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This is the rap equivalent of They Might Be Giants. We had an Ask Slashdot with them, and few complained.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 are very "Pythonesque" humor - surreal and referential. Like Python (or Red Dwarf, or Kids in the Hall), you get stoners laughing at the silly stuff, and fairly educated people laughing at the absurdity. Some of the vocabulary and phrasing (not to mention references to Kubrick, James Joyce and Kerouac) show that the writers are educated... while characters like "MC Pee Pants" makes it clear that they have no problem aiming for the gutter at the same time.
In short, he does Science Fiction filk and absurdist music and also voices a character on a very geekish set of show. Thus, he is just as appropriate as They Might be Giants or Gilliam.
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Why do there have to be non-murdering uses for it to be an essentially positive item?
I can think of very few modern violent events that led to less freedom. It seems that since Runnymede, a populace with power - both educated *and* physically armed - has tended to demand and receive more rights.
Much like the "there are good and bad uses for P2P", there are good and bad reasons to shoot and kill someone. Beyond empowerment at a social level, I consider it a good thing to stop someone living who is actively threatening the lives of my wife or children. Perhaps you think that to be a terrible thing; I consider it an obligation.
Yup, and they are later discussed as being an affection, as there are other ways to treat his eyesight. He had developed an attachment to the specs. They were retcon'ed into being antiques in TVH, however.
Some of this may be from the book, and I would not be terribly astonished if I were incorrect (although I'm pretty sure I remember it right, I can't cite when the discussion occurred).
You haven't seen season 4. They turned over creative control to someone who got the hell rid of the temporal war and has brought back in Orion Slave Girls, real emotionless Vulcans (reintroduced Kohlinar) and has made the Klingons look like TOS Klingons (i.e., no ridges).
Note how everybody here who is defending it is solely defending Season 4? That's because Season 4 is *good*. More than that, it addresses all the problems you had with it.
In the books, well before they showed up on screen, Kirk was given a pair of glasses by McCoy (later they show up in Star Trek IV as a pawned item that loops through time).
They are anachronisms - affections. Much like ties. I'd hardly expect to see a tie on Wall Street these days... unless people like anachronisms and fashion is full of retro throwbacks.
Which it is. How many people do you know who own swords, analog clocks with gears or like old cars?
It's a clip from a Disney movie - it's a short bit from Disney's Robin Hood.
I'd imagine that when they released all the CDs and all, they had to get permission from Disney. Either that, or Disney Radio (the one down with all the Christian stations, right?) is just playing the original.
Reminds me of the Guns'n'Roses fan in my car who was appalled at the terrible cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" done by that new band "Rolling Stones".
Nope - to give a quick and easy understanding, the Lagrange-points act as "virtual centers of mass", an empty point between or around two large masses that are gravitational wells.
You can orbit around a stable L-point, and an object "floating" (i.e., little acceleration relative to the point) near it will tend to be attracted to it - and thus be stable (there are unstable Lagrange points as well, which are points in the gravity interaction that don't function like this, but are still usable).
L-1 between Sol/Earth is used by solar telescopes. I don't know that there are any in use in the Earth/Luna, but the classic one for space stations back in the 50s and 60s was L-5 (Didn't Carl Sagan's station in Cosmos use L-5?).
In the case of Bank of America, the problem is quite simple - BoA has been merging far faster than the IT department can keep up. Thus the terrible lack of features between "east coast" and "west coast" accounts when used on the opposite coast, and account types that are only valid for a few states. Their online banking is keyed by the state you got your account in.
To a certain extent, the failure is due to the manner in which the banking industry develops and merges. Each merger brings in a different set of "standards" and a whole new set of systems (both computer *and* human) that may or may not follow the documented system.
Ever watch Star Trek (the original, in the 1960s, or Next Gen in the 80s/90s)? Most episodes began with the simple phrase "Ship's Log". Most people knew exactly what it was without explaination. I'd say "Web Log" is the same thing.
It's really nice when you grew up used to Florida weather and go live elsewhere. It is astonishing how fast you can dry yourself off after you get out of the shower (something you notice on trips away). When I first moved to the west coast, I lived in Sacramento, and a week or so after I moved I went jogging in 100+ degree heat around 1:00pm... I came home to an astonished roommate feeling fine (well, thirsty and chapped - it took a month before my skin acclimatized). Now the valley summers feel warm and the winters are welcome.
Which doesn't change my point that it's not a near free and simple thing to wire a hotel with WiFi.
Restaurants of any type are near ideal - large open areas with one or two rooms. Coffeehouses, diners and truckstops are used to people with laptops, so it is a natural match (so are airports for the same reasons).
Hotels certainly could benefit from WiFi, as they have the laptop use base... but the physical requirements are entirely different: many many rooms, lots of walls, wiring through walls that may be over 100 years old, walls that are WiFi opaque, multiple stories, simply larger areas, etc. Plus, you get people who complain and want money off their bill (if you can't connect at a coffeehouse, you're out the cost of one drink or one meal).
You're not going to contract that for "$30 a month, plus we'll throw in the router for free and install it for you for $25".
Hotels seldom require a single access point. That means that for the initial setup, they need multiple access points, a person to go through and measure levels in each room, wire the network to each access point and wire power to each access point.
Plus, most have their own tech support staff that you can call, meaning that they have to have offices, managers, HR and all the other costs associated with a help desk call center. That's one per chain, but still a pretty hefty investment.
This is a benchmark of how a specific database runs on different OSes. Period. It's pretty simple, but people seem to think that it is something else or was presented as something else. It wasn't. Simplicity seems to be beyond people.
Pretty much exactly what he said in the second article. Of course, he presented this specifically as a MySQL benchmark rather than a general OS comparison, so you've just killed a straw man.
As my SO and I say when we pass the sign "what a negative thing to say. Ion'a write somebody about that" (that second pun only really works in a drawl).
It's been hashed out many times on the DavisWiki, but basically, the reason is that the city has passed a local ordinance prohibiting nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon materials or nuclear weapon research from passing through the city. Since Davis covers a section of I-80 leading from the majority of America into LBL and LLL, I doubt that the ordinance has been observed.
That's also completely ignoring the radioactive beagles and their frozen corpses stored on Campus. Plus all the radioactives in use in Chem 194 and any other Chemistry building.
The frogs are gone, BTW - Lyon is putting up new garish, non-frogged signs.
No, however the release of the Mac is a milestone in the industry. So was the Altair IV, whose advertisements would get the same reception.
In a gun community, ads for the Winchester repeating rifle would garner similar interest (as it was a milestone product), or the first ads for the Model T in a car community.
Ford, Winchester and Apple are all for-profit companies, but they advanced the art of their fields greatly in a single leap by releasing products that redefined their industries. Of course it's interesting.
You're right, of course. Let's abandon their education. They don't need things like literacy or math... they don't need any sort of help that would let them help themselves. It's far far better if we, as the benevolent haves, are the only supply for handouts to the have-nots. And if they get uppity, we can always cut off their food supply - I mean, it's ours to control, right?
Yes... far better to leave them in a third world existence without any chance to accelerate their technology. We certainly don't want scientists or mathematicians... no engineers from *those* kinds of places... why, it might upset the way things are.
Cute, but "cheap" is relative to the object being purchased, and a "cheap color Mac" would have been too expensive to the market that was buying the IIgs. Just like many people can buy a "cheap car", but buying a "cheap cruise ship" (at several million dollars) is out of their range.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 are very "Pythonesque" humor - surreal and referential. Like Python (or Red Dwarf, or Kids in the Hall), you get stoners laughing at the silly stuff, and fairly educated people laughing at the absurdity. Some of the vocabulary and phrasing (not to mention references to Kubrick, James Joyce and Kerouac) show that the writers are educated... while characters like "MC Pee Pants" makes it clear that they have no problem aiming for the gutter at the same time.
In short, he does Science Fiction filk and absurdist music and also voices a character on a very geekish set of show. Thus, he is just as appropriate as They Might be Giants or Gilliam.
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Evan "I just happen to like TMBG, and not mc chris"
I can think of very few modern violent events that led to less freedom. It seems that since Runnymede, a populace with power - both educated *and* physically armed - has tended to demand and receive more rights.
Much like the "there are good and bad uses for P2P", there are good and bad reasons to shoot and kill someone. Beyond empowerment at a social level, I consider it a good thing to stop someone living who is actively threatening the lives of my wife or children. Perhaps you think that to be a terrible thing; I consider it an obligation.
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Evan
Some of this may be from the book, and I would not be terribly astonished if I were incorrect (although I'm pretty sure I remember it right, I can't cite when the discussion occurred).
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Note how everybody here who is defending it is solely defending Season 4? That's because Season 4 is *good*. More than that, it addresses all the problems you had with it.
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Evan
They are anachronisms - affections. Much like ties. I'd hardly expect to see a tie on Wall Street these days... unless people like anachronisms and fashion is full of retro throwbacks.
Which it is. How many people do you know who own swords, analog clocks with gears or like old cars?
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Evan
I'd imagine that when they released all the CDs and all, they had to get permission from Disney. Either that, or Disney Radio (the one down with all the Christian stations, right?) is just playing the original.
Reminds me of the Guns'n'Roses fan in my car who was appalled at the terrible cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" done by that new band "Rolling Stones".
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Evan
You can orbit around a stable L-point, and an object "floating" (i.e., little acceleration relative to the point) near it will tend to be attracted to it - and thus be stable (there are unstable Lagrange points as well, which are points in the gravity interaction that don't function like this, but are still usable).
L-1 between Sol/Earth is used by solar telescopes. I don't know that there are any in use in the Earth/Luna, but the classic one for space stations back in the 50s and 60s was L-5 (Didn't Carl Sagan's station in Cosmos use L-5?).
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Evan
To a certain extent, the failure is due to the manner in which the banking industry develops and merges. Each merger brings in a different set of "standards" and a whole new set of systems (both computer *and* human) that may or may not follow the documented system.
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So what?
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Restaurants of any type are near ideal - large open areas with one or two rooms. Coffeehouses, diners and truckstops are used to people with laptops, so it is a natural match (so are airports for the same reasons).
Hotels certainly could benefit from WiFi, as they have the laptop use base... but the physical requirements are entirely different: many many rooms, lots of walls, wiring through walls that may be over 100 years old, walls that are WiFi opaque, multiple stories, simply larger areas, etc. Plus, you get people who complain and want money off their bill (if you can't connect at a coffeehouse, you're out the cost of one drink or one meal).
You're not going to contract that for "$30 a month, plus we'll throw in the router for free and install it for you for $25".
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Evan
Plus, most have their own tech support staff that you can call, meaning that they have to have offices, managers, HR and all the other costs associated with a help desk call center. That's one per chain, but still a pretty hefty investment.
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Evan
This is a benchmark of how a specific database runs on different OSes. Period. It's pretty simple, but people seem to think that it is something else or was presented as something else. It wasn't. Simplicity seems to be beyond people.
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It's been hashed out many times on the DavisWiki, but basically, the reason is that the city has passed a local ordinance prohibiting nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon materials or nuclear weapon research from passing through the city. Since Davis covers a section of I-80 leading from the majority of America into LBL and LLL, I doubt that the ordinance has been observed.
That's also completely ignoring the radioactive beagles and their frozen corpses stored on Campus. Plus all the radioactives in use in Chem 194 and any other Chemistry building.
The frogs are gone, BTW - Lyon is putting up new garish, non-frogged signs.
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In a gun community, ads for the Winchester repeating rifle would garner similar interest (as it was a milestone product), or the first ads for the Model T in a car community.
Ford, Winchester and Apple are all for-profit companies, but they advanced the art of their fields greatly in a single leap by releasing products that redefined their industries. Of course it's interesting.
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Davis, California is "Green, Safe and Nuclear Free", according to large billboards visible as you enter town or just pass it on I-80.
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Yes... far better to leave them in a third world existence without any chance to accelerate their technology. We certainly don't want scientists or mathematicians... no engineers from *those* kinds of places... why, it might upset the way things are.
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There are plenty of well regarded magazines that still publish news on a monthly basis.
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apple.slashdot.org has been active for quite awhile now.
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