The current price battle will make for interesting times. The Border's Kobo reader is interesting, but I'm waiting to learn more about the various book formats (epub, drm pdf, txt etc) and which ereaders are most compatible with a technoid. I.e., which reader will be easiest to put *my* documents into?
The various old-book archives are making this much easier, too.
On most (city) highways I drive, it's impossible to maintain a 2-second gap for the simple reason that someone will come along and pull into that "large" gap. You'd have to drive considerably slower than traffic to maintain a large enough stopping space, while turning yourself into a hazard to gaining cars. It would be interesting to have a range checker in the car, as you do.
On highways outside of cities, maintaining such a gap is easy.
I also wrote the "current mini" in my post but I actually meant, the just previous one, like what I purchased two months ago. They may have changed what is included with the slimmer one for sale now.
As a bee that was part of the "mobile" hive (and I resent the assumption that we were not "mobile" before this unfortunate test), I can attest that the researchers got what they were looking for. Of course we're not going to linger around the hive, nor will the queen lay eggs, as long as they keep calling us with some mobile phone company tag line. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Yeah yeah, how about I sting your lab coated ass?
It's one thing to have a periodic interruption from our "keeper" even though he has a horrible smoking problem. But jeez, phone calls at 3am from a drunk whiner complaining about his love life and apologizing... is that part of your thesis? Of course the phone's presence will impact us, dumbass.
Oh, and the text messsages: seriously not funny. Just stop.
I doubt it's true. There is certainly not enough diagnostic info posted that proves the fault lies with Google.
One person's confusion about configuring a website (robots.txt is part of the configuration) does not constitute a breach of any sort by automated skimmers.
...Even links that may modify your site. It's the admin's responsibility to lock it up -- and test -- before release.
First of all, the sections of pipe are joined mechanically, and sealed with O-rings. The O-rings are specified for shallow water pressures (and temperatures), and rather than use adequate deep water parts, the shallow water parts were continued to avoid mandatory Federal oversight and testing.
On top of that, deadlines for completion were already tight, as no schedule variability was provided for unforeseen events, such as severe weather, that might hamper drilling and well conversion efforts. The conversion from an exploratory/research structure into a production well was a hard deadline, and pressure was on internally from the otherwise stagnant middle managers clamoring for achievement. There was no room for failure with a project named Deepwater Horizon.
As engineers' warnings flowed up the chain of command, the wording changed from "grave concern" to "concern" to "noted comment" to eventually "thumbs up!". Inter-hierarchical presentations followed a strict time schedule, so power point mentality and "no bad news up" reigned.
Bingo. Why on earth are people using their personal machines for work? IT depts often have policies, in support of SOX, whereby they must archive "administrative" or "corporate" disks (any hard disk used to access their email, etc). I have yet to see how this plays out with someone using their personal machine, but I would not want to be in that position. At the least, it's a hasslebattle you must wage with IT should they come calling.
If they require you to check email or do any work offsite, they need to provide a dedicated, configured IT-blessed slowbox for you to use.
JWZ's rants hinges on two points, based on assumptions that are false.
The first being, that iphone OS is (or should be) identical to OS X desktop/cocoa. I've been developing on OS X desktop for about three years, and iphone about a year. Never have I heard the claim (by Apple or anyone else) that the code is portable. It simply is not. In fact, Apple's iphone introductory videos explicitly mention that developers must think differently about a portable device in terms of what kinds of apps are good for portable devices, how the user interacts with it, etc. I do agree with him, that if the libraries are named the same and represent the same technology, they should work identically.
Other people are picking up this idea of source compatibility and running with it, but it's a straw man because Apple never claimed 100% source compatibility.
And second, he assumes OpenGL ES is identical to OpenGL. I think that a reasonable person, when hearing the release of an API specifically for embedded systems, would think there may be some limitations or differences in the new implementation since by definition, embedded systems have limitations and features different from the desktop environment. So he learned that there are API differences. Some people would just move on with this newly found knowledge, while others blog a rant about it.
I've been doing Mac (cocoa) development for a few years now, but in the beginning I didn't know what to think of Obj-C. I like it because of it's C basis, and it has enough dynamic features to make it flexible at run time.
(complexity of laws creates complexity of loopholes...) You've even advocated that activity right here, but for some reason there are people decrying "Tax Avoision."
No, I have not advocated avoidance. In reading the tax background with respect to independent contractors, and specifically the "20 questions" the IRS supposedly uses to determine just how independent a contractor is from their hiring entity, I think that making a partnership or hiring other employees, and changing business practices so that the contractor has multiple income streams are ways to ensure one is truly an independent contractor in the eyes of the IRS. In other words, change business practices to be more like a business rather than an employee. My comment presented one way to clarify one's employment role; it's an obvious approach when one reads the subjective IC criteria.
Yes I agree, home ownership itself isn't an infallible indicator, but the plane?:-)
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IIRC, I avoided the law by forming a two person corporation with multiple billing streams.
After reading the idiot pilot's letter several times as well as the links provided, the solution to this tax situation is exactly what you did: create a partnership/hire another person, and have multiple concurrent projects.
For all the tax-avoiding mental gymnastics many of the antitax crowd employ, and with how smart they think they are, you'd think a simple, straightforward solution such as what you did would be obvious. Some people just don't want to pay taxes.
As the son of the IRS employee who was killed in this incident said, "if he [Stack] has a house and a plane he can pay his taxes." (Austin American-Statesman, 2/21/2010).
No doubt, the Moon should be target number one. But not the full moon -- the full moon is fairly uninteresting and you see no detail.
The best times, IMO, are around first and third quarters, where the terminator shows off the actual surface shape. Even with a 4" scope you'll be able to get much more understanding and visual interest during these times from the Moon's surface.
I highly suggest taking the scope out prior to this unit to become familiar with the basics and this particular scope's quirks, if you are not already. Nothing is worse for group observational astronomy than waiting around for somebody else to screw with the scope.
Well, Woz hasn't been precise in describing what he's doing, nor is it videotaped. He could be pressing it quickly, he could be getting frustrated and holding it down, or he could be pressing it so fast the computer just sees it as a single press. The system itself may have thresholds over which is enthusiastic button-tapping has crossed, that enable a different acceleration model in the car's power control unit.
That article is a bit off on one statement. They mention that the accel button increases the target speed by 1 mph. On every car I've driven with cruise control, the accel button bumps it up by about 2mph, and "coast" drops the target by 1mph. They are not symmetric in magnitude.
Further, on every recent car that I can think off with cruise and an *automatic* transmission, when you press the accel button enough times (meaning the difference between target speed and current speed is large), there is a point at which the automatic transmission's kick-down mechanism is triggered (near wide-open throttle), the car downshifts, and suddenly starts accelerating hard. This occurs often when using cruise control on a hilly route -- it will periodically downshift and take off uphill as the cruise control keeps depressing the pedal farther to maintain a target speed uphill.
The point of my original comment that started this whole Woz subthread is that Woz's description of what is happening is very vague. I think it shows that he doesn't understand what is really happening with that cruise control, and granted, it does sound like a different approach that is better left to the FM tuner button or AC temperature. He knows software, but I wouldn't want him to work on my car.
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The current price battle will make for interesting times. The Border's Kobo reader is interesting, but I'm waiting to learn more about the various book formats (epub, drm pdf, txt etc) and which ereaders are most compatible with a technoid. I.e., which reader will be easiest to put *my* documents into?
The various old-book archives are making this much easier, too.
On most (city) highways I drive, it's impossible to maintain a 2-second gap for the simple reason that someone will come along and pull into that "large" gap. You'd have to drive considerably slower than traffic to maintain a large enough stopping space, while turning yourself into a hazard to gaining cars. It would be interesting to have a range checker in the car, as you do.
On highways outside of cities, maintaining such a gap is easy.
Patient: I've walked for six hours to get to your clinic, I'm famished and have severe abdominal pains. I need to recharge.
Nurse: We'll get you some water and take a look.
Patient: I'm not talking about thirst, I'm talking about my Android phone!
I wrote the sibling post you mentioned.
I also wrote the "current mini" in my post but I actually meant, the just previous one, like what I purchased two months ago. They may have changed what is included with the slimmer one for sale now.
Apple does include it. The current mini comes with the DisplayPort to DVI adapter already, so no need for the adapter you mention.
As an aside, the local Fry's recently had current minis on sale for $100 off: 2GB / 2.24GHz versions for $500.
As a bee that was part of the "mobile" hive (and I resent the assumption that we were not "mobile" before this unfortunate test), I can attest that the researchers got what they were looking for. Of course we're not going to linger around the hive, nor will the queen lay eggs, as long as they keep calling us with some mobile phone company tag line. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Yeah yeah, how about I sting your lab coated ass?
It's one thing to have a periodic interruption from our "keeper" even though he has a horrible smoking problem. But jeez, phone calls at 3am from a drunk whiner complaining about his love life and apologizing ... is that part of your thesis? Of course the phone's presence will impact us, dumbass.
Oh, and the text messsages: seriously not funny. Just stop.
I doubt it's true. There is certainly not enough diagnostic info posted that proves the fault lies with Google.
One person's confusion about configuring a website (robots.txt is part of the configuration) does not constitute a breach of any sort by automated skimmers.
...Even links that may modify your site. It's the admin's responsibility to lock it up -- and test -- before release.
Oh, like this.
First of all, the sections of pipe are joined mechanically, and sealed with O-rings. The O-rings are specified for shallow water pressures (and temperatures), and rather than use adequate deep water parts, the shallow water parts were continued to avoid mandatory Federal oversight and testing.
On top of that, deadlines for completion were already tight, as no schedule variability was provided for unforeseen events, such as severe weather, that might hamper drilling and well conversion efforts. The conversion from an exploratory/research structure into a production well was a hard deadline, and pressure was on internally from the otherwise stagnant middle managers clamoring for achievement. There was no room for failure with a project named Deepwater Horizon.
As engineers' warnings flowed up the chain of command, the wording changed from "grave concern" to "concern" to "noted comment" to eventually "thumbs up!". Inter-hierarchical presentations followed a strict time schedule, so power point mentality and "no bad news up" reigned.
Do you think Rockstar will ever release "Somali Vacation"?
No, Google announced they would stop selling N1's through their web site once they had retail channels in line.
You can still order an N1 through the site: http://www.google.com/phone
(Looking for ways to scare up the cash for an N1.)
Maybe the large bright green icon is, for its size and color, perceived as more of a banner ad than a functional piece of your website.
After fielding many calls like this, maybe testing another graphic design for that element is in order?
Bingo. Why on earth are people using their personal machines for work? IT depts often have policies, in support of SOX, whereby they must archive "administrative" or "corporate" disks (any hard disk used to access their email, etc). I have yet to see how this plays out with someone using their personal machine, but I would not want to be in that position. At the least, it's a hasslebattle you must wage with IT should they come calling.
If they require you to check email or do any work offsite, they need to provide a dedicated, configured IT-blessed slowbox for you to use.
JWZ's rants hinges on two points, based on assumptions that are false.
The first being, that iphone OS is (or should be) identical to OS X desktop/cocoa. I've been developing on OS X desktop for about three years, and iphone about a year. Never have I heard the claim (by Apple or anyone else) that the code is portable. It simply is not. In fact, Apple's iphone introductory videos explicitly mention that developers must think differently about a portable device in terms of what kinds of apps are good for portable devices, how the user interacts with it, etc. I do agree with him, that if the libraries are named the same and represent the same technology, they should work identically.
Other people are picking up this idea of source compatibility and running with it, but it's a straw man because Apple never claimed 100% source compatibility.
And second, he assumes OpenGL ES is identical to OpenGL. I think that a reasonable person, when hearing the release of an API specifically for embedded systems, would think there may be some limitations or differences in the new implementation since by definition, embedded systems have limitations and features different from the desktop environment. So he learned that there are API differences. Some people would just move on with this newly found knowledge, while others blog a rant about it.
Much ado about nothing.
I agree. The full octaltechtardic specification for 2038 should be "2KiY-012".
I've been doing Mac (cocoa) development for a few years now, but in the beginning I didn't know what to think of Obj-C. I like it because of it's C basis, and it has enough dynamic features to make it flexible at run time.
And Thirded. GLUT / freeGLUT is simply the easiest way to get an OpenGL application running without having to create the window, the opengl context, etc. GLUT library documentation is: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/specs/glut/spec3/node1.html
(complexity of laws creates complexity of loopholes...) You've even advocated that activity right here, but for some reason there are people decrying "Tax Avoision."
No, I have not advocated avoidance. In reading the tax background with respect to independent contractors, and specifically the "20 questions" the IRS supposedly uses to determine just how independent a contractor is from their hiring entity, I think that making a partnership or hiring other employees, and changing business practices so that the contractor has multiple income streams are ways to ensure one is truly an independent contractor in the eyes of the IRS. In other words, change business practices to be more like a business rather than an employee. My comment presented one way to clarify one's employment role; it's an obvious approach when one reads the subjective IC criteria.
Yes I agree, home ownership itself isn't an infallible indicator, but the plane? :-)
IIRC, I avoided the law by forming a two person corporation with multiple billing streams.
After reading the idiot pilot's letter several times as well as the links provided, the solution to this tax situation is exactly what you did: create a partnership/hire another person, and have multiple concurrent projects.
For all the tax-avoiding mental gymnastics many of the antitax crowd employ, and with how smart they think they are, you'd think a simple, straightforward solution such as what you did would be obvious. Some people just don't want to pay taxes.
As the son of the IRS employee who was killed in this incident said, "if he [Stack] has a house and a plane he can pay his taxes." (Austin American-Statesman, 2/21/2010).
I think it's a typo. It was supposed to be "wretched Peak Advertising".
So, clearly, the answer to "Have we wretched Peak Advertising?" is yes.
No doubt, the Moon should be target number one. But not the full moon -- the full moon is fairly uninteresting and you see no detail.
The best times, IMO, are around first and third quarters, where the terminator shows off the actual surface shape. Even with a 4" scope you'll be able to get much more understanding and visual interest during these times from the Moon's surface.
I highly suggest taking the scope out prior to this unit to become familiar with the basics and this particular scope's quirks, if you are not already. Nothing is worse for group observational astronomy than waiting around for somebody else to screw with the scope.
Well, Woz hasn't been precise in describing what he's doing, nor is it videotaped. He could be pressing it quickly, he could be getting frustrated and holding it down, or he could be pressing it so fast the computer just sees it as a single press. The system itself may have thresholds over which is enthusiastic button-tapping has crossed, that enable a different acceleration model in the car's power control unit.
That article is a bit off on one statement. They mention that the accel button increases the target speed by 1 mph. On every car I've driven with cruise control, the accel button bumps it up by about 2mph, and "coast" drops the target by 1mph. They are not symmetric in magnitude.
Further, on every recent car that I can think off with cruise and an *automatic* transmission, when you press the accel button enough times (meaning the difference between target speed and current speed is large), there is a point at which the automatic transmission's kick-down mechanism is triggered (near wide-open throttle), the car downshifts, and suddenly starts accelerating hard. This occurs often when using cruise control on a hilly route -- it will periodically downshift and take off uphill as the cruise control keeps depressing the pedal farther to maintain a target speed uphill.
The point of my original comment that started this whole Woz subthread is that Woz's description of what is happening is very vague. I think it shows that he doesn't understand what is really happening with that cruise control, and granted, it does sound like a different approach that is better left to the FM tuner button or AC temperature. He knows software, but I wouldn't want him to work on my car.
Ditto.
ObCarAnalogy: It's like listening to the Woz yammer on about how he doesn't understand how cruise control systems work.
Pffft. That's like saying a Toyota with a stuck gas pedal is worse than a Chevrolet with a stuck gas pedal.
They just don't want the prisoners to learn the +8 Jailbreak spell. I mean, come on, those walls are at most only +2 concrete </snort>.