Totally off topic, but back in the day when I was part of a community theatre group (working lights), one of the actresses was British, and she had cause to say that she had "sniggered" at someone. I had suggested that she should use the phrase "snafrican-americaned".
Search -- foo -> Results 1 - 10 of about 26,600,000 for foo. (0.06 seconds) Search -- bar -> Results 1 - 10 of about 385,000,000 for bar [definition]. (0.16 seconds) Search -- foo bar -> Results 1 - 10 of about 7,900,000 for foo bar. (0.12 seconds)
'bar' wins. This intuitively makes sense, as who would want to go to the 'foo' for a drink, or eat an 'energy foo'? Could you imagine a lawyer being 'dis-fooed'?
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I guess they should check that all of their variable tags actually have values before publishing.
Maybe I'm the only one who sees some irony in people using the Comic Book Guy style of response to mock and belittle an interesting work. The small minds living in Mom's basement can only denigrate a reasonably well organized treatise on an interesting subject. Commenters have pointed out that "there's nothing new here", "this guy chose a bad name", "this is only novel to someone who hasn't thought of this before."
So what, people? A refinement is a refinement. It's stepwise by nature. This is news because someone's aggregated their perceptions of the world and the ideas they sparked into one place. One of you complained about, "why didn't he publish an actual piece of code with an api for plugins?", and I suggest that maybe someone who reads this, who hadn't thought of all this before, might take this as a launching point and actually write something useful.
Let's enjoy the journey. If we happen to visit a few points along the road more than once, it's no big deal. Seeing the same vista from a different viewpoint can be refreshing.
Actually, I feel that wind gets quite a bit of support from the US government. I seem to feel an awful lot of hot wind blowing out of Washington most every day.
I can't imagine that a human flying a plane at 300mph (400 feet per second) would be able to see a flock of birds far enough away to be able to effectively dodge, either. I think planes just fly through birds, and the airplane's components are tested by hurling frozen turkeys at or into the various parts (like windscreens and engines).
The chicken gun (also known as the chicken cannon, turkey gun, or rooster booster) has been around since 1972. It's used for the "chicken ingestion test," one of a series of stress tests required by the Federal Aviation Administration before a new jet engine design can be certified. The tests take place in a concrete building large enough to enclose an entire jet engine. With the engine operating at full speed, the cannon uses compressed air to shoot chicken carcasses into the turbine at 180 mph. (The Air Force is known to launch its poultry projectiles at 400 mph into F-16 canopies.)
We use it here at Netflix. We traded in a Remedy application for it, and we're very glad we did. In order to meet our requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley, we were able to patch up bugzilla in pretty short order. It kept our process minimal while still satisfying requirements for the auditors, and more importantly not burying the developers in a heavyweight process. I don't expect we could have done it with a commercial product because we would have had to fit their previously conceived notion of what passes SOX.
Iain M Banks (to be confused with the non-sci-fi writer Iain Banks)
I presume that:
You meant "not to be confused with..."
You understand that Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks are the same writer, and that he uses the different names to differentiate his works.
I agree 100% about your assessment of his writing, both SF and 'social'. Try out "Whit" or "The Business" for some really well told tales that don't feature exploding planets.
Like I mentioned below I'm selling tickets for $10 each. That's a 90% discount to the offer you see here in the parent:). Yes, I know it... ImaHO, ImaHO, ImaHO.
Even more importantly, if someone is in the Griffin book as a cheater (read: card counter), then there is a big incentive for the casino to keep them out.
The management apologizes for the study of the previous study, and would like to announce that it has been replaced by an entirely different study, done in a completely different style, at the last minute and at great expense. Those responsible for the study of the previous study have also been sacked.
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The first thought I had was that there was going to be a sequel to Cavalier and Klay.
... the Amazon User Experience (UX) is outstanding. Few other sites compare in terms of ease-of-use.
Well, according to ForeSeeResults.com, their recent survey of customer and browser experience satisfaction had one company doing better than Amazon.
Obligatory disclaimer: I manage the web QA group for Netflix, so I have both a vested interest and a certain amount of pride in people discovering this particular fact.
... there is a definite kind of web/mob (wob?) mentality here....
I would like to congratulate Andrew Kerr on the coinage of an excellent word. I declare that henceforth, we should all refer to any web based mob behavior as 'wob behavior'.
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When you are going to serve up a fat, slow pitch right across the plate, how can you not follow up and knock it out of the park?
s/eccentric/cunning/Duh.
Totally off topic, but back in the day when I was part of a community theatre group (working lights), one of the actresses was British, and she had cause to say that she had "sniggered" at someone. I had suggested that she should use the phrase "snafrican-americaned".
She looked at me quite blankly at the time.
Much like you just did.
From google:
Search -- foo -> Results 1 - 10 of about 26,600,000 for foo. (0.06 seconds)
Search -- bar -> Results 1 - 10 of about 385,000,000 for bar [definition]. (0.16 seconds)
Search -- foo bar -> Results 1 - 10 of about 7,900,000 for foo bar. (0.12 seconds)
'bar' wins. This intuitively makes sense, as who would want to go to the 'foo' for a drink, or eat an 'energy foo'? Could you imagine a lawyer being 'dis-fooed'?
We had 2 qubits in 1998, 3 in 1999, and 5 in 2000 according to IBM.
So, if you plot these, it looks like we've gone through an s-shaped growth curve where we'll never get much past 9 qubits. Here's the plot.
RSA is safe now...
I guess they should check that all of their variable tags actually have values before publishing.
Maybe I'm the only one who sees some irony in people using the Comic Book Guy style of response to mock and belittle an interesting work. The small minds living in Mom's basement can only denigrate a reasonably well organized treatise on an interesting subject. Commenters have pointed out that "there's nothing new here", "this guy chose a bad name", "this is only novel to someone who hasn't thought of this before."
So what, people? A refinement is a refinement. It's stepwise by nature. This is news because someone's aggregated their perceptions of the world and the ideas they sparked into one place. One of you complained about, "why didn't he publish an actual piece of code with an api for plugins?", and I suggest that maybe someone who reads this, who hadn't thought of all this before, might take this as a launching point and actually write something useful.
Let's enjoy the journey. If we happen to visit a few points along the road more than once, it's no big deal. Seeing the same vista from a different viewpoint can be refreshing.
Actually, I feel that wind gets quite a bit of support from the US government. I seem to feel an awful lot of hot wind blowing out of Washington most every day.
I can't imagine that a human flying a plane at 300mph (400 feet per second) would be able to see a flock of birds far enough away to be able to effectively dodge, either. I think planes just fly through birds, and the airplane's components are tested by hurling frozen turkeys at or into the various parts (like windscreens and engines).
From Snopes:
We use it here at Netflix. We traded in a Remedy application for it, and we're very glad we did. In order to meet our requirements for Sarbanes-Oxley, we were able to patch up bugzilla in pretty short order. It kept our process minimal while still satisfying requirements for the auditors, and more importantly not burying the developers in a heavyweight process. I don't expect we could have done it with a commercial product because we would have had to fit their previously conceived notion of what passes SOX.
I presume that:
I agree 100% about your assessment of his writing, both SF and 'social'. Try out "Whit" or "The Business" for some really well told tales that don't feature exploding planets.
The commerce aspects of SigmaAuto are shared with:
Aquaristics
BOSSBi
Earthority
NanoRC
SmartCarisma
so, whatever they're selling, they're selling a lot of different things.
Fishier and fishier said Alice.
Like I mentioned below I'm selling tickets for $10 each. That's a 90% discount to the offer you see here in the parent :).
Yes, I know it... ImaHO, ImaHO, ImaHO.
Shameless self-promotion here, but I've started a lottery for this trip.
So, just on a whim, I decided to see what things were more popular:
apple (6293) vs orange (7389)
coke (3830) vs pepsi (4274)
snoopy (10653) vs garfield (3791)
and finally...
bush (2884) vs freedom (1422)
bush vs iraq (1241)
bush vs democracy (3)
and most telling of all
bush vs decency (0)
Even more importantly, if someone is in the Griffin book as a cheater (read: card counter), then there is a big incentive for the casino to keep them out.
The management apologizes for the study of the previous study, and would like to announce that it has been replaced by an entirely different study, done in a completely different style, at the last minute and at great expense. Those responsible for the study of the previous study have also been sacked.
The first thought I had was that there was going to be a sequel to Cavalier and Klay.
I think you've reinvented 'branding'. Perhaps, 'meme ' instead? How about a remix of the two:
brandimeeming
But... but... in the circles I move in, in my area, pi are squared.
Well, according to ForeSeeResults.com, their recent survey of customer and browser experience satisfaction had one company doing better than Amazon.
Obligatory disclaimer: I manage the web QA group for Netflix, so I have both a vested interest and a certain amount of pride in people discovering this particular fact.
Err, shouldn't that be Philip K. Dick?
I would like to congratulate Andrew Kerr on the coinage of an excellent word. I declare that henceforth, we should all refer to any web based mob behavior as 'wob behavior'.
Spread the love, people.
Was that on porpoise? Or were you just trolling for the halibut?
Rats. I wanted to say that. I hate missing out on obvious whuffie.
That would be "eaves-droppers." As in lurking around under the eaves of a house near a window so as to overhear a conversation surreptiously.