I have a friend who does astro-photography on one of the top 10 scopes in the world and they use Photoshop. I asked him about the Mathematica tool and he said there is no way they are going to rewrite all their macros for another proprietary program.
Marriage is considered a spiritual union in most religions, a civil union is a matter of the state and given that you are talking apples and oranges, that is not semantics.
The US military has already started demanding one. Which means some other country has a program as well, my bet is Russia. The only peaceful use for such power that I can conceive of would be to restart the core of a planet like Mars to give it a magnetic field.
I am nearing 10,000 ebooks and 2000 documents (research papers mostly) on this thing. It really depends on what you use it for, I use mine for technical books, textbooks and the like mostly. I have not read a current fiction book in over 5 years and don't have the time in the foreseeable future.
Civil rights are not semantics to be argued about. Note the period.
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The mature thing is decide for yourself if you can stand the knowledge that your purchase of his book facilitates his bigotry. The man wrote brilliant novels, for sure but as he is living today I will never purchase another because I can't stand the idea of him having more money to spend on anti-civil rights measures.
The economic formula for this is far oversimplified. It needs to include more factors, not something as complicated as cost benefit analysis but algebra-level microeconomics would do. I wish at times Slashdot were more numerate but than I would pry never have stopped wasting all my time here; honestly though, this model should be avoided for any serious analysis.
Get an ebook reader because you can sell many of your books when you do. My last move, I sold over 1500 dollars worth of books over 6 months to save on freight and that is just like 100 books or so, mostly technical and engineering. I have at times in my life had nearly 2,000 books and it was becoming unmanageable before my little Sony ebook reader. The Amazon Kindle is circus ugly, I am no aesthete, but it made me grimace to use it.
A PhD in science, engineering or the like should only be attempted by those who can bank on their brilliance when they finish, you can't bank on a degree when you finish. There is usually no comparison to someone who has done post-grad work to someone who has worked in the industry, the postgrad is going to be better informed. The industry does not give you the same opportunities to meet and greet your peers except at the odd convention or trade show. People who have spent their life in in the industry filled with undergrad degrees or masters are far more likely to be in an organization that does not keep their egos in check, allows them to make insipid even reckless design decisions and retreads the same thing over and over. At least half of the candidates I hang around are so inured to their own mediocrity that they deserve to become professors in YAMU (yet another mediocre university) or go work in some industry as described. The other half could easily start their own engineering or consulting firm or already have. Now if you are going for a science degree with an eye on teaching it, understand your limitations and expect only 50-60k a year when you get done than well good luck and god bless.
Well I don't think it is black and white, but you may have a point; however, it seems to me there would be at least some increase in social pressure not to commit infidelity in a homosexual relationship, whereas there is almost none right now.
No, but such prejudice has gone unchecked because the American media has been reluctant to call them out on it. Look up some of Rev Jesse Jackson's quotes and realize those are tame compared to some of the stuff black preachers have been saying, they have been getting a free ride on out and out racism. It is going to change quickly. Black leaders have been scapegoating random groups of people for a 100 years in the US and it is going to stop being effective once Obama is in the White House, you watch.
Couldn't it be that infidelity rates among homosexuals will remain higher than heterosexuals for some time until not only gay marriages are legal but their sanctity is respected by the people and local religions? There are still churches in the United States that will not marry people of two races. In those parts of the country interracial couples would make a good comparative group to study to see if their infidelity rates are higher as well. I strongly believe we will see a dramatic reduction in HIV rates if we legalize gay marriage, in my mind it is in part a public health issue.
Than send them money; they are less than 20 people, mostly part time I believe.
African Americans are overwhelmingly homophobic
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African Americans deserved an erudite and experienced leader and they got one in Barak Obama. He got a proportionally higher amount of the AA vote than did John Kerry or Bill Clinton. African Americans have been voting democratic for years well over 70% in most areas, this is nothing new. What saddens me is that the high black voter turn out brought to light some of African American's prejudices against homosexuals where the high black turnout passed 3 anti-civil rights measures regarding gay marriage. It is time now to start examining the anti-Semitic, anti-Asian, anti-Hispanic and anti-homosexual prejudices of African Americans. Rev. Jesse Jackson has always been a bigot about most of these issues, many black church leaders the same and what the black community needs now is someone who can help them with introspection because they are going to have a lot more attention paid to them with Obama as president.
No, but mindlessly parroting what you hear on a scrolling news channel is not a mark of independent thought or intelligence, be it MSNBC, CNN or FoxNews. I am sick of hearing debates framed in talking points that people overheard on the boob tube. Especially when they attempt to feign ownership of thoughts that have been already twice or thrice regurgitated. Are Americans so lazy that they do not have time to read a single periodical of note during this election? The Economist and the CFR should be at the top of anybody's reading list because it is where much of the more well-researched scrolling news and talking head speech is cribbed from. Read the two long enough and you will see where those talk shows get some of their more poignant guests.
I pre-ordered the game and finished it as a puritan goody-goody in about 10 hours of play time. During that time the game crashed approximately 10 times, with the the auto-save feature it was a minor annoyance but it got me thinking about the crack and rest of your line of thinking as well. So last night I cracked the game and left it running all night long, it was crashing every hour or so and low and behold it has not crashed yet. Now I am going to kill every living thing in the game, ttfn.
I do think it is messed up you can't kill children in the game unless you nuke their entire town. I miss the 'child killer' status of the last Fallout games, didn't they send out hunting parties to kill you, shot at you on site and refuse to talk to you? If you nuke an entire town none of that happens in this game.
If you are using a video card for CAD, game design, modeling or stereo vision the likelihood of you softmodding or hardmodding the video card is directly proportional to how much you are actually doing because your time should be worth much more than paying the premium for the better supported FireGl and Quadro lines. Yeah, students might do that but no one in the industry would; it doesn't make sense, as most consumer cards have half of the memory of the workstation cards and if you have ever worked with assemblies of 1000's of parts in Inventor or ran stereo vision to view architectural models with gigs upon gigs of textures.
The low end workstation cards come with 1 gig nowadays and came with 512 megs 2 years ago and are much more reasonably priced if you compare them to ultra high end consumer cards set in SLI mode as CAD still does not work for shit in SLI as it is windowed. Even if you went out and bought the latest and greatest video card and softmodded it doesn't mean it will work with all programs or even will work with the same program you have been using it for if you update the driver unless you are savvy enough to be able to wade through the layers of obfuscated calls to the driver libraries that compromise a softmod. In other words if you are not playing pretend at being a mechanical engineer or game designer you pry aren't going to fret about spending 1000 dollars on a decent, well-supported video card.
This is the problem with all top-down management styles, they eventually get forced into deciding about things they have never had any interaction with, no knowledge of or an even more dangerous mixture of both. My favorite is my friend's boss who spent 20 years teaching mechanical engineering and became a middle manager for a drafting project in a large un-named company. Last time I got off the phone with him he told me his boss had decided that all employees should be able to do accurate drafts of the parts they are designing on paper with t-rule, protractor and compass when 90% of them have never done any drafting outside of a CAD program and that is what he was looking for in new hires instead of knowing all the dozens of "doo-dads" in CAD programs. A simple vote would of allowed them to get rid of this clown and elect a manager that actually represents them. Where are the tech worker unions, btw?
Drive RPM not mph, most non-turbo charged 4 cylinders operate most efficiently at ~1800-2200 rpm. If you can go 75 mph or 50 mph at 2000 rpm the extra drag at the higher speed is not going to get in the way of fuel efficiency for most cars. What kills mileage is going through the gearing making the engine shift at 3000-4000 rpm back to 2000rpm again and again. So when you get to your sweet rpm at the highest gear on the highway try not to keep accelerating and in the city be mindful of how fast you can really go between lights and try not to get into a higher gear than you need to go another block.
I myself have eaten pretty poorly at times in my life, and that seems to be when my hair line begins to retreat the most prominently. The worst was when I weighed the least, and at 6'3" 165 lbs trying to be a vegan for the gf my hair line crawled back almost a full inch in 6 months, along with my first job; graveyard sysadmin and a few rough times in my life I have seen my hair come and go like the rest of you. The one thing that I can recommend eating 3-4 times a week is an egg, I like mine mixed with frozen veggies curry and some hot sauce. You know the old wives tail about giving dogs a 'shiny coat', well imho it works for human folk as well. Some people that think they are eating healthy aren't and some people don't realize how unhealthy the processed crap they are eating really is. Hey, I eat a hamburger or two a week from fast food places too (usually Burgerville), but that is a 'hamburger with double mustard' not the 1/4lb one with cheese, avocado and chili. I am glad for some of you that this economic downturn is letting you take a new look at life and getting realistic about the crap you put in your body, how that affects your well being and you will be surprised how much easier it is to be happier with it.
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I just close my eyes and hope they are women.
Can someone torrent the fucking thing, my journal access from home is quirky.
I have a friend who does astro-photography on one of the top 10 scopes in the world and they use Photoshop. I asked him about the Mathematica tool and he said there is no way they are going to rewrite all their macros for another proprietary program.
Marriage is considered a spiritual union in most religions, a civil union is a matter of the state and given that you are talking apples and oranges, that is not semantics.
The US military has already started demanding one. Which means some other country has a program as well, my bet is Russia. The only peaceful use for such power that I can conceive of would be to restart the core of a planet like Mars to give it a magnetic field.
I am nearing 10,000 ebooks and 2000 documents (research papers mostly) on this thing. It really depends on what you use it for, I use mine for technical books, textbooks and the like mostly. I have not read a current fiction book in over 5 years and don't have the time in the foreseeable future.
Civil rights are not semantics to be argued about. Note the period.
The mature thing is decide for yourself if you can stand the knowledge that your purchase of his book facilitates his bigotry. The man wrote brilliant novels, for sure but as he is living today I will never purchase another because I can't stand the idea of him having more money to spend on anti-civil rights measures.
The economic formula for this is far oversimplified. It needs to include more factors, not something as complicated as cost benefit analysis but algebra-level microeconomics would do. I wish at times Slashdot were more numerate but than I would pry never have stopped wasting all my time here; honestly though, this model should be avoided for any serious analysis.
Get an ebook reader because you can sell many of your books when you do. My last move, I sold over 1500 dollars worth of books over 6 months to save on freight and that is just like 100 books or so, mostly technical and engineering. I have at times in my life had nearly 2,000 books and it was becoming unmanageable before my little Sony ebook reader. The Amazon Kindle is circus ugly, I am no aesthete, but it made me grimace to use it.
A PhD in science, engineering or the like should only be attempted by those who can bank on their brilliance when they finish, you can't bank on a degree when you finish. There is usually no comparison to someone who has done post-grad work to someone who has worked in the industry, the postgrad is going to be better informed. The industry does not give you the same opportunities to meet and greet your peers except at the odd convention or trade show. People who have spent their life in in the industry filled with undergrad degrees or masters are far more likely to be in an organization that does not keep their egos in check, allows them to make insipid even reckless design decisions and retreads the same thing over and over. At least half of the candidates I hang around are so inured to their own mediocrity that they deserve to become professors in YAMU (yet another mediocre university) or go work in some industry as described. The other half could easily start their own engineering or consulting firm or already have. Now if you are going for a science degree with an eye on teaching it, understand your limitations and expect only 50-60k a year when you get done than well good luck and god bless.
Well I don't think it is black and white, but you may have a point; however, it seems to me there would be at least some increase in social pressure not to commit infidelity in a homosexual relationship, whereas there is almost none right now.
It is common courtesy to link to an XML or HTML page with an embed.
Take your damn snake and get off my lawn!!
No, but such prejudice has gone unchecked because the American media has been reluctant to call them out on it. Look up some of Rev Jesse Jackson's quotes and realize those are tame compared to some of the stuff black preachers have been saying, they have been getting a free ride on out and out racism. It is going to change quickly. Black leaders have been scapegoating random groups of people for a 100 years in the US and it is going to stop being effective once Obama is in the White House, you watch.
Couldn't it be that infidelity rates among homosexuals will remain higher than heterosexuals for some time until not only gay marriages are legal but their sanctity is respected by the people and local religions? There are still churches in the United States that will not marry people of two races. In those parts of the country interracial couples would make a good comparative group to study to see if their infidelity rates are higher as well. I strongly believe we will see a dramatic reduction in HIV rates if we legalize gay marriage, in my mind it is in part a public health issue.
Than send them money; they are less than 20 people, mostly part time I believe.
African Americans deserved an erudite and experienced leader and they got one in Barak Obama. He got a proportionally higher amount of the AA vote than did John Kerry or Bill Clinton. African Americans have been voting democratic for years well over 70% in most areas, this is nothing new. What saddens me is that the high black voter turn out brought to light some of African American's prejudices against homosexuals where the high black turnout passed 3 anti-civil rights measures regarding gay marriage. It is time now to start examining the anti-Semitic, anti-Asian, anti-Hispanic and anti-homosexual prejudices of African Americans. Rev. Jesse Jackson has always been a bigot about most of these issues, many black church leaders the same and what the black community needs now is someone who can help them with introspection because they are going to have a lot more attention paid to them with Obama as president.
No, but mindlessly parroting what you hear on a scrolling news channel is not a mark of independent thought or intelligence, be it MSNBC, CNN or FoxNews. I am sick of hearing debates framed in talking points that people overheard on the boob tube. Especially when they attempt to feign ownership of thoughts that have been already twice or thrice regurgitated. Are Americans so lazy that they do not have time to read a single periodical of note during this election? The Economist and the CFR should be at the top of anybody's reading list because it is where much of the more well-researched scrolling news and talking head speech is cribbed from. Read the two long enough and you will see where those talk shows get some of their more poignant guests.
I pre-ordered the game and finished it as a puritan goody-goody in about 10 hours of play time. During that time the game crashed approximately 10 times, with the the auto-save feature it was a minor annoyance but it got me thinking about the crack and rest of your line of thinking as well. So last night I cracked the game and left it running all night long, it was crashing every hour or so and low and behold it has not crashed yet. Now I am going to kill every living thing in the game, ttfn.
I do think it is messed up you can't kill children in the game unless you nuke their entire town. I miss the 'child killer' status of the last Fallout games, didn't they send out hunting parties to kill you, shot at you on site and refuse to talk to you? If you nuke an entire town none of that happens in this game.
If John Adams were a general in the revolutionary war we would pry still be at war with the British or would have an American king.
If you are using a video card for CAD, game design, modeling or stereo vision the likelihood of you softmodding or hardmodding the video card is directly proportional to how much you are actually doing because your time should be worth much more than paying the premium for the better supported FireGl and Quadro lines. Yeah, students might do that but no one in the industry would; it doesn't make sense, as most consumer cards have half of the memory of the workstation cards and if you have ever worked with assemblies of 1000's of parts in Inventor or ran stereo vision to view architectural models with gigs upon gigs of textures.
The low end workstation cards come with 1 gig nowadays and came with 512 megs 2 years ago and are much more reasonably priced if you compare them to ultra high end consumer cards set in SLI mode as CAD still does not work for shit in SLI as it is windowed. Even if you went out and bought the latest and greatest video card and softmodded it doesn't mean it will work with all programs or even will work with the same program you have been using it for if you update the driver unless you are savvy enough to be able to wade through the layers of obfuscated calls to the driver libraries that compromise a softmod. In other words if you are not playing pretend at being a mechanical engineer or game designer you pry aren't going to fret about spending 1000 dollars on a decent, well-supported video card.
This would make a terrible workstation the cards are absolutely not made for that.
This is the problem with all top-down management styles, they eventually get forced into deciding about things they have never had any interaction with, no knowledge of or an even more dangerous mixture of both. My favorite is my friend's boss who spent 20 years teaching mechanical engineering and became a middle manager for a drafting project in a large un-named company. Last time I got off the phone with him he told me his boss had decided that all employees should be able to do accurate drafts of the parts they are designing on paper with t-rule, protractor and compass when 90% of them have never done any drafting outside of a CAD program and that is what he was looking for in new hires instead of knowing all the dozens of "doo-dads" in CAD programs. A simple vote would of allowed them to get rid of this clown and elect a manager that actually represents them. Where are the tech worker unions, btw?
Drive RPM not mph, most non-turbo charged 4 cylinders operate most efficiently at ~1800-2200 rpm. If you can go 75 mph or 50 mph at 2000 rpm the extra drag at the higher speed is not going to get in the way of fuel efficiency for most cars. What kills mileage is going through the gearing making the engine shift at 3000-4000 rpm back to 2000rpm again and again. So when you get to your sweet rpm at the highest gear on the highway try not to keep accelerating and in the city be mindful of how fast you can really go between lights and try not to get into a higher gear than you need to go another block.
I myself have eaten pretty poorly at times in my life, and that seems to be when my hair line begins to retreat the most prominently. The worst was when I weighed the least, and at 6'3" 165 lbs trying to be a vegan for the gf my hair line crawled back almost a full inch in 6 months, along with my first job; graveyard sysadmin and a few rough times in my life I have seen my hair come and go like the rest of you. The one thing that I can recommend eating 3-4 times a week is an egg, I like mine mixed with frozen veggies curry and some hot sauce. You know the old wives tail about giving dogs a 'shiny coat', well imho it works for human folk as well. Some people that think they are eating healthy aren't and some people don't realize how unhealthy the processed crap they are eating really is. Hey, I eat a hamburger or two a week from fast food places too (usually Burgerville), but that is a 'hamburger with double mustard' not the 1/4lb one with cheese, avocado and chili. I am glad for some of you that this economic downturn is letting you take a new look at life and getting realistic about the crap you put in your body, how that affects your well being and you will be surprised how much easier it is to be happier with it.