Here is the original message: [Ok. Let's nitpick: It's not "Here here". It's "Hear, hear". Why do I bring this up? Because so many people here are saying that yes, you need math and problem solving skills. No one mentions that being able to communicate effectively (and correctly) is also very important.] The phrase starting with 'Because' is not a sentence. It is a response to the question, and as such has an understood "It is" preceeding the word "Because". Of course, I did not mention that the last part of the phrase contains a quote and should have been "Yes, you need.....skills." in quotes. My point is that one should not correct another's english without checking to make sure his own is correct. (However, this response may have errors.)
As a hardware engineer, I stopped specifying or using Intel when I realized they were gouging their customers. With much higher volume in X86 processors, Intel should have been able to sell each for less than the other companies could, yet the other sources were less costly than Intel. Intel's manufacturing costs should have been much less than other companies, yet, until just recently, they have sold their processors for a higher price. I only specify Intel when there is no other choice.
I'm not sure I understand what I think you wrote.
"god of gates and doors but not windows" and then more!!??
Did I miss something in this response, or did I just run out of coffee too soon?
Although not stated explicitly in the article, people being treated by Chemotherapy have their immune system killed or very depleted. Knowing that a shower curtain may contain harmful bacteria growths could be life-saving. Most likely, nothing life-threatening is growing there, but the article does provide more information about one area where people feel safe but might not be. By the way, we have found that the best disenfectant is bleach, sodium hypochlorite. Better than alcohol or Lysol. Don't apply to cloth shower curtains though. 'Also found that anti-bacterial hand soap is basically worthless.
When I read the headlines, I thought how nice it would be to have a mob to help out with the loggin'. We could get all those trees loaded in just a few hours. (For those who don't know what that is, "loggin" is the term used for pulling the trees out of the woods after they have been cut for sale. This is a common term used by the logging industry.)
Have you ever wondered where that term came from? Well, the old farmhouses in the south (and maybe other parts of the country/world) had a shelf on the back porch where the large pan for washing dishes and babies resided. After the washing the pan was emptied onto the ground beside the porch. There was no grass there, generally. I assume that at least once in the past, some poor baby cried out too much while being bathed. You know the rest. I sometimes wonder how I got all these bumps on my head. My brother's head is smooth.
The parent article may be more accurate than we think. There is some good. RFID might tell when your steak was produced, where, how long stored and storage temperatue, have bacteria detectors, give your "smart Refridgerator" the expiration date - or tell if it is "bad".
On the other hand, some bad. It can be used to tell if you brought or wore something back to the store where you bought it. Most likely, other stores will not be able to track you.since stores will want to use encription so competitors cannot read their RFID tags.
Most RFID tag circuits are passive and will need a signal and energy to turn them on for sending back their info. The design I researched last year showed me that it will be easy to encript tags and relatively easy to read the info back. I could not read those from a different company since my reader did not know the code. Some tags can be read from a few feet away, but I expect low power technology to turn that in to yards in just a few years. THe present distance is about the diameter of the transmitter's loop antenna. You've seen those big antennas at the movie rental store and some department/grocery stores. The long distance tags that operate at high frequencies will need some kind of power source for turning on, but that is just technology and innovation. These will be able to see you if you are in the area, but again, there is much work to be done
My point? If most cultures have the same or a very similar story, then something must have happened. We don't know what - just something. Everyone can have some explanation, either God sent or natural catastrophy, but something still happened. If it happened long before recorded language as we know it, then it got altered as generations passed. At that point you have only word of mouth evidence, but we are still left with the simple fact that something happened.
I am copying this here because I don't think its fair to jump to conclusions without knowing the facts!!!!! ananicon writes (this is further down in the replies): This is extremely interesting on many levels since the artist changed the licensing terms for his art 2.5 business days ago. What were the licensing terms before then? The artist doesn't say, and neither does his web site. I'm not saying the artist is right and Linspire is wrong, but these questions are entirely unanswered:
1. What were the pre-4/24 Creative Commons licensing terms? Did the artist change the terms after Linspire had already grabbed the art and used it? If so, it's pretty oily for an artist to change the licensing terms for their art *after the fact.* I'm not saying this happened, but to be blunt, there's no documentation either way.
2. By default, the user isn't obliged or required to notify the person whose art they're using as long as they abide by the CC license. Look it up and see for yourself on creativecommons.org.
3. The person posting this story says "not once has Linspire requested permission to use these images in their ad campaign." Uh, no shit Sherlock. If the artist's pre-4/24/04 license didn't forbid their use in a commercial medium, Linspire isn't required to get his permission - it's self-evident in the license.
Sorry, but until there are more details, the person posting this story may either be 100% right or 100% f*cked-in-the-head. For now, I'd hold off on crucifying Linspire until all the details are reported. So far, they haven't been... [ Reply to This | Parent ]
The real point is not whether you call scientific evidence "belief". The real point is that theories that don't have "evidence" have to be taken on faith, even in scientific circles until we can find some evidence. Somethings cannot be explained by science as we know it. Are you sure that your brain or some other part of you does not communicate to others? Can one explain what causes some twins to do things at the same time even when they have no direct communication? Point is that there is lots we don't know and cannot explain.
Well, perhaps there was no language we are aware of. And maybe the flood in the scientific theories is not the only one. Not disputing the facts we know, just considering that there are a few hundred thousand years we don't know. Consider what we know about the Aztecs in Central America.
Since the Bible is a book of religion and not a history book, and since some of the stories like "Adam and Eve" and "Noah and the Ark" could have been handed down for eons before they were ever transcribed to writing, these early Bible stories may be hundreds of thousands of years older than recorded history. The actual water depth, and mountain height could be wrong, and even the name of the mountain could be wrong. However, a flood event is recorded in many cultures other than just the bible. So, perhaps something happened that is not outside the laws of nature, but still is within the events of the Bible as a book of religion. There may be an ark on some mountain, and there may be an "Ark of the Covenant" somewhere. The existance or non-existance of either will not explain nor disprove any parts of a "book of religion". Discovery of something, like the remnants of an ark, will give historians and scientists something to talk about. Being able to date parts of a boat back to about 1-5 million years would really give some credulance to the flood story, regardless of how it happened, yet it would not change the "miracle" event as recorded in the Bible. It's easy to believe in science. It's hard to believe in miracles.
"take a 15' powerpc"?? Now that's the kind of screen I've been wanting to see on a laptop. When you open that one up, everyone in the office really brings you a glass of water!! Hard to setup in tourist class though!
I read through responses and I keep seeing things like "I could do xxxxx when I was 7 or 8." These are the people that do NOT understand the problem here. If you are able to read and understand the responses to this article, then you are not the person that needs the instruction. No one cares what you can do or what you did. The problem is that too many of you people who respond and talk about the "average user" have no idea what an average user is. You just assume that your own little experiences define the "average user". Well, they do not! Not yours and not mine! And perhaps there is no good definition of average user. I firmly believe that as a population, the general public is a "well below average" computer user. For those who referred to the LDP; If you go to the Linux Documentation Project, the first question you have to ask is "What is HTML?" If your "average user" doesn't know that, what do you tell them? Take it from there.
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"4. Do not accelerate when you know you will have to stop."
Actually, if you really follow suggestion number 4, you will not have any problems with low gas mileage.
I had a customer that specified Intel for the processor. I just did not use Intel for any of the other support components.
Here is the original message: .....skills." in quotes. My point is that one should not correct another's english without checking to make sure his own is correct. (However, this response may have errors.)
[Ok. Let's nitpick: It's not "Here here". It's "Hear, hear". Why do I bring this up? Because so many people here are saying that yes, you need math and problem solving skills. No one mentions that being able to communicate effectively (and correctly) is also very important.]
The phrase starting with 'Because' is not a sentence. It is a response to the question, and as such has an understood "It is" preceeding the word "Because". Of course, I did not mention that the last part of the phrase contains a quote and should have been "Yes, you need
I agree with you. So far, I also have RESISTED the urge.
Go to www.ignalum.com but not through the /. link.
"Because so many people here are saying that yes, you need math and problem solving skills."
"No one mentions that being able to communicate effectively...."
If you really want to communicate effectively, you might even want to put a subject and verb in the aforementioned sentence.
As a hardware engineer, I stopped specifying or using Intel when I realized they were gouging their customers. With much higher volume in X86 processors, Intel should have been able to sell each for less than the other companies could, yet the other sources were less costly than Intel. Intel's manufacturing costs should have been much less than other companies, yet, until just recently, they have sold their processors for a higher price. I only specify Intel when there is no other choice.
I'm not sure I understand what I think you wrote. "god of gates and doors but not windows" and then more!!?? Did I miss something in this response, or did I just run out of coffee too soon?
Although not stated explicitly in the article, people being treated by Chemotherapy have their immune system killed or very depleted. Knowing that a shower curtain may contain harmful bacteria growths could be life-saving. Most likely, nothing life-threatening is growing there, but the article does provide more information about one area where people feel safe but might not be.
By the way, we have found that the best disenfectant is bleach, sodium hypochlorite. Better than alcohol or Lysol. Don't apply to cloth shower curtains though. 'Also found that anti-bacterial hand soap is basically worthless.
When I read the headlines, I thought how nice it would be to have a mob to help out with the loggin'. We could get all those trees loaded in just a few hours. (For those who don't know what that is, "loggin" is the term used for pulling the trees out of the woods after they have been cut for sale. This is a common term used by the logging industry.)
Have you ever wondered where that term came from? Well, the old farmhouses in the south (and maybe other parts of the country/world) had a shelf on the back porch where the large pan for washing dishes and babies resided. After the washing the pan was emptied onto the ground beside the porch. There was no grass there, generally. I assume that at least once in the past, some poor baby cried out too much while being bathed. You know the rest. I sometimes wonder how I got all these bumps on my head. My brother's head is smooth.
On the other hand, some bad. It can be used to tell if you brought or wore something back to the store where you bought it. Most likely, other stores will not be able to track you.since stores will want to use encription so competitors cannot read their RFID tags.
Most RFID tag circuits are passive and will need a signal and energy to turn them on for sending back their info. The design I researched last year showed me that it will be easy to encript tags and relatively easy to read the info back. I could not read those from a different company since my reader did not know the code. Some tags can be read from a few feet away, but I expect low power technology to turn that in to yards in just a few years. THe present distance is about the diameter of the transmitter's loop antenna. You've seen those big antennas at the movie rental store and some department/grocery stores. The long distance tags that operate at high frequencies will need some kind of power source for turning on, but that is just technology and innovation. These will be able to see you if you are in the area, but again, there is much work to be done
My point? If most cultures have the same or a very similar story, then something must have happened. We don't know what - just something. Everyone can have some explanation, either God sent or natural catastrophy, but something still happened. If it happened long before recorded language as we know it, then it got altered as generations passed. At that point you have only word of mouth evidence, but we are still left with the simple fact that something happened.
Try sending 100,000 letters without postage and you will see how effective the USPS spam blocker is!
I am copying this here because I don't think its fair to jump to conclusions without knowing the facts!!!!!
ananicon writes (this is further down in the replies):
This is extremely interesting on many levels since the artist changed the licensing terms for his art 2.5 business days ago. What were the licensing terms before then? The artist doesn't say, and neither does his web site. I'm not saying the artist is right and Linspire is wrong, but these questions are entirely unanswered:
1. What were the pre-4/24 Creative Commons licensing terms? Did the artist change the terms after Linspire had already grabbed the art and used it? If so, it's pretty oily for an artist to change the licensing terms for their art *after the fact.* I'm not saying this happened, but to be blunt, there's no documentation either way.
2. By default, the user isn't obliged or required to notify the person whose art they're using as long as they abide by the CC license. Look it up and see for yourself on creativecommons.org.
3. The person posting this story says "not once has Linspire requested permission to use these images in their ad campaign." Uh, no shit Sherlock. If the artist's pre-4/24/04 license didn't forbid their use in a commercial medium, Linspire isn't required to get his permission - it's self-evident in the license.
Sorry, but until there are more details, the person posting this story may either be 100% right or 100% f*cked-in-the-head. For now, I'd hold off on crucifying Linspire until all the details are reported. So far, they haven't been...
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The real point is not whether you call scientific evidence "belief". The real point is that theories that don't have "evidence" have to be taken on faith, even in scientific circles until we can find some evidence. Somethings cannot be explained by science as we know it. Are you sure that your brain or some other part of you does not communicate to others? Can one explain what causes some twins to do things at the same time even when they have no direct communication? Point is that there is lots we don't know and cannot explain.
Well, perhaps there was no language we are aware of. And maybe the flood in the scientific theories is not the only one. Not disputing the facts we know, just considering that there are a few hundred thousand years we don't know. Consider what we know about the Aztecs in Central America.
Since the Bible is a book of religion and not a history book, and since some of the stories like "Adam and Eve" and "Noah and the Ark" could have been handed down for eons before they were ever transcribed to writing, these early Bible stories may be hundreds of thousands of years older than recorded history. The actual water depth, and mountain height could be wrong, and even the name of the mountain could be wrong. However, a flood event is recorded in many cultures other than just the bible. So, perhaps something happened that is not outside the laws of nature, but still is within the events of the Bible as a book of religion. There may be an ark on some mountain, and there may be an "Ark of the Covenant" somewhere. The existance or non-existance of either will not explain nor disprove any parts of a "book of religion". Discovery of something, like the remnants of an ark, will give historians and scientists something to talk about. Being able to date parts of a boat back to about 1-5 million years would really give some credulance to the flood story, regardless of how it happened, yet it would not change the "miracle" event as recorded in the Bible. It's easy to believe in science. It's hard to believe in miracles.
Could it be that you do nor remember clearly the story of "Jonah" and the whale?
"take a 15' powerpc"?? Now that's the kind of screen I've been wanting to see on a laptop. When you open that one up, everyone in the office really brings you a glass of water!! Hard to setup in tourist class though!
Nobody needs FireWire anyway, 'cause USB is faster.
Gee, why did you want me to say that? I could have said something very enlightening!
I read through responses and I keep seeing things like "I could do xxxxx when I was 7 or 8." These are the people that do NOT understand the problem here. If you are able to read and understand the responses to this article, then you are not the person that needs the instruction. No one cares what you can do or what you did. The problem is that too many of you people who respond and talk about the "average user" have no idea what an average user is. You just assume that your own little experiences define the "average user". Well, they do not! Not yours and not mine! And perhaps there is no good definition of average user. I firmly believe that as a population, the general public is a "well below average" computer user.
For those who referred to the LDP; If you go to the Linux Documentation Project, the first question you have to ask is "What is HTML?"
If your "average user" doesn't know that, what do you tell them?
Take it from there.
How many years have you been working in the encription coding department now that you finally realized that you actually learned something?
Sombody mod that one up. That is the best unintended I have seen in ages.
You can get out more than you put in. Maybe this new motor works like a savings account. (Yeah, I know, the "extra" comes from somewhere else!)