Brilliant! Now all they need to add is a refrigerator, a paper towel holder, a dog kennel, and a pipe rack. Or they could come in pairs, and we could wear them as shoes when we aren't snapping pictures, playing games, waving our money away, or even occasionally talking to people.
Does Japanese have no word for "granularity"?
(I suppose that, for the American market, they could make a model that also has a gun in it to help us ward off theft. Oh, and a duct-tape dispenser for when it gets broken.:-)
Remember that the next time you whine that new kinds of carriers shouldn't be subject to the normal rules for carriers. Circuit-switched carriers would be in seven different kinds of hot water if they snooped this out and disclosed it without a court order, but VOIP has a computer in it so of course it is completely new and shouldn't be hamstrung with a lot of silly bureaucratic rules....
Give some samples to a child and let him spin-spin-spin them against the back of the package with one finger, put them halfway into the tray and have the drawer jam on them, drop them on the floor and let them lie there being walked on for hours, etc.
Real-life use is *much* harsher than steel wool.
Oh, and the new form factor is for the same reason it always is: so we'll have to buy new storage boxes and furniture since it won't fit in the old ones. That, and so it'll stand out on the store shelf. (Also the reason, I think, for Disney's nonstandard boxes which invariably will *not* fit in the space comfortably occupied by any other brand.)
Caddy-less? Where have you seen caddies in this decade? I wish I could get caddy drives, and that they didn't maintain the price of the caddy at 20x the manufacturing cost of the thing it holds.
Votes may be quantized, but they don't exhibit the Observer Paradox. Staring at the incomplete results all day won't change the outcome. I'll have to live with the results for years no matter what, so I generally heave a sigh of relief after voting, ignore the news for the rest of the day, and read the *actual*, *effective* result in the next day's newspaper. I can wait.
Well, they're listed in the Blue Pages of my phone book under Secret Service. Phone number *and* URL. No local office address, though; I suppose they'll tell me if they think I need to know it.
If you want to turn yourself in, I'm sure they can direct you if you just call the D.C. office.
Hmmm, I'd say that a lot of the blame rests with businesses that have extremely lax methods of determining a customer's identity, and their liability should be commensurate. That someone can recite my Social Security number, for example, says *nothing whatever* about who he is, and in particular whether he's me.
As to punishment, double or treble damages sounds fine but I think that the victim only needs to recover actual damages; the rest is a fine and goes to support the agency that broke the case. If someone took $5,000 from me then I want my $5,000 back, and if he needs to lose $5,000,000 in order to feel he's been significantly punished then that is an entirely separate issue. In egregious cases it is not unreasonable to exact so much from the offending entity that it cannot possibly recover, but the victims need recover only what they lost.
I particularly like the idea of making the fraudster contact a whole slew of creditors and confess personally.
Um, you do know that protecting the currency and the monetary system is exactly what the Secret Service is *for*? They don't have any mandate or authority w.r.t. phishing, so far as I know.
That's the trouble. For *you*, art becomes porn when *you* think it does. Your neighbor may disagree. It seems you've figured that out. Even judges who've studied the question carefully have had to cop out with references to vague concepts such as "community standards".
If something among your behaviors or possessions is bad for you, get rid of it. If you do that, it doesn't matter what you or anyone calls that from which you freed yourself.
I'd be more impressed if they can solve the problem where some wire hidden inside a structural member breaks and renders half the electrical devices in the vehicle inoperable, requiring a $500 fishing expedition to find and repair it.
(A good start would be to get rid of all the designers who think that making all wires and fasteners as inaccessible as humanly possible is the acme of engineering.)
Duuh, the crew need shielding anyway; space is crawling with much more energetic stuff than you'll find sneaking out of the power pile. Astronauts already wear gear to protect them from radiation, if they are going to be out in it.
Spacecraft architects have been thinking about that sort of stuff for a long time. Real-world space probes with nuclear thermoelectric generators have carried said generators at the end of a long boom to attenuate the radiation and protect the instruments. Or take a look at the Discovery in _2001, a Space Odyssey_ if you want to see (fictional) a nuclear-drive spacecraft that's probably not too far off the mark.
Okay, so what *should* we do with the products of fission? Recycling is not allowed, since this yields a bit of plutonium which automatically causes all nations to start building bombs. You don't want to store it. "Use it" or "throw it away" seem to be the only options. Should we wave a magic wand and make it disappear?
Except for all those contaminated fish. I have photos. (Not secret or amateur stuff either; this was published in the Time-Life Science Library decades ago.)
It's "okay" to do nuke stuff underwater because the people who shout the loudest *think* it not harmful, just as above-water nuke stuff is evil because the same people *think* it is evil.
Nuclear policy is probably one of the best arguments for keeping the common man away from the levers of government, alas. We know less than we should about cleaning up power reactor accidents, for example, not because nobody bothered to wonder about it, but because Congress got wind of the SPERT trials and realized they'd never survive the public finding out that we were deliberately making experimental reactors fail in order to understand how to deal with the real thing. (Not to say that we know a lot about cleaning up the mess from coal-fired plants, waste from manufacturing photovoltaic cells, etc. either....)
Aim such a product at programmers, and you'll learn a few things about programmers.
Correct spelling is no longer more probable than incorrect spelling.:-) Programmers as a class are notoriously poor spellers.
Some misspellings are intentional. I knew a guy who frequently wanted to use MODE as a variable name in his COBOL programs. But MODE is a COBOL keyword and the compiler would hiss at him. So he now always spells it MOAD.
Likewise some misspellings are due to local culture. Paw through some DEC code and you'll find that "controller" is always spelled "kontroller". It's not an error; it's probably to do with the more intelligent bits of DEC gear being given K-series board/unit designations.
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Transfer to floor sweeping any coder who is caught allocating I/O buffers off the stack. Haven't they figured that out *yet*?
I think you'll have to figure in the time it takes bacteria to evolve entirely new enzyme systems.
Brilliant! Now all they need to add is a refrigerator, a paper towel holder, a dog kennel, and a pipe rack. Or they could come in pairs, and we could wear them as shoes when we aren't snapping pictures, playing games, waving our money away, or even occasionally talking to people.
:-)
Does Japanese have no word for "granularity"?
(I suppose that, for the American market, they could make a model that also has a gun in it to help us ward off theft. Oh, and a duct-tape dispenser for when it gets broken.
As in, "how big a mallet do I need to pound it into a *standard* card receptacle?"
Cheney/Ashcroft in '08?
Sorry, I just like to watch you shudder.
Yup, it's purely coincidental that there are French, Portugese, and Dutch names all over Africa and southeast Asia.
Remember that the next time you whine that new kinds of carriers shouldn't be subject to the normal rules for carriers. Circuit-switched carriers would be in seven different kinds of hot water if they snooped this out and disclosed it without a court order, but VOIP has a computer in it so of course it is completely new and shouldn't be hamstrung with a lot of silly bureaucratic rules....
Give some samples to a child and let him spin-spin-spin them against the back of the package with one finger, put them halfway into the tray and have the drawer jam on them, drop them on the floor and let them lie there being walked on for hours, etc.
Real-life use is *much* harsher than steel wool.
Oh, and the new form factor is for the same reason it always is: so we'll have to buy new storage boxes and furniture since it won't fit in the old ones. That, and so it'll stand out on the store shelf. (Also the reason, I think, for Disney's nonstandard boxes which invariably will *not* fit in the space comfortably occupied by any other brand.)
Caddy-less? Where have you seen caddies in this decade? I wish I could get caddy drives, and that they didn't maintain the price of the caddy at 20x the manufacturing cost of the thing it holds.
Votes may be quantized, but they don't exhibit the Observer Paradox. Staring at the incomplete results all day won't change the outcome. I'll have to live with the results for years no matter what, so I generally heave a sigh of relief after voting, ignore the news for the rest of the day, and read the *actual*, *effective* result in the next day's newspaper. I can wait.
So how long did they study the PDP-6 to learn how to do it? :-}
"Thoughtcrime", not "thinkcrime". Report to MiniTrue plusquick for the Newspeak refresher course.
Well, they're listed in the Blue Pages of my phone book under Secret Service. Phone number *and* URL. No local office address, though; I suppose they'll tell me if they think I need to know it.
If you want to turn yourself in, I'm sure they can direct you if you just call the D.C. office.
All of you who thought, in school, that diagramming sentences was stupid: now you see why it isn't! :-)
But what about: leave site look alone, install traps everywhere, 3972 members soon well and truly fingered.
Hmmm, I'd say that a lot of the blame rests with businesses that have extremely lax methods of determining a customer's identity, and their liability should be commensurate. That someone can recite my Social Security number, for example, says *nothing whatever* about who he is, and in particular whether he's me.
As to punishment, double or treble damages sounds fine but I think that the victim only needs to recover actual damages; the rest is a fine and goes to support the agency that broke the case. If someone took $5,000 from me then I want my $5,000 back, and if he needs to lose $5,000,000 in order to feel he's been significantly punished then that is an entirely separate issue. In egregious cases it is not unreasonable to exact so much from the offending entity that it cannot possibly recover, but the victims need recover only what they lost.
I particularly like the idea of making the fraudster contact a whole slew of creditors and confess personally.
Um, you do know that protecting the currency and the monetary system is exactly what the Secret Service is *for*? They don't have any mandate or authority w.r.t. phishing, so far as I know.
That's the trouble. For *you*, art becomes porn when *you* think it does. Your neighbor may disagree. It seems you've figured that out. Even judges who've studied the question carefully have had to cop out with references to vague concepts such as "community standards".
If something among your behaviors or possessions is bad for you, get rid of it. If you do that, it doesn't matter what you or anyone calls that from which you freed yourself.
Uh, isn't "put them back in the earth" exactly what the O.P. said we shouldn't do? ("...truck them to some underground facility.")
I'd be more impressed if they can solve the problem where some wire hidden inside a structural member breaks and renders half the electrical devices in the vehicle inoperable, requiring a $500 fishing expedition to find and repair it.
(A good start would be to get rid of all the designers who think that making all wires and fasteners as inaccessible as humanly possible is the acme of engineering.)
...in hard little cans that easily survive intact.
Duuh, the crew need shielding anyway; space is crawling with much more energetic stuff than you'll find sneaking out of the power pile. Astronauts already wear gear to protect them from radiation, if they are going to be out in it.
Spacecraft architects have been thinking about that sort of stuff for a long time. Real-world space probes with nuclear thermoelectric generators have carried said generators at the end of a long boom to attenuate the radiation and protect the instruments. Or take a look at the Discovery in _2001, a Space Odyssey_ if you want to see (fictional) a nuclear-drive spacecraft that's probably not too far off the mark.
Okay, so what *should* we do with the products of fission? Recycling is not allowed, since this yields a bit of plutonium which automatically causes all nations to start building bombs. You don't want to store it. "Use it" or "throw it away" seem to be the only options. Should we wave a magic wand and make it disappear?
Except for all those contaminated fish. I have photos. (Not secret or amateur stuff either; this was published in the Time-Life Science Library decades ago.)
It's "okay" to do nuke stuff underwater because the people who shout the loudest *think* it not harmful, just as above-water nuke stuff is evil because the same people *think* it is evil.
Nuclear policy is probably one of the best arguments for keeping the common man away from the levers of government, alas. We know less than we should about cleaning up power reactor accidents, for example, not because nobody bothered to wonder about it, but because Congress got wind of the SPERT trials and realized they'd never survive the public finding out that we were deliberately making experimental reactors fail in order to understand how to deal with the real thing. (Not to say that we know a lot about cleaning up the mess from coal-fired plants, waste from manufacturing photovoltaic cells, etc. either....)
Aim such a product at programmers, and you'll learn a few things about programmers.
:-) Programmers as a class are notoriously poor spellers.
Correct spelling is no longer more probable than incorrect spelling.
Some misspellings are intentional. I knew a guy who frequently wanted to use MODE as a variable name in his COBOL programs. But MODE is a COBOL keyword and the compiler would hiss at him. So he now always spells it MOAD.
Likewise some misspellings are due to local culture. Paw through some DEC code and you'll find that "controller" is always spelled "kontroller". It's not an error; it's probably to do with the more intelligent bits of DEC gear being given K-series board/unit designations.
Hmmm, I keep running into gadgets that want to do predictive completion for me. I always get annoyed and turn it off.