I have heard people complain about HDTV, but for myself HDTV has been a tremendous boon - We live in a relatively rural area and the range of my inside the attic antenna went from a few stations to (including multiplexing) almost 40, including six PBS stations; I keep intending to get a better outside antenna just to see what I can get with it but that involves me having time to be on the roof when I'm not fixing something.
In combination with MythTV, basic DSL and having broken down and gotten Netflix in December (Originally because I noticed they had the Discworld movie"Hogfather" which friends of mine had recommended highly and seemed worthy of a Christmas tryout), I feel I get far better bang for my buck than I ever got with Satellite.
To be fair, we had dropped satellite TV precisely because we were paying for basically about five shows (Daily Show/Colbert, Countdown, Maddow, plus documentaries/science shows.), and it just wasn't worth it to us.
It doesn't feel like my concept of a rube goldberg machine. I had aspect, but it was more a half dozen short rube goldberg chains that were lined up in a raw than the single long chain of cause and effect that defines a rube goldberg machine to me.
I hate to say it, but I don't think the problem was it being demeaning.
It brought an easily ignored problem and rubbed people noses in it where they couldn't be comfortable ignoring it. Now of course, 'to protect the dignity of the unemployed' people want to be able to ignore it some more.
Pretty much. I still record stuff off of myth TV in relatively low quality, because frankly, how often do you care?
The things I really like about DVD's are not rewinding them, director's commentary and other extra's, and yeah the better picture quality is nice on HDTV. I might start caring again when a 3D TV experience I care about makes bigger disks actually useful, but even then I care a lot less about watching TV in 3D than I did say watching Star Trek in Color.
I'm too lazy to cite the studies, but unless you're giving time in an area of your particular expertise, Typically giving money so they can hire the people with the expertise they actually need works better.
The exception is of course unskilled labor, but frankly I'm lazy and even that is something I'd rather do something I'm good at and tithe a fraction so they can hire unskilled labor - that's better for me *and* them.
And I can just imagine how annoying that was after the 5th extra button was added for something done once, three months ago, that doesn't work for anything else because a of a specific parameter -
Actually ffmpeg is grand for converting video formats with CLI as well - I convert video to MP4 specifically because of the ease of tagging MP4 Video in Easytag. Do I get any bonus points for having a cron job do that at 2 am?
And, yeah - if you're doing something once only, the advantages of a CLI don't come into it. I'll even go so far as to say you do many more unique things that the GUI makes easier than repeated thing that you should be using a CLI for.
But when you need to automate a task to do the same thing time after time? Yeah, I need to Google the commands, but it's worth it because then I never need to touch it again. And that's not a problem with not having a 'smarter' CLI, that's a problem with my having to give the kind of explicit step by step instructions a 'smarter' CLI will goof up because of some highly intelligent mistake-correcting algorithm that assumes it knows what any sane person would be doing.
No - when you want it done consistently when you're not there to watch it, the only good GUI is an interface to a nice stupid CLI that knows how to follow orders.
Not at $15/month - I value the NY Times, but they need to regain their reputation for premium journalism before I'll pay a premium price. In recent years they've been buffaloed too often into kowtowing to the right-wings false "Republican say all true Americans believe Earth Center of Universe - Some Dem's disagree" neutrality, and now seem to think there's no downside to that?
Actually, I abhor the minimalist chrome 'hide everything useful' interface, and I'm finding this one okay so far - I can see the similarity in style, but it's substantially better version of it.
Yes, but barring their explicitly saying so, you cannot objectively verify they have skewed priorities, you can only 'Think' they have them.
Since the entire question is based on you're only 'thinking' you are doing good by lying to achieve your own aims, defaults back to the original question, does your internal vision of reality justify lying to someone else based on the assumption that you are inherently correct.
You posit that someone can make better decisions based on incorrect information than correct information.
If you've come to the decision based on what you believe to be correct information, then your logic indicates that you can make decisions based on correct information, but others cannot. Therefore you can in fact only come to this conclusion because you are operating based on incorrect information.
Your premises result in a paradox. Examine your premises.
I disagree with #1, I think the two items are fairly close together (unemployment affects price stability and vice-versa), but there are legitimate argument. #2 and #3 are pretty obvious . .
#4? As policy, encouraging home ownership has been in place since the 70's, and most of the enacted policies being blamed have been in place far exactly that long. Drawing a line from a 40 year old policy to a 5 year old crash seems a reach, particularly when there has been som much more directly attributable deregulation (And, even taking that into account, out and out fraud by major financial players involved) in the meantime.
Look at the history of recessions - Before the Fed the standard recession lasted for years, and was far deeper than anything we've seen since the Great Depression.
It's tools are limited, and far too often overpowered for small problems and underpowered for large ones, but withing those restrictions, yeah, it has made an enormous, and positive difference.
In point of fact recessions have done nothing except become longer and deeper since the rise of Reagan-ism as policy. You might think the fact that every Republican president since 1980 has had one recession start . . . per term in office . . . might tell people something. Among other things it might tell Obama he needs to quit compromising with Republicans on economics.
But going from this (particularly the C/C++ friendliness), you could almost run a Unix/Linux implementation across the entire cloud, with each browser being a separate 'login'?
I tend to disagree - Ubuntu is designed (in large part) for the end user, and for that class where the admin == main user, sudo is a good idea, enforcing the separation of privileges but allowing reasonable usage.
I've noticed a few article lately about how 'real men' login as root at all times, but I've worked in Unix/Linux since the 90's, and this seems to be a recent phenomena.
The Statute of Anne, short title Copyright Act 1709 8 Anne c.19; long title An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, was the first copyright statute in the Kingdom of Great Britain (thus the United Kingdom, see copyright law of the United Kingdom). It was enacted in 1709 and entered into force on 10 April 1710. It is generally considered to be the first fully-fledged copyright statute. It is named after Anne, Queen of Great Britain, during whose reign it was enacted.
The Statute of Anne is now seen as the origin of copyright law.[1]
Since Will died almost a century prior to the origin of copyright law, you're not just wrong, you're egregiously wrong.
With apologies, whoever marked this 'Informative' should be shot.
This brings up a second level consideration as well - Cancer cells are remarkably similar to stem cells as well (Or so I've been given to understand as a layman).
If that's the case, are stem cells also an atavism, but more useful, and can cancer cells be switched over into stem cell mode in some way?
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I have heard people complain about HDTV, but for myself HDTV has been a tremendous boon - We live in a relatively rural area and the range of my inside the attic antenna went from a few stations to (including multiplexing) almost 40, including six PBS stations; I keep intending to get a better outside antenna just to see what I can get with it but that involves me having time to be on the roof when I'm not fixing something.
In combination with MythTV, basic DSL and having broken down and gotten Netflix in December (Originally because I noticed they had the Discworld movie"Hogfather" which friends of mine had recommended highly and seemed worthy of a Christmas tryout), I feel I get far better bang for my buck than I ever got with Satellite.
To be fair, we had dropped satellite TV precisely because we were paying for basically about five shows (Daily Show/Colbert, Countdown, Maddow, plus documentaries/science shows.), and it just wasn't worth it to us.
Pug
Or the Lego Antikythera Mechanism
*that* is my idea of cool - Pug
It doesn't feel like my concept of a rube goldberg machine. I had aspect, but it was more a half dozen short rube goldberg chains that were lined up in a raw than the single long chain of cause and effect that defines a rube goldberg machine to me.
Pug
I hate to say it, but I don't think the problem was it being demeaning.
It brought an easily ignored problem and rubbed people noses in it where they couldn't be comfortable ignoring it. Now of course, 'to protect the dignity of the unemployed' people want to be able to ignore it some more.
Pug
Pretty much. I still record stuff off of myth TV in relatively low quality, because frankly, how often do you care?
The things I really like about DVD's are not rewinding them, director's commentary and other extra's, and yeah the better picture quality is nice on HDTV. I might start caring again when a 3D TV experience I care about makes bigger disks actually useful, but even then I care a lot less about watching TV in 3D than I did say watching Star Trek in Color.
Blue Ray is strictly incremental.
Pug
I'm too lazy to cite the studies, but unless you're giving time in an area of your particular expertise, Typically giving money so they can hire the people with the expertise they actually need works better.
The exception is of course unskilled labor, but frankly I'm lazy and even that is something I'd rather do something I'm good at and tithe a fraction so they can hire unskilled labor - that's better for me *and* them.
Economics rules - {G}
Pug
By whose definition?:
Well, by your definition actually:
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
-1 intellectually dishonest.
Pug
Uhh - no. GUI's are for people that, y'know . . . need the box. That's pretty much the point?
Pug
And I can just imagine how annoying that was after the 5th extra button was added for something done once, three months ago, that doesn't work for anything else because a of a specific parameter -
Urgh - talk about the worst of both worlds.
Pug
Actually ffmpeg is grand for converting video formats with CLI as well - I convert video to MP4 specifically because of the ease of tagging MP4 Video in Easytag. Do I get any bonus points for having a cron job do that at 2 am?
Pug
Anyone that has used Image Magick could tell you why this example might *not* be a poor one.
Yes, a free, massively powerful CLI image editor.
Pug
And, yeah - if you're doing something once only, the advantages of a CLI don't come into it. I'll even go so far as to say you do many more unique things that the GUI makes easier than repeated thing that you should be using a CLI for.
But when you need to automate a task to do the same thing time after time? Yeah, I need to Google the commands, but it's worth it because then I never need to touch it again. And that's not a problem with not having a 'smarter' CLI, that's a problem with my having to give the kind of explicit step by step instructions a 'smarter' CLI will goof up because of some highly intelligent mistake-correcting algorithm that assumes it knows what any sane person would be doing.
No - when you want it done consistently when you're not there to watch it, the only good GUI is an interface to a nice stupid CLI that knows how to follow orders.
Pug
Not at $15/month - I value the NY Times, but they need to regain their reputation for premium journalism before I'll pay a premium price. In recent years they've been buffaloed too often into kowtowing to the right-wings false "Republican say all true Americans believe Earth Center of Universe - Some Dem's disagree" neutrality, and now seem to think there's no downside to that?
Pug
Whole grain paper in a brown pepper bag?
Actually, I abhor the minimalist chrome 'hide everything useful' interface, and I'm finding this one okay so far - I can see the similarity in style, but it's substantially better version of it.
Pug
Yes, but barring their explicitly saying so, you cannot objectively verify they have skewed priorities, you can only 'Think' they have them.
Since the entire question is based on you're only 'thinking' you are doing good by lying to achieve your own aims, defaults back to the original question, does your internal vision of reality justify lying to someone else based on the assumption that you are inherently correct.
Pug
You posit that someone can make better decisions based on incorrect information than correct information.
If you've come to the decision based on what you believe to be correct information, then your logic indicates that you can make decisions based on correct information, but others cannot. Therefore you can in fact only come to this conclusion because you are operating based on incorrect information.
Your premises result in a paradox. Examine your premises.
I disagree with #1, I think the two items are fairly close together (unemployment affects price stability and vice-versa), but there are legitimate argument.
#2 and #3 are pretty obvious . .
#4? As policy, encouraging home ownership has been in place since the 70's, and most of the enacted policies being blamed have been in place far exactly that long. Drawing a line from a 40 year old policy to a 5 year old crash seems a reach, particularly when there has been som much more directly attributable deregulation (And, even taking that into account, out and out fraud by major financial players involved) in the meantime.
Two generations do not a line of causality make.
Pug
Look at the history of recessions - Before the Fed the standard recession lasted for years, and was far deeper than anything we've seen since the Great Depression.
It's tools are limited, and far too often overpowered for small problems and underpowered for large ones, but withing those restrictions, yeah, it has made an enormous, and positive difference.
In point of fact recessions have done nothing except become longer and deeper since the rise of Reagan-ism as policy. You might think the fact that every Republican president since 1980 has had one recession start . . . per term in office . . . might tell people something. Among other things it might tell Obama he needs to quit compromising with Republicans on economics.
Pug
But going from this (particularly the C/C++ friendliness), you could almost run a Unix/Linux implementation across the entire cloud, with each browser being a separate 'login'?
It almost seems designed with that as a goal.
Pug
Actually, this guys *last* article hit Slashdot too, and I was nearly as unimpressed with that one as this one.
Pug
I tend to disagree - Ubuntu is designed (in large part) for the end user, and for that class where the admin == main user, sudo is a good idea, enforcing the separation of privileges but allowing reasonable usage.
I've noticed a few article lately about how 'real men' login as root at all times, but I've worked in Unix/Linux since the 90's, and this seems to be a recent phenomena.
Pug
Score: -1, Factually incorrect.
The first English copyright law was the Statute of Anne
The Statute of Anne, short title Copyright Act 1709 8 Anne c.19; long title An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, was the first copyright statute in the Kingdom of Great Britain (thus the United Kingdom, see copyright law of the United Kingdom). It was enacted in 1709 and entered into force on 10 April 1710. It is generally considered to be the first fully-fledged copyright statute. It is named after Anne, Queen of Great Britain, during whose reign it was enacted.
The Statute of Anne is now seen as the origin of copyright law.[1]
Since Will died almost a century prior to the origin of copyright law, you're not just wrong, you're egregiously wrong.
With apologies, whoever marked this 'Informative' should be shot.
Pug
According to this map, I have access to fiber to the end user? From Who?
Pug
This brings up a second level consideration as well - Cancer cells are remarkably similar to stem cells as well (Or so I've been given to understand as a layman).
If that's the case, are stem cells also an atavism, but more useful, and can cancer cells be switched over into stem cell mode in some way?
Pug