It might still be downloading patches. I bought a laptop with Windows Vista version 1.0 a few years back and for the first two months every time it rebooted after a blue screen of death (which was quite often) it installed massive patches. At the end of that period the machine ran much faster and the BSODs went away. Vista was still a craptastic product nonetheless.
The only people I know in my social group (ages 20 to 50) who use facebook regularly are those who have moved a lot and thus have friends all over the world.
The young 'uns are always SMSing each other. No facebook for them.
Aristotle was (almost) Newton's direct predecessor in understanding of the physical world;
Pfffft. Aristotle made up stuff while "thinking" about the world. This is not science.
The predecessor of Newton is Galileo, who brought experiments into physics. I.e. do not cogitate that heavier objects fall faster, go out and measure it instead.
it is certain that Newton would have read his writings due to the Renaissance.
Of course, and proceeded to ignore them for the rest of his career. Essentially nothing Aristotle did stood the judgment of time. Compare this with Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, whose theories have been superseded but remain as good approximations to this date.
He is right of Ronald Reagan on a lot of issues, much to the absolute horror of the actual liberals in this country.
As he wrote in his book the Audacity of Hope and said over and over in many speeches in which he praised certain RR policies.
It seems that both the left and the right solely focused on the color of his skin, and projected "what he' supposed to do 'cuz he's black" on him, without ever realizing he was and has always been the most centrist Democratic candidate ever elected president.
The GOP still doesn't get it, some (disillusioned) Dems now get it.
You are funny trying to play the I'm older and wiser card. You are likely to lose that one too.
And all you prove with your 198.6.1.3 example is what I said in my original posting: there have been waves or centralization (such as that one) and waves of decentralization and back again (e.g. Google DNS).
It is clear you do not know what Google DNS is. It is not the DNS that serves the "google network" but a global provider of DNS services for all and people are encouraged to use it instead of their local DNS. This makes your comment
That this is a sudden and startling discovery to you indicates nobody should listen to you
rather ironic.
That's always been relatively common. Especially if you have only one or two peers, dynamically learning the entire Internet routing table was a massive waste of resources.
I'm talking AS level organizations including internal routers as well as border routers.
The change is that now many organizations drop centrally computed routing tables on the routers as opposed to the OSPF+manual tweaks that used to dominate before.
Mathematics at work and using math is not the same as mathematics. Just like the fact that I can describe said video in English doesn't mean it is English.
ut if the history of Internet networking has taught us anything, we should expect somebody to come up with a more clever distributed algorithm
The internet has moved from centralized to decentralized to centralized again. It is not the case that it has moved one-directionally towards a distributed system. Currently big parts of the internet are centrally managed (e.g. SuperDNS/GoogleDNS, IBGP, MPLS routing, most of network provisioning).
Current view is that centralizing BGP would be a "good thing" (TM).
Just re-read that will you. "A video is pure math"... It is not art, not a form of expression between humans, not humorous or sad or cheesy. It is "pure math".
Ok. Got it. Any other pronouncements you want to make?
And reasoanble people can understand that Mythbusters is near the bottom.
They do repeat experiments under weak controls. There are many much lower ranks, including uncontrolled experiments, anecdotes, friend of a friend, folklore, legends, etc.
Let me put it another way, Mythbusters is the most scientific-method TV program that is widely watched. That is how far it is from the bottom.
well over the insipid.08 B.A.C in the first place.
Three of my friends independently had a "drink and blow" party. All of them reported that the "insipid 0.8 B.A.C." was the drunkest they had ever been since back in the days in college. In fact (warranted or not) one of their take home conclusions "if you feel fine, don't worry at all about blowing past.08, you won't, by the time you are past.08 you *know* your are drunk".
Right, because if it is not peer reviewed and published by Elsevier then it's completely garbage. There are no degrees in between. Either it's the "truth" (TM) or it has absolutely no scientific evidentiary value.
Glad you understand so well how data collection works.
Or maybe we all become a bit weary of Malthusian we-are-all-going-to-die predictions many of which have not panned out the way they were forecast to (admittedly in many cases because of the rather efficient response to said dire predictions).
I got use to the ribbon, but I still hate it and it is still way less productive than the file menu.
Ditto. Like most other people I'm unsettled by relearning an environment but usually adapt rather well after a short amount of time. However I still hate the ribbon. It is not intuitive or useful and as many have pointed out, it robs you of space in the direction you need it most.
Back in the day of copper wire communications this could be done by recording the analog signal. You would be surprised how little space it consumes, though decoding is a b*tch.
I'm not sure how feasible this is in the day and age of fiber optics, but he could well be telling the truth
Right now, 30% of Israeli universities students are Palestinians
Here's the actual data from the government of Israel:
Among 251,800 students in 2010/11 at academic institutions, 11% (27,400) were Arabs, constituting 13.6% of the students in bachelor's programs at universities and 7.7% of the university students studying for a master's degree.
Another example:
What people don't realize is that Israel is still essentially a socialist state.
Israel left behind its socialists beginnings long ago, around the time of Bibi's first term in 1996.
Third one:
And, since almost everything (especially utilities like water and electricity) is government owned or managed,
Let me FTFY:
Outside of utilities like water and electricity as well as airports which are publicly owned like in many other countries, Israel is very much a free market economy with a large number of private enterprises including a healthy number of technological startups I might add.
Fourth one:
Most folks don't even handle their pension plan since the law forces the employers to manage that for the employees along with filing their income taxes.
Gosh that sounds eerily like the bastion of Marxism, the ol' USA, where GM along with all other big companies manages (or at least used to manage before many of them went bankrupt) its employee retirement funds.
Our experience is that business equipment is used much more heavily than house electronics yet the warranty costs are the same. So the answer is yes for business electronics.
In fact for certain equipment with generous warranties we are pretty sure the manufacturer loses money on us, but subsidizes it from home users who (misguidedly) purchase a warranty.
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It might still be downloading patches. I bought a laptop with Windows Vista version 1.0 a few years back and for the first two months every time it rebooted after a blue screen of death (which was quite often) it installed massive patches. At the end of that period the machine ran much faster and the BSODs went away. Vista was still a craptastic product nonetheless.
Take the hate for bluetooth earpieces,
Bluetooth earpieces are incredibly useful. They readily tag the "people I do not want to talk to" set.
The only people I know in my social group (ages 20 to 50) who use facebook regularly are those who have moved a lot and thus have friends all over the world.
The young 'uns are always SMSing each other. No facebook for them.
Q: Has the person appearing on it sued the pants off the holders?
Yes: Probably fake
No: Most likely genuine
Aristotle was (almost) Newton's direct predecessor in understanding of the physical world;
Pfffft. Aristotle made up stuff while "thinking" about the world. This is not science.
The predecessor of Newton is Galileo, who brought experiments into physics. I.e. do not cogitate that heavier objects fall faster, go out and measure it instead.
it is certain that Newton would have read his writings due to the Renaissance.
Of course, and proceeded to ignore them for the rest of his career. Essentially nothing Aristotle did stood the judgment of time. Compare this with Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, whose theories have been superseded but remain as good approximations to this date.
Einstein would never play BB with Aristotle. The latter was a philosopher and a really bad one at that.
Bert hangs out with Isaac, Archie (medes), Leo and the rest of the physicist gang.
Governments are terrible at "picking winners
[citation needed]
DOE funds had a better rate of return than Mitt Romney's investment fund as per widely reported figures during the election.
He is right of Ronald Reagan on a lot of issues, much to the absolute horror of the actual liberals in this country.
As he wrote in his book the Audacity of Hope and said over and over in many speeches in which he praised certain RR policies.
It seems that both the left and the right solely focused on the color of his skin, and projected "what he' supposed to do 'cuz he's black" on him, without ever realizing he was and has always been the most centrist Democratic candidate ever elected president.
The GOP still doesn't get it, some (disillusioned) Dems now get it.
You are funny trying to play the I'm older and wiser card. You are likely to lose that one too.
And all you prove with your 198.6.1.3 example is what I said in my original posting: there have been waves or centralization (such as that one) and waves of decentralization and back again (e.g. Google DNS).
It is clear you do not know what Google DNS is. It is not the DNS that serves the "google network" but a global provider of DNS services for all and people are encouraged to use it instead of their local DNS. This makes your comment
That this is a sudden and startling discovery to you indicates nobody should listen to you
rather ironic.
That's always been relatively common. Especially if you have only one or two peers, dynamically learning the entire Internet routing table was a massive waste of resources.
I'm talking AS level organizations including internal routers as well as border routers.
but DNS is just as distributed as always
Google DNS is centralized.
BGP *is* somewhat centralized, as it always was
The change is that now many organizations drop centrally computed routing tables on the routers as opposed to the OSPF+manual tweaks that used to dominate before.
Mathematics at work and using math is not the same as mathematics. Just like the fact that I can describe said video in English doesn't mean it is English.
ut if the history of Internet networking has taught us anything, we should expect somebody to come up with a more clever distributed algorithm
The internet has moved from centralized to decentralized to centralized again. It is not the case that it has moved one-directionally towards a distributed system. Currently big parts of the internet are centrally managed (e.g. SuperDNS/GoogleDNS, IBGP, MPLS routing, most of network provisioning).
Current view is that centralizing BGP would be a "good thing" (TM).
Videos on Youtube are pure math
Just re-read that will you. "A video is pure math"... It is not art, not a form of expression between humans, not humorous or sad or cheesy. It is "pure math".
Ok. Got it. Any other pronouncements you want to make?
And reasoanble people can understand that Mythbusters is near the bottom.
They do repeat experiments under weak controls. There are many much lower ranks, including uncontrolled experiments, anecdotes, friend of a friend, folklore, legends, etc.
Let me put it another way, Mythbusters is the most scientific-method TV program that is widely watched. That is how far it is from the bottom.
well over the insipid .08 B.A.C in the first place.
Three of my friends independently had a "drink and blow" party. All of them reported that the "insipid 0.8 B.A.C." was the drunkest they had ever been since back in the days in college. In fact (warranted or not) one of their take home conclusions "if you feel fine, don't worry at all about blowing past .08, you won't, by the time you are past .08 you *know* your are drunk".
Right, because if it is not peer reviewed and published by Elsevier then it's completely garbage. There are no degrees in between. Either it's the "truth" (TM) or it has absolutely no scientific evidentiary value.
Glad you understand so well how data collection works.
If I were him I would post the original, and the post-production images side by side. It would be very easy for him to do.
You mean like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunthert/8485283411/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Your English is pretty good, but you need to learn a new phrase:
Oh, I guess I was wrong. Goes to show.
You should try it sometime.
One more reason not to use Bing.
On a related note, in an effort to be hip Bing employees will now wear bell bottoms to the office.
Or maybe we all become a bit weary of Malthusian we-are-all-going-to-die predictions many of which have not panned out the way they were forecast to (admittedly in many cases because of the rather efficient response to said dire predictions).
I got use to the ribbon, but I still hate it and it is still way less productive than the file menu.
Ditto. Like most other people I'm unsettled by relearning an environment but usually adapt rather well after a short amount of time. However I still hate the ribbon. It is not intuitive or useful and as many have pointed out, it robs you of space in the direction you need it most.
Back in the day of copper wire communications this could be done by recording the analog signal. You would be surprised how little space it consumes, though decoding is a b*tch.
I'm not sure how feasible this is in the day and age of fiber optics, but he could well be telling the truth
I call BS on your entire post. You say:
Right now, 30% of Israeli universities students are Palestinians
Here's the actual data from the government of Israel:
Among 251,800 students in 2010/11 at academic institutions, 11% (27,400) were Arabs, constituting 13.6% of the students in bachelor's programs at universities and 7.7% of the university students studying for a master's degree.
Another example:
What people don't realize is that Israel is still essentially a socialist state.
Israel left behind its socialists beginnings long ago, around the time of Bibi's first term in 1996.
Third one:
And, since almost everything (especially utilities like water and electricity) is government owned or managed,
Let me FTFY:
Outside of utilities like water and electricity as well as airports which are publicly owned like in many other countries, Israel is very much a free market economy with a large number of private enterprises including a healthy number of technological startups I might add.
Fourth one:
Most folks don't even handle their pension plan since the law forces the employers to manage that for the employees along with filing their income taxes.
Gosh that sounds eerily like the bastion of Marxism, the ol' USA, where GM along with all other big companies manages (or at least used to manage before many of them went bankrupt) its employee retirement funds.
Our experience is that business equipment is used much more heavily than house electronics yet the warranty costs are the same. So the answer is yes for business electronics.
In fact for certain equipment with generous warranties we are pretty sure the manufacturer loses money on us, but subsidizes it from home users who (misguidedly) purchase a warranty.