I'm tired of constantly upgradng everything. I drive an old car built in 1997, and I don't understand why I can't keep running the same browser at least a few years. Yeah I know - constant updating keeps programmers employed.
Drat, improving technology keeps programmers employed.
Double drat- your reluctance to update combined with a propensity to complain keeps additional people employed just to make sure things continue to look pretty on your screen.
You're obviously not a nonsmoker yet. You're still maintaining interest in the cigarettes you own. People quitting often suffer a relapse around two months after quitting because they feel invulnerable and cigarettes are still around. You're going to end up smoking those fuckers in four more weeks. Get them out your freezer, and throw them out of your house. Toss them into a dumpster without opening the pack. And tell all your Facebook friends to promise to never let you have one of theirs.
I agree with your general sentiments. But what are you going to say when people respond this way?
"A NEW TAX on lobbyists? Why are liberals in favor of new taxes on free speech all the time?"
Maybe you can label your lobbyist tax as a fine on irresponsible free speech which has more political currency.
First of all, taxes are levied on everyone (including us), but fines are levied on people breaking the law, and we hate people who break the law because they're criminals. The element of criminality makes all the difference in the world. It really drives us crazy. It was why we got so freaked about the WTC collapse, more than if the towers were brought down simultaneously by e.g. faulty construction and high winds, or accidental fires from careless smoking, or a weird "Manhattan" bug common to all flight software in use. That would have been a one-week story, like that bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis two years ago. Maybe. Asthma killed more Americans in 2001 than did the WTC attacks and those deaths are barely Googleable.
Second of all we can plainly tell what free speech is irresponsible, and not deserving of "our granting it constitutional protections", as soon as we hear it. But this "money is not a form of speech" thing is going nowhere:
Look- it says right on the money "In God We Trust"!
I suggest going back to the drawing board before you get schooled in public by the likes of Sarah Palin.
The 0.9 seconds thing could easily have happened near the explosion. There was wavelength-dependent scattering of gamma rays by elastic collisions with the massive number of neutrons that were suddenly created there. A neutron would absorb the gamma ray, and after some brief time reradiate it in some other direction to go back its ground state.
they arrived within 9/10th of a second of each other... which indicates the opposite of the story's summary
1. One leaves from near one pole. One leaves from near the other pole. Or any two antipodes depending on where the Earth is. Even from a star comparable to the size of the Earth-Moon radius exploding, 0.9 seconds is quite reasonable.
2. Near the explosion there are also going to be elastic collisions between the gamma rays and the neutrons that are being created en masse. The likelihood of photon-neutron collisions is dependent on the photon wavelength.
3. The explosion lasted a frigging 2.2 seconds.
The only valid observation is that the story's summary did not indicate this, but anyone with a brain... oh never mind.
0.9 seconds is pretty good. Someone mod this first-post-contrarian parent down from "Insightful" and maybe the next two page loads will stop seeing that within 9/10 of a second of each other.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work......aah never mind.
They're both great devices- I recommend both. They're both around the same price point (or will be once the $50 SheevaPlug comes out). I brought the Kill-A-Watt in to work one day to test something, and everyone wanted to borrow it. Sometimes you're surprised by how little electricity something uses that you thought would be hogging it. You feel less guilty leaving stuff on since you've turned certain other things off.
According to my Kill-A-Watt meter, the thing consistently uses 4 watts. I set up um SVN MySQL LightHTTP Samba and I forget what else. SSH/SFTP were enabled out of the box. I transferred the filesystem from the crappy 512 MB NAND to a compact flash card and moved some var directories to an external HDD.
Ironically it was much more difficult to plug in the Kill-A-Watt. It has a three prong plug sticking out of the middle of a chassis that is carefully designed to cover every other outlet in the room. The SheevaPlug went in right on top with no problem.
I'd be tempted to register a temporary dyndns for 5 minutes and post it here to see what the Kill-A-Watt does if I weren't feeling so lazy. I don't feel like reaching down there and power cycling it.
The beer cans will have labels showing coils going completely around them; when you've had them chilling on liquid helium long enough, the coils will turn blue, and that's when you'll know your beer is as cold as the interior of the Large Hadron Collider.
The existing battery of drugs is enough to put HIV into remission. Your immune system will remain healthy and the virus particles will essentially disappear. But it's somewhere inside you; if you stop taking those drugs, it eventually comes back although you may have to wait.
HIV has long been known to hide somewhere in the body after drugs have eliminated the actual virus particles. They found where recently; it integrates its sequence into the DNA of T-cells, and the promoter at the start of the viral sequence is capped by a repressor protein. Once it comes off its DNA binding site, viral proteins start getting transcribed again.
They actually developed a drug that can kick it off there and make your AIDS come back again.
Touchscreens always struck me as something you'd think came about more because of the merging of existing stuff (both touchpads and LCDs) than their being anything anyone was asking for. It's one of those things that seems like a good idea until you use it for a full five minutes and go crazy. They always give me trouble with misinterpreted UI actions because I never seem to know how hard they want to be pressed on. I can't see what my fingertips are rolling around on. If I try to peek underneath I'll mess it up, click on the next button, click twice, whatever. After a few minutes of that I go nuts.
There's also the interplay between human psychology and human finger oil as you first start using the touchscreen. You slide the damn thing out of the box and it has a plastic sleeve on it to keep it totally pristine, from a land of sunshine and happiness and less than 100 airborne particles per cubic meter. As if you have no dust in your own house. And it's got that sticky no-stick plastic there on the screen, with no bubbles under it yet to leave evidence of already being touched. You impulsively rip it off, and there's your glistening new touchscreen, with nary a speck of fingerprint grease to be found on it, reflecting your slobbering face recognizably. And there you are, with your filthy greasy thumb, about to lower its resale value by $50. You'll never see it this clean again. Wiping your fingers on your shirt, you reluctantly push on the screen afraid to break it... "I Agree"... and it's all over. They could make it easier for customers by selling them pre-filthy from the factory. I'm picturing a guy on the assembly line fondling phones and eating chips all day.
I use them to make binary neutron stars swirl into each other and explode. They remove energy from the system so you can pack those stars in there real good... and rapidly spinning black holes make great gifts for the kids.
Obama is trying to justify this merger with an unknown anti-Christian Andromeda galaxy lying to us saying it's going to be a "nice and slow merge but one that needs to be done after getting input from every galaxy" which is of course a lie because the Milky Way and hence the U.S. is going to get devoured and to that I say we should not be showing weakness as a country and we should not be apologizing to strange galaxies invading our turf and we should certainly not be merging with them and extending health insurance to how many other beings might be in that galaxy given we don't even know how many so with this galaxy collision about to happen he can't even explain how he's going to accomplish health reform let alone a galaxy collision.
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I'm tired of constantly upgradng everything. I drive an old car built in 1997, and I don't understand why I can't keep running the same browser at least a few years. Yeah I know - constant updating keeps programmers employed.
Drat, improving technology keeps programmers employed.
Double drat- your reluctance to update combined with a propensity to complain keeps additional people employed just to make sure things continue to look pretty on your screen.
You're obviously not a nonsmoker yet. You're still maintaining interest in the cigarettes you own. People quitting often suffer a relapse around two months after quitting because they feel invulnerable and cigarettes are still around. You're going to end up smoking those fuckers in four more weeks. Get them out your freezer, and throw them out of your house. Toss them into a dumpster without opening the pack. And tell all your Facebook friends to promise to never let you have one of theirs.
I agree with your general sentiments. But what are you going to say when people respond this way?
"A NEW TAX on lobbyists? Why are liberals in favor of new taxes on free speech all the time?"
Maybe you can label your lobbyist tax as a fine on irresponsible free speech which has more political currency.
First of all, taxes are levied on everyone (including us), but fines are levied on people breaking the law, and we hate people who break the law because they're criminals. The element of criminality makes all the difference in the world. It really drives us crazy. It was why we got so freaked about the WTC collapse, more than if the towers were brought down simultaneously by e.g. faulty construction and high winds, or accidental fires from careless smoking, or a weird "Manhattan" bug common to all flight software in use. That would have been a one-week story, like that bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis two years ago. Maybe. Asthma killed more Americans in 2001 than did the WTC attacks and those deaths are barely Googleable.
Second of all we can plainly tell what free speech is irresponsible, and not deserving of "our granting it constitutional protections", as soon as we hear it. But this "money is not a form of speech" thing is going nowhere:
Look- it says right on the money "In God We Trust"!
I suggest going back to the drawing board before you get schooled in public by the likes of Sarah Palin.
Ask the guy if you can buy (share) his identity so you can take the MySpace job offer while he takes the one from Facebook.
Maybe YOU can be the one at Facebook instead, if you offer enough cash, but they might be better able to figure out who you are.
At least fold some proteins if you're going to do this. Or look for aliens.
The 0.9 seconds thing could easily have happened near the explosion. There was wavelength-dependent scattering of gamma rays by elastic collisions with the massive number of neutrons that were suddenly created there. A neutron would absorb the gamma ray, and after some brief time reradiate it in some other direction to go back its ground state.
they arrived within 9/10th of a second of each other ... which indicates the opposite of the story's summary
1. One leaves from near one pole. One leaves from near the other pole. Or any two antipodes depending on where the Earth is. Even from a star comparable to the size of the Earth-Moon radius exploding, 0.9 seconds is quite reasonable.
2. Near the explosion there are also going to be elastic collisions between the gamma rays and the neutrons that are being created en masse. The likelihood of photon-neutron collisions is dependent on the photon wavelength.
3. The explosion lasted a frigging 2.2 seconds.
The only valid observation is that the story's summary did not indicate this, but anyone with a brain... oh never mind.
0.9 seconds is pretty good. Someone mod this first-post-contrarian parent down from "Insightful" and maybe the next two page loads will stop seeing that within 9/10 of a second of each other.
Didn't they stop at a diner along the way?
Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work... ...aah never mind.
They're both great devices- I recommend both. They're both around the same price point (or will be once the $50 SheevaPlug comes out). I brought the Kill-A-Watt in to work one day to test something, and everyone wanted to borrow it. Sometimes you're surprised by how little electricity something uses that you thought would be hogging it. You feel less guilty leaving stuff on since you've turned certain other things off.
Yes but you must admit this betrays the whole schtick of "plug computing".
According to my Kill-A-Watt meter, the thing consistently uses 4 watts. I set up um SVN MySQL LightHTTP Samba and I forget what else. SSH/SFTP were enabled out of the box. I transferred the filesystem from the crappy 512 MB NAND to a compact flash card and moved some var directories to an external HDD.
Ironically it was much more difficult to plug in the Kill-A-Watt. It has a three prong plug sticking out of the middle of a chassis that is carefully designed to cover every other outlet in the room. The SheevaPlug went in right on top with no problem.
I'd be tempted to register a temporary dyndns for 5 minutes and post it here to see what the Kill-A-Watt does if I weren't feeling so lazy. I don't feel like reaching down there and power cycling it.
Why don't you just blow it toward a window fan, so it stinks up the outside for the neighbors?
> There is no "normal" - everyone seems to have something. Developers (and geeks, in general) just wear it out there on their sleeve.
Wow, 5 Insightful for this line and all responses agree including some emotional rambling "Read the rest of this comment"-ers!
NO!
The beer cans will have labels showing coils going completely around them; when you've had them chilling on liquid helium long enough, the coils will turn blue, and that's when you'll know your beer is as cold as the interior of the Large Hadron Collider.
Otherwise the inevitable "writing to memory in the browser" hype will amount to flyshit.
Oh just pull over at a truck stop and finish your post.
Yeah but most meth cooks are also high school chemistry teachers. You do your cooking on the side and keep your reagents at work with the kids.
The existing battery of drugs is enough to put HIV into remission. Your immune system will remain healthy and the virus particles will essentially disappear. But it's somewhere inside you; if you stop taking those drugs, it eventually comes back although you may have to wait.
HIV has long been known to hide somewhere in the body after drugs have eliminated the actual virus particles. They found where recently; it integrates its sequence into the DNA of T-cells, and the promoter at the start of the viral sequence is capped by a repressor protein. Once it comes off its DNA binding site, viral proteins start getting transcribed again.
They actually developed a drug that can kick it off there and make your AIDS come back again.
If only the victim had DU to fire too. The solution is for *everybody* to have DU rounds. That will settle disputes quickly.
Touchscreens always struck me as something you'd think came about more because of the merging of existing stuff (both touchpads and LCDs) than their being anything anyone was asking for. It's one of those things that seems like a good idea until you use it for a full five minutes and go crazy. They always give me trouble with misinterpreted UI actions because I never seem to know how hard they want to be pressed on. I can't see what my fingertips are rolling around on. If I try to peek underneath I'll mess it up, click on the next button, click twice, whatever. After a few minutes of that I go nuts.
There's also the interplay between human psychology and human finger oil as you first start using the touchscreen. You slide the damn thing out of the box and it has a plastic sleeve on it to keep it totally pristine, from a land of sunshine and happiness and less than 100 airborne particles per cubic meter. As if you have no dust in your own house. And it's got that sticky no-stick plastic there on the screen, with no bubbles under it yet to leave evidence of already being touched. You impulsively rip it off, and there's your glistening new touchscreen, with nary a speck of fingerprint grease to be found on it, reflecting your slobbering face recognizably. And there you are, with your filthy greasy thumb, about to lower its resale value by $50. You'll never see it this clean again. Wiping your fingers on your shirt, you reluctantly push on the screen afraid to break it... "I Agree"... and it's all over. They could make it easier for customers by selling them pre-filthy from the factory. I'm picturing a guy on the assembly line fondling phones and eating chips all day.
I use them to make binary neutron stars swirl into each other and explode. They remove energy from the system so you can pack those stars in there real good... and rapidly spinning black holes make great gifts for the kids.
Well it's just a little mishap, so your posting insurance won't go up too much.
Obama is trying to justify this merger with an unknown anti-Christian Andromeda galaxy lying to us saying it's going to be a "nice and slow merge but one that needs to be done after getting input from every galaxy" which is of course a lie because the Milky Way and hence the U.S. is going to get devoured and to that I say we should not be showing weakness as a country and we should not be apologizing to strange galaxies invading our turf and we should certainly not be merging with them and extending health insurance to how many other beings might be in that galaxy given we don't even know how many so with this galaxy collision about to happen he can't even explain how he's going to accomplish health reform let alone a galaxy collision.