The part where you argue from the assumption that the deficits and surpluses need to balance each other out over very short periods of time in order for things to be balanced. 0.5 pounds represents a pretty large number of calories (especially measured in daily plus-minuses); most people drift up and down a pound or 2 over a few months rather than staying exactly static, and day to day, the amount of water in their system makes it very difficult to see the calorie signal.
I think if you talked to a doctor about it, you would find out that they don't believe that it is strictly related to caloric intake the way a simpler machine is, but if you want to lose weight, you need to run a long term deficit, and if you want to gain weight, you need to run a long term surplus. It is simple physics.
If you aren't comfortable with events being added after page load, you need to turn off javascript or use noscript, it is considered a best practice by many people.
When you are too old to understand what the fuck you're talking about, you may not understand that you don't understand what you are talking about (because recognizing your incompetence would involve the same skills as the competence itself).
I like the way launchy handles it. It reads the program names from the start menu, so if I can't remember a name and want to look, the icons are still there, rather than somewhere else, or not installed. I think most of the launcher apps do it this way, as it makes a lot of sense to make it an additional capability, rather than a replacement.
I have a lot of crap that I use for this or that, once in a while, installed, so my start menu, at the base level, has more than 100 items in it. No way am I going to remember positions for that much stuff, and organizing is a pain (especially when icons don't get uninstalled), so a search based launcher is fantastic.
I checked. No way am I posting a statement like that here without making sure that the number is correct. I used 7 billion, but it is close enough at that point.
Why not just say "Hey, fuck you asshole, that isn't what I think". It would almost be more polite than repeatedly calling me an idiot.
To clarify, I'm thinking about something like Levitt talks about in Freakonomics where they were able to measure the performance of teachers by looking at how much a class improved while being taught by a certain teacher, not taking test scores and comparing them across districts and all the other stupid ideas that you put in my mouth.
I had enough bad teachers that I know they are out there. The only way to get rid of them is to find them. The only way to find them (without first coming up with a whole new set of administrators who are somehow better than current administrators at estimating teaching ability) is to measure student performance.
The various hotkey launch bars are the usable start menu and the better answer. Press hotkey. Type (part of) application or file name. Hit Enter. App launches or file opens.
Tastes seem to differ quite a bit for this type of app, there are dozens of alternatives (and apparently some similar functionality is built into Vista).
And yes, they got popular with Quicksilver on the Mac.
The comment I replied to said something like "Notice how the battery behaves? That's why the indicator behaves like that" and I said "That's insane, the indicator should try to be useful" and then you said "The indicators do try to be useful, it is just really hard".
I might not get it, but I'm pretty sure we aren't talking about the same things.
Taking the article to heart, maybe the reason they have more bars in more places is because they start at 3 bars for no signal and go all the way up to 4 bars for full signal.
You statement implies that you think it is more useful for the battery meter to display the charge level of the battery rather than the approximate amount of run time left.
For 99.99999999% of the people on Earth (that's everyone other than you), I'm pretty sure that a linear run time indicator is wildly more useful than an actual charge indicator.
The point of the article is to be a little bit interesting and a little bit informative (for people interested in reading it), not to quibble over the accuracy of the devices. The headline is a 'hook'.
I like to think of food, water, shelter and other basic needs as something that any sane, wealthy society should endeavor to provide for as many people as possible. Sane, wealthy, basic, needs and many are all sort of ambiguous and open to interpretation, so it isn't a great formulation.
That said, when you look at things, modern, developed societies do a decent job of this. There are food programs for families (I certainly think it is more important to provide for children), food banks, and other charities. Things are far from perfect, but a lot of the time, they are pretty good.
Much of the debate is actually about whether government is the proper mechanism, but it gets sidetracked by people decrying the preference of a different mechanism as a failure to believe in the purpose (i.e., many conservatives/Republicans really do believe that less regulation leads to a more prosperous economy for everyone, etc.)
Not all teachers are good teachers. Not all teachers are good people. As much as the students, standardized testing measures the teachers, and it is necessary.
You don't even need to educate people about birth control; just increase their economic security. Of course, that isn't easy to do, but helping someone live an easier, more productive life is generally less controversial than trying to tell them not to have children.
My point was more that patents expire and someone with money would be screaming bloody murder if they were actively being prevented from using a technology by a 'big energy' patent holder. I mean, BP is one of the largest manufacturers of solar panels, I doubt that they are degrading them on purpose (because if people are buying the crappy ones, they would be swarming around better ones).
Batteries are what they are because reversible chemical reactions are hard to devise (and look at how much energy it takes for a battery to explode). Solar cells are what they are because as bright as the sun is, it isn't that bright, so spending vast amounts of money on them is less attractive than building a coal power plant (because the risk and return associated with the power plant are essentially fixed before you spend a dime).
Democracy doesn't do anything to ensure freedom. It is usually more free than say, a dictatorship, but it doesn't actually do anything to ensure freedom, the majority rules and all that crap.
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The part where you argue from the assumption that the deficits and surpluses need to balance each other out over very short periods of time in order for things to be balanced. 0.5 pounds represents a pretty large number of calories (especially measured in daily plus-minuses); most people drift up and down a pound or 2 over a few months rather than staying exactly static, and day to day, the amount of water in their system makes it very difficult to see the calorie signal.
I think if you talked to a doctor about it, you would find out that they don't believe that it is strictly related to caloric intake the way a simpler machine is, but if you want to lose weight, you need to run a long term deficit, and if you want to gain weight, you need to run a long term surplus. It is simple physics.
If you aren't comfortable with events being added after page load, you need to turn off javascript or use noscript, it is considered a best practice by many people.
If it is somehow in relation to Short Circuit, then yes, you probably are:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/
Dude, you are drunk before you start drinking. That must be awesome.
When you are too old to understand what the fuck you're talking about, you may not understand that you don't understand what you are talking about (because recognizing your incompetence would involve the same skills as the competence itself).
I like the way launchy handles it. It reads the program names from the start menu, so if I can't remember a name and want to look, the icons are still there, rather than somewhere else, or not installed. I think most of the launcher apps do it this way, as it makes a lot of sense to make it an additional capability, rather than a replacement.
I have a lot of crap that I use for this or that, once in a while, installed, so my start menu, at the base level, has more than 100 items in it. No way am I going to remember positions for that much stuff, and organizing is a pain (especially when icons don't get uninstalled), so a search based launcher is fantastic.
I checked. No way am I posting a statement like that here without making sure that the number is correct. I used 7 billion, but it is close enough at that point.
Why not just say "Hey, fuck you asshole, that isn't what I think". It would almost be more polite than repeatedly calling me an idiot.
To clarify, I'm thinking about something like Levitt talks about in Freakonomics where they were able to measure the performance of teachers by looking at how much a class improved while being taught by a certain teacher, not taking test scores and comparing them across districts and all the other stupid ideas that you put in my mouth.
I had enough bad teachers that I know they are out there. The only way to get rid of them is to find them. The only way to find them (without first coming up with a whole new set of administrators who are somehow better than current administrators at estimating teaching ability) is to measure student performance.
The various hotkey launch bars are the usable start menu and the better answer. Press hotkey. Type (part of) application or file name. Hit Enter. App launches or file opens.
Launchy is the one I am using:
http://www.launchy.net/#download
Tastes seem to differ quite a bit for this type of app, there are dozens of alternatives (and apparently some similar functionality is built into Vista).
And yes, they got popular with Quicksilver on the Mac.
The comment I replied to said something like "Notice how the battery behaves? That's why the indicator behaves like that" and I said "That's insane, the indicator should try to be useful" and then you said "The indicators do try to be useful, it is just really hard".
I might not get it, but I'm pretty sure we aren't talking about the same things.
Taking the article to heart, maybe the reason they have more bars in more places is because they start at 3 bars for no signal and go all the way up to 4 bars for full signal.
You statement implies that you think it is more useful for the battery meter to display the charge level of the battery rather than the approximate amount of run time left.
For 99.99999999% of the people on Earth (that's everyone other than you), I'm pretty sure that a linear run time indicator is wildly more useful than an actual charge indicator.
The point of the article is to be a little bit interesting and a little bit informative (for people interested in reading it), not to quibble over the accuracy of the devices. The headline is a 'hook'.
Would you panic if your phone stopped working?
I like to think of food, water, shelter and other basic needs as something that any sane, wealthy society should endeavor to provide for as many people as possible. Sane, wealthy, basic, needs and many are all sort of ambiguous and open to interpretation, so it isn't a great formulation.
That said, when you look at things, modern, developed societies do a decent job of this. There are food programs for families (I certainly think it is more important to provide for children), food banks, and other charities. Things are far from perfect, but a lot of the time, they are pretty good.
Much of the debate is actually about whether government is the proper mechanism, but it gets sidetracked by people decrying the preference of a different mechanism as a failure to believe in the purpose (i.e., many conservatives/Republicans really do believe that less regulation leads to a more prosperous economy for everyone, etc.)
Adobe abandoned Pagemaker. InDesign is the replacement.
Is food a right? If so, how much food? What kind of food? Think about it...
Not all teachers are good teachers. Not all teachers are good people. As much as the students, standardized testing measures the teachers, and it is necessary.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask him to show his medical records. I don't think it is reasonable to make it a law or otherwise coerce him.
You don't even need to educate people about birth control; just increase their economic security. Of course, that isn't easy to do, but helping someone live an easier, more productive life is generally less controversial than trying to tell them not to have children.
It depends a great deal on who made the movie.
My point was more that patents expire and someone with money would be screaming bloody murder if they were actively being prevented from using a technology by a 'big energy' patent holder. I mean, BP is one of the largest manufacturers of solar panels, I doubt that they are degrading them on purpose (because if people are buying the crappy ones, they would be swarming around better ones).
Batteries are what they are because reversible chemical reactions are hard to devise (and look at how much energy it takes for a battery to explode). Solar cells are what they are because as bright as the sun is, it isn't that bright, so spending vast amounts of money on them is less attractive than building a coal power plant (because the risk and return associated with the power plant are essentially fixed before you spend a dime).
Democracy doesn't do anything to ensure freedom. It is usually more free than say, a dictatorship, but it doesn't actually do anything to ensure freedom, the majority rules and all that crap.
Apparently, it is worth it.
I heard that only the recent ones matter.
You could probably get a decent idea of it by sifting through court records to find cases involving the oil and coal industry and solar patents.