It is worth it when my friend doesn't have email on their phone and generally is not so wired. I can reach them by text and they are more likely to respond than if I call and leave a VM. Some people I can email with as effectively as text but not everyone.. So for them, I pay by the text or sign up for a bulk plan.
I'm not sure either - but here's a guess: If you write data onto every sector of the drive, perhaps the fubar sectors get noticed by the internal controller at that time and get blocked out from future writes. So by reading/writing out the entire drive, maybe you clean it up a bit.. Until of course more bits go bad which it sounds like would be inevitable in the OP's case.
5% of sales *in a month.* The big question is how long will sales continue to accelerate and what will the sales velocity be at that point and for how long? By the end of the year will Apple still be selling a million units a month? If so then that's 12M per year and that's going to be eating a much more significant chunk of netbook sales. So I don't think it's time to write off the iPad as insignificant to the netbook industry..
I find that "Safe Boot" is often a workable compromise between reinstalling and last known good config. I agree that LKGC is pretty worthless (in my experience also). But Safe Boot has been valuable to me numerous times where I could get into the OS, figure out what's failing (by reading error logs, etc) and removing the offending driver or whatever, and rebooting. The biggest enemy of this strategy is windows' feature of reinstalling drivers that are "damaged" (ie intentionally disabled by me), so that has to be accounted for also in safe boot. Just another 2 cents on fixing broken things in Windows-land..
If I recall correctly, that image was cherry picked and the laser guided bombs of the early 90's (assuming you're talking about Gulf War I) were found not to be as sure-fire accurate as was originally claimed (by Cheney I think - he was Secty Defense at the time right?).
GWII used significantly improved ordinance and things have only gotten more accurate since then, at least as best as I can understand all this.
This is a good point - if you name a US citizen, declare them an outlaw, using whatever process is appropriate (civilian or military) then by all means knock his block off. But the real worry for me is that there are secret kill lists of US citizens, that you can't know about until the missile lands on your head. Of course I have the same concern about non-US citizens but the legal basis for that concern (within US law) is less solid, as far as I know.
I made this same point a little earlier: the problem is who decides that they have done what you described? Obviously in the heat of combat, the losing side gets killed or captured. But these strikes are strategic - they are killing enemy leaders and disrupting the prosecution of war by the other side. So if a US citizen is determined to be an enemy leader (or similar) who decided? What process was used to decide? And importantly, the person might not even know that such a decision was made so they can't appeal.
If you think secret military decisions are less prone to mistakes than other parts of gov't and military activity, that's one thing, but I think it's safe to say that mistakes will be made in this area. So in effect they aren't stripping rights from one person they're stripping them from anyone they want, without recourse. That seems like a problem to me.
How do you tell if they are an EC? How does anyone? This might not be a legal problem (only a moral one) for non-citizens, but the concept that you get due process from the US gov't as a US citizen doesn't go away when you go overseas, at least as far I've ever read.
It's one thing to try someone in absentia and find them guilty but that's not how this whole thing works - you don't even know you're an EC until the missile comes through the roof.
Thanks. I wonder how different the world would look if we didn't have that amendment. Governors would be much more powerful and courted by lobbyists. State governments would therefore be more powerful. Senators would be beholden to state governments not to private lobbyists. I'm sure there are pluses/minuses. Have you thought about this at all?
This is really true and not just for computer newbs. I've got a lot of years of computer experience but it's still a lot of googling to figure out what the "definitive" packages are for various solutions on Linux. When I can a Linux expert, he'll say "oh, use this one." But without that expertise, they all look the same and figuring out which projects are relatively dead or not very usable is not trivial for someone like me who isn't in the know.
I think I get your point, and at the risk of being pedantic: heavy crowbars are for demolition work (often in wood-frame residential de-construction), not pulling nails. They are invaluable for separating 2x4 framing members without destroying them, so you can re-use the construction material in the new project. I don't have any stats, but I can't believe that but a tiny fraction of heavy crowbars are used outside of the construction trade.
I'm with you - that article is humorous but is about the difficulties of multi-lingual websites. Your point is that if you want to display a non-Ascii char on/. you ought to be allowed to. Seems simple and I for one welcome our new UTF-8 overlords.
How were senators originally chosen for their positions in the US? (Serious question - I've never heard of this before). Any references so I can read more would be great too.
This is an honest question: I have tried to use Python a few times but the significant white space drives me off. Can you explain how you solve this issue (in psuedo code):
Function here()
line 1 does some stuff
line 2 if statement
inside the if print debug info to console// remember to remove
line 3 more stuff
I put those print statements in all over the place when writing code -- and yes I *also* write tests using TDD. But getting a quick print helps a lot. But if I tab the print, it's easier to miss it later. I know some other programmers who do the same thing.
Do you just suck it up and tab that line in to it's proper place? Any other thoughts?
It kind of bugs me that I can't have the code look on the screen how I want it to look, rather than how the complier/interpreter wants it to look. Like I said, I'm not hating - I'm asking. Python seems like a nice language barring this mental barrier for me.
Just curious - what other language besides Python is dynamically typed with significant whitespace? I've only run across Python in this category.. Thanks!
Well said. I don't personally use apple products b/c of their affinity to close and control their market and users. But I recognize that I regularly benefit from Apple's innovations in UI - they do it as well or better than any big company. My HTC Droid Eris is a total copycat of the iPhone, perhaps in some ways better, but before that I was using an HTC WinMo phone that sucked - the only reason I get to use the Eris is because Apple out-innovated the market and Google followed behind copying them and HTC built the hardware to seal the deal.
As best as I understand it GSA, OMB and OPM are all pretty uptight about purchasing and procurement regs. The people at the White House have to follow some pretty strict rules to buy stuff - especially stuff that's not off-the-shelf. The messed up part is their wacky IT security policy that forces them to use antique browsers b/c they have been "validated." So IE6 - the most insecure modern browser there is - is preferred b/c the IT staff have "studied it" or some similar nonsense.
I'm no expert - I just have some friends who work there and I hear second hand.
I don't know about the guy making the "values" case to your argument, but I think you've got a good point. I haven't heard anyone talk about creation myths (let alone eden myths) in the light of the transition from pre-agriculture to agriculture. (I studied Anthro in grad school before dropping out to start reading slashdot).:)
He was making an argument (I think) about free time not spent tending to core food/shelter/fuel/clothing needs. You are making an argument (I think) about the values embodied in the use of the free time. Golden age can have many meanings I guess.
Plus plus. The research I've read (disclaimer: grad school drop-out in Anthro) is that farming/agriculture permits higher density living -- more peeps per sq kilometer. It requires more time investment per person to get the same calories, but you can do it on much less land. It also permits more specialization (I make the ploughs, you raise the oxen, he plows the fields) in society due to logistic simplifications (we live close enough to each other to make the exchanges frequently), as well as the inherent monetization created by storable crops (he pays you and me with the barley he grows).
Your point on nutrition in mono-crop societies is a good one too -- if you live on mostly barley, you might be getting the calories but not the nutrients that a family wandering from place to place eating varied roots, nuts, berries and wild game is getting.
Life wasn't easy for hunter gathers, but according to Jack Potter (emeritus at UC Berkeley), ancient tribes spent fewer hours per day dealing with activities related to food/clothing/shelter/fuel than modern people do. Most people spend 8-12 hours a day (5 days a week) working/commuting for their job. Hunter gatherers would typically spend (according to Potter) 3-4 hours a day (6-7 days a week) on that stuff, giving them far more leisure time for cultural activities like story telling, dancing singing and religious stuff. Which, along towards your point, could explain the expanded brain capacity.
The Federal gov't is pro-Microsoft in internal IT policy. I was at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (an arm of the White House) last summer. They were using IE6 and WinXP by mandate and other options were not permitted. Lots of staff brought their own Macs and more advanced PC laptops to work so they could do their personal business without so much air sucking. But for official research, correspondence, etc they were stuck with that antique stack. I've heard from folks there since then that they were upgraded to IE7 - woot.
Not to mention he'll need a fat symmetric pipe to push TB's of data up to amazon and that's not free either. A 10mbs pipe takes 12 days to push 1,000gb, if I'm doing the math right..
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It is worth it when my friend doesn't have email on their phone and generally is not so wired. I can reach them by text and they are more likely to respond than if I call and leave a VM. Some people I can email with as effectively as text but not everyone.. So for them, I pay by the text or sign up for a bulk plan.
I'm not sure either - but here's a guess: If you write data onto every sector of the drive, perhaps the fubar sectors get noticed by the internal controller at that time and get blocked out from future writes. So by reading/writing out the entire drive, maybe you clean it up a bit.. Until of course more bits go bad which it sounds like would be inevitable in the OP's case.
Computers and robots can't reproduce without our help. The same criticism (whatcouldpossiblygowrong) would hold when they can.
5% of sales *in a month.* The big question is how long will sales continue to accelerate and what will the sales velocity be at that point and for how long? By the end of the year will Apple still be selling a million units a month? If so then that's 12M per year and that's going to be eating a much more significant chunk of netbook sales. So I don't think it's time to write off the iPad as insignificant to the netbook industry..
I find that "Safe Boot" is often a workable compromise between reinstalling and last known good config. I agree that LKGC is pretty worthless (in my experience also). But Safe Boot has been valuable to me numerous times where I could get into the OS, figure out what's failing (by reading error logs, etc) and removing the offending driver or whatever, and rebooting. The biggest enemy of this strategy is windows' feature of reinstalling drivers that are "damaged" (ie intentionally disabled by me), so that has to be accounted for also in safe boot. Just another 2 cents on fixing broken things in Windows-land..
If I recall correctly, that image was cherry picked and the laser guided bombs of the early 90's (assuming you're talking about Gulf War I) were found not to be as sure-fire accurate as was originally claimed (by Cheney I think - he was Secty Defense at the time right?).
GWII used significantly improved ordinance and things have only gotten more accurate since then, at least as best as I can understand all this.
This is a good point - if you name a US citizen, declare them an outlaw, using whatever process is appropriate (civilian or military) then by all means knock his block off. But the real worry for me is that there are secret kill lists of US citizens, that you can't know about until the missile lands on your head. Of course I have the same concern about non-US citizens but the legal basis for that concern (within US law) is less solid, as far as I know.
I made this same point a little earlier: the problem is who decides that they have done what you described? Obviously in the heat of combat, the losing side gets killed or captured. But these strikes are strategic - they are killing enemy leaders and disrupting the prosecution of war by the other side. So if a US citizen is determined to be an enemy leader (or similar) who decided? What process was used to decide? And importantly, the person might not even know that such a decision was made so they can't appeal.
If you think secret military decisions are less prone to mistakes than other parts of gov't and military activity, that's one thing, but I think it's safe to say that mistakes will be made in this area. So in effect they aren't stripping rights from one person they're stripping them from anyone they want, without recourse. That seems like a problem to me.
How do you tell if they are an EC? How does anyone? This might not be a legal problem (only a moral one) for non-citizens, but the concept that you get due process from the US gov't as a US citizen doesn't go away when you go overseas, at least as far I've ever read.
It's one thing to try someone in absentia and find them guilty but that's not how this whole thing works - you don't even know you're an EC until the missile comes through the roof.
Thanks. I wonder how different the world would look if we didn't have that amendment. Governors would be much more powerful and courted by lobbyists. State governments would therefore be more powerful. Senators would be beholden to state governments not to private lobbyists. I'm sure there are pluses/minuses. Have you thought about this at all?
You win. Great comment - thanks.
This is really true and not just for computer newbs. I've got a lot of years of computer experience but it's still a lot of googling to figure out what the "definitive" packages are for various solutions on Linux. When I can a Linux expert, he'll say "oh, use this one." But without that expertise, they all look the same and figuring out which projects are relatively dead or not very usable is not trivial for someone like me who isn't in the know.
I think I get your point, and at the risk of being pedantic: heavy crowbars are for demolition work (often in wood-frame residential de-construction), not pulling nails. They are invaluable for separating 2x4 framing members without destroying them, so you can re-use the construction material in the new project. I don't have any stats, but I can't believe that but a tiny fraction of heavy crowbars are used outside of the construction trade.
I'm with you - that article is humorous but is about the difficulties of multi-lingual websites. Your point is that if you want to display a non-Ascii char on /. you ought to be allowed to. Seems simple and I for one welcome our new UTF-8 overlords.
How were senators originally chosen for their positions in the US? (Serious question - I've never heard of this before). Any references so I can read more would be great too.
This is an honest question: I have tried to use Python a few times but the significant white space drives me off. Can you explain how you solve this issue (in psuedo code):
Function here() // remember to remove
line 1 does some stuff
line 2 if statement
inside the if
print debug info to console
line 3 more stuff
I put those print statements in all over the place when writing code -- and yes I *also* write tests using TDD. But getting a quick print helps a lot. But if I tab the print, it's easier to miss it later. I know some other programmers who do the same thing.
Do you just suck it up and tab that line in to it's proper place? Any other thoughts?
It kind of bugs me that I can't have the code look on the screen how I want it to look, rather than how the complier/interpreter wants it to look. Like I said, I'm not hating - I'm asking. Python seems like a nice language barring this mental barrier for me.
Just curious - what other language besides Python is dynamically typed with significant whitespace? I've only run across Python in this category.. Thanks!
Well said. I don't personally use apple products b/c of their affinity to close and control their market and users. But I recognize that I regularly benefit from Apple's innovations in UI - they do it as well or better than any big company. My HTC Droid Eris is a total copycat of the iPhone, perhaps in some ways better, but before that I was using an HTC WinMo phone that sucked - the only reason I get to use the Eris is because Apple out-innovated the market and Google followed behind copying them and HTC built the hardware to seal the deal.
As best as I understand it GSA, OMB and OPM are all pretty uptight about purchasing and procurement regs. The people at the White House have to follow some pretty strict rules to buy stuff - especially stuff that's not off-the-shelf. The messed up part is their wacky IT security policy that forces them to use antique browsers b/c they have been "validated." So IE6 - the most insecure modern browser there is - is preferred b/c the IT staff have "studied it" or some similar nonsense.
I'm no expert - I just have some friends who work there and I hear second hand.
I don't know about the guy making the "values" case to your argument, but I think you've got a good point. I haven't heard anyone talk about creation myths (let alone eden myths) in the light of the transition from pre-agriculture to agriculture. (I studied Anthro in grad school before dropping out to start reading slashdot). :)
He was making an argument (I think) about free time not spent tending to core food/shelter/fuel/clothing needs. You are making an argument (I think) about the values embodied in the use of the free time. Golden age can have many meanings I guess.
Plus plus. The research I've read (disclaimer: grad school drop-out in Anthro) is that farming/agriculture permits higher density living -- more peeps per sq kilometer. It requires more time investment per person to get the same calories, but you can do it on much less land. It also permits more specialization (I make the ploughs, you raise the oxen, he plows the fields) in society due to logistic simplifications (we live close enough to each other to make the exchanges frequently), as well as the inherent monetization created by storable crops (he pays you and me with the barley he grows).
Your point on nutrition in mono-crop societies is a good one too -- if you live on mostly barley, you might be getting the calories but not the nutrients that a family wandering from place to place eating varied roots, nuts, berries and wild game is getting.
Life wasn't easy for hunter gathers, but according to Jack Potter (emeritus at UC Berkeley), ancient tribes spent fewer hours per day dealing with activities related to food/clothing/shelter/fuel than modern people do. Most people spend 8-12 hours a day (5 days a week) working/commuting for their job. Hunter gatherers would typically spend (according to Potter) 3-4 hours a day (6-7 days a week) on that stuff, giving them far more leisure time for cultural activities like story telling, dancing singing and religious stuff. Which, along towards your point, could explain the expanded brain capacity.
The Federal gov't is pro-Microsoft in internal IT policy. I was at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (an arm of the White House) last summer. They were using IE6 and WinXP by mandate and other options were not permitted. Lots of staff brought their own Macs and more advanced PC laptops to work so they could do their personal business without so much air sucking. But for official research, correspondence, etc they were stuck with that antique stack. I've heard from folks there since then that they were upgraded to IE7 - woot.
Not to mention he'll need a fat symmetric pipe to push TB's of data up to amazon and that's not free either. A 10mbs pipe takes 12 days to push 1,000gb, if I'm doing the math right..