I have accounts with three financial institutions. All three use Passmark. All three ask me to pick a common object and give it a name. Of course I'm going to call it what it is. Calling it something obtuse makes the whole thing harder to keep track of. Each one asks me up to 6 security questions. These are in case my computer gets "unregistered" or if I try to get to an account from not-my-computer. They're not all the same. The answers are not one-word slam dunks. If they were, they would be no good. Because they're not easy and obvious, I have to remember up to 18 obtuse answers. If I get one wrong, even by one character, I'm kicked off until I call someone. The banks claim this is a government law that makes them do this. Please don't say "get one bank".
I'd held off on getting MS Fresh Start for our donated computers, as it had been that they gave you a full CD and as many liceses as you needed for 98SE, which most of them already had. I checked the other day to see if they'd finally goosed it to XP. Nope. They now do the same thing but for 2000 Pro. Looks like they want this wiped off the earth as soon as possible.
IIRC a cell tower covers a geographic area of 36 sq mi, and assuming that's a circle (I know they effectively chart them as hexagons, but...) if that's true, the radius, given pi r ^2 for area, sqrt(36/pi) = 3.64 miles. That's only 19,000 ft. Sure, straight line would be better than terrestrial terrain, but above 19,000 you're heading out of range anyway, not to mention rapidly switching cells (400 mph = 6+ mi/sec)
If that were the case, it'd be torches and pitchforks for the cellcos if they allow it and then it sucks.
Most of the guys who played this 24-7 ended up on the 6-year plan. I'm not sure backgammon was in their repertoire. Three dice you say? Guess I left out a "clinkity" from all those years ago.
See, you quoted ".3%" That's not what they said. They put the zero in front of the decimal place and everything - it must be accurate and precise and therefore correct. Have we learned nothing from 24.56 years of USAToday Snapshots?
It was called Strat-O-Matic Baseball, and many a night in the hills of Worcester I had to fall asleep to the constant clinkity-clink-clink-clinkle of a pair of dice in a stolen cafeteria coffee cup.
... 30 min for files and settings for all shipped apps (actually sitting outside the Apple Store using Backup and.mac) 2 Sopranos episodes for all 3rd party apps.
oops. hold on. let me go back, I think that's really on the first slide in the second group...
Point being: any presentation is only as good as the presenter and their own organization.
Our brain isn't organized like a fixed slide tray, we shouldn't have to think like one.
I saw Doug Englebart give one that had thumbnails around the edge when he needed them (gestural I think - at any rate they were innocuous until referenced) - so he could go linear, or go to anything he needed when he needed it and engage the audience and adapt to their understanding.
Most PP templates are complicated style over any substance. I've moved exclusively to Keynote - understated, fewer assumptions, better graphics. Distracting the content with flaming borders and lousily-scaling stuff is bad.
Not that that's a bad thing, as long as you understand it is in fact a fairy tale.
I'm Roman Catholic, and a scientist. I was trained in Catholic educational institutions by (largely Catholic) scientists. Those two things do not need be at odds. The Benedictines didn't take us aside and say "You know, nice job on the genetics final, but just between us marines, we all know Darwin and Mendel are patently evil and full of it."
Once we got it straight that much of the religion is a set of myths that do serve explain the character of deeper truths, we're cool with that. I don't believe in Kronos, but I do understand that his story explains something about the behaviour and nature of time on a nuanced level that is not to be taken literally, but deepens and broadens your understanding of it.
Believing in the values the church espouses (and by the church I mean the church at large, not the simply bureaucracy) is hardly a bad thing. I don't believe Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were historical figures, but that their stories explain a lot about who we are as humans. I don't worship John Steinbeck, but East of Eden was inspiring and easily a better read than Genesis.
I can't prove one way or the other if we have a life after death. It doesn't matter while we're here. We're here to make the most of what we can do in this world. People who truly understand what religion tells us aren't doing it out of a fear of what comes next or promise of a reward. They're doing it because it makes the world work.
It is not necessary to invent a particular afterlife in order to feel good even about Pascal's wager, as Pascal's wager was never necessary, it was merely a way to counter the extreme positions some can take about the existence of God.
In my tradition, the agreed mythology is that we'll be on clouds, withe white robes and halos, barefoot, harps and all. My aunt Alice will get to meet Jimmy Stewart, and I can play harmonica to Einstein's fiddle. But I'm not living my life in expectation that that's what will or must or needs to happen. It would be peachy if does.
It would be equally peachy if what remains after I go is simply the effect of my life on this earth. That's all I'll ever ask or expect.
"1: The existence of God is proven (or disproven) definitively to every dead human being."
You're kidding, right? Because this would presuppose awareness, if not conscoiusness and self-awareness on the part of a human after death, for which you have zero - and I do mean zero - evidence. No one, not even you, can prove that a dead human being is anything more than compost.
Your argument starts off with an unprovable statement. A glib and clever-sounding one, to be sure, but unprovable.
Which postulates that the amount of time for a research assistant to get back from Quiznos is directly proportional to the gastric sounds of everyone else in the lab, and inversely proportional (to the second power) of the immediacy of the stuff left to do in the afternoon.
pretty decent idea. we already did insulation back in 05 when the tax breaks were in place. between that and smart buying, we've kept our annual heating total bill flat since 2003-04.
I know how the locks work, we were locked in for the past three years. This was on a will-call, no-lock, open account for credit. I specifically did not lock in this year, for as predicted, prices went down, and I made out better than if I'd locked in. Not only that, but I've had different people call the same company on the same afternoon as existing no-lock, prospective customer, (and against the current lock-in) and gotten two (three) different prices. I've been up and down this with the heating oil division of the state consumer protection agency, and they allow that it looks anti-competitive, but there's no law against it, they can't say everyone does it, but they're pretty sure the big ones do. I lucked out with two smaller dealers, one of which was willing to level with me on the outlook and believed their honest approach would be the better route. They got my business.
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OK, you must be right. Tell me 9,998 times more and all of a sudden my credit union will be perfect.
Anyway, none of what you're going on about has anything to do with the problems with Passmark.
Thanks for playing. The worst offender of the trio *IS* my credit union.
I have accounts with three financial institutions. All three use Passmark.
All three ask me to pick a common object and give it a name.
Of course I'm going to call it what it is.
Calling it something obtuse makes the whole thing harder to keep track of.
Each one asks me up to 6 security questions.
These are in case my computer gets "unregistered" or if I try to get to an account from not-my-computer.
They're not all the same. The answers are not one-word slam dunks. If they were, they would be no good.
Because they're not easy and obvious, I have to remember up to 18 obtuse answers.
If I get one wrong, even by one character, I'm kicked off until I call someone.
The banks claim this is a government law that makes them do this.
Please don't say "get one bank".
I'd held off on getting MS Fresh Start for our donated computers, as it had been that they gave you a full CD and as many liceses as you needed for 98SE, which most of them already had. I checked the other day to see if they'd finally goosed it to XP. Nope. They now do the same thing but for 2000 Pro. Looks like they want this wiped off the earth as soon as possible.
So those LEDs that were supposed to have 11 year life spans are now going to wink out any minu
thanks - I only did the minutes. Still darn fast for cells!
IIRC a cell tower covers a geographic area of 36 sq mi, and assuming that's a circle (I know they effectively chart them as hexagons, but...) if that's true, the radius, given pi r ^2 for area, sqrt(36/pi) = 3.64 miles. That's only 19,000 ft. Sure, straight line would be better than terrestrial terrain, but above 19,000 you're heading out of range anyway, not to mention rapidly switching cells (400 mph = 6+ mi/sec)
If that were the case, it'd be torches and pitchforks for the cellcos if they allow it and then it sucks.
Well, not exactly, it was actually two terriers fighting over a dry chicken bone.
Most of the guys who played this 24-7 ended up on the 6-year plan. I'm not sure backgammon was in their repertoire.
Three dice you say? Guess I left out a "clinkity" from all those years ago.
See, you quoted ".3%" That's not what they said. They put the zero in front of the decimal place and everything - it must be accurate and precise and therefore correct. Have we learned nothing from 24.56 years of USAToday Snapshots?
It was called Strat-O-Matic Baseball, and many a night in the hills of Worcester I had to fall asleep to the constant clinkity-clink-clink-clinkle of a pair of dice in a stolen cafeteria coffee cup.
... 30 min for files and settings for all shipped apps .mac)
(actually sitting outside the Apple Store using Backup and
2 Sopranos episodes for all 3rd party apps.
Does grain alcohol dissolve them by the thousands?
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oops. hold on. let me go back, I think that's really on the first slide in the second group...
Point being: any presentation is only as good as the presenter and their own organization.
Our brain isn't organized like a fixed slide tray, we shouldn't have to think like one.
I saw Doug Englebart give one that had thumbnails around the edge when he needed them (gestural I think - at any rate they were innocuous until referenced) - so he could go linear, or go to anything he needed when he needed it and engage the audience and adapt to their understanding.
Most PP templates are complicated style over any substance. I've moved exclusively to Keynote - understated, fewer assumptions, better graphics. Distracting the content with flaming borders and lousily-scaling stuff is bad.
Even better than unlimited - this one goes to 11 !
You get the idea.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the America public." - H. L. Mencken
Not that that's a bad thing, as long as you understand it is in fact a fairy tale.
I'm Roman Catholic, and a scientist. I was trained in Catholic educational institutions by (largely Catholic) scientists. Those two things do not need be at odds. The Benedictines didn't take us aside and say "You know, nice job on the genetics final, but just between us marines, we all know Darwin and Mendel are patently evil and full of it."
Once we got it straight that much of the religion is a set of myths that do serve explain the character of deeper truths, we're cool with that. I don't believe in Kronos, but I do understand that his story explains something about the behaviour and nature of time on a nuanced level that is not to be taken literally, but deepens and broadens your understanding of it.
Believing in the values the church espouses (and by the church I mean the church at large, not the simply bureaucracy) is hardly a bad thing. I don't believe Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were historical figures, but that their stories explain a lot about who we are as humans. I don't worship John Steinbeck, but East of Eden was inspiring and easily a better read than Genesis.
I can't prove one way or the other if we have a life after death. It doesn't matter while we're here. We're here to make the most of what we can do in this world. People who truly understand what religion tells us aren't doing it out of a fear of what comes next or promise of a reward. They're doing it because it makes the world work.
It is not necessary to invent a particular afterlife in order to feel good even about Pascal's wager, as Pascal's wager was never necessary, it was merely a way to counter the extreme positions some can take about the existence of God.
In my tradition, the agreed mythology is that we'll be on clouds, withe white robes and halos, barefoot, harps and all. My aunt Alice will get to meet Jimmy Stewart, and I can play harmonica to Einstein's fiddle. But I'm not living my life in expectation that that's what will or must or needs to happen. It would be peachy if does.
It would be equally peachy if what remains after I go is simply the effect of my life on this earth. That's all I'll ever ask or expect.
"1: The existence of God is proven (or disproven) definitively to every dead human being."
You're kidding, right? Because this would presuppose awareness, if not conscoiusness and self-awareness on the part of a human after death, for which you have zero - and I do mean zero - evidence. No one, not even you, can prove that a dead human being is anything more than compost.
Your argument starts off with an unprovable statement. A glib and clever-sounding one, to be sure, but unprovable.
Which postulates that the amount of time for a research assistant to get back from Quiznos is directly proportional to the gastric sounds of everyone else in the lab, and inversely proportional (to the second power) of the immediacy of the stuff left to do in the afternoon.
that without the DVD present. playback's a bitch.
Getoutahere. When did this happen? I didn't see the memo.
Because hovering over the link in the mail is hard?
In the original short story wasn't it a crystalline pyramid?
Icy hexagons sound like fair game to me.
"wake".
pretty decent idea.
we already did insulation back in 05 when the tax breaks were in place.
between that and smart buying, we've kept our annual heating total bill flat since 2003-04.
I know how the locks work, we were locked in for the past three years.
This was on a will-call, no-lock, open account for credit.
I specifically did not lock in this year, for as predicted, prices went down, and I made out better than if I'd locked in.
Not only that, but I've had different people call the same company on the same afternoon as existing no-lock, prospective customer, (and against the current lock-in) and gotten two (three) different prices.
I've been up and down this with the heating oil division of the state consumer protection agency, and they allow that it looks anti-competitive, but there's no law against it, they can't say everyone does it, but they're pretty sure the big ones do.
I lucked out with two smaller dealers, one of which was willing to level with me on the outlook and believed their honest approach would be the better route. They got my business.