My main problem with this is it's a Google sub-project, and as much as I love their core products, they do have a habit of pulling things as soon as you become dependant on them (reader, AppInventor, and health for three examples I did depend on until they vanished). OK any company can pull a product, but it seems to be a favourite Google pass time.
Fortunately your poor investment in something simply because it cost you nothing doesn't stop others from using the results of projects like this to test their assumptions on the subject - or build upon the knowledge gained from the outcomes.
"Health" alternatives? WTF do you mean - maybe you could do your own research? Likely it'd take less time and effort than whining because you depended on something free (cost, contribution, and commitment wise).
I remember when the annual Melbourne show meant free show bags full of goodies - there was lollies, and icecreams, and chocolate bars, t-shirts, and hats. Streets Icecreams, Cadbury... all utter bastards. Now I have to pay money for junk food! [mutter, mutter, whine, piss on furniture, whine].
The fact that you can't figure out hyperbole mixed in with my point, is proof that you are incapable of having a rational discussion. Your response is one of pure emotion. (I rest my case)
Too late to rest it - it expired just after you started it.
I think you may be missing the point. A giant robot fight simply promises to be an awesome spectacle generating fantastic publicity for both companies and the industry in general. Pre-game trash talk is just part of the publicity game.
"you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Not sure what word you were aiming for there.
The word I wrote. What locals in tourist economies all over the world call tourists. They all have local slang for it that means the same thing - part tourist (they bring money), part terrorist (noxious and obnoxious).
I think that the adjustable standing desks are on over complicated solution to the problem.
Use fixed standing desk with a drafting stool.
I just put milk crates under the desks - perfect height to change the standard sitting desk to a standing desk.
I don't think either sitting or standing is better, or less worse. As others have pointed out, it's maintaining static positions that cause problems in the long-term. I first noticed this years ago when smoking was less frowned upon (but banned indoors) - the people who smoked seemed to complain less of sore backs and seemed to maintain better postures. The non-smokers spent longer continuous periods at their desks (and the labs had standing desks). It's also an issue of eye strain from continuous focus at a fixed length - and mental productivity (hard to think long and hard while at a keyboard).
These days you can have a standing desk if you want - I'll put it up on milk crates. Yes it's perfectly stable and doesn't affect the adjustable keyboard/mouse section or the adjustable monitor stands. The chair slides underneath the raised desk. I've gone back to the old separate room for printers which encourages people to move away from their desks (as does banning drinks and food at desks). One thing I found that also helps is close access to an outdoor area that isn't one, unbroken open space, with only one access door - so if you have your head full of something you're working on you can walk outside without having to break your concentration. (obviously I don't follow people with a stopwatch).
Did someone who likes space shoot your mother or something? You always pop up on these threads.
As a small child he wanted to be an astronaut. Then he heard it meant reading and, um, stuff. Bitter now, and still a child.
Which, on reflection, seems mean. I should have pointed out that much of the blame for his thwarted ambitions lie with his kindergarten teacher - who told him everyone is good at something, and you should choose a career doing what you're best at.
Being an astronaut seemed like the only job where you didn't have to walk to a toilet, or wipe.
Serious question. (And yes I know they contain carbon.)
The use of the term has always bugged me too.
I mean, normally I'm really against organic crops because they take up more space per person fed[...]
That sort of stupid and misleading statement bugs me even more. You mean chemically fertilised crops have higher yields (short-term) than non-chemically fertilised crops - but then you extrapolate from that dodgy premise to the conclusion the cropping areas for identical yields are smaller. A misleading conclusion given that it implies land area required for cultivation is less - by overlooking all the land area required to make and get the fertilizer there in the first place.
they aren't going to help out bees or whatever
How does it not "help" bees? Perhaps they have little harnesses suspended from guide-wires so the bees don't have to fly? And whatever do you mean by "whatever"?
I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?
but try telling that to someone "you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Sorry, no sympathy here. I see hundreds of cards every day that are nicer than my 2010 Honda Fit with a dent in the door. Somehow I manage to go on.
I don't doubt the truth of your first sentence. The second is an admirable composition fallacy. The third a red-herring. Well done! Congratulations on your admission to the bar. But if you ever hope to make Silk you'll need to combine the three into some sort of semblance of an argument (and do a little research into what constitutes austerity - a dented door in a five year old car will only work in Saudi Arabia).
Given real money, I don't have to trust where it came from. I have to trust that other people will want it, and normally other people will. It doesn't really matter whether I have money in my bank, or paper money in my pocket, or coins made of certain metals, as long as the people I deal with it will accept it for goods and services.
People are different. Some qualify trust, others blindly without historical reference. Some argue without sophistic devices, unimpeded by false logic. Others rely of half-concealed false qualifications to support emotional over-investments in their own gut-instincts (real money), or red-herrings to give the appearance of weight to that without substance (I don't have to trust where it came from - so forgery is not an issue?).
Well that is the very rare ideal situation of enough memory for the system in all cases and turning the machine off before it has cached much so I really don't get why you are mentioning it.
Do you have something reliable to back up that statement? Seriously? It doesn't even make sense - how the fuck will a swap file/partition get written to (if it even needed to) if there's no power?!!
Your Windows "knowledge" does not translate. The default setup for modern Linux servers running on SSD (of which there are millions in production use) is no swap files or partitions. Power failure will result in identical data loss regardless of whether there is a swap file/partition or not. (even then there's journaled file systems)
Apparently It could have been Andrew Morton (https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/4/28/263).
That'd make sense - then. Even running a full blown desktop and a large compile I rarely see swap being touched.
On an old Thinkpad I have swappiness pushed to 80 or sound and video suffers, same era, limited RAM by modern standards. From dim memories I think I had to do a bit of niceness tweaking as well - price you pay for 512MB. I'd forgotten I even had that laptop till you posted that. (still works fine - updating to Jessie now).
I can see that as being every bit as successful as conservapedia
There's an eye-opener (pun on faceglory unintentional). I liked the entry for Evolution - well, I would have if I had a Fffacebook account.
I'm guessing the FaceGlory crowd will have a banner sharing agreement with The Flat Earth Society (when the in-fighting between the various "true" FES groups ends), and Christian Porn (you know - the good stuff).
"These Christian Fundamentalists want to get creationism taught in our science classes. I would have been all for it when I was in high school. - easy credits. “OK class, God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. See you at the final exam.” ~ Bill Hicks
Faceglory.jp also not found. They might want to get that one quickly.
For the sake of the Japanese - I hope not. Looks like the Kiwis will have to put up with them. Australians not so much (we've no shortage of fundamentalist god-botherers anyway).
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My main problem with this is it's a Google sub-project, and as much as I love their core products, they do have a habit of pulling things as soon as you become dependant on them (reader, AppInventor, and health for three examples I did depend on until they vanished). OK any company can pull a product, but it seems to be a favourite Google pass time.
Fortunately your poor investment in something simply because it cost you nothing doesn't stop others from using the results of projects like this to test their assumptions on the subject - or build upon the knowledge gained from the outcomes.
Google Reader alternatives:-
AppInventor alternatives:-
"Health" alternatives? WTF do you mean - maybe you could do your own research? Likely it'd take less time and effort than whining because you depended on something free (cost, contribution, and commitment wise).
I remember when the annual Melbourne show meant free show bags full of goodies - there was lollies, and icecreams, and chocolate bars, t-shirts, and hats. Streets Icecreams, Cadbury... all utter bastards. Now I have to pay money for junk food! [mutter, mutter, whine, piss on furniture, whine].
The fact that you can't figure out hyperbole mixed in with my point, is proof that you are incapable of having a rational discussion. Your response is one of pure emotion. (I rest my case)
Too late to rest it - it expired just after you started it.
I think you may be missing the point. A giant robot fight simply promises to be an awesome spectacle generating fantastic publicity for both companies and the industry in general. Pre-game trash talk is just part of the publicity game.
No, no - it's about national pride. Really.
Not sure what word you were aiming for there.
The word I wrote. What locals in tourist economies all over the world call tourists. They all have local slang for it that means the same thing - part tourist (they bring money), part terrorist (noxious and obnoxious).
Mexican call them senor and senorita.
I think that the adjustable standing desks are on over complicated solution to the problem. Use fixed standing desk with a drafting stool.
I just put milk crates under the desks - perfect height to change the standard sitting desk to a standing desk.
I don't think either sitting or standing is better, or less worse. As others have pointed out, it's maintaining static positions that cause problems in the long-term. I first noticed this years ago when smoking was less frowned upon (but banned indoors) - the people who smoked seemed to complain less of sore backs and seemed to maintain better postures. The non-smokers spent longer continuous periods at their desks (and the labs had standing desks). It's also an issue of eye strain from continuous focus at a fixed length - and mental productivity (hard to think long and hard while at a keyboard).
These days you can have a standing desk if you want - I'll put it up on milk crates. Yes it's perfectly stable and doesn't affect the adjustable keyboard/mouse section or the adjustable monitor stands. The chair slides underneath the raised desk. I've gone back to the old separate room for printers which encourages people to move away from their desks (as does banning drinks and food at desks). One thing I found that also helps is close access to an outdoor area that isn't one, unbroken open space, with only one access door - so if you have your head full of something you're working on you can walk outside without having to break your concentration. (obviously I don't follow people with a stopwatch).
Open source means garbage software. The features and quality assurance are usually terrible.
Right on dude! That's why IBM is a flash in the pan money losing company. Google is just a bubble waiting to burst.
I could go on - but you beat me to it. How's the football coaching applications going? Any decent offers from the big league yet?
Did someone who likes space shoot your mother or something? You always pop up on these threads.
As a small child he wanted to be an astronaut. Then he heard it meant reading and, um, stuff. Bitter now, and still a child.
Which, on reflection, seems mean. I should have pointed out that much of the blame for his thwarted ambitions lie with his kindergarten teacher - who told him everyone is good at something, and you should choose a career doing what you're best at.
Being an astronaut seemed like the only job where you didn't have to walk to a toilet, or wipe.
You can expect a push to require Organic produce be dirt planted and have sunlight access as the main photosynthesis source.
Why now? Indoor farms with artificial lighting have been getting "organic" certifications for a long time.
Serious question. (And yes I know they contain carbon.)
The use of the term has always bugged me too.
I mean, normally I'm really against organic crops because they take up more space per person fed[...]
That sort of stupid and misleading statement bugs me even more. You mean chemically fertilised crops have higher yields (short-term) than non-chemically fertilised crops - but then you extrapolate from that dodgy premise to the conclusion the cropping areas for identical yields are smaller. A misleading conclusion given that it implies land area required for cultivation is less - by overlooking all the land area required to make and get the fertilizer there in the first place.
they aren't going to help out bees or whatever
How does it not "help" bees? Perhaps they have little harnesses suspended from guide-wires so the bees don't have to fly? And whatever do you mean by "whatever"?
I've only seen a couple of Apple TV ads over the years,
Apple invest heavily in product placement advertising - so you've seen lots of Apple advertising in movies, entertainment news, slashdot stories, and music videos.
Ohh, so how many product placed Apple TVs did you see?
Apple make TVs?
but try telling that to someone "you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Sorry, no sympathy here. I see hundreds of cards every day that are nicer than my 2010 Honda Fit with a dent in the door. Somehow I manage to go on.
I don't doubt the truth of your first sentence. The second is an admirable composition fallacy. The third a red-herring. Well done! Congratulations on your admission to the bar. But if you ever hope to make Silk you'll need to combine the three into some sort of semblance of an argument (and do a little research into what constitutes austerity - a dented door in a five year old car will only work in Saudi Arabia).
Given real money, I don't have to trust where it came from. I have to trust that other people will want it, and normally other people will. It doesn't really matter whether I have money in my bank, or paper money in my pocket, or coins made of certain metals, as long as the people I deal with it will accept it for goods and services.
People are different. Some qualify trust, others blindly without historical reference. Some argue without sophistic devices, unimpeded by false logic. Others rely of half-concealed false qualifications to support emotional over-investments in their own gut-instincts (real money), or red-herrings to give the appearance of weight to that without substance (I don't have to trust where it came from - so forgery is not an issue?).
I have the ability, and knowledge, to do so
Gosh. You are clever.
Thanks. You are very mature.
Really, you can't follow the code without English comments?
I pray you don't write any software that other people have to use. Most companies will flat out reject code if it has not been properly documented.
Maybe you should have watched all the "be professional programmer" webinars.
Did someone who likes space shoot your mother or something? You always pop up on these threads.
As a small child he wanted to be an astronaut. Then he heard it meant reading and, um, stuff. Bitter now, and still a child.
Yep. Not particularly strenuous CRC formulae can detect errors that may happen in a data stream running the entire age of the universe.
Yep. Collision free and works with Ada and decision voting. Trivial when you thunk about it. (goddamned rocket scientists act like they know stuff)
Making it illegal to transmit data put an immediate end to software piracy. I don't see why it can't work here as well.
It'll work - just like the ban on exporting strong encryption worked.
Well that is the very rare ideal situation of enough memory for the system in all cases and turning the machine off before it has cached much so I really don't get why you are mentioning it.
Do you have something reliable to back up that statement? Seriously? It doesn't even make sense - how the fuck will a swap file/partition get written to (if it even needed to) if there's no power?!!
Your Windows "knowledge" does not translate. The default setup for modern Linux servers running on SSD (of which there are millions in production use) is no swap files or partitions. Power failure will result in identical data loss regardless of whether there is a swap file/partition or not. (even then there's journaled file systems)
Ever read something written by someone with BPD during one of the extremes?
No - I don't believe I have. I've never put ants up my nose either. Guess I'm not very adventurous.
I did flick through a couple of pages of Shirley McLaine's "Out of my Tree" and that Dan Brown book once (I couldn't sleep) - do they count?
Apparently It could have been Andrew Morton (https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/4/28/263).
That'd make sense - then. Even running a full blown desktop and a large compile I rarely see swap being touched.
On an old Thinkpad I have swappiness pushed to 80 or sound and video suffers, same era, limited RAM by modern standards. From dim memories I think I had to do a bit of niceness tweaking as well - price you pay for 512MB. I'd forgotten I even had that laptop till you posted that. (still works fine - updating to Jessie now).
Then you remove the other swap.
It still doesn't mean it'll ever get used.
Back in 2001 here in Argentina the government [...]
Mod this post up please.
pigs and chickens in a pond?
They have a zoo with pigs and chickens?
"Mummy I want to see the cows"
"No son, were're going to see the sheep, the cows are too dangerous"
"Mummy can we go to the farm next week and see the lions and zebras?"
I can see that as being every bit as successful as conservapedia
There's an eye-opener (pun on faceglory unintentional). I liked the entry for Evolution - well, I would have if I had a Fffacebook account.
I'm guessing the FaceGlory crowd will have a banner sharing agreement with The Flat Earth Society (when the in-fighting between the various "true" FES groups ends), and Christian Porn (you know - the good stuff).
"These Christian Fundamentalists want to get creationism taught in our science classes. I would have been all for it when I was in high school. - easy credits. “OK class, God created the universe in six days and rested on the seventh. See you at the final exam.” ~ Bill Hicks
Faceglory.jp also not found. They might want to get that one quickly.
For the sake of the Japanese - I hope not. Looks like the Kiwis will have to put up with them. Australians not so much (we've no shortage of fundamentalist god-botherers anyway).