When one person is on vacation, the rest of the household is likely to be gone as well. to a cautious criminal, this is no substitute for a more through examination, but it would indicate which houses are best to examine.
You didn't even come close to seeing my point, did you? As for the scientific method, none of that was relevant to my argument, as I was pointing out the flaw in GP's logic.
GP assumed that climate change must mean either drought or floods. I was pointing out that an increase in extremes, at either end of the spectrum could be expected (although I would never classify a hurricane or drought as "proving global warming"). The disproof of global warming would be to show that the weather patterns are not changing, not to prove that they have changed in a way that was unexpected.
I hope the administration really makes a PR push on nuclear energy. With Obama being a darling of the left and environmental types, his advocacy could go a long way in dispelling some of the hippie anti-nuclear horseshit and hysteria that has put us so far behind Europe in the last several decades. It might also finally get enough public support to break the Yucca Mountain logjam and finally implement a sensible storage solution.
As an Obama supporter, I have to say I hope he isn't just doing this to get a few conservatives on his side.
When you're a sheep, I don't respect your opinion. Skeptics I have time for. Convince a skeptic, and you'll have won an actual battle. Convince a politician who wants votes and sees the sheep voters following your opinion already and you've accomplished little.
So is that your way of saying you only listen to people who don't agree with global warming? "Somebody screwed up forty years ago, and that's why I dismiss an entire field of research". It sounds like you are a real skeptic.
So, a radical increase in factor x proves instability, and a radical decrease in factor x proves instability. Given that any radical change in factor x proves instability, what would disprove instability?
Shush, you. It's no fun making fun of Canadians when you just go bringing up facts about how much better things are up there.
Now let's get back to talking about how their nuclear plants always explode, their hockey teams always lose and their health care system is stuck in the stone age, okay?
And if you're not that political, just keep looking for excuses to say "aboot"
Freedom? Come on. Software's priorities are to work, to be secure, and to be cost-effective. The real argument should be about whether FOSS is as likely to meet those criteria. If not, screw freedom, I'm going to Microsoft.
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What with being about 5x8" and maybe 3 lbs plus another 3 lb power supply.
Maybe if he squeezed a balance board in there, somewhere, it would be an achievement.
I have thought about this with cell phone companies. I once got service from bell south, and hated it. I couldn't pick up a signal at home, or at work. Odds were that, I could find a pay phone more easily than an area where I could get service. I wasn't surprised when they changed their name.
The problem is that, now, I can't remember who they became. I could look it up, but it isn't that relevant. The part that matters is that, when xfinity comes to your town three years from now, and your friend told you how much Comcast sucks, and you have been reading blog entries complaining about Comcast's service, you may not immediately realize that it's the same company.
I am wondering what exactly they are calling cheating here, since the code says they "will not plagiarize, copy work or get outside help."
Plagiarize and copy are obvious, but I never heard of asking for help on homework being cheating. How else does one learn ? If you didn't get the concept in class, you are out of luck, that's it ?
I was in an Engineering program (Stevens Institute in Hoboken), and I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
I would draw the line (if making an objective policy) at written code above a certain length. You can discuss algorithms, or even give an example of how a certain function might work. And, if discussing database code, you would need to cover several lines of code to show the student how to establish a connection, run a query, and close that connection.
You may also want to have a rule against code that is custom tailored for the specific application. For example, I would consider it cheating if someone else wrote a SQL query, that did not have to be modified to be used in the current assignment.
If they have to have managers to keep up with their documents for them, step 1 should be to ween them off of that. If you skip that step, then those who really need it will blame FOSS because they can't remember where they saved the important document they spent all of last week on. (And they won't say "OpenOffice doesn't keep up with it". They'll say "OpenOffice loses things, sometimes")
Nobody's forcing you to type playboy.com into your computer
Except the people who post links on forums that claim to point somewhere interesting but in fact point to shocking gay porn. OK, maybe you're right, that's not forcing, but it's still coercion because it's fraud.
Wow, I have never seen a goatse link used in an insightful manner before...You have truly accomplished something.
Actually, this is not true. The material the US government produces is not copyrighted, it is in the public domain (domestically, anyway). This means there is NO copyright holder and therefore no possibility of any license agreement with them.
So you would literary throw your PS3 out the window if they started charging? Anger problems much? Perhaps you should give your console to some poor kid instead. Pathetic.
I like the "pathetic" part. Apparently, you were outraged over a joke about throwing video game systems away, and found your soap box so that you can "think of the children" who do not have PS3s, and have to find other things to do with their televisions. But, yeah, he's the one with the problem.
... but unfortunately they granted a patent on that in 1987 and don't have the money for the absurd licensing fee the patent holder is asking. Unfortunately the "novel" method patented covers both clockwise and counterclockwise but they're currently looking into rotating them 179 degrees, making the document slightly slanted but avoiding royalties.
Of course, one would hope that the Patent and Trademark office would be smart enough to realize that a 1987 patent expired in 2007.
They would have, but the guidebook is upside down.
My guess is that it was probably a progression from "Haiping's PHP" to HPHP to HipHop.
Two syllables vs four or more... looks like they're not just computing more efficiently, but also speaking more efficiently!
But sometimes it's worth the extra effort. If I were heading a project called the "New Analytical Mathematics Binarie & Library Architecture", I wouldn't call it NAMBLA. I'd called it "the New A.M.B Library"...
My first thought was that this is totally unnecessary and sensationalist use of technology. My second thought was that CNN is going to love this.
"Today on CNN, teabaggers are alleging that the president is actually from Narnia, and that he killed the Lion, had sex with the Witch, and hid in the wardrobe. Here is a cgi rendering of that event, with a bad-ass dragon added in, and for some reason, Rush. Who the hell listens to Rush? Our CNN instapoll says that 15% of you listen to Rush, 80% do not, and 5% of you were just pressing buttons. Next, we're going to spend thirty minutes reading twitter"
How would a missile defense system come in handy in our daily lives? GPS I can see, but your argument is kind of like saying "NASA found a non-governmental use for tang, so I'm sure we will find a good non-governmental use for weaponized anthrax"
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now its clear they are becoming the matrix
I thought they were becoming Montgomery Burnes.
When one person is on vacation, the rest of the household is likely to be gone as well. to a cautious criminal, this is no substitute for a more through examination, but it would indicate which houses are best to examine.
Woosh!
You didn't even come close to seeing my point, did you? As for the scientific method, none of that was relevant to my argument, as I was pointing out the flaw in GP's logic.
GP assumed that climate change must mean either drought or floods. I was pointing out that an increase in extremes, at either end of the spectrum could be expected (although I would never classify a hurricane or drought as "proving global warming"). The disproof of global warming would be to show that the weather patterns are not changing, not to prove that they have changed in a way that was unexpected.
I hope the administration really makes a PR push on nuclear energy. With Obama being a darling of the left and environmental types, his advocacy could go a long way in dispelling some of the hippie anti-nuclear horseshit and hysteria that has put us so far behind Europe in the last several decades. It might also finally get enough public support to break the Yucca Mountain logjam and finally implement a sensible storage solution.
As an Obama supporter, I have to say I hope he isn't just doing this to get a few conservatives on his side.
When you're a sheep, I don't respect your opinion. Skeptics I have time for. Convince a skeptic, and you'll have won an actual battle. Convince a politician who wants votes and sees the sheep voters following your opinion already and you've accomplished little.
So is that your way of saying you only listen to people who don't agree with global warming? "Somebody screwed up forty years ago, and that's why I dismiss an entire field of research". It sounds like you are a real skeptic.
The scientific method involves debate, but only the evidence is allowed to participate.
So, a radical increase in factor x proves instability, and a radical decrease in factor x proves instability. Given that any radical change in factor x proves instability, what would disprove instability?
Shush, you. It's no fun making fun of Canadians when you just go bringing up facts about how much better things are up there.
Now let's get back to talking about how their nuclear plants always explode, their hockey teams always lose and their health care system is stuck in the stone age, okay?
And if you're not that political, just keep looking for excuses to say "aboot"
Freedom? Come on. Software's priorities are to work, to be secure, and to be cost-effective. The real argument should be about whether FOSS is as likely to meet those criteria. If not, screw freedom, I'm going to Microsoft.
What with being about 5x8" and maybe 3 lbs plus another 3 lb power supply.
Maybe if he squeezed a balance board in there, somewhere, it would be an achievement.
a new name is unlikely to impress consumers.
I have thought about this with cell phone companies. I once got service from bell south, and hated it. I couldn't pick up a signal at home, or at work. Odds were that, I could find a pay phone more easily than an area where I could get service. I wasn't surprised when they changed their name.
The problem is that, now, I can't remember who they became. I could look it up, but it isn't that relevant. The part that matters is that, when xfinity comes to your town three years from now, and your friend told you how much Comcast sucks, and you have been reading blog entries complaining about Comcast's service, you may not immediately realize that it's the same company.
So, if the rumors about Bing being an acronym for "Bing Is Not Google", then what happens when a recursive name collapses in on itself?
I am wondering what exactly they are calling cheating here, since the code says they "will not plagiarize, copy work or get outside help."
Plagiarize and copy are obvious, but I never heard of asking for help on homework being cheating. How else does one learn ?
If you didn't get the concept in class, you are out of luck, that's it ?
I was in an Engineering program (Stevens Institute in Hoboken), and I would venture that at least half of homework was done in study groups, sometimes just to bounce idea off each other, sometimes as a collaborative group effort. This was part of the learning process.
I would draw the line (if making an objective policy) at written code above a certain length. You can discuss algorithms, or even give an example of how a certain function might work. And, if discussing database code, you would need to cover several lines of code to show the student how to establish a connection, run a query, and close that connection.
You may also want to have a rule against code that is custom tailored for the specific application. For example, I would consider it cheating if someone else wrote a SQL query, that did not have to be modified to be used in the current assignment.
No, it's really fucking not. Linux is fine for what it is, but what it is not is Windows sans MS.
Exactly. Linux does not have to try to be windows, and windows does not have to try to be a mac. Let them do what they're good at.
If they have to have managers to keep up with their documents for them, step 1 should be to ween them off of that. If you skip that step, then those who really need it will blame FOSS because they can't remember where they saved the important document they spent all of last week on. (And they won't say "OpenOffice doesn't keep up with it". They'll say "OpenOffice loses things, sometimes")
They may say she died from a burst ventricle, but I know she died of a broken heart.
Nobody's forcing you to type playboy.com into your computer
Except the people who post links on forums that claim to point somewhere interesting but in fact point to shocking gay porn. OK, maybe you're right, that's not forcing, but it's still coercion because it's fraud.
Wow, I have never seen a goatse link used in an insightful manner before...You have truly accomplished something.
Actually, this is not true. The material the US government produces is not copyrighted, it is in the public domain (domestically, anyway). This means there is NO copyright holder and therefore no possibility of any license agreement with them.
So how's Disney going to screw THIS up for us?
So you would literary throw your PS3 out the window if they started charging? Anger problems much? Perhaps you should give your console to some poor kid instead. Pathetic.
I like the "pathetic" part. Apparently, you were outraged over a joke about throwing video game systems away, and found your soap box so that you can "think of the children" who do not have PS3s, and have to find other things to do with their televisions. But, yeah, he's the one with the problem.
Of course, one would hope that the Patent and Trademark office would be smart enough to realize that a 1987 patent expired in 2007.
They would have, but the guidebook is upside down.
Oh no, they proved MC Hammer wrong!
I thought the last two decades proved MC Hammer wrong.
My guess is that it was probably a progression from "Haiping's PHP" to HPHP to HipHop.
Two syllables vs four or more... looks like they're not just computing more efficiently, but also speaking more efficiently!
But sometimes it's worth the extra effort. If I were heading a project called the "New Analytical Mathematics Binarie & Library Architecture", I wouldn't call it NAMBLA. I'd called it "the New A.M.B Library"...
My first thought was that this is totally unnecessary and sensationalist use of technology. My second thought was that CNN is going to love this.
"Today on CNN, teabaggers are alleging that the president is actually from Narnia, and that he killed the Lion, had sex with the Witch, and hid in the wardrobe. Here is a cgi rendering of that event, with a bad-ass dragon added in, and for some reason, Rush. Who the hell listens to Rush? Our CNN instapoll says that 15% of you listen to Rush, 80% do not, and 5% of you were just pressing buttons. Next, we're going to spend thirty minutes reading twitter"
How would a missile defense system come in handy in our daily lives? GPS I can see, but your argument is kind of like saying "NASA found a non-governmental use for tang, so I'm sure we will find a good non-governmental use for weaponized anthrax"
When you have to get up at five AM to change diapers, you'll understand.