Pink Floyd reference. "Have a Cigar" from 1975/6's "Wish You Here".
Roger Waters (bassist, main song writer) has an anti-music establishment issue (despite being one of the biggest acts in rock history and making a bazillion dollars out of it)
bring an economic balance
between developed and under-developed economies
Bringing a balance necessarily implies that the standard of living in developed countries falls as the standard of living in less developed countries rises.
Globalization doesn't automatically create new real wealth, just redistributes the existing.
VB is actually fairly complicated as a beginner language:
1) There's the basic language the user needs to learn. Control structures, data structures, syntax, how to code logic, debugging
2) There's the fact the VB supports OOP. Using that effectively is a whole other can of worms than basic step 1 follows step 2 programming.
3) Then there's the GUI design. Adding and coding support for UI objects, understanding the event driven programing, windows messaging, all that stuff.
There's a whole lot of stuff to learn there. Throwing all that at a complete novice will be overwhelming.
Standard teaching philosphy is to incremently build skills/understanding by starting with simple basics and expanding the scope of instruction. I'm pretty sure your English teacher didn't ask you to read "The Merchant of Venice" in grade one.
There's probably a world of difference between guidance and the "assistance" groups like Nsync get.
Having all your songs written for you, doing everything the way the producer/engineer/director/marketer during every step of your brief career is not guidance.
That's different than a producer going "album sounds good guys, but what if you lay of the kazoo just a bit in that second song?"
No, that isn't the classic case of a cartel being undermined. The classic of a cartel being undermined is when one member realizes that if it cuts its price to below the artificial price created by the cartel, then it can screw the other members of the cartel by sucking all the business away from them.
That's why cartels are typically so short-lived. Greed convinces one party that they can make more (short-term) by screwing their partners than abiding by the agreements of the members.
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Yes, powering your car from electricity coming off the power grid is still resulting in emissions, but...
- Industrial power plants are more efficient and cleaner than a car engine. Especially considering that some of them are hydro or nuclear
- Less micro-leakage into the environment due to spills at gas stations, leaking car gas-tanks, leakage during accidents
- More efficient distribution, no need to have fleets of trucks driving the highways 24/7 to keep gas stations supplied.
No, electric cars are not perfect but they are better.
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Well, nuclear power plants do technically run on fuel....That's why there's all the kerfuffle about what to do with radioactive waste.
Because if you do that you've failed to do two things:
Failed to demonstrate that the observed phenomenon is consistent across all possible sets (up to infinite size) of oranges, instead of the one set you have.
Failed to demonstrate that the oberved phenomenon is consistent across every possible method of stacking.
What you've done is shown that for a subset of the sets of oranges and a subset of the sets of stacks the pyramid is better.
A mathematical proof shows something is true for every single element of the sets.
In the annuls of history, who do you think is rememebred more: Rome or Switzerland?
Which one is still around today? Is it still better to be feared?
As long as Rome was powerful could do as it pleased without reprecussions. Once it started to weaken it's enemies were able to tear it down.
Switzerland has been around in an independant form for over 500 years and is still healthy and will continue to be healthy. It's because they play well with others
As I understand it they _had_ a nuclear program (with several functioning weapons). But to the best of my knowledge they voluntarily scapped that a while back and destroyed the weapons.
Last I checked Russia was the only country with a working nuke program
Hmm...
England - acknowledged nuclear power
France - acknowledged nuclear power
Russia - acknowledged nuclear power
China - acknowledged nuclear power
Israel - Nuclear armed, ~200 weapons
India - Nuclear armed, ~100 weapons
Pakistan - Nuclear armed, ~30-40 weapons
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SPAM doesn't come from Microsoft nor does it affect solely people using MS products
There are back-doors, local/remote root-exploits for non-MS products. In the past 3 weeks I have become of local root vulnerabilities for both my linux and my Solaris servers. Someone I know was actually hit hard by a linux virus recently.
MS doesn't create virii or worms, idiots do. Those same idiots could just as easily create them for Linux/UNIX
What classical composers labelled stuff along the lines of: "___" by "___"?
The classical music arena is absolutely rampant with _heavily_ derivative works. There's the occasional "Variations on theme by XYZ". But by and large there's no accreditation. And there's lots of really, really blatant stuff out there.
A deficit is the net loss for a specific time period (say 1 year).
For example, the US may have had a $6B debt in 1999. But that year government expenditures where $100M less than revenue. Therefore they had a surplus.
Bytes aren't base anything. It's a noun describing a collection of 8-bits.
Mega means 10^6. A Megabyte (according to standard mathematics and measuring systems) is therefore 10^6 bytes.
Computers internally use the binary base (2 not 8). Coincidently, 2^10 is 1024, and 2^20 is 1048576. The 2^10 bytes are about one kilobyte and 2^20 bytes are about megabyte.
Because the sizes are so similar, it just became standard practice to 2^10 bytes a kilobytes. It is though incorrect.
Scary definitely had at least something to do with. People galloping at you full speed, essentially dressed as monsters, with loud wind screaming through feathers would definitely be scary.
But, also, the lances used by the winged hussars were upwards of 20 feet long. The length of a 15-17th century pike varied between 14 and 18 feet. The longer lances aren't much of an advance but it helps.
Plus, remember that the Swedish mercenaries had no real leadership. They used essentially the exact same tactic for 75+ years, just because it worked the first time. And when terrain and changes in technology were unadvantageous they got slaughtered and became irrelevant.
Swedish pikeman had a (well-deserved) reputation for being fearless if not necessarily smart. It's why in some they suffer up to 50% casualties.
Most people would be pissed for not giving that extra dollar a day anymore. It's one of those things.
There was a study done (maybe a few) which rated customers' satisfaction with some service (a restaurant I believe). The customers were quite happy for time. Then one day they got an extra freebie, and their satisfaction went up. But the next day when they didn't get that freebie, the satisfaction plummeted below the original level despite receiving the same service. And the satisfaction level stayed low for a long time.
I imagaine the same is true for that extra a day. Once people have expectations they're disappointed, even if their expectation were unreasonable.
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Pink Floyd reference. "Have a Cigar" from 1975/6's "Wish You Here".
Roger Waters (bassist, main song writer) has an anti-music establishment issue (despite being one of the biggest acts in rock history and making a bazillion dollars out of it)
And does it do anything useful?
Most programs that do anything more than a simple minor task will have bugs, I can't remember using one that didn't.
I don't get it? What's counterintuitive about a monopoly merging with something? Why is that against common sense?
I don't know about them, but I'd be worried about the interest of the authorities
;-)
I don't know about you, but I'd be mored worried about being marked as a potential mugging victim.
You see an antenna, I see a flag say "Look a geek!! Easy victim"
bring an economic balance
between developed and under-developed economies
Bringing a balance necessarily implies that the standard of living in developed countries falls as the standard of living in less developed countries rises.
Globalization doesn't automatically create new real wealth, just redistributes the existing.
VB is actually fairly complicated as a beginner language:
1) There's the basic language the user needs to learn. Control structures, data structures, syntax, how to code logic, debugging
2) There's the fact the VB supports OOP. Using that effectively is a whole other can of worms than basic step 1 follows step 2 programming.
3) Then there's the GUI design. Adding and coding support for UI objects, understanding the event driven programing, windows messaging, all that stuff.
There's a whole lot of stuff to learn there. Throwing all that at a complete novice will be overwhelming.
Standard teaching philosphy is to incremently build skills/understanding by starting with simple basics and expanding the scope of instruction. I'm pretty sure your English teacher didn't ask you to read "The Merchant of Venice" in grade one.
but many need some help, some guidance.
There's probably a world of difference between guidance and the "assistance" groups like Nsync get.
Having all your songs written for you, doing everything the way the producer/engineer/director/marketer during every step of your brief career is not guidance.
That's different than a producer going "album sounds good guys, but what if you lay of the kazoo just a bit in that second song?"
No, that isn't the classic case of a cartel being undermined. The classic of a cartel being undermined is when one member realizes that if it cuts its price to below the artificial price created by the cartel, then it can screw the other members of the cartel by sucking all the business away from them.
That's why cartels are typically so short-lived. Greed convinces one party that they can make more (short-term) by screwing their partners than abiding by the agreements of the members.
Yes, powering your car from electricity coming off the power grid is still resulting in emissions, but...
- Industrial power plants are more efficient and cleaner than a car engine. Especially considering that some of them are hydro or nuclear
- Less micro-leakage into the environment due to spills at gas stations, leaking car gas-tanks, leakage during accidents
- More efficient distribution, no need to have fleets of trucks driving the highways 24/7 to keep gas stations supplied.
No, electric cars are not perfect but they are better.
Well, nuclear power plants do technically run on fuel....That's why there's all the kerfuffle about what to do with radioactive waste.
anti-Goverment, left wing bull shit!
Well, technically, left-wing typically means pro-Governement. You know, Communism, Socialism, etc. But then I'm sure you knew that.
What you've done is shown that for a subset of the sets of oranges and a subset of the sets of stacks the pyramid is better.
A mathematical proof shows something is true for every single element of the sets.
In the annuls of history, who do you think is rememebred more: Rome or Switzerland?
Which one is still around today? Is it still better to be feared?
As long as Rome was powerful could do as it pleased without reprecussions. Once it started to weaken it's enemies were able to tear it down.
Switzerland has been around in an independant form for over 500 years and is still healthy and will continue to be healthy. It's because they play well with others
As I understand it they _had_ a nuclear program (with several functioning weapons). But to the best of my knowledge they voluntarily scapped that a while back and destroyed the weapons.
Hmm...
SPAM doesn't come from Microsoft nor does it affect solely people using MS products
There are back-doors, local/remote root-exploits for non-MS products. In the past 3 weeks I have become of local root vulnerabilities for both my linux and my Solaris servers. Someone I know was actually hit hard by a linux virus recently.
MS doesn't create virii or worms, idiots do. Those same idiots could just as easily create them for Linux/UNIX
What classical composers labelled stuff along the lines of: "___" by "___"?
The classical music arena is absolutely rampant with _heavily_ derivative works. There's the occasional "Variations on theme by XYZ". But by and large there's no accreditation. And there's lots of really, really blatant stuff out there.
Debt is different then deficit.
Debt is the accumulation of previous deficits.
A deficit is the net loss for a specific time period (say 1 year).
For example, the US may have had a $6B debt in 1999. But that year government expenditures where $100M less than revenue. Therefore they had a surplus.
What's a Sun SPARC?
Are you refering to the ancient SPARCStation workstations?
Perhaps the more modern UltraSparc workstations?
Or two a SunFire 15K running 106 UltraSparc processors and a couple hundred gigabytes of RAM?
Do you have any evidence to prove it? You're the one making claims. It falls upon you to prove it.
If I claim there was electricity in Elizabethean England, it's my responsibility to prove it, not yours to disprove it.
Bytes aren't base anything. It's a noun describing a collection of 8-bits.
Mega means 10^6. A Megabyte (according to standard mathematics and measuring systems) is therefore 10^6 bytes.
Computers internally use the binary base (2 not 8). Coincidently, 2^10 is 1024, and 2^20 is 1048576. The 2^10 bytes are about one kilobyte and 2^20 bytes are about megabyte.
Because the sizes are so similar, it just became standard practice to 2^10 bytes a kilobytes. It is though incorrect.
Not only is it Windows-centric, but it's also US-centric. Hello, music up here north of the 49th.
Well, there is one (Pure Tracks) but it tries to tell me that I'm not Canadian. Oh well.
Oh maybe some of us just never bothered boycotted the RIAA in the first place. It is not, therefore, hypocritical for me to download.
Scary definitely had at least something to do with. People galloping at you full speed, essentially dressed as monsters, with loud wind screaming through feathers would definitely be scary.
But, also, the lances used by the winged hussars were upwards of 20 feet long. The length of a 15-17th century pike varied between 14 and 18 feet. The longer lances aren't much of an advance but it helps.
Plus, remember that the Swedish mercenaries had no real leadership. They used essentially the exact same tactic for 75+ years, just because it worked the first time. And when terrain and changes in technology were unadvantageous they got slaughtered and became irrelevant.
Swedish pikeman had a (well-deserved) reputation for being fearless if not necessarily smart. It's why in some they suffer up to 50% casualties.
Most people would be pissed for not giving that extra dollar a day anymore. It's one of those things.
There was a study done (maybe a few) which rated customers' satisfaction with some service (a restaurant I believe). The customers were quite happy for time. Then one day they got an extra freebie, and their satisfaction went up. But the next day when they didn't get that freebie, the satisfaction plummeted below the original level despite receiving the same service. And the satisfaction level stayed low for a long time.
I imagaine the same is true for that extra a day. Once people have expectations they're disappointed, even if their expectation were unreasonable.