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It's your power supply. These things last a very long time under normal circumstances. I had some in college that I gave my parents that they still use 9 years later.
Besides, you can return the ones that busted to GE and sometimes they replace them for pr.
And, if you own a company, then not only are you not breaking any laws, you can write off the lost goods. So your coporation buys the cd and you, as a rep of the company lose it, Fred finds it, loses it. You as an individual find it again.
Give it back to the company as capital stock when you want to "lose" it again. Love this country.
I like the idea but feel like this type of collaboration has the most potential for kids in the neighborhoods, not the adults. It might be a way to engage them in the computer instead of the playstation.
Having said that, this type of thing doesn't need to be on the Net. Why put a neighborhood network on a global system? Why not set up a mesh network in the neighborhood and host it there? That way the kids can actually use it since it isn't hooked to the net and it would be more difficult for a pervert to case the neighborhood using the network. i.e., more strict access control and censorship by moderation have their place.
Don't hold your breath. That message has been there for a looong time, complete with "new activity". The current recommendations include using the mbox repository and uw-imap on top. But uw-imap requires compile-time configuration and mbox? Well, there are reasons there are alternatives to it.
But James doesn't support maildir yet which would make Courier a viable IMAP solution. That with squirrelmail would do the trick for making James fully functional from the daemon/UI perspective.
All told, it's just a matter of time before these gaps start dropping like flies. I think having ASF using their own mail server implementation would certainly speed things up.
Tell your Dad that he will consider fronting the money to fix it, but needs to meet someone at the location of the compressor to see what's involved and where his money is going.
Then, after the meeting, where he says he'll call them back, your Dad gets one of his buddy's with a backhoe and some beer...
Hey, if it ain't broke, how are they ever going to fix it right?
Hmmm, who said anything about developing hybrids during the seventies? I was suggesting that this hybrid retro-fit was comparable to the half-hearted attempts to convert a gasoline engine into a diesel back then. And that the outcome would be the same - a turn-off.
You would think that a car is sufficiently complicated at this point to keep an after-market conversion of that magnitude from being anything but a disaster or let-down.
Didn't the US auto industry try this with Diesel back in the seventies and learn this lesson for us? Are we doomed to repeat that mistake too?
And for those of us outside the US, can is slang for a urinal. So this company produced a self cooling urinal, cause you know how slippery those things can get when you've been sitting on it for a while and start sweating.
Although I'm not sure how the heck you sit on a urinal the size of a 500mL beverage.... oh.
They were all seen as deliberate policy and so the offence taken was far greater as a result.
makes me think this is just the fodder of conspiracy theories. The problem is really that the people who come to these conclusions do not know the following axiom of society:
Don't attribute to organized conspiracy that which can be explained be sheer ignorance.
It reminds me of when I was tossed onto the tail end of a faultering project to computerize the Jamacain election system. One of my coworkers told me there was a conspiracy theory abound suggesting that the CIA was trying to destabilize Jamaica because the prime contractor was also a contractor for the CIA and the government in general.
Perhaps, but nothing you mentioned is constrained to artificial combat. All of those characteristics can be found in a robot baton race in a natural terrain. Or rock climbing? One false move and your robot is a yard sale at the cliff base. These are all pretty challenging, having spent some time in a machine intelligence research lab before.
The soap box derby is just as challenging as a demolition derby, if not more depending on the race course.
The point is that its sad we still begin our learning curve with fights, like some prepubescent kid with two matchbox cars and the immenent intersection crash.
BTW. I'm not following your comparison to horse-drawn railroads. The first railroads weren't used to ram the trains into each other to see which design was better (better for ramming trains any way).
So let me get this straight. Companies are just beginning the path to humanoid robots and one of the first applications optimizes them for fighting?Wouldn't it be equally as challenging and interesting to have relay competitions? How about rock climbing? Terrain traversal?
Nope. Fighting. Swell. I'll be sure to make a copy of the article for my grandson to reflect on a hundred years from now.
I give up. That's three posts in a row you've missed the entire point. The point is ambiquity, why it's there, and how to avoid it. So "beg your pardon" is a case where the use and the literal definition line up. But again, you've correctly identified and used the word beg in a sentence. Grats.
The decimate example was to explain how nuances affect word use, not that decimate proves that dictionaries don't always have all of the information.
You and that dictionary man, you're like one! There doesn't seem to be a way to get you to use other references. BTW, Merrian Webster didn't address "begs the question". The dictionary you were hoping to reference but couldn't find was the New Oxford Dictionary of English. That's the one that champions your statement. That doesn't change the ambiguity.
"Raises the question" and "prompts the question" avoid this.
Given the argument I was having with someone else in this thread, you're absolutely right. The old meaning is pretty much disregarded these days.
A good quote from worldwidewords.org:
The meaning you give is the newest. It is gaining ground, and one or two recent dictionaries claim that it is now acceptable--the New Oxford Dictionary of English, for example, says it is "widely accepted in modern standard English". I wouldn't go so far myself. Because of possible confusion over what you actually mean, and inevitable condemnation from people who have taken the trouble to find out what it once did mean, it's better avoided altogether.
The 'for' is most certainly needed. You've spent too much time by your computers and seem to think English is a programming language.
"Begs the question" is a special case. And "anyone with half a brain" knows that there are many special cases in the language which don't follow the rules.
Case in point. Decimate. Decimating the protestors is all but wiping them out. Decimating a fraction of the protestors is wrong because if you are going to consider a fraction the original definition comes into play - to destroy a tenth.
So pull up all the dictionary's you'd like and look up the word beg until your blue in the face. After your done being a jerk, go look at a grammar book which specifically deals with the term we are discussing. Yes, you are very astute for pointing out that there are several definitions for "beg" in the unabridged (how does having more words help when we're only talking about a phrase anyway?) dictionary. "Begs the question" is a loaded term.
Sheesh. RTFD doesn't explain English nuances. Nice try though. BTW, what does your dictionary tell you "Go push off" means?
In that case, it would be begs for the question, not begs the question. Notice point 3, item 2 which you mentioned. There is a difference between the phrases "beg the point in a dispute" and "beg for the point in a dispute".
Begging the point is an attempt to convince someone of a point because its the point your trying to convince them of. Begging for the point is asking "what is the point?". Hence begging the question versus begging for the question. But the two are easily confused, so "prompt" is a good choice to avoid the confusion.
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It's your power supply. These things last a very long time under normal circumstances. I had some in college that I gave my parents that they still use 9 years later.
Besides, you can return the ones that busted to GE and sometimes they replace them for pr.
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Sir! Put the mouse down, and step away from the keyboard!
Good workaround this time.
And, if you own a company, then not only are you not breaking any laws, you can write off the lost goods. So your coporation buys the cd and you, as a rep of the company lose it, Fred finds it, loses it. You as an individual find it again.
Give it back to the company as capital stock when you want to "lose" it again. Love this country.
an ATI engineer? ATi makes engines now?
No, an engineer can do various things, including design video hardware, manage power grids and drive locomotives.
I like the idea but feel like this type of collaboration has the most potential for kids in the neighborhoods, not the adults. It might be a way to engage them in the computer instead of the playstation.
Having said that, this type of thing doesn't need to be on the Net. Why put a neighborhood network on a global system? Why not set up a mesh network in the neighborhood and host it there? That way the kids can actually use it since it isn't hooked to the net and it would be more difficult for a pervert to case the neighborhood using the network. i.e., more strict access control and censorship by moderation have their place.
Don't hold your breath. That message has been there for a looong time, complete with "new activity". The current recommendations include using the mbox repository and uw-imap on top. But uw-imap requires compile-time configuration and mbox? Well, there are reasons there are alternatives to it.
But James doesn't support maildir yet which would make Courier a viable IMAP solution. That with squirrelmail would do the trick for making James fully functional from the daemon/UI perspective.
All told, it's just a matter of time before these gaps start dropping like flies. I think having ASF using their own mail server implementation would certainly speed things up.
Actually, James supports modules also. You simply have to include them in your classpath and refer to them in the config.
So it is insightful. And you're wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. Muahahahaha.
you're new here, aren't you?
Tell your Dad that he will consider fronting the money to fix it, but needs to meet someone at the location of the compressor to see what's involved and where his money is going.
Then, after the meeting, where he says he'll call them back, your Dad gets one of his buddy's with a backhoe and some beer...
Hey, if it ain't broke, how are they ever going to fix it right?
He put up a stand, sold the juice by the can...
Hmmm, who said anything about developing hybrids during the seventies? I was suggesting that this hybrid retro-fit was comparable to the half-hearted attempts to convert a gasoline engine into a diesel back then. And that the outcome would be the same - a turn-off.
You would think that a car is sufficiently complicated at this point to keep an after-market conversion of that magnitude from being anything but a disaster or let-down.
Didn't the US auto industry try this with Diesel back in the seventies and learn this lesson for us? Are we doomed to repeat that mistake too?
And for those of us outside the US, can is slang for a urinal. So this company produced a self cooling urinal, cause you know how slippery those things can get when you've been sitting on it for a while and start sweating.
Although I'm not sure how the heck you sit on a urinal the size of a 500mL beverage.... oh.
Folks, I could be wrong here.
Very funny stuff.
If I had some mod points...
In light of the business plan you just described, here is mine:
...
1. Hack a cable to download images from these.
2. Mass produce the cables with a detachable component inside the camera.
3.
4. Profit!!!
You figure if I sell the cable for $10, it's less than buying the next camera.
Oh contrair mon frair:
Conspiracy. noun.
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
There is nothing secret about capitalism and the tendency of it to benefit those who have the money to influence the demand.
reading this:
They were all seen as deliberate policy and so the offence taken was far greater as a result.
makes me think this is just the fodder of conspiracy theories. The problem is really that the people who come to these conclusions do not know the following axiom of society:
Don't attribute to organized conspiracy that which can be explained be sheer ignorance.
It reminds me of when I was tossed onto the tail end of a faultering project to computerize the Jamacain election system. One of my coworkers told me there was a conspiracy theory abound suggesting that the CIA was trying to destabilize Jamaica because the prime contractor was also a contractor for the CIA and the government in general.
Or perhaps this could be the concept behind Hackers II?
Duke Nukem forever, here we come!
Won't be long now...
Perhaps, but nothing you mentioned is constrained to artificial combat. All of those characteristics can be found in a robot baton race in a natural terrain. Or rock climbing? One false move and your robot is a yard sale at the cliff base. These are all pretty challenging, having spent some time in a machine intelligence research lab before.
The soap box derby is just as challenging as a demolition derby, if not more depending on the race course.
The point is that its sad we still begin our learning curve with fights, like some prepubescent kid with two matchbox cars and the immenent intersection crash.
BTW. I'm not following your comparison to horse-drawn railroads. The first railroads weren't used to ram the trains into each other to see which design was better (better for ramming trains any way).
So let me get this straight. Companies are just beginning the path to humanoid robots and one of the first applications optimizes them for fighting?Wouldn't it be equally as challenging and interesting to have relay competitions? How about rock climbing? Terrain traversal?
Nope. Fighting. Swell. I'll be sure to make a copy of the article for my grandson to reflect on a hundred years from now.
I give up. That's three posts in a row you've missed the entire point. The point is ambiquity, why it's there, and how to avoid it. So "beg your pardon" is a case where the use and the literal definition line up. But again, you've correctly identified and used the word beg in a sentence. Grats.
The decimate example was to explain how nuances affect word use, not that decimate proves that dictionaries don't always have all of the information.
You and that dictionary man, you're like one! There doesn't seem to be a way to get you to use other references. BTW, Merrian Webster didn't address "begs the question". The dictionary you were hoping to reference but couldn't find was the New Oxford Dictionary of English. That's the one that champions your statement. That doesn't change the ambiguity.
"Raises the question" and "prompts the question" avoid this.
Anything else you want to add?
Given the argument I was having with someone else in this thread, you're absolutely right. The old meaning is pretty much disregarded these days.
A good quote from worldwidewords.org:
The meaning you give is the newest. It is gaining ground, and one or two recent dictionaries claim that it is now acceptable--the New Oxford Dictionary of English, for example, says it is "widely accepted in modern standard English". I wouldn't go so far myself. Because of possible confusion over what you actually mean, and inevitable condemnation from people who have taken the trouble to find out what it once did mean, it's better avoided altogether.
The 'for' is most certainly needed. You've spent too much time by your computers and seem to think English is a programming language.
"Begs the question" is a special case. And "anyone with half a brain" knows that there are many special cases in the language which don't follow the rules.
Case in point. Decimate. Decimating the protestors is all but wiping them out. Decimating a fraction of the protestors is wrong because if you are going to consider a fraction the original definition comes into play - to destroy a tenth.
So pull up all the dictionary's you'd like and look up the word beg until your blue in the face. After your done being a jerk, go look at a grammar book which specifically deals with the term we are discussing. Yes, you are very astute for pointing out that there are several definitions for "beg" in the unabridged (how does having more words help when we're only talking about a phrase anyway?) dictionary. "Begs the question" is a loaded term.
Sheesh. RTFD doesn't explain English nuances. Nice try though. BTW, what does your dictionary tell you "Go push off" means?
In that case, it would be begs for the question, not begs the question. Notice point 3, item 2 which you mentioned. There is a difference between the phrases "beg the point in a dispute" and "beg for the point in a dispute".
Begging the point is an attempt to convince someone of a point because its the point your trying to convince them of. Begging for the point is asking "what is the point?". Hence begging the question versus begging for the question. But the two are easily confused, so "prompt" is a good choice to avoid the confusion.