The relationship between humans and dogs is sufficiently close that some consider them a virtual symbiont. Not only did ancient dogs keep the human's living areas clean, they also may well have served as an alarm system. (Mine sure as hell do!) The dogs get free meals, which probably mean they survive longer and have more vigorous offspring. Humams get garbage and alarm service, which means they probably had better survival rates as well. Everybody wins.
Stephen Budiansky, in his book The Truth About Dogs discusses DNA evidence that indicate that dogs broke off from wolves about 100K years ago. He suggests that there was no reason to do so except for following bands of humans. So, this cooperation between humans and dogs goes back a bit.
Maybe these companies are within their legal bounds merely because our government has hypocritically refused to boycott another communist regime. I guess we only boycott them when they'r poor, anyway (like Cuba).
Exactly. Things the U.S. gets from Cuba: refugees, cigars, the occasional professional athlete or musician. Things the U.S. gets from China: *
If you just look at their respective web page "mission statements", that seems to be the case. However, with all of the plugins available for jEdit, the gap between the two narrows considerably. Granted, Eclipse has a lot going for it, and tons of community support, and a million plugins - But for my uses jEdit seems to be a better balance of power and agility. Eclipse has power, emacs is agile, and jEdit seems to have just enough of both qualities to make it my "go to" environment.
Dude, just go to a bunch more concerts. The phenomenon will go away. As Walter Becker of Steely Dan said a few years ago: "Yeah, let's go on tour one more time. I've still got some midrange hearing left."
Let's not leave jEdit off of that list. It was the only thing I found cool enough to make me move on from my umpty-skiddle year relationship with Emacs. (Yeah, I've tried Eclipse, and not to get into an IDE war, but it just seemed too heavyweight for me.)
CMake sounds good, but I'll wait for next version after that - It's going to have edgy artwork, glossy paper, and a million features (most of which I won't use). I hear it's going to called Ant.
The 3 letters that management are just now starting to understand are : TCO.
I think another 3 letters the original poster's managers could stand to learn about would be CYA, as in the non-existing contingencies for nonperformance section of the so-called contract they signed with that dodgy outsourcing firm. Doesn't seem to be much CYA going on in the original poster's company, let alone the subtleties of TCO.
"...The bloody thing will be taking core samples and burning coatings off rocks for spectral analysis at a distance with lasers."
[tinfoilhat] Yeah, that's what they're telling the public. Those of us with properly grounded metallic headgear know that the real reason for this sort of "spectral analysis" is to burn the bastards who took out the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Beagle and all of the other probes that made it to Mars and then "mysteriously disappeared" or "malfunctioned". Does anyone really believe that "we didn't know our meters from our feet" explanation for the augering-in of the Mars Polar Lander?...Yeah, I didn't think so. [/tinfoilhat]
ISS Astronaut Ed Lu has written an entire essay about food on the space station. Other sources indicate that microgravity seems to make everything taste bland - Hot sauces (and spicy foods) seem to be what a lot of the crew members crave.
Not like the sort of X vs. Y choice they had when comparing Fords and Toyotas.
And at the present time even the nationality of any given car produced by either of those companies is unclear - Ford has stakes in several other Japanese and European car companies. Toyota, according to this blurb on their website, has 8 assembly plants in the US. As Warren Brown, automotive journalist for The Washington Post says, there's no such thing as a "domestic" or "foreign" car manufacturer in the US these days.
I bought the 60GB version, but the photo thing was sorta a "nice-to-have" for this boy. The really cool things about it were: (A) Upgraded color screen, better fonts for the interface. (B) 60 gigs'o'music. (C) 15 hrs battery life. (D) 60 gigs'o'music.
I'm not sure about the battery life, but it just died as I was typing this, and my last recharge was Monday evening. S'good enough for me.
As for the photo functionality, it's cool, but let's face it, these pics are about the size of the one on my driver's license - In other words, they're pretty underwhelming. I didn't buy this thing for that.
Additional benefits of this revolutionary approach to personal transportation include:
Cleaner air, due to the vast reduction in fossil fuel use presented by these new vehicles.
Unlike conventional automobiles, these actually increase the fitness level of the operator.
Also unlike conventional autos, these cars foster the growth of community, as achieving reasonable velocities involves having several helpers to power the vehicle.
There's no downside, really. Except for the hills...
This is a different power increase from the gradual one reported on in the earlier press releases. The space.com article is dated November 4th, and refers to 2-5% power increase overnight. The best candidate for an explanation seems to be that Opportunity was targeted by a dust devil that blew almost all of the dust off of it - And the rover is now at 82% full power, a condition it hasn't experienced for months. Talk about luck!
Maybe they oughta take another scan with the front and rear hazard cams to check for new logos - I bet Opportunity is sportin' a "Type R" sticker now...
I'm not sure the analogy with domestic dogs holds - Genetic labs study dogs precisely because they have among the highest intra-species morphology differences recorded for any mammal - Far more than humans.
The introduction of a white paper on sequencing dog DNA found here describes this in detail.
The accident stems from the fact that they put the satellite on the Turn Over Cart, which did it's job and turned it over. The new reports states that what the team actually meant to do was to put the satellite on the Don't Fscking Move A Millimeter Cart instead. Mixing up the two cart types was the root problem.
Yeah, and if it wasn't down because it got pyroclastic-flow-dotted or flash-steam-dotted before he posted this story, it's certainly been slash-dotted to oblivion by now...
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The relationship between humans and dogs is sufficiently close that some consider them a virtual symbiont. Not only did ancient dogs keep the human's living areas clean, they also may well have served as an alarm system. (Mine sure as hell do!) The dogs get free meals, which probably mean they survive longer and have more vigorous offspring. Humams get garbage and alarm service, which means they probably had better survival rates as well. Everybody wins.
Stephen Budiansky, in his book The Truth About Dogs discusses DNA evidence that indicate that dogs broke off from wolves about 100K years ago. He suggests that there was no reason to do so except for following bands of humans. So, this cooperation between humans and dogs goes back a bit.
Exactly. Things the U.S. gets from Cuba: refugees, cigars, the occasional professional athlete or musician. Things the U.S. gets from China: *
If you just look at their respective web page "mission statements", that seems to be the case. However, with all of the plugins available for jEdit, the gap between the two narrows considerably. Granted, Eclipse has a lot going for it, and tons of community support, and a million plugins - But for my uses jEdit seems to be a better balance of power and agility. Eclipse has power, emacs is agile, and jEdit seems to have just enough of both qualities to make it my "go to" environment.
Dude, just go to a bunch more concerts. The phenomenon will go away. As Walter Becker of Steely Dan said a few years ago: "Yeah, let's go on tour one more time. I've still got some midrange hearing left."
Let's not leave jEdit off of that list. It was the only thing I found cool enough to make me move on from my umpty-skiddle year relationship with Emacs. (Yeah, I've tried Eclipse, and not to get into an IDE war, but it just seemed too heavyweight for me.)
..."and I loaded this on a huge cart along with other hardware and my Warr Guitar strapped to my back..."
Trey Gunn...Is that you?
"...Okay, if I could have everyone's attention for a moment - If you could just look over here..." [Flashy thing goes off.]
--Agent J, MIB.
Woah, somebody on slashdot has the good will to admit they were wrong, while citing the correct facts?
;-)
That must explain that big flock of pigs I just saw fly past my office window...
CMake sounds good, but I'll wait for next version after that - It's going to have edgy artwork, glossy paper, and a million features (most of which I won't use). I hear it's going to called Ant.
Ya know, I never seem to have mod points when it comes to decent puns like this... :-(
...Netcraft confirms it. IE is dying.
For a demonstration of massive rotary-dial phone smackdown, check out Get Shorty.Dennis Farina beats the crap out of Gene Hackman with a desk phone.
catdevnull says:
The 3 letters that management are just now starting to understand are : TCO.
I think another 3 letters the original poster's managers could stand to learn about would be CYA, as in the non-existing contingencies for nonperformance section of the so-called contract they signed with that dodgy outsourcing firm. Doesn't seem to be much CYA going on in the original poster's company, let alone the subtleties of TCO.
Rei says:
"...The bloody thing will be taking core samples and burning coatings off rocks for spectral analysis at a distance with lasers."
[tinfoilhat]
Yeah, that's what they're telling the public. Those of us with properly grounded metallic headgear know that the real reason for this sort of "spectral analysis" is to burn the bastards who took out the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Beagle and all of the other probes that made it to Mars and then "mysteriously disappeared" or "malfunctioned". Does anyone really believe that "we didn't know our meters from our feet" explanation for the augering-in of the Mars Polar Lander?...Yeah, I didn't think so.
[/tinfoilhat]
ISS Astronaut Ed Lu has written an entire essay about food on the space station. Other sources indicate that microgravity seems to make everything taste bland - Hot sauces (and spicy foods) seem to be what a lot of the crew members crave.
cmholm says:
Not like the sort of X vs. Y choice they had when comparing Fords and Toyotas.
And at the present time even the nationality of any given car produced by either of those companies is unclear - Ford has stakes in several other Japanese and European car companies. Toyota, according to this blurb on their website, has 8 assembly plants in the US. As Warren Brown, automotive journalist for The Washington Post says, there's no such thing as a "domestic" or "foreign" car manufacturer in the US these days.
I bought the 60GB version, but the photo thing was sorta a "nice-to-have" for this boy. The really cool things about it were: (A) Upgraded color screen, better fonts for the interface. (B) 60 gigs'o'music. (C) 15 hrs battery life. (D) 60 gigs'o'music.
I'm not sure about the battery life, but it just died as I was typing this, and my last recharge was Monday evening. S'good enough for me.
As for the photo functionality, it's cool, but let's face it, these pics are about the size of the one on my driver's license - In other words, they're pretty underwhelming. I didn't buy this thing for that.
Cleaner air, due to the vast reduction in fossil fuel use presented by these new vehicles.
Unlike conventional automobiles, these actually increase the fitness level of the operator.
Also unlike conventional autos, these cars foster the growth of community, as achieving reasonable velocities involves having several helpers to power the vehicle.
There's no downside, really. Except for the hills...
This is a different power increase from the gradual one reported on in the earlier press releases. The space.com article is dated November 4th, and refers to 2-5% power increase overnight. The best candidate for an explanation seems to be that Opportunity was targeted by a dust devil that blew almost all of the dust off of it - And the rover is now at 82% full power, a condition it hasn't experienced for months. Talk about luck!
Maybe they oughta take another scan with the front and rear hazard cams to check for new logos - I bet Opportunity is sportin' a "Type R" sticker now...
I'm not sure the analogy with domestic dogs holds - Genetic labs study dogs precisely because they have among the highest intra-species morphology differences recorded for any mammal - Far more than humans.
The introduction of a white paper on sequencing dog DNA found here describes this in detail.
BTW, What breed do you raise?
davidseyes asks:
:-D
Should Florida and Texas votes be counted this year?
Definitely! I'm voting in both those states (among others) and I want my votes to count!
The accident stems from the fact that they put the satellite on the Turn Over Cart, which did it's job and turned it over. The new reports states that what the team actually meant to do was to put the satellite on the Don't Fscking Move A Millimeter Cart instead. Mixing up the two cart types was the root problem.
Yeah, that fits - Fast moving, overwhelming, and if you're a server, generally fatal...
Michael says:
The cam for the volcano seems to be down...
Yeah, and if it wasn't down because it got pyroclastic-flow-dotted or flash-steam-dotted before he posted this story, it's certainly been slash-dotted to oblivion by now...