It leaves me set back in my other goals... exactly the same as if I visited Europe without having any condition. Not really sure where you were trying to go with that.
I'm one of those guys who do a bit of sysadmin, a bit of desktop support, a bit of coding, etc. It got to the point where if someone not in IT asks what I do, I just tell them "I run the Internet". Sadly, most of them take it seriously.
I would like to go to Europe some day. Sure, I have the means to do it right now but that doesn't mean it's a good idea because it would seriously set back other goals I have. By putting off a trip to Europe for now, I can achieve all of my goals eventually. However, if I had a condition that would make long-term goals impossible, then sure, I would go to Europe now because I would no longer be sacrificing the now-impossible goals.
"I can't even begin to comprehend why MS feels it needs to charge for the product"
I know, right? I don't know why the grocery store charges for hot dogs either. It's just a product. More apps for the iPad means more app sales, which Apple takes a cut of, so that's a pretty bad example. Microsoft does give away the Express version, which is pretty decent for most non-commercial software.
I look forward to the time when I can tell my computer, in plain English, what I need it to do and it just does it without having to program a specific application to do a specific function.
"Basically he got some bear hair and found out that it's a bear."
No, it's more like he got some bear hair and found it's from a bear species (or hyrbid) that we haven't really documented, but would plausibly explain the yeti myth much better than the currently documented bear species in the area.
He compared the DNA sample to an ancient polar bear from about the time the species were separating. So it seems to be more of a classification stretch (saying the ancient species is the same as the modern polar bear) than a case of putting a creature in a location far from where it currently is. Furthermore, the hair sample is from a bear shot 40 years ago, which predates the ubiquity of cameras (they were common, just not *everywhere* like today) and a species more closely related to the polar bear could have easily become extinct since then.
From the article: "He said that while they did not mean that "ancient polar bears are wandering around the Himalayas", there could be a sub-species of brown bear in the High Himalayas descended from an ancestor of the polar bear."
So to loop back around... no, it really doesn't sound like he's falling for a hoax or making up one creature to explain another. His bear-hybrid theory is highly plausible based on what we know about the evolution of polar bears, the existence of bears in that region, and the ability of polar bears and brown bears to make lil'uns.
"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here."
Ubuntu was my first real exposure to Linux, mostly thanks to being able to boot to a live CD from a high school computer to get around the Internet filtering. Once I actually started doing more than web browsing, games and word processing, I quickly moved on to Mint.
I still use Ubuntu Server once in a while if I need to set up a basic, no frills server for some limited task. It's well documented, so it's pretty easy to get something up and running quickly although I'd likely never use it in a business production environment.
If it's like most major software products, I'd expect it to take a month or two for them to patch the major headaches. I'm looking forward to 8.1 as an excuse to reinstall Windows 8. When I first got 8 about a year ago, it gave me a lot of stability issues and software incompatibility issues (especially with Chrome and Notepad++ for some reason) that were mostly patched within the first month. By the second month, it was running pretty smoothly. I only went back to 7 because of a few remaining driver issues, which I would be surprised if they haven't solved by now.
The question is whether reps should vote for what's for the best for everyone or for what their constituents voted them in for. Many of the GOP that started this were voted in on the promise to try and stop Obamacare no matter what it takes (which, in turn, is what won them the House to begin with)... so it turns out they're actually upholding their campaign promises.
In this case, it's more like offering the cow better food (UI tweaks, etc), which in turn gives the consumer higher quality meat (more time on Facebook).
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Throwing more hardware at a software problem... that sure sounds like a government solution
Turns out commenting, likes and posts were all bugs, not features. The real news is that Facebook has finally started fixing bugs.
It leaves me set back in my other goals... exactly the same as if I visited Europe without having any condition. Not really sure where you were trying to go with that.
I'm one of those guys who do a bit of sysadmin, a bit of desktop support, a bit of coding, etc. It got to the point where if someone not in IT asks what I do, I just tell them "I run the Internet". Sadly, most of them take it seriously.
Coders have probably spent far more time helping wars, real and simulated, than solving them.
I would like to go to Europe some day. Sure, I have the means to do it right now but that doesn't mean it's a good idea because it would seriously set back other goals I have. By putting off a trip to Europe for now, I can achieve all of my goals eventually. However, if I had a condition that would make long-term goals impossible, then sure, I would go to Europe now because I would no longer be sacrificing the now-impossible goals.
"I can't even begin to comprehend why MS feels it needs to charge for the product"
I know, right? I don't know why the grocery store charges for hot dogs either. It's just a product.
More apps for the iPad means more app sales, which Apple takes a cut of, so that's a pretty bad example. Microsoft does give away the Express version, which is pretty decent for most non-commercial software.
I look forward to the time when I can tell my computer, in plain English, what I need it to do and it just does it without having to program a specific application to do a specific function.
For teenagers, it's more like a cron job running rm -rf /knowledge/school/exam_answers/*
VB is feeding your scrotum to a python.
"Basically he got some bear hair and found out that it's a bear."
No, it's more like he got some bear hair and found it's from a bear species (or hyrbid) that we haven't really documented, but would plausibly explain the yeti myth much better than the currently documented bear species in the area.
He compared the DNA sample to an ancient polar bear from about the time the species were separating. So it seems to be more of a classification stretch (saying the ancient species is the same as the modern polar bear) than a case of putting a creature in a location far from where it currently is. Furthermore, the hair sample is from a bear shot 40 years ago, which predates the ubiquity of cameras (they were common, just not *everywhere* like today) and a species more closely related to the polar bear could have easily become extinct since then.
From the article:
"He said that while they did not mean that "ancient polar bears are wandering around the Himalayas", there could be a sub-species of brown bear in the High Himalayas descended from an ancestor of the polar bear."
So to loop back around... no, it really doesn't sound like he's falling for a hoax or making up one creature to explain another. His bear-hybrid theory is highly plausible based on what we know about the evolution of polar bears, the existence of bears in that region, and the ability of polar bears and brown bears to make lil'uns.
apparently Slashdot hates hyphens in links
It's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid
Polar/brown bear hybrids are rare... not undocumented
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid
Many MMOs feature some kind of Yeti... and this is what they're mostly named after
You could argue that a religion is just a legend that won't die. Or that gets resurrected a few days after it dies.
I think Mitch Hedberg summed it up best:
"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here."
Ubuntu was my first real exposure to Linux, mostly thanks to being able to boot to a live CD from a high school computer to get around the Internet filtering. Once I actually started doing more than web browsing, games and word processing, I quickly moved on to Mint.
I still use Ubuntu Server once in a while if I need to set up a basic, no frills server for some limited task. It's well documented, so it's pretty easy to get something up and running quickly although I'd likely never use it in a business production environment.
That's a good one, now how about a crazy theory about why the moon landing and the last public Beatles performance were in the same year?
If it's like most major software products, I'd expect it to take a month or two for them to patch the major headaches. I'm looking forward to 8.1 as an excuse to reinstall Windows 8. When I first got 8 about a year ago, it gave me a lot of stability issues and software incompatibility issues (especially with Chrome and Notepad++ for some reason) that were mostly patched within the first month. By the second month, it was running pretty smoothly. I only went back to 7 because of a few remaining driver issues, which I would be surprised if they haven't solved by now.
The question is whether reps should vote for what's for the best for everyone or for what their constituents voted them in for. Many of the GOP that started this were voted in on the promise to try and stop Obamacare no matter what it takes (which, in turn, is what won them the House to begin with)... so it turns out they're actually upholding their campaign promises.
Senators are still Congressmen... I think you meant Representative or House Elf.
They're actually calibrating the calipers to the standard Russian measurement of One Space Thingy.
You have a redaction fetish? The FOIA must be like mail-order porn to you.
In this case, it's more like offering the cow better food (UI tweaks, etc), which in turn gives the consumer higher quality meat (more time on Facebook).