This is absurd. Except in cases of extreme malnourishment, diet has nothing whatsoever to do with height.
Think so, eh? Are you saying all those shorter asians are suffering from extreme malnourishment? Asians aren't "genetically" short, as evidenced by the children of shorter asians who are born in and live in western countries and grow to the same average heights as their european counterparts. A low protein-low calcium diet during the formative years results in shorter height. It's not "malnourishment" by any stretch of the imagination.
I think it fits under the category of "Wouldn't it be cool if..." and "Hey, let's see if we can do it..." or just a hack. It's all part of the "hacker" desire to create something just to see if you can do it
Yeah, I think I was just disappointed with the lack of quality/complexity of the hack in this case. I was expecting something more sophisticated, I guess. Frankly, I built an electronic door lock that was more sophisticated when I was 14. It "read" resistors on a plug in circuit card and was controlled via my old VIC-20. Perhaps I just had/have access to better tools and materials. I dunno.
I'm not sure why this article is supposed to be intersting and/or amusing. The "card reader" mechanism is lame, so it's not his engineering prowess that's interesting. His fabrication skills are abyssmal (did he cut the card slot in the plastic box with a soldering iron? cripes...), so it's not the elegance of the unti that's impressive. Is this supposed to be amusing because it's "kewl and 1337"? Please. OK, so the novelty of a computer that turns on with a card is worth something, but how much, really? I don't think this project rises above "case modder" coolness level.
Yup deregulate let private industry handle it. Just look at how well they handle the electricity network. Next.
1) electricity distribution can't have multiple means of delivery, whereas alcohol can, thus TRUE competition is possible
2) Mississipi doesn't just regulate alcohol sales, it has full monopoly control
3) You're a jackass.
"next" indeed...
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What about those of us who like the filesystem the way it is. I can find any file in my system within 3 or 4 clicks of a mouse because I keep my files organized. How is the new system going to be faster than that? I don't understand how searching for files every time you need them is faster than a file system hierarchy.
Well, a file system is already a database, albeit a fairly poor one. Directories and sub-directories are essentially just fields attached to the record for each file. The new one will still look like the current file systems do, with nested directories and such, because people like it that way. The only difference is, instead of keeping only a few pieces of info in the main directory (filename, size, directory/folder, etc.), there'll be room to add fields. Using these fields, one can create "index" directories containing files with value 'X' in a particular field. It's just an improved way of doing things, not really a different one.
But also not quite false. The only part that Snopes really refutes is the width of the SRBs for the space shuttle being related to the width of the railroad tracks. I normally find Sonpes' analyses quite rational, but this one is a bit weak. They poke a little at a few of the raher weak links in the original story, but the fact that the Romans made their chariot wheel axles a particular width and that width has remained essentially a de facto standard for many similar conveyances up to the present time. Even they say so themselves in the very article you link:
" This is one of those items that -- although wrong in many of its details -- isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labelled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons."
Basically, in the case of the axle width, the Romans chose a standard and there was nothing to gain and much to lose (compatibility) for anyone who might choose another. Just take a look at Brunnel's wide-gauge railroad lines in the 1850's. The 7-foot wide rails required different cars and engines, couldn't be linked up to the larger network of narrow-gauge lines-- causing chaos at the stations with passengers dragging luggage from one train to the other. Even though Brunnel's trains were arguably better due to greater stability (wider base), the standard was already set and Brunnel's lines wre eventually replaced with narrow gauge. Same thing with the x86. There's too much inertia behind it.
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The reason it's called Bluetooth is that King Harald united Denmark and Norway during his rule circa 10th century. In similar fashion, Bluetooth wireless united dissimilar devices.
Admittedly, the name is appropriate, but marketing-wise it's totally lame. If King Harald were more famous outside of the limited set of people familiar with Scandanavian history, sure, but to the other 95% of the world it sounds like tooth decay!
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Iron City is supposed to be pretty good (I've never had it).
Dear god, what did you DO to someone that made them tell you Iron City is good? Iron City beer could be described charitably as an "acquired taste". In other words, it takes many years of drinking 12 packs and freezing your ass off at "Stillas" (Steelers) football games to finally (and perversely) get your brain to think of Iron City beer as a "good thing". It's in the same class as Budweiser, Old Milwaukee, and Pabst Blue Ribbon. The only thing it really has going for it is that Pittsburghers have developed a bizarre loyalty to it because it's local.
(I had a Pittsburgh nut give me one once; he was astounded when I didn't like it)
Actually, there's a LOT less money going into vaccines than there needs to be... just not in the US.
So you're saying the "wealthy" should forgo a tax cut to pay for vaccination programs in other countries? Now we're getting into "foreign aid" territory rather than the "public health" premise that was originally stated, and THAT'S something that's not going to be solved with money
Actually, there's a LOT less money going into vaccines than there needs to be... just not in the US.
So you're saying the "wealthy" should forgo a tax cut to pay for vaccination programs in other countries? Now we're getting into "foreign aid" territory rather than the "public health" premise that was originally stated, and THAT'S something that's not going to be solved with money.
Examine the sig closer, you'll find more. The errors are there on purpose. I'm mocking those who can't keep straight "there/their/they're", "its/it's", "loose/lose", and "then/than". If you didn't catch the others, you may have a problem...;)
Selectrics were the best typewriter that was ever made, inside they're a horrid rat's nest of rods and levers, and nobody alive knows how to adjust or fix them, and not using them won't prevent them from going bad.
We use one at work to fill out carbon forms (legacy crap from gov't agencies, usually). We periodically have to have it fixed, so we take it to a local repair shop. The guy looks like he's 95 years old, or maybe a zombie. So yeah, nobody alive knows how to fix those monsters, apparently.
As for the steel backplate in the thing: it's known that consumers generally associate some heft to objects with higher quality, to the point that some products are weighted to take advantage of this.
Reminds me of the first inexpensive non-Bell manufactured phone I bought after the AT&T breakup. It had all the heft of a standard 8-pound 2500 series Bell touch tone phone, but it appeared to be made of plastic. I took it apart years later and found that both the handset and the base contained their own individual pieces of 3/8" steel plate screwed down to the cheap plastic to give them weight.
I've got a friend who's high-end stereo system has a $1000 power cord.
What a dumbass. 120VAC will run on anything from copper to coathangers and the equipment won't know the difference.
(P.S. Don't use coathangers to run 120VAC. They're not insulated.)
I'm stuck administering a power control/access control system for a client that's managed via a 386-16 PC wired to the system via a proprietary ISA board. The nasty software it usues only runs in DOS, uses PCAnywhere 3 for remote access, and isn't capable of handling a date beyond 31 December 1999. The software was written by autistic engineers who were brilliant technically, but morons when it came to interface design. The best part is that the company no longer supports it, has no update to fix the date bug, and its latest product is totally incompatible with the old relay control and card reader hardware. We've been on the client to replace it, but he's too cheap. Meanwhile, this decrepit 386 periodically loses its [power supply/hard drive/modem] and requires much digging around to find replacement parts. Some things should die and not be brought back.
it's a shame that such a useless piece of information still occupies a few bytes of my personal RAM.
Funny how this story makes all kinds of weird memories pop up in my head.
I had the extended 80 column display cartridge that upgraded the basic to v4. I could get a directory listing with the command "catalog" and then
load"*",8,1
Better than that was the FastLoad cart from Epyx. Type $ for directory. type/filename to load. type _filename to save. Commodore-RUN/STOP to load *. I still have one of those carts somewhere...
If he's a contractor, or a 1099 person, then the company cannot provide him with the tools he needs to do his job. This includes a computer, a phone, or even a permanent work space.
This is true, but the key there is permanent. I did a lot of 1099 work for a game company (showing my age here) porting PC games to the Commodore 64. They couldn't give me any of the above named items directly, but I was allowed to use someone else's cubical, phone, and computers. The IRS doesn't unilaterally ban access to company resources-- that would make most contract work impossible.
Corperate law, at leas in the UK, says that the major share holder can by out everyone else at any price they want to and the minor share holders have to sell
1) that's can't be true
2) SCO isn't in the UK anyway
3) even if it was, and they were, what's your point?
The example you provide here makes ESR look more like a copyright cowboy than SCO. SCO... taking code from BSD and stripping that copyright does not give ESR the right to strip all copyrights from the file.
I think what ESR is saying there is that the content had been worked over by so many people and had changed so much that it could barely even be considered a derivative work, much less a copy of the original BSD code. Stripping the inapplicable copyright notice in this case is the Right Thing. If one loads source code into the editor, deletes all but the UC Regents copyright notice, and types in new source code, the copyright to that new source doesn't magically become property of the UC Regents. In other words, presence of a copyright notice isn't what assigns copyright. If one finds a copyright notice that's applied to code incorrectly, then the maintainer of said code should remove it ASAP to prevent confusion.
I wonder if any of those people with 10 million in the bank and a take home salary of over a million would give up some of those tax cuts to supply a truly fee and universal immunization for all children.
First, the taxes paid by the group you've described are chicken feed and wouldn't be enough for a big city Parks and Rec budget, much less a full national vaccination program. But it's easy to talk about how others should be more generous (at gov't gun-point) isn't it...
Second, there's no lack of money in immunization programs. The real problems with immunization programs in the US right now is that parents aren't letting their kids get them, for fear of side effects. They're a victim of their own success. Parents say "I haven't ever seen a polio case, so why does my kid need a polio vaccine?", completely missing the fact that the reason there's no polio around is because people are vaccinated. But I digress...
But what about cow catchers on trucks and SUVs. Most of these never leave the city. I have not seen a cow in a road since I was a kid. Is there any reason for these except to inflict maximum damage to a kid who is unfortunate to get in front of one these while the driver is on the phone?
Those aren't cow-catchers, doofus. They're brush guards. Cow-catchers are something they used to put on trains. And while brush guards on these SUVs are as pointless as cow catchers would be, they're a minor issue when it comes to large vehicles hitting pedestrians. You see, it's the fact that it's a large, heavy vehicle that does the most damage. Whether you're hit with a brush guard or a bumper is really quite immaterial. But even so, concentrating on which vehicles hurt people more in an accident is stupid. What we need to focus on is getting people to drive more attentively and not hit people in the first place.
Unlike when i was growing up, there is almost nothing on TV that promotes proper nutrition, but only commercials that promote high fact, high simple carb, junk food.
It's not the job of television to educate children on how to eat. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is something the parents are responsible for.
We see immigrant laborers go without pay for a honest days work because the people who hire these human beings see them as nothing more than garbage and know they can't get a lawyer.
Huh? This doesn't even make any sense. They may be underpaid, but they're not going without pay. The problem is that the money they do make is still better than the money they could make where they came from. You think a lawyer is the solution to a labor problem? Get real. What they need is organization and education. BTW, anyone can hire a lawyer and sue for back wages, even an undocumanted immigrant.
We do have $1 coins... No one uses them, either, except as tokens in roadside vending machines at rest stops (along the interstate highways) and a few other specialized locations.
Like post office stamp vending machines. I once stuck a twenty into one of those to buy two dollars worth of stamps and got back 18 dollars in SBAs! I usually save $2 bills and SBA/Sac dollars for those occasions when the DMV makes me come in to renew my driver's license. You should see those 'droids who works there throw an exception when their bureaucratic mind-software can't figure out where to put those coins and bills in the cash drawer!
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Think so, eh? Are you saying all those shorter asians are suffering from extreme malnourishment? Asians aren't "genetically" short, as evidenced by the children of shorter asians who are born in and live in western countries and grow to the same average heights as their european counterparts. A low protein-low calcium diet during the formative years results in shorter height. It's not "malnourishment" by any stretch of the imagination.
Yeah, I think I was just disappointed with the lack of quality/complexity of the hack in this case. I was expecting something more sophisticated, I guess. Frankly, I built an electronic door lock that was more sophisticated when I was 14. It "read" resistors on a plug in circuit card and was controlled via my old VIC-20. Perhaps I just had/have access to better tools and materials. I dunno.
I'm not sure why this article is supposed to be intersting and/or amusing. The "card reader" mechanism is lame, so it's not his engineering prowess that's interesting. His fabrication skills are abyssmal (did he cut the card slot in the plastic box with a soldering iron? cripes...), so it's not the elegance of the unti that's impressive. Is this supposed to be amusing because it's "kewl and 1337"? Please. OK, so the novelty of a computer that turns on with a card is worth something, but how much, really? I don't think this project rises above "case modder" coolness level.
Wow. You really showed him.
Thanks. I was wondering why I was having so much time Googling it later. :)
Aren't there only 16 combinations of 4 SPDT switches, and 32 of 5 of 'em?
1) electricity distribution can't have multiple means of delivery, whereas alcohol can, thus TRUE competition is possible
2) Mississipi doesn't just regulate alcohol sales, it has full monopoly control
3) You're a jackass.
"next" indeed...
Well, a file system is already a database, albeit a fairly poor one. Directories and sub-directories are essentially just fields attached to the record for each file. The new one will still look like the current file systems do, with nested directories and such, because people like it that way. The only difference is, instead of keeping only a few pieces of info in the main directory (filename, size, directory/folder, etc.), there'll be room to add fields. Using these fields, one can create "index" directories containing files with value 'X' in a particular field. It's just an improved way of doing things, not really a different one.
Sorry, but not quite true.
But also not quite false. The only part that Snopes really refutes is the width of the SRBs for the space shuttle being related to the width of the railroad tracks. I normally find Sonpes' analyses quite rational, but this one is a bit weak. They poke a little at a few of the raher weak links in the original story, but the fact that the Romans made their chariot wheel axles a particular width and that width has remained essentially a de facto standard for many similar conveyances up to the present time. Even they say so themselves in the very article you link:
" This is one of those items that -- although wrong in many of its details -- isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labelled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons."
Basically, in the case of the axle width, the Romans chose a standard and there was nothing to gain and much to lose (compatibility) for anyone who might choose another. Just take a look at Brunnel's wide-gauge railroad lines in the 1850's. The 7-foot wide rails required different cars and engines, couldn't be linked up to the larger network of narrow-gauge lines-- causing chaos at the stations with passengers dragging luggage from one train to the other. Even though Brunnel's trains were arguably better due to greater stability (wider base), the standard was already set and Brunnel's lines wre eventually replaced with narrow gauge. Same thing with the x86. There's too much inertia behind it.
Admittedly, the name is appropriate, but marketing-wise it's totally lame. If King Harald were more famous outside of the limited set of people familiar with Scandanavian history, sure, but to the other 95% of the world it sounds like tooth decay!
Dear god, what did you DO to someone that made them tell you Iron City is good? Iron City beer could be described charitably as an "acquired taste". In other words, it takes many years of drinking 12 packs and freezing your ass off at "Stillas" (Steelers) football games to finally (and perversely) get your brain to think of Iron City beer as a "good thing". It's in the same class as Budweiser, Old Milwaukee, and Pabst Blue Ribbon. The only thing it really has going for it is that Pittsburghers have developed a bizarre loyalty to it because it's local.
(I had a Pittsburgh nut give me one once; he was astounded when I didn't like it)
So you're saying the "wealthy" should forgo a tax cut to pay for vaccination programs in other countries? Now we're getting into "foreign aid" territory rather than the "public health" premise that was originally stated, and THAT'S something that's not going to be solved with money
So you're saying the "wealthy" should forgo a tax cut to pay for vaccination programs in other countries? Now we're getting into "foreign aid" territory rather than the "public health" premise that was originally stated, and THAT'S something that's not going to be solved with money.
Examine the sig closer, you'll find more. The errors are there on purpose. I'm mocking those who can't keep straight "there/their/they're", "its/it's", "loose/lose", and "then/than". If you didn't catch the others, you may have a problem...;)
We use one at work to fill out carbon forms (legacy crap from gov't agencies, usually). We periodically have to have it fixed, so we take it to a local repair shop. The guy looks like he's 95 years old, or maybe a zombie. So yeah, nobody alive knows how to fix those monsters, apparently.
Reminds me of the first inexpensive non-Bell manufactured phone I bought after the AT&T breakup. It had all the heft of a standard 8-pound 2500 series Bell touch tone phone, but it appeared to be made of plastic. I took it apart years later and found that both the handset and the base contained their own individual pieces of 3/8" steel plate screwed down to the cheap plastic to give them weight.
What a dumbass. 120VAC will run on anything from copper to coathangers and the equipment won't know the difference.
(P.S. Don't use coathangers to run 120VAC. They're not insulated.)
I'm stuck administering a power control/access control system for a client that's managed via a 386-16 PC wired to the system via a proprietary ISA board. The nasty software it usues only runs in DOS, uses PCAnywhere 3 for remote access, and isn't capable of handling a date beyond 31 December 1999. The software was written by autistic engineers who were brilliant technically, but morons when it came to interface design. The best part is that the company no longer supports it, has no update to fix the date bug, and its latest product is totally incompatible with the old relay control and card reader hardware. We've been on the client to replace it, but he's too cheap. Meanwhile, this decrepit 386 periodically loses its [power supply/hard drive/modem] and requires much digging around to find replacement parts. Some things should die and not be brought back.
poke53280,0
poke53281,1
poke646,0
the horror...the horror...
Better than that was the FastLoad cart from Epyx. Type $ for directory. type /filename to load. type _filename to save. Commodore-RUN/STOP to load *. I still have one of those carts somewhere...
This is true, but the key there is permanent. I did a lot of 1099 work for a game company (showing my age here) porting PC games to the Commodore 64. They couldn't give me any of the above named items directly, but I was allowed to use someone else's cubical, phone, and computers. The IRS doesn't unilaterally ban access to company resources-- that would make most contract work impossible.
1) that's can't be true
2) SCO isn't in the UK anyway
3) even if it was, and they were, what's your point?
I think what ESR is saying there is that the content had been worked over by so many people and had changed so much that it could barely even be considered a derivative work, much less a copy of the original BSD code. Stripping the inapplicable copyright notice in this case is the Right Thing. If one loads source code into the editor, deletes all but the UC Regents copyright notice, and types in new source code, the copyright to that new source doesn't magically become property of the UC Regents. In other words, presence of a copyright notice isn't what assigns copyright. If one finds a copyright notice that's applied to code incorrectly, then the maintainer of said code should remove it ASAP to prevent confusion.
First, the taxes paid by the group you've described are chicken feed and wouldn't be enough for a big city Parks and Rec budget, much less a full national vaccination program. But it's easy to talk about how others should be more generous (at gov't gun-point) isn't it...
Second, there's no lack of money in immunization programs. The real problems with immunization programs in the US right now is that parents aren't letting their kids get them, for fear of side effects. They're a victim of their own success. Parents say "I haven't ever seen a polio case, so why does my kid need a polio vaccine?", completely missing the fact that the reason there's no polio around is because people are vaccinated. But I digress...
But what about cow catchers on trucks and SUVs. Most of these never leave the city. I have not seen a cow in a road since I was a kid. Is there any reason for these except to inflict maximum damage to a kid who is unfortunate to get in front of one these while the driver is on the phone?
Those aren't cow-catchers, doofus. They're brush guards. Cow-catchers are something they used to put on trains. And while brush guards on these SUVs are as pointless as cow catchers would be, they're a minor issue when it comes to large vehicles hitting pedestrians. You see, it's the fact that it's a large, heavy vehicle that does the most damage. Whether you're hit with a brush guard or a bumper is really quite immaterial. But even so, concentrating on which vehicles hurt people more in an accident is stupid. What we need to focus on is getting people to drive more attentively and not hit people in the first place.
Unlike when i was growing up, there is almost nothing on TV that promotes proper nutrition, but only commercials that promote high fact, high simple carb, junk food.
It's not the job of television to educate children on how to eat. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, this is something the parents are responsible for.
We see immigrant laborers go without pay for a honest days work because the people who hire these human beings see them as nothing more than garbage and know they can't get a lawyer.
Huh? This doesn't even make any sense. They may be underpaid, but they're not going without pay. The problem is that the money they do make is still better than the money they could make where they came from. You think a lawyer is the solution to a labor problem? Get real. What they need is organization and education. BTW, anyone can hire a lawyer and sue for back wages, even an undocumanted immigrant.
gahhh...nevermind...
Like post office stamp vending machines. I once stuck a twenty into one of those to buy two dollars worth of stamps and got back 18 dollars in SBAs! I usually save $2 bills and SBA/Sac dollars for those occasions when the DMV makes me come in to renew my driver's license. You should see those 'droids who works there throw an exception when their bureaucratic mind-software can't figure out where to put those coins and bills in the cash drawer!