New York Times reading, or just a lot of good old fashioned Communist sympathizing, to wrap your head around that.
Is this like when ethnic neighborhoods burn their own houses down, to protest "the Man" holding them down? ;)
And it is known by many names ... business analyst, communications {whatever}, web developer (who also does content), sometimes even technical writer :) And sometimes by no name at all ... I think I'm officially a "Systems Analyst".
Tools? Word, Framemaker, RoboHelp primarily. Dreamweaver is popular. Tools are relatively secondary - be flexible and adapt to whatever tool you need to use.
Programmer opinions of technical communicators? All over the map. If they are competent, decent individuals, and if they have enough contact with you, they give you the respect you deserve (whatever that may be).
Pay varies wildly, depending on where you live, what your title happens to be, etc. Sell your skills and get as much as you can.
I've been doing this for five years (as a civilian) and I love it. My number one piece of advice is: don't be afraid to take risks, and to step up to provide solutions for communication needs in whatever organization you are in. Be the "go to" person (or department) when anyone wants to communicate anything.
Good luck!
Pick either side, and they are using the same tactics. The Palestinians are blowing up civilians in the hope that the civilians left alive will do something about their problems. And the Israelli government is firing missiles into crowded cities to kill some suspected criminals and anyone else who happens to be within 100 meters of these guys...
Um, those aren't the same tactics ... oh, never mind.
That may be true where you are, such as the technological backwater that is the US [fx: ducks]; here in Europe mobile phones have all supported texting pretty much since they started becoming popular something like 4 years ago.
OK, this is actually a serious question. Did it ever occur to you that there might be other factors involved, such as the US already having a fantastic wired infrastructure? Wide open spaces? Or having an installed base of things before you even got them (i.e., I already have a cell phone, and have no particular desire to email or IM with it).
Just wondering if this possibility had ever even occured to you.
And lots of folk use it; even my mum knows how. It's certainly become popular enough not to need quotes every time you mention it!
"Knows how" isn't really a factor. I want to make calls with my phone, not email with it (yes, I know that's not what you call it, but that's what it is).
We've already decided we're going to homeshcool, but stuff like this just cements it.
I find myself feeling like I'm waking up ... why would you send your child to a government institution for 8 hours a day, if you didn't have to for some reason? Yet it is considered utterly normal, to the point where schemes like this monitoring scheme are actually seen as workable and necessary.