The character limit on your textbo-- wha?! Um, shouldn't the app logic be checking that before it even makes it to the database? What if someone decides to pass in a few thousand extra characters?
There's no reason to abuse your database this way, man.:)
Right... he should spend his meager 6 or 7 digit budget on researching something that 9 digits have already been spent on, without enough success to see them in use.
You know, maybe he's not just spending money for the sake of spending, but actually wants to be able to fly on something?
Per Carmack's writeup, 1.5% ISP loss, which is lost in the noise for their purposes. He also mentions that he thinks he can get about a 15% increase over their initial tested ISP, which was about 190 seconds, and that that would put the ISP very close to the maximum value for the propellant of 220 seconds.
Here's why I don't think that's meaningful: States (in the sense of nationstates), absent catastrophe, and in general, slide toward authoritarianism. Authoritarianism of the right got an extremely bad name in the middle of the last century, such that there's an almost universal reflex away from it, but it's easier for politicians to "prove" they're not right-authoritarian by moving left than by moving in the direction of non-authoritarianism, due to systemic pressure toward authoritarianism. The main example of extreme left-authoritarianism self-destructed without a need for world-saving armies and propaganda machines, so it got less of a bad name, even while arguably causing more damage overall than right-authoritarianism managed before being put down.
So most of the world, including the US, has moved waaaaay left just to not be perceived as leaning right, although the US hasn't gone quite as quickly as most of Western Europe due in part to fear of being seen as "commie". This has resulted in a situation where there is no non-authoritarian position at all to speak of, and of large powers, even the right-most is way left compared to any of the major powers of 1900.
Anyway, I'm a non-authoritarian, rather than "right" or "left", but my comment was pointing out the ironic position I'm in, of being able to point out lots of things that are "far-left" or "far-right" about the US, because those things are really "far-authoritarian", and in general, these things are confused in discourse about them.
Yeah, it's almost as if they want their hypothesis to be, you know, TESTED or something? Who could imagine an actual scientist allowing his theory to be put to experiment? Strange, huh?
From my perspective as an author, artist, and developer, if you copy my work you are stealing the results of my labors, and benefiting unjustly from the value I created.
Someone copying your work is creating new value, and in the process breaking your State-backed monopoly
It's a bit amazing how your perspective changes when it's YOUR work being stolen.
I, too, am a developer. Since I'm for sharing, and against upholding monopolies on a market by force, your implied argument that anyone who creates value will agree with you falls on its face. The fact that your "perspective" changed, as you say, just reveals something about the weakness of your belief in your principles. I have more respect for those who actually believe in monopoly rights on markets, and don't simply go along with any set of principles that is more convenient for them at the moment.
That wasn't compassion. If you're out to stop someone anyway, and suddenly, due to your actions, they're on fire and about to burn to death while clearly still conscious, do you
A) Try to save them from dying B) Just end it to stop the suffering C) Walk away, leaving them to suffer horribly and die anyway
Either of A or B can be spun as compassionate, but C is just cowardly. This is good, though. In portraying it the way he did in Ep 3, Lucas gave actual emotional reasons for the events in 4-6. I wish the person who wrote 3 had had something to do with 1 and 2, because 3 was the best SW movie I've ever seen.:)
Okay, that stupid image thing is new.:( I lost my first attempt to reply because I didn't notice it.
(not that table salt which is appearing in cheaper theaters everywhere.)
I wish! Around here (Columbus, GA), you can't find theaters that use actual salt AT ALL. Instead, they have many, many varieties of flavors. No actual regular salty salt, though. I have to carry my own into the theater.
As for whether it's sea salt, table salt, or something else, it hardly matters in comparison to the horrid "salt" they do provide, which is everything from some weirdly flavored "popcorn salt" to a variety of colored "salts" that have non-popcorny flavors.
When I get popcorn, I want it to taste like popcorn, butter, and salt. Not garlic, cinnamon, cloves, or whatever.
What you're missing is the meaning of "another country" in this case. You see, there are two kinds of country on Earth: the US, and "others".;)
That is, citizens of the US assume that being in and coming into the US is their right, with or without a passport, and so it doesn't occur to them that they might not be able to come back without one. When one goes to another country, one either does or doesn't have to show a passport to get into the other country, and if one doesn't (and that's the case for a USian in most of North America and the Caribbean), then the easy assumption is that one won't need it at all on this trip.
The easiest, fastest solution to this, from the viewpoint of a USian, is for all of those other countries around the US that don't require USian passports for USians to start requiring them, but I suppose they're worried that it could reduce tourism.
I would guess it was "all this" so he can now do whatever he wants to do, since he's independently wealthy. Some people aspire to being able to do what they want all the time. Some don't, apparently.
The 'feature' that the reporter is mentioning, albeit not very exciting, works differently. You lose a call (phone is off, out of network cover, whatever); and then when you come back online you get a message stating how many lost calls you got from which numbers.
See now? It wasn't so hard.
But every phone I've had (in the US) in this century has done that, and none of them used the text message interface to do it: it just shows up as if the phone had been on. It would be pretty inconvenient for those not to show up in the missed call logs, and to have to dig around in the text messaging interface for some missed calls and use the missed/recent calls interface for others... Odd.
Please tell me why an alternative energy source has to be able to replace 100% of electricity to be viable? No, solar can't do it all. Neither can wind. Or hydro. Or geothermal. Or biofuel. Or nuclear. Or coal for that matter.
It doesn't really need the earlier books. _Nightwatch_ was the first Discworld novel I ever read, and it was excellent, even though I didn't have the benefit of knowing all that backstory.
It isn't that it's uglier than necessary to have all the flexibility and options it has, but that it's uglier than necessary to have the particular subset of those features that you want to use. It's just that other people (me, in this case!) often have a different subset. In a way, this is reminiscent of the "bloated" feature count of MS Word: sure, there are lots of features unused for any particular person, but each feature is (presumably) part of some group's subset, and even though thye'd all prefer a Word-like app that had all those unnecessary features pared away, there's no agreement on what features are the unneceesary ones...
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The character limit on your textbo-- wha?! Um, shouldn't the app logic be checking that before it even makes it to the database? What if someone decides to pass in a few thousand extra characters?
:)
There's no reason to abuse your database this way, man.
Still there. There's also Pecunix, NetPay, GoldMoney, eBullion, webmoney, and a whole bunch more.
I wish I had mod points for you, today. :)
Parent post is Insightful, people.
About the time they develop scrith, I imagine. :)
Right... he should spend his meager 6 or 7 digit budget on researching something that 9 digits have already been spent on, without enough success to see them in use.
You know, maybe he's not just spending money for the sake of spending, but actually wants to be able to fly on something?
Per Carmack's writeup, 1.5% ISP loss, which is lost in the noise for their purposes. He also mentions that he thinks he can get about a 15% increase over their initial tested ISP, which was about 190 seconds, and that that would put the ISP very close to the maximum value for the propellant of 220 seconds.
Sure.
Here's why I don't think that's meaningful: States (in the sense of nationstates), absent catastrophe, and in general, slide toward authoritarianism. Authoritarianism of the right got an extremely bad name in the middle of the last century, such that there's an almost universal reflex away from it, but it's easier for politicians to "prove" they're not right-authoritarian by moving left than by moving in the direction of non-authoritarianism, due to systemic pressure toward authoritarianism. The main example of extreme left-authoritarianism self-destructed without a need for world-saving armies and propaganda machines, so it got less of a bad name, even while arguably causing more damage overall than right-authoritarianism managed before being put down.
So most of the world, including the US, has moved waaaaay left just to not be perceived as leaning right, although the US hasn't gone quite as quickly as most of Western Europe due in part to fear of being seen as "commie". This has resulted in a situation where there is no non-authoritarian position at all to speak of, and of large powers, even the right-most is way left compared to any of the major powers of 1900.
Anyway, I'm a non-authoritarian, rather than "right" or "left", but my comment was pointing out the ironic position I'm in, of being able to point out lots of things that are "far-left" or "far-right" about the US, because those things are really "far-authoritarian", and in general, these things are confused in discourse about them.
You spelled "far-left" and "left" wrong.
Or perhaps you spelled "left-authoritarian" and "right-authoritarian" wrong.
Dang spellcheckers.
Yeah, it's almost as if they want their hypothesis to be, you know, TESTED or something? Who could imagine an actual scientist allowing his theory to be put to experiment? Strange, huh?
(Sarcasm, all of it)
From my perspective as an author, artist, and developer, if you copy my work you are stealing the results of my labors, and benefiting unjustly from the value I created.
Someone copying your work is creating new value, and in the process breaking your State-backed monopoly
It's a bit amazing how your perspective changes when it's YOUR work being stolen.
I, too, am a developer. Since I'm for sharing, and against upholding monopolies on a market by force, your implied argument that anyone who creates value will agree with you falls on its face. The fact that your "perspective" changed, as you say, just reveals something about the weakness of your belief in your principles. I have more respect for those who actually believe in monopoly rights on markets, and don't simply go along with any set of principles that is more convenient for them at the moment.
Or: I've seen bad countries, so I'm not going to live in one.
:)
I'll buy into that one.
What? The fact that there are complaints about the harmful effects of X means that X works?
Are you reading what you're writing?
That's great. I wonder if people will tease you about that comment in 20 years?
;)
I wonder if non-organic people will?
I think you misspelled "cowardice".
:)
:( I lost my first attempt to reply because I didn't notice it.
That wasn't compassion. If you're out to stop someone anyway, and suddenly, due to your actions, they're on fire and about to burn to death while clearly still conscious, do you
A) Try to save them from dying
B) Just end it to stop the suffering
C) Walk away, leaving them to suffer horribly and die anyway
Either of A or B can be spun as compassionate, but C is just cowardly. This is good, though. In portraying it the way he did in Ep 3, Lucas gave actual emotional reasons for the events in 4-6. I wish the person who wrote 3 had had something to do with 1 and 2, because 3 was the best SW movie I've ever seen.
Okay, that stupid image thing is new.
(not that table salt which is appearing in cheaper theaters everywhere.)
I wish! Around here (Columbus, GA), you can't find theaters that use actual salt AT ALL. Instead, they have many, many varieties of flavors. No actual regular salty salt, though. I have to carry my own into the theater.
As for whether it's sea salt, table salt, or something else, it hardly matters in comparison to the horrid "salt" they do provide, which is everything from some weirdly flavored "popcorn salt" to a variety of colored "salts" that have non-popcorny flavors.
When I get popcorn, I want it to taste like popcorn, butter, and salt. Not garlic, cinnamon, cloves, or whatever.
Let me get this straight: are you really saying that the reason mass murder is wrong is because the government says so?!
That seems bizarre on the face of it, but it does appear that large numbers of people agree with you.
You owe me a powerbook screen. ;)
What you're missing is the meaning of "another country" in this case. You see, there are two kinds of country on Earth: the US, and "others". ;)
That is, citizens of the US assume that being in and coming into the US is their right, with or without a passport, and so it doesn't occur to them that they might not be able to come back without one. When one goes to another country, one either does or doesn't have to show a passport to get into the other country, and if one doesn't (and that's the case for a USian in most of North America and the Caribbean), then the easy assumption is that one won't need it at all on this trip.
The easiest, fastest solution to this, from the viewpoint of a USian, is for all of those other countries around the US that don't require USian passports for USians to start requiring them, but I suppose they're worried that it could reduce tourism.
Yeah, Australia sounds pretty backward! Here in USianland, we only require licensing for *really complicated* stuff like hooking together PVC pipe!
"All this for what? The Yahoo fucking store?"
I would guess it was "all this" so he can now do whatever he wants to do, since he's independently wealthy. Some people aspire to being able to do what they want all the time. Some don't, apparently.
But every phone I've had (in the US) in this century has done that, and none of them used the text message interface to do it: it just shows up as if the phone had been on. It would be pretty inconvenient for those not to show up in the missed call logs, and to have to dig around in the text messaging interface for some missed calls and use the missed/recent calls interface for others... Odd.
Please tell me why an alternative energy source has to be able to replace 100% of electricity to be viable? No, solar can't do it all. Neither can wind. Or hydro. Or geothermal. Or biofuel. Or nuclear. Or coal for that matter.
Well, nuclear or coal, for quite a while.
It doesn't really need the earlier books. _Nightwatch_ was the first Discworld novel I ever read, and it was excellent, even though I didn't have the benefit of knowing all that backstory.
Well, I'd assumed it would be "one dollar dee bee".
It isn't that it's uglier than necessary to have all the flexibility and options it has, but that it's uglier than necessary to have the particular subset of those features that you want to use. It's just that other people (me, in this case!) often have a different subset. In a way, this is reminiscent of the "bloated" feature count of MS Word: sure, there are lots of features unused for any particular person, but each feature is (presumably) part of some group's subset, and even though thye'd all prefer a Word-like app that had all those unnecessary features pared away, there's no agreement on what features are the unneceesary ones...