Parent is not troll. Parent is actually on topic, and insightful.
Like a laser beam.
Come on now. A service pack that clobbers device drivers. An installation procedure that the highly clueful are reporting as flawed. And all this pain and teeth-gnashing are necessary to fix dire problems WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED PRIOR TO THE OS RELEASE.
Please, MS defenders and apologists, do this much: Admit that letting XP into the wild with such a stunning array of holes, flaws and exploitable braindeath was tantamount to the biggest industry bunco job since....
lessee now...
ME? 98? ActiveX scripting? OK, I give up, there's no use in hyperbole anymore when the standup comedian has become the running joke.
sheesh. Imagine all the business and personal productivity that is being sapped by this horseshit. Probably exceeds the GDP of most countries.
I know I'm not the first to say this, but JEBUS folks, how's about a really kick-ass cell phone that's ONLY A CELL PHONE?
Good power, great reception, superb audio (my pet peeve: earpieces that crap out when they're a week or two old -- can someone please put a better transducer in there?), long battery life, high contrast displays, well-thought-out menus and UNIVERSAL CHARGERS AND DATA CONNECTORS!!!
No? Thought so. Fsck it all, we'll have to keep getting inundated with all this toy-of-the-month shit. The march of progress appears backward from a utilitarian perspective.
Maybe, just maybe, one savvy manufacturer will notice this market and start building durable, functional JustaPhones.
Wavelet technology produces better compression ratios with greatly reduced human-visible artifacts than JPEG. These clowns might as well be tomorrow's buggy whip manufacturers.
If you haven't checked out wavelets, you're missing massive coolness. Edges between different tones are where our eyes get their best cues, and JPEG indiscriminately "blocks up" edges. Wavelets preserve edge information and do it well at compression ratios that JPEG uses to create low-rent Mondrian ripoffs.
"Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year!"
I'm proud to be one of the people who created the first ULC website (1995), along with the lovely "click here to be ordained" form. They've redesigned since, but my handiwork is arguably hanging on millions of walls...
And yes, that's Reverend (and Shaman) mudshark to you.
You're obviously not a biologist. When the animals migrate (that is, when the ones that are able to move hundreds of kilometers as a trivial matter do so, assuming that humans have been kind enough to leave interconnected pathways and contiguous biomes for their safe passage) WTF are they going to eat?
The plants have to be there first. If there is radical climate change, plant communities will not be able to pack up and skip north or even uphill at that kind of rate.
Nope. Evolution requires an evolutionary timeframe, which boils down to punctuated equilibrium.
What this scale of climate change will foster is a "weed planet" where aggressive and opportunistic species will hold sway until things stabilize somewhat. After that point, if there isn't a complete thermal runaway, adaptive radiation will take place. Old World species will have an advantage, because more of the dry tropical and subtropical ecosystems lie in Africa and Asia.
So look for kudzu to take over the whole eastern US, with rats and pigeons swarming the countrysides, and African savanna grasses to supplant most low- to mid-elevation habitats in western North America. Biodiversity will plummet and many webs of interdependency will unravel.
A couple of things are at play here. One is the combustion efficiency of the engine WRT speed. All engines have what is referred to as a "brake specific fuel consumption" curve which will predict how much fuel is needed to maintain a given RPM. This plot will typically have an inverted bell curve topology, with the low or "sweet spot" indicating the most efficient speed for the engine, and is often a mirror image of the torque curve. As a generalization, small performance engines like the one in your Volvo are happier in the upper end of their RPM spectrum. Big truck diesels, OTOH, will generate more torque and have better BSFC at lower RPMs.
The second factor that influences fuel economy at higher speeds is air resistance. Once you get over 45 mph, it comes into the equation big time...the effective drag increases as the square of the speed. Even in a modern slippery sedan, this gets very noticeable over 80 mph or so....
Did you do your mileage test in 5th gear? Try 4th at 65 and see what you get.
1) Spam is theft of service. This is illegal activity, not protected by the 1st.
2) Spam is also fraud and misrepresentation, typically in the realm of interstate commerce. Once again, highly illegal on many counts and not protected.
And even if you stick your fingers in your ears and scream, "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU," to my first two points, then 3) spam is commercial in nature and thereby not subject to 1st Amendment protection.
Get out of the studio and in front of an audience, then.
Let's put you and your bitchin' sampler rig up in front of a crowd. A small but attentive one. Throw down, ace. Do something that will really connect with these folks and make them remember you.
I work with musicians. Real ones. Some are international names, others may only be recognizable to their local bar crowds. But they can all play music, without programming (or even electricity if necessary) at a moment's notice. And for some strange reason, people seem to still dig this.
All the technology in the world won't replace basic communication skills. I'll take one good picker over a room full of DP 4.1s any day of the week. He'll be better conversation after the gig.
Come on now...ENTER or OK can be readily construed as invitations to penetration. This is certain to offend the asexual, nonsexual and antisexual contigents.
I've got this car, a $20,000 car maybe (don't know, bought it used for half that in '96). Guy I do some consulting for has a Jag. $60,000 car, he got it used for $20K, with a big ol' grin on his face about what a sweet ride it was.
I drive my car just about every day. It's the most trouble-free automobile I've ever owned. The Jag has sat in the parking lot since the first time I saw it, never moved. Electrics, I believe...Sir Lucas, Prince of Darkness. And my chance encounters with people who have my make of car correlate with my experience. They all rave about reliability, etc.
So yes, something can be expensive and shit at the same time. And something inexpensive but well-engineered can be a real joy. Simplicity and standards (talking about code, not UI here) lead to more security, not less.
They do. Between editing and Autotuners, a lot of really shite vocalists are getting mounds of airplay nowadays.
This whole "slice/dice/julienne fry" approach to music production has spawned more than one backlash among artists and fans. Remember grunge circa 1990? Lo-fi a few years later? And even further back, the anti-disco movement of the late 1970s was driven partly by musicians who were dismayed that their bands were losing gigs to records, which in turn were often based on the same set of rhythm tracks with different "candy" and vocals overdubbed on top. Hell, even the fact that one could do multiple takes of a tune in the studio rankled jazz purists around the time magnetic tape took hold in the early '50s.
Sometimes people would rather hear a powerful performance, warts and all.
Eh? Are you talking about email? I don't "click on" anything when I read email. You are missing the point by something approaching several Astronomical Units: By the time spam hits anyone's inbox, the damage has already been done, several times over. And that is BEFORE the mail is even opened, read, deleted, or ($DEITY forbid) "clicked on" - the disk space and bandwidth of several ISPs have already been illegally appropriated to get it there.
And you must have been living under a stone if you think that selectively publishing one's email address will do any good against the greater problem.
You need to learn a little more about spam. May I suggest CAUCE?
I don't see why your industry should be granted special protection or favors. I've had to switch lines of work at least half a dozen times because of shifts in the economic winds. I don't recall ever arguing that the government should go out of its way to protect a livelihood that I had enjoyed but was ditching because it wasn't covering rent and groceries.
It wasn't that long ago that the ownership of human beings was considered a stand-up way of doing business in this country. Get over it, and get a different job.
Poor analogies. Broadcast TV, while it is a "push" medium, is effectively subsidized by advertising. And in marked contrast to my phone, the web is still a "pull" space. I can (and do) blackhole advertisers' networks, deny popups, browse with images turned off, or simply avoid sites that annoy me with ads.
When was that last time you jumped up to answer your browser because you were expecting a call?
I spoke to a nice lady, told her the gist of my second paragraph above (redacting the personal comments) and that the judge had overstepped HIS authority. I warned her to expect a lot of calls.
This judge needs to be impeached, pilloried, tarred/feathered, and called at all hours on his telephone.
I'm sorry, but I will not take any two-bit, inbred, tobacco-chewin' good ol' boy from OKC telling me that MY private phones, which I pay for and maintain, are an acceptable conduit for commercial activity that I neither invite nor condone.
Lee West, with all due respect (none), kiss my fucking rectum.
Widespread agricultural use of organochlorine pesticides began in the 1940s. Organochlorines (e.g. DDT) tend to concentrate in the fatty tissues of warm-blooded creatures that ingest them. Go higher up the food chain and look for fatty tissue...connect the dots.... ( o )( o )
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Parent is not troll. Parent is actually on topic, and insightful.
Like a laser beam.
Come on now. A service pack that clobbers device drivers. An installation procedure that the highly clueful are reporting as flawed. And all this pain and teeth-gnashing are necessary to fix dire problems WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED PRIOR TO THE OS RELEASE.
Please, MS defenders and apologists, do this much: Admit that letting XP into the wild with such a stunning array of holes, flaws and exploitable braindeath was tantamount to the biggest industry bunco job since....
lessee now...
ME? 98? ActiveX scripting? OK, I give up, there's no use in hyperbole anymore when the standup comedian has become the running joke.
sheesh. Imagine all the business and personal productivity that is being sapped by this horseshit. Probably exceeds the GDP of most countries.
I know I'm not the first to say this, but JEBUS folks, how's about a really kick-ass cell phone that's ONLY A CELL PHONE?
Good power, great reception, superb audio (my pet peeve: earpieces that crap out when they're a week or two old -- can someone please put a better transducer in there?), long battery life, high contrast displays, well-thought-out menus and UNIVERSAL CHARGERS AND DATA CONNECTORS!!!
No? Thought so. Fsck it all, we'll have to keep getting inundated with all this toy-of-the-month shit. The march of progress appears backward from a utilitarian perspective.
Maybe, just maybe, one savvy manufacturer will notice this market and start building durable, functional JustaPhones.
Bah.
Wavelet technology produces better compression ratios with greatly reduced human-visible artifacts than JPEG. These clowns might as well be tomorrow's buggy whip manufacturers.
If you haven't checked out wavelets, you're missing massive coolness. Edges between different tones are where our eyes get their best cues, and JPEG indiscriminately "blocks up" edges. Wavelets preserve edge information and do it well at compression ratios that JPEG uses to create low-rent Mondrian ripoffs.
Quoth J. Frank Parnell:
"Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year!"
uhhhm...that was three
ththphbbttt
Ehh, whatever. Still prolly better than beer taster.
w00t!
I'm proud to be one of the people who created the first ULC website (1995), along with the lovely "click here to be ordained" form. They've redesigned since, but my handiwork is arguably hanging on millions of walls...
And yes, that's Reverend (and Shaman) mudshark to you.
Umm, has this phrase ever been uttered in your (conscious) presence:
You Get What You Pay For.
res ipso loquitor
QED
You're obviously not a biologist. When the animals migrate (that is, when the ones that are able to move hundreds of kilometers as a trivial matter do so, assuming that humans have been kind enough to leave interconnected pathways and contiguous biomes for their safe passage) WTF are they going to eat?
The plants have to be there first. If there is radical climate change, plant communities will not be able to pack up and skip north or even uphill at that kind of rate.
15-30 percent is probably conservative....
Nope. Evolution requires an evolutionary timeframe, which boils down to punctuated equilibrium.
What this scale of climate change will foster is a "weed planet" where aggressive and opportunistic species will hold sway until things stabilize somewhat. After that point, if there isn't a complete thermal runaway, adaptive radiation will take place. Old World species will have an advantage, because more of the dry tropical and subtropical ecosystems lie in Africa and Asia.
So look for kudzu to take over the whole eastern US, with rats and pigeons swarming the countrysides, and African savanna grasses to supplant most low- to mid-elevation habitats in western North America. Biodiversity will plummet and many webs of interdependency will unravel.
Whatever happens, it's bound to be ugly.
A couple of things are at play here. One is the combustion efficiency of the engine WRT speed. All engines have what is referred to as a "brake specific fuel consumption" curve which will predict how much fuel is needed to maintain a given RPM. This plot will typically have an inverted bell curve topology, with the low or "sweet spot" indicating the most efficient speed for the engine, and is often a mirror image of the torque curve. As a generalization, small performance engines like the one in your Volvo are happier in the upper end of their RPM spectrum. Big truck diesels, OTOH, will generate more torque and have better BSFC at lower RPMs.
The second factor that influences fuel economy at higher speeds is air resistance. Once you get over 45 mph, it comes into the equation big time...the effective drag increases as the square of the speed. Even in a modern slippery sedan, this gets very noticeable over 80 mph or so....
Did you do your mileage test in 5th gear? Try 4th at 65 and see what you get.
You are an idiot. You're also wrong. Here's why:
1) Spam is theft of service. This is illegal activity, not protected by the 1st.
2) Spam is also fraud and misrepresentation, typically in the realm of interstate commerce. Once again, highly illegal on many counts and not protected.
And even if you stick your fingers in your ears and scream, "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU," to my first two points, then 3) spam is commercial in nature and thereby not subject to 1st Amendment protection.
Have a nice clue.
Get out of the studio and in front of an audience, then.
Let's put you and your bitchin' sampler rig up in front of a crowd. A small but attentive one. Throw down, ace. Do something that will really connect with these folks and make them remember you.
I work with musicians. Real ones. Some are international names, others may only be recognizable to their local bar crowds. But they can all play music, without programming (or even electricity if necessary) at a moment's notice. And for some strange reason, people seem to still dig this.
All the technology in the world won't replace basic communication skills. I'll take one good picker over a room full of DP 4.1s any day of the week. He'll be better conversation after the gig.
Come on now...ENTER or OK can be readily construed as invitations to penetration. This is certain to offend the asexual, nonsexual and antisexual contigents.
eek
Feh. The formula has been a non-secret for years:
ABACAB
It was so familiar that even Genesis used it recursively.
Try this (it's from real life):
I've got this car, a $20,000 car maybe (don't know, bought it used for half that in '96). Guy I do some consulting for has a Jag. $60,000 car, he got it used for $20K, with a big ol' grin on his face about what a sweet ride it was.
I drive my car just about every day. It's the most trouble-free automobile I've ever owned. The Jag has sat in the parking lot since the first time I saw it, never moved. Electrics, I believe...Sir Lucas, Prince of Darkness. And my chance encounters with people who have my make of car correlate with my experience. They all rave about reliability, etc.
So yes, something can be expensive and shit at the same time. And something inexpensive but well-engineered can be a real joy. Simplicity and standards (talking about code, not UI here) lead to more security, not less.
They do. Between editing and Autotuners, a lot of really shite vocalists are getting mounds of airplay nowadays.
This whole "slice/dice/julienne fry" approach to music production has spawned more than one backlash among artists and fans. Remember grunge circa 1990? Lo-fi a few years later? And even further back, the anti-disco movement of the late 1970s was driven partly by musicians who were dismayed that their bands were losing gigs to records, which in turn were often based on the same set of rhythm tracks with different "candy" and vocals overdubbed on top. Hell, even the fact that one could do multiple takes of a tune in the studio rankled jazz purists around the time magnetic tape took hold in the early '50s.
Sometimes people would rather hear a powerful performance, warts and all.
Eh? Are you talking about email? I don't "click on" anything when I read email. You are missing the point by something approaching several Astronomical Units: By the time spam hits anyone's inbox, the damage has already been done, several times over. And that is BEFORE the mail is even opened, read, deleted, or ($DEITY forbid) "clicked on" - the disk space and bandwidth of several ISPs have already been illegally appropriated to get it there.
And you must have been living under a stone if you think that selectively publishing one's email address will do any good against the greater problem.
You need to learn a little more about spam. May I suggest CAUCE?
I don't see why your industry should be granted special protection or favors. I've had to switch lines of work at least half a dozen times because of shifts in the economic winds. I don't recall ever arguing that the government should go out of its way to protect a livelihood that I had enjoyed but was ditching because it wasn't covering rent and groceries.
It wasn't that long ago that the ownership of human beings was considered a stand-up way of doing business in this country. Get over it, and get a different job.
Poor analogies. Broadcast TV, while it is a "push" medium, is effectively subsidized by advertising. And in marked contrast to my phone, the web is still a "pull" space. I can (and do) blackhole advertisers' networks, deny popups, browse with images turned off, or simply avoid sites that annoy me with ads.
When was that last time you jumped up to answer your browser because you were expecting a call?
405-609-5140
I spoke to a nice lady, told her the gist of my second paragraph above (redacting the personal comments) and that the judge had overstepped HIS authority. I warned her to expect a lot of calls.
She asked me for my name and phone number....
This judge needs to be impeached, pilloried, tarred/feathered, and called at all hours on his telephone.
I'm sorry, but I will not take any two-bit, inbred, tobacco-chewin' good ol' boy from OKC telling me that MY private phones, which I pay for and maintain, are an acceptable conduit for commercial activity that I neither invite nor condone.
Lee West, with all due respect (none), kiss my fucking rectum.
Bah. 'Tis nothing. I can show you a company, a government and a religion all powered by nutjobs. Just for starters.
Widespread agricultural use of organochlorine pesticides began in the 1940s. Organochlorines (e.g. DDT) tend to concentrate in the fatty tissues of warm-blooded creatures that ingest them. Go higher up the food chain and look for fatty tissue...connect the dots.... ( o )( o )