Can you explain why a reference to the first amendment is enshrined in your sig, but you seem to believe that people are justified in violating property rights when they get annoyed with another's possessions?
Why not 99 different coins?
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I have a scheme that guarantees only one coin is returned in change for any transaction.
This is why Human Interface Design is important
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Some egghead thinks "optimal" means "fewest coins returned in change, on average."
He recommends introducing 18 and 83 cent coins.
The people who actually use coins laugh at this idiocy.
Sheesh, "optimal" coinage denominations are those that make using coins easiest. That means quick mental calculations of change, manipulating them with your fingers, and passing them back and forth.
The ivory tower academics are certainly earning their reputation for foolishness.
Yeah, but Peter Jackson was working from a book that is pretty universally accepted as a piece of literature. Lucas is working from what we are supposed to believe is some secret plan he has had in his own head for thirty years.
Superficial? He says he hates C++ because he finds the template syntax ugly, and he offers no way to improve it. That's deeper than 99% of what gets typed into Slashdot.
I also don't believe Linux saves money on hardware compared to Windows - it seems many offices are holding back with Windows upgrades, and IT expenditures on all desktop hardware and software seems to be slowing. For most people, Win2K is fine.
Actually Linux does save money on hardware, because by the time decent drivers for a piece of hardware have been written for Linux, you can pick up that hardware at the swap meet in the bargain bin.
Back in the 8-bit days, I remember reading in BYTE or RUN magazine something about how "software has still not reached the level of Henry Ford's interchangable parts and assembly line production."
That line has stuck with me because I am on the lookout for that day, but it still hasn't come. Not that I believe it won't eventually, but honestly, it is not there yet. I'm frustrated daily by how much code I have to write to get what I want, when I should be able to snap together some parts.
The thing I need to remind myself is that when that day comes, I'll be replaced by some unskilled laborer who can snap together parts. Onward and upward, I guess.
"The disappeared" has a specific meaning it acquired in Argentina and has since referred to those captured and subsequently permanently removed with no record or comment, ever.
It is a much different thing than someone being held as a material witness as a matter of public record, and later charged. We will know of the happenings with Mr. Hawash. Call it being held without charges, call it a suspension of habeas corpus (though again you'd be wrong for other reasons), but don't him one of the disappeared. I wasn't saying simply that it could be worse, I was saying that the terminology was being applied incorrectly for emotional effect.
As Orwell would probably say, the dilution of language that comes from overstatement and misuse is a bigger danger, and I'm not suggesting "tolerating" the little injustices, just keeping them in a proper sense of scale.
You are doing a disservice to those who live with real memories of what being "disappeared" really meant. This guy is being held, and charged, on really indisputable evidence, and it is a matter of public record. The fact that he worked in your beloved computer industry does not change these facts. Take your whining elsewhere.
Calling the book "accessible" is hardly a compliment for a book on crypography, isnt' it?
I'd rather see a review like: "This book was so impenetrable that teams of scientists in academia and the NSA, working with the online computing grid will take many times the age of the universe to understand the first chapter alone."
And seeing my HDD compared to a coin for scale really makes me wonder whats MTBF?
You'd have to ask the treasury department to be sure, but I think it's about 20 years for quarters, slightly longer for dimes and nickels and slightly less for pennies.
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Come on Bruce, if you are who you say you are, "3872" should work.
Funny... I don't see ".." in there.
That's fine if you never want to drive it more than one meter in any direction.
A woman saw this ad in the local paper:
WANTED
Female human to mate with chimp
for scientific experiment.
$25000
555-1212
So she called, and said, "I can be there as soon as you like but it will take me a while to come up with the twenty-five grand."
Can you explain why a reference to the first amendment is enshrined in your sig, but you seem to believe that people are justified in violating property rights when they get annoyed with another's possessions?
I have a scheme that guarantees only one coin is returned in change for any transaction.
- Some egghead thinks "optimal" means "fewest coins returned in change, on average."
- He recommends introducing 18 and 83 cent coins.
- The people who actually use coins laugh at this idiocy.
Sheesh, "optimal" coinage denominations are those that make using coins easiest. That means quick mental calculations of change, manipulating them with your fingers, and passing them back and forth.The ivory tower academics are certainly earning their reputation for foolishness.
Listening to Norman Mailer is a close third.
No, but they can call it "Multividualized"® and prevent you from calling it that without paying a royalty.
Yeah, but Peter Jackson was working from a book that is pretty universally accepted as a piece of literature. Lucas is working from what we are supposed to believe is some secret plan he has had in his own head for thirty years.
Superficial? He says he hates C++ because he finds the template syntax ugly, and he offers no way to improve it. That's deeper than 99% of what gets typed into Slashdot.
Boy, there's an understatement....
You must be so proud.
PhysicsGenius is posting AC these days?
Otherwise, don't.
Stop it. Now. This is Slashdot, you can't be that reasonable and concise here.
"He was white as a sheet!"
"And he also made false teeth."
"Frontier Psychiatrist" alone is worth the album price.
Actually Linux does save money on hardware, because by the time decent drivers for a piece of hardware have been written for Linux, you can pick up that hardware at the swap meet in the bargain bin.
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That line has stuck with me because I am on the lookout for that day, but it still hasn't come. Not that I believe it won't eventually, but honestly, it is not there yet. I'm frustrated daily by how much code I have to write to get what I want, when I should be able to snap together some parts.
The thing I need to remind myself is that when that day comes, I'll be replaced by some unskilled laborer who can snap together parts. Onward and upward, I guess.
It is a much different thing than someone being held as a material witness as a matter of public record, and later charged. We will know of the happenings with Mr. Hawash. Call it being held without charges, call it a suspension of habeas corpus (though again you'd be wrong for other reasons), but don't him one of the disappeared. I wasn't saying simply that it could be worse, I was saying that the terminology was being applied incorrectly for emotional effect.
As Orwell would probably say, the dilution of language that comes from overstatement and misuse is a bigger danger, and I'm not suggesting "tolerating" the little injustices, just keeping them in a proper sense of scale.
You are doing a disservice to those who live with real memories of what being "disappeared" really meant. This guy is being held, and charged, on really indisputable evidence, and it is a matter of public record. The fact that he worked in your beloved computer industry does not change these facts. Take your whining elsewhere.
the "..." part before the "Profit!"
Beware: it comes undone on March 15.
I'd rather see a review like: "This book was so impenetrable that teams of scientists in academia and the NSA, working with the online computing grid will take many times the age of the universe to understand the first chapter alone."
You'd have to ask the treasury department to be sure, but I think it's about 20 years for quarters, slightly longer for dimes and nickels and slightly less for pennies.