books require a single person . . . you'll still want editors and (presumably) type-setters and layout designers and such
Ah yes. Slashdot: Where uninformed opinions, flawed logic and factual inaccuracies are mere fertilizer to the flowerbed that is yet another ignorant rant.
Y'know, I just searched the page for "weight" to make sure that someone else had the same thought I did upon reading the article. You won. I agree completely -- obviously, one of those Honda Insight cars is doing the same amount of damage to the roads as a behemoth Hummer H2.
Of course, as light as the article is on details (where the heck did Calfornia come from? They talked to a team at a university in Oregon, and a guy at the Oregon Department of Transportation.. but it's "[unnamed anonymous] officials in California..." who are going to use the system? Gimme a break), I'm not the least bit worried about this. Yet.
My brother-in-law used to operate under the same theory. He went to Boston College, and would park his Jeep in front of a statue of Mary outside of a church near his apartment in Random Student Ghetto, Chestnut Hill MA.
It took about six months for his radio, discman, and all his CDs -- which were in the center console, not lying on a seat or anything -- to be stolen.
He didn't bother with a particular parking spot too much after that.
Perhaps it defeats the purpose of a web-driven administration tool, but the times when I've had to purge spam comments I've simply done it through the database.
A few "delete from mt_comment where...", and one rebuild later (back in the web admin tool) it was all done. Very little fuss.
Of course, this talk of alternatives has me interested anyway...
You can't take that shortcut in the grass and dirt with your road bike.
Sure you can. It's all about the handling skills.
(Of course, having said that, it seems that "halfway-decent" -- that is, low-end to serious riders -- suspension bikes are cheaper than equivalent road bikes; in which case, yeah, ride your mountain bike twenty miles on asphalt)
"He gave me and my friend a funny look" is perfectly correct. It's considered "polite", however, to put "me" last. You're right that "me and my friend" is never correct as a subject, but for reasons completely unrelated to anything else in your post.
Anyone interested enough in this stuff should google "hypercorrection". (Short version: People are told that "You and me" is wrong as a subject, and internalize that "you and me" is wrong in all cases. Which is, of course, incorrect.)
They used to have factories built in it to process the sulphur, but after they were destroyed the third time, they never rebuilt.
Don't you mean:
"When I started here, all there was was volcano. The Aussies said I was daft to build a factory on a volcano, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the volcano. So, I built a second one. That sank into the volcano. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the volcano. So I... gave up."
Thanks for bringing up hyponatremia, molafson. It happens to be the same condition the parent of your post is talking about -- "water intoxication" -- but the webmd reference is obviously clueless if they think that the stats are "so rare" etc.
I'd disagree with your characterization of hyponatremia as a problem with "elite" endurance athletes; in my experience, it's more of a problem with people who are, for example, first-time marathonners. These people think that they're supposed to down a cup of water every mile, don't eat anything else, and by the 20th mile or so they can't even walk straight because their sodium levels are so screwed up.
The grandparent doesn't claim that it "doesn't affect" store sales.
He claimed that the RIAA is claiming that piracy is hurting sales, and then pointed out that their hand-wringing was contradicted by their continued success.
Be that as it may, I believe the grandparent's skepticism is well-founded. "Piracy" (what a terrible term) has -- according to pretty much every study that wasn't commissioned by payments from the major labels (and even a few that were) -- either a negligible or positive affect on sales.
I've never understood Slashdot's reasoning for this.
Well, first of all, -2 points for assuming that all of Slashdot has a single opinion on anything.
If you've never understood the reasoning behind people arguing that sharing a product also being sold doesn't automatically hurt sales, you are apparently unfamiliar with the concept of "advertising". You've also never read any of Janis Ian's or Cory Doctorow's essays on the matter -- two people in a position to actually be able to compare their sales figures before and after.
If you choose to remain ignorant of arguments being presented by either side, that's really not "Slashdot"'s problem.
Shoot, any time I loose my money, it runs wild all over the felt.
Oh, I'm sorry, I get it.. your 'o' key is stuck.
Card counting isn't much of an issue any more, but it has nothing to do with the number of decks. In fact, it's "easier" to get a shoe in your favor with a larger number of decks -- except with continuous shuffling and early shuffling, counting -- or rather, counting as a useful predictor -- is either impossible (in the former case) or fairly pointless (in the latter).
If you would like to see abandoned works enter into the public domain...
So far so good, I'm all for that.
and keep from loosing large portions of our cultural history
...but now you're toeing the Disney line! After all (says Disney), only pirates and thieves would want to let loose large portions of our cultural history from the bonds of copyright.
It would be nice if it says who you voted for but security reasons would be a good reason not to include that. I do however think it would at least be a good idea to give the voter a receipt for the vote in general.
Ah, so you'd like a receipt that's just slightly more informative to the person who gets it than the "I Voted!" sticker I got when I walked out of the polls three weeks ago. I'd have no problem with that:-)
I guess I misunderstood you; for some reason I was under the impression that "voter number 9319" (hey, how'd you guess my PIN?) could look his or her votes up in a registry somewhere after the fact, which leads to the same (yeah, illegal; but with such a low barrier to entry, and such a high potential payoff, what would stop people?) sort of problems.
I'm all for motivating people to go to the polls; if your sort of receipt would "get the vote out", I'm all for it.
I stated only part of my point, assuming you could connect the dots. My apologies. Let's try again:
"Bring in a receipt showing that you voted for Candidate Moneybags and get $20!"
Election fraud takes many forms. Giving the voter any way to independently verify their vote once they've left the polling place just opens the system to limitless forms of corruption. You've gone from a single point of failure (someone screwing with the tallies from the inside, obviously one of the biggest concerns with a lack of an anonymous paper trail) to a number of points of failure exceeding the number of votes cast.
When you vote electronically you should be given a simple carbon paper receipt. The yellow copy is your's. [...] This is such a simple feature I have to ask why the hell isn't Diebold not implementing it.
Diebold and the other e-voting machine makers are doing a whole bunch of things wrong, and paper trails are absolutely necessary IMO, but "the yellow copy is your's [sic]" is a ridiculously terrible idea.
It's a "secret ballot" for a reason. The last thing anybody (else, I guess) wants is proof that a person voted a particular way. Voting fraud is a big enough problem already (especially given these new systems); just how bad would it get when sufficiently motivated people start forcing you to "prove" you voted for their candidate?
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Ah yes. Slashdot: Where uninformed opinions, flawed logic and factual inaccuracies are mere fertilizer to the flowerbed that is yet another ignorant rant.
(PS: "distribution".)
Give me a break. They're not making you fly naked; nail clippers are less dangerous than, say, ballpoint pens.
Next time your buddy's dad asks you such a dumb question, ask him if he'd be willing to attack 150 people simultaneously with a pair of nail clippers.
No, Mr. Connery. Just you.
Neat logic, but the red queen in question is a chess piece
If you hit the "End" button, does it use a regenerative hangup process?
Can I use the jaws of life to cut through the phone without killing myself in the process, in an emergency?
How many minutes to the gallon does it get?
Of course, as light as the article is on details (where the heck did Calfornia come from? They talked to a team at a university in Oregon, and a guy at the Oregon Department of Transportation.. but it's "[unnamed anonymous] officials in California..." who are going to use the system? Gimme a break), I'm not the least bit worried about this. Yet.
It took about six months for his radio, discman, and all his CDs -- which were in the center console, not lying on a seat or anything -- to be stolen.
He didn't bother with a particular parking spot too much after that.
A few "delete from mt_comment where...", and one rebuild later (back in the web admin tool) it was all done. Very little fuss.
Of course, this talk of alternatives has me interested anyway...
Maybe they'll go completely out on a limb and use Iceman or Spider-Woman.
It'd be even better if Stan Lee did the narration.
Boy, I can't wait!
Er, but the point is that 27% of something that's less than 1% of the rider+bike weight isn't significant.
Proper optimization always considers what will make the biggest difference first.
Sure you can. It's all about the handling skills.
(Of course, having said that, it seems that "halfway-decent" -- that is, low-end to serious riders -- suspension bikes are cheaper than equivalent road bikes; in which case, yeah, ride your mountain bike twenty miles on asphalt)
The poster-sized version of this is hanging above my desk right now.
Just what I wanted. Advertising that's even more obnoxious and slow than what we've already got. Thanks!
sqlplus scott/tiger@database
Well, there's your problem: They go in the other end.
Anyone interested enough in this stuff should google "hypercorrection". (Short version: People are told that "You and me" is wrong as a subject, and internalize that "you and me" is wrong in all cases. Which is, of course, incorrect.)
Don't you mean:
"When I started here, all there was was volcano. The Aussies said I was daft to build a factory on a volcano, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the volcano. So, I built a second one. That sank into the volcano. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the volcano. So I... gave up."
I'd disagree with your characterization of hyponatremia as a problem with "elite" endurance athletes; in my experience, it's more of a problem with people who are, for example, first-time marathonners. These people think that they're supposed to down a cup of water every mile, don't eat anything else, and by the 20th mile or so they can't even walk straight because their sodium levels are so screwed up.
It's not a pretty problem.
Especially since the word is "analyst."
He claimed that the RIAA is claiming that piracy is hurting sales, and then pointed out that their hand-wringing was contradicted by their continued success.
Be that as it may, I believe the grandparent's skepticism is well-founded. "Piracy" (what a terrible term) has -- according to pretty much every study that wasn't commissioned by payments from the major labels (and even a few that were) -- either a negligible or positive affect on sales.
I've never understood Slashdot's reasoning for this.
Well, first of all, -2 points for assuming that all of Slashdot has a single opinion on anything.
If you've never understood the reasoning behind people arguing that sharing a product also being sold doesn't automatically hurt sales, you are apparently unfamiliar with the concept of "advertising". You've also never read any of Janis Ian's or Cory Doctorow's essays on the matter -- two people in a position to actually be able to compare their sales figures before and after.
If you choose to remain ignorant of arguments being presented by either side, that's really not "Slashdot"'s problem.
Shoot, any time I loose my money, it runs wild all over the felt.
Oh, I'm sorry, I get it.. your 'o' key is stuck.
Card counting isn't much of an issue any more, but it has nothing to do with the number of decks. In fact, it's "easier" to get a shoe in your favor with a larger number of decks -- except with continuous shuffling and early shuffling, counting -- or rather, counting as a useful predictor -- is either impossible (in the former case) or fairly pointless (in the latter).
So far so good, I'm all for that.
and keep from loosing large portions of our cultural history
Oh, wait, I see... your 'o' key is stuck. My bad.
Ah, so you'd like a receipt that's just slightly more informative to the person who gets it than the "I Voted!" sticker I got when I walked out of the polls three weeks ago. I'd have no problem with that :-)
I guess I misunderstood you; for some reason I was under the impression that "voter number 9319" (hey, how'd you guess my PIN?) could look his or her votes up in a registry somewhere after the fact, which leads to the same (yeah, illegal; but with such a low barrier to entry, and such a high potential payoff, what would stop people?) sort of problems.
I'm all for motivating people to go to the polls; if your sort of receipt would "get the vote out", I'm all for it.
"Bring in a receipt showing that you voted for Candidate Moneybags and get $20!"
Election fraud takes many forms. Giving the voter any way to independently verify their vote once they've left the polling place just opens the system to limitless forms of corruption. You've gone from a single point of failure (someone screwing with the tallies from the inside, obviously one of the biggest concerns with a lack of an anonymous paper trail) to a number of points of failure exceeding the number of votes cast.
Diebold and the other e-voting machine makers are doing a whole bunch of things wrong, and paper trails are absolutely necessary IMO, but "the yellow copy is your's [sic]" is a ridiculously terrible idea.
It's a "secret ballot" for a reason. The last thing anybody (else, I guess) wants is proof that a person voted a particular way. Voting fraud is a big enough problem already (especially given these new systems); just how bad would it get when sufficiently motivated people start forcing you to "prove" you voted for their candidate?