What the fuck? You don't see any racist jokes in south park or simpsons? What is Apu? What is Token? What was chef?
I guess you don't get the idea of comedy bringing socially taboo topics into the limelight, and the very fact that a joke can be offensive and funny at the same time allows us to learn a little something about society.
It's attitudes like yours that divide us along racial lines. Shows like Chappelle's show, South Park and Family Guy bring us together by mockery of stereotypes, not by reinforcing them. Seriously, why is this at -1 while the GP is at 1, Interesting?
When people tout theory as fact, yes, they are dogmatic in the same way as evangelicals. Look up what "theory" means in a scientific context. It doesn't mean what you're using it to mean, which is more like "hypothesis". Evolution is not a hypothesis.
One can't help but wonder how much of the (undue) credibility that "evolution deniers" are given is down to this simple difference in semantics...
I have one of these and the battery life is indeed impressive. Google Maps works with the built-in GPS, the sound quality is excellent, 5MP camera, responsive interface. I'd recommend it.
I've sometimes wondered how feasible it would be to have a combined very-high-speed satellite and "normal" speed ground-based net connection, whereby the traffic was duplicated over both links and recombined at each end. This would bring the latency down making it suitable for interactive traffic. Transfers would start slowly but then jump up to high speed as the satellite link kicks in. The router could then signal to the other end that it could stop transferring over the ground-based link.
I can't think of a way of doing this without having huge buffers in the routers though. I haven't heard about this being done anywhere, I'd imagine cost and complexity of router hardware and software is the main reason why.
Bring back public stoning. Or at least public stocks and flogging. A lot of this kind of crap would disappear after the second televised act. I really hope you're being ironic, but sadly I suspect not. Does this kind of 17th-century punishment work as a deterrent for the few countries that still practice it? Not really. People still commit the crimes, they just try harder not to get caught. I am always confused whenever people advocate this kind of thing and/or capital punishment as a deterrent, as they always fail to take into account the fact that it's already been tried and doesn't really work. It just satisfies the bloodlust of the masses and their desire to "see justice done" (which is really just the desire for revenge, and nothing to do with justice).
Yep, Be are great. I was a bit worried when I heard they'd been bought out by O2 but it doesn't look like they've managed to fuck it up just yet.
I've got it at home, have recommended it to a friend, and also got both our office connections on Be - respective speeds are something like 10, 8, 7, and 20 Mbps. Not bad.
Another thing I like about them is that if you get a block of static IP addresses, you are assigned 8 or 16 out of a/20 or/21 block, rather than your own/29 or/28 as most ISPs do, meaning you actually get 8 or 16 IPs and don't lose three addresses to network base address, broadcast address, and gateway.
I actually came back to the office one day finding 400 pages of porn printed in color on our office printer. Apparently it was open for everyone on the net to use as a print server. This can also be done with your neighbours' open wireless networks.
Yep, Gmail's IMAP implementation is basic, to say the least.
* IMAP folders work, but for some reason on the web interface it calls them "labels" and lists them all in a tiny little side panel in a flat list, not as a hierarchy of folders. * Occasionally the folders fail to synchronise for an hour or so at a time then mysteriously start working again. * Only this morning I had a message that I just couldn't mark as read - kept popping up as an unread message on the next sync (argh!) * The whole IMAP service is slow as hell
Gmail IMAP is pretty sucky and I think Google know it. After all, you don't see any ads when you're using your IMAP client...
Ron Paul's integrity and consistency are commendable, as are his policies on the things you mentioned. But that alone doesn't win him my support. The whole laissez-faire minimal government philosophy is just not workable in practice IMHO and does nothing to address issues like social inequality and the gap between the rich and the poor, which would surely get even bigger under such a system. The idea that the free market will solve everything one way or another is demonstrably flawed.
I would certainly not agree with that one as you are costing that person money. That's a good point, which didn't even cross my mind, as I'm in the UK where we aren't charged to receive text messages. Everybody texts here (including my parents... heh) - I doubt it would be so entrenched if we were charged the same way you guys are, and I wouldn't have been so surprised at the OP's aversion to texting...;)
Your post surprised me as the advantages of texting seem very obvious to me. As I see it, they are:
It's less intrusive to the recipient than a call. It's not demanding immediate attention, it doesn't make them stop what they're doing, it can be replied to at their convenience or not at all.
It's perfect for sending information that you would otherwise have to find a pen and paper and write down, which aren't always immediately to hand.
It's less annoying to people around you, if you're in a public space.
Sometimes you don't want to have a full conversation on the phone with somebody - sometimes you just want to let them know something, or ask something, that's not important enough to go through the ritual of interrupting whatever they're doing with a call, making small talk, etc etc.
"actual alien contact could spin it all out of control and everyone goes apeshit for a while"
no it wouldn't. Not at all, please stop spouting Hollywood nonsense. Are you serious? Discovery of extraterrestrial life, especially intelligent life, would arguably be the single most important discovery in the history of mankind. There's no telling what effect it would have on everyone, especially as there are (unfortunately) still a lot of deeply religious people with very geocentric/heliocentric belief systems.
So seriously folks, next time you think its safe to cross on a red light, drive and talk on a cell phone or take hit of cocaine at a party, just remember that millions of people ahead of you of made the same decision and are either dead or killed some poor innocent person. I'm confused about these millions of people that have killed themselves and/or someone else due to taking a hit of cocaine. Can you name one? I doubt it, seeing as taking coke doesn't come even close to being a fraction as dangerous as the other things you listed.
Sounds like you want to take a look at KDE if you're interested in switching to Linux. GNOME isn't so configurable like that these days.
System settings > Keyboard and mouse > Keyboard shortcuts > Shortcut Schemes
Select "Windows Scheme (With Win Key)" - sets up the two shortcuts you are talking about right there, along with all the others to make it feel like Windows. You can also customise it and map any action to any shortcut.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with TPM technology per se, as long as the user/owner/administrator has the ultimate decision about what is "trusted" or not. Giving the final veto to a third party that's only serving its own interests - that's when it's a problem.
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I guess you don't get the idea of comedy bringing socially taboo topics into the limelight, and the very fact that a joke can be offensive and funny at the same time allows us to learn a little something about society.
It's attitudes like yours that divide us along racial lines. Shows like Chappelle's show, South Park and Family Guy bring us together by mockery of stereotypes, not by reinforcing them. Seriously, why is this at -1 while the GP is at 1, Interesting?
Good post.
One can't help but wonder how much of the (undue) credibility that "evolution deniers" are given is down to this simple difference in semantics...
Quality film-making, and so prophetic!
I have one of these and the battery life is indeed impressive. Google Maps works with the built-in GPS, the sound quality is excellent, 5MP camera, responsive interface. I'd recommend it.
I've sometimes wondered how feasible it would be to have a combined very-high-speed satellite and "normal" speed ground-based net connection, whereby the traffic was duplicated over both links and recombined at each end. This would bring the latency down making it suitable for interactive traffic. Transfers would start slowly but then jump up to high speed as the satellite link kicks in. The router could then signal to the other end that it could stop transferring over the ground-based link.
I can't think of a way of doing this without having huge buffers in the routers though. I haven't heard about this being done anywhere, I'd imagine cost and complexity of router hardware and software is the main reason why.
Yep, Be are great. I was a bit worried when I heard they'd been bought out by O2 but it doesn't look like they've managed to fuck it up just yet.
/20 or /21 block, rather than your own /29 or /28 as most ISPs do, meaning you actually get 8 or 16 IPs and don't lose three addresses to network base address, broadcast address, and gateway.
I've got it at home, have recommended it to a friend, and also got both our office connections on Be - respective speeds are something like 10, 8, 7, and 20 Mbps. Not bad.
Another thing I like about them is that if you get a block of static IP addresses, you are assigned 8 or 16 out of a
Pics or it didn't happen!
Yeah, but can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?
Yep, blunt end first.Yep, Gmail's IMAP implementation is basic, to say the least.
* IMAP folders work, but for some reason on the web interface it calls them "labels" and lists them all in a tiny little side panel in a flat list, not as a hierarchy of folders.
* Occasionally the folders fail to synchronise for an hour or so at a time then mysteriously start working again.
* Only this morning I had a message that I just couldn't mark as read - kept popping up as an unread message on the next sync (argh!)
* The whole IMAP service is slow as hell
Gmail IMAP is pretty sucky and I think Google know it. After all, you don't see any ads when you're using your IMAP client...
Ron Paul's integrity and consistency are commendable, as are his policies on the things you mentioned. But that alone doesn't win him my support. The whole laissez-faire minimal government philosophy is just not workable in practice IMHO and does nothing to address issues like social inequality and the gap between the rich and the poor, which would surely get even bigger under such a system. The idea that the free market will solve everything one way or another is demonstrably flawed.
My approach to documentation tends to be:
1. Put on to-do list
2. Procrastinate
3. There is no 3
Don't know if this qualifies as "best practice", though...
Your post surprised me as the advantages of texting seem very obvious to me. As I see it, they are:
It's less intrusive to the recipient than a call. It's not demanding immediate attention, it doesn't make them stop what they're doing, it can be replied to at their convenience or not at all.
It's perfect for sending information that you would otherwise have to find a pen and paper and write down, which aren't always immediately to hand.
It's less annoying to people around you, if you're in a public space.
Sometimes you don't want to have a full conversation on the phone with somebody - sometimes you just want to let them know something, or ask something, that's not important enough to go through the ritual of interrupting whatever they're doing with a call, making small talk, etc etc.
no it wouldn't. Not at all, please stop spouting Hollywood nonsense. Are you serious? Discovery of extraterrestrial life, especially intelligent life, would arguably be the single most important discovery in the history of mankind. There's no telling what effect it would have on everyone, especially as there are (unfortunately) still a lot of deeply religious people with very geocentric/heliocentric belief systems.
Sounds like a good idea for a poll.
Sounds like you want to take a look at KDE if you're interested in switching to Linux. GNOME isn't so configurable like that these days.
:)
System settings > Keyboard and mouse > Keyboard shortcuts > Shortcut Schemes
Select "Windows Scheme (With Win Key)" - sets up the two shortcuts you are talking about right there, along with all the others to make it feel like Windows. You can also customise it and map any action to any shortcut.
Enjoy
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with TPM technology per se, as long as the user/owner/administrator has the ultimate decision about what is "trusted" or not. Giving the final veto to a third party that's only serving its own interests - that's when it's a problem.