So it was correct on all counts! (Many IQ tests really do rate people in non-native English-speaking countries lower, which proves either that speaking English from birth makes you smarter, that English evolved to express the complex thoughts of smart people or that what IQ tests really measure is how Anglo you are rather than how smart.)
Two of the smartest people I know like Harley Davidson. Hmm... What does that say about me? No, seriously. They're both very smart. IQs over 130. The just like Harleys. But I haven't seen them liking "I Love Being a Mom" or Tyler Perry.
Now what would be funny would be an app that tells you what inferences Facebook draws about you because of your likes. But somehow I doubt anybody's going to make an app that tells people it thinks they're stupid.
Aren't driver error, speeding and drinking overlapping categories. And if you are drunk but make no driver error, isn't it nlikely that you will be in an accident?
Special interests are inevitable in a system that allows politicians to set the rules for businesses and individuals in the first place. The politicians are the ones that hacked the Constitution, they hacked the Law. They figured out how to remove the chains that were placed upon the government to bind it, to provide it with only limited powers (article 1, section 8). Once the politicians found the way (it was easy once the Republic became wealthy enough due to all the business that thrived under the mostly free market system in the first 124 years of the Republic), just promise the people something for nothing and they will vote for you and will let you do whatever you want to the Law..
Business really didn't thrive. It was boom and bust all the way. There were multiple deep and sometimes long recessions and depressions. There was also very much not a free market in critical industries. Federal land grants built the railroads and the West -- on land forcibly "liberated" from its previous occupants and owners.
Can't wait until I pull onto a freeway with one of these, driven by an idiot, suddenly is spotted in my rear view mirror fish-tailing and spinning towards me as the driver attempts to slow down and miss me. It'll be the experience of a lifetime. Of course I may not see this for the rest of my life.
If you do see it, it's likely to be for the rest of your life.
You know what's even more annoying than that? People who complain about what other people want to discuss. If you don't want to discuss it, then shut the fuck up and let those who care about it discuss it to their heart's content.
We weren't even discussing DST. Just time formats and timekeeping. Is that not nerd-fodder?
But the problem is easy enough to fix by adding another 32-bit epoch with the default being zero corresponding to our current epoch. And add a 64-bit precision timing field when you need precision much better than a second.
It was absolutely awful trying to convert between the game-time and real-time.
I took the easy route and still based everything on seconds, and built it up from there.
The main reason for doing it was because the game was based on real time, so even being away caused events to pass.
And given a typical person, they'd play games more or less at the same time every day for a certain period of time.
This is why I settled on what would effectively be 7 hour days.
Out of sync with a normal day so a typical person would almost certainly come across every time period at some point.
And 7 is short enough to experience in a day, but still long enough to feel "right".
I can't remember how I done minutes or hours again, it was way back in 2005.
That project never got completed due to health reasons.
I might come back to it one day, but it isn't a priority.
At least I never decided to make a language for it as well.
We're sorry about what this did to your sanity. Glad to see you've recovered.
There are quite a number. There are a number of completely different CATEGORIES of time formats.
For time presentation, there are analog and digital formats. Analog presentation format we are familiar with on watches and clocks is one of them. There is also an analog time presentation format where the hour hand turns once a day instead of once per 12 hours, and seemingly endless variations on these. There are time strip recording charts, timeline graphs, etc. Digital time presentation formats include your familiar hours-minutes-seconds digital clock. On scientific timekeeping equipment, we often also display numeric day of year (1 through 366). Other clocks display calendar month and date. Computer systems display it many different ways and it's often configurable.
For transmission of time codes, there are several varieties of IRIG in AM and DCLS. There is NTP and PTP (both of which comprise a transmission standard and method of synchronization), and Windows Time, which is like NTP only not as precise. There's the coding used on GPS. I don't know if GLONASS uses the same as GPS or not, but I expect they did it differently just to be different. There's the method used on LORAN... You get the picture: lots of ways of transmitting the same information -- or almost the same information. There is a variety of more precise systems used for recording and playback of signals.
And then we get to time scales. There's not just one unique answer to what time it is. The US government supports two time scales: NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and USNO (United States Naval Observatory). USNO is the basis of GPS time. There are national time scales in a number of countries, notably France and each is a little different, but the national timescales talk to each other. Some timekeeping systems have leap seconds and some don't.
At a more gross level, there is the Gregorian calendar, which we use for everyday time keeping and Modified Julian Day, which is different and doesn't have any discontinuities across our current epoch. Then there are a host of ethnic and national calendars, liturgical calendars and no-longer-used calendars like the Julian calendar.
I'm not that impressed with Facebook's targeting. I see tons of garbage sponsored links and "recommendations" that I seriously doubt my specific friends would recommend.
That's pretty awful, isn't it? You whore yourself to advertisers, who may or may not exploit vulnerabilities in a person's system, but always make using your site more unpleasant. That doesn't work, so you set up a pay wall. And, nobody pays to see what you've got behind the paywall.
I guess that spells bankruptcy for you, huh?
Well, tough shit. You should have thought things over long ago. Offer a product that people really want, and offer it for a reasonable price. You failed to offer a reasonably priced product that people want? Well - screw you - go hungry. No one gives a small damn about you. You tried to milk the cash cow, but you never even warmed your hands up before grabbing hold of the cow's teats. When she kicks you in the head, don't expect any sympathy from anyone at all.
Bankruptcy, dude. Now, kindly fuck off and die.
Ads targeted to your public don't always make your site more unpleasant. Suppose you're a local newspaper's online site. People read it to know what's going on in their town. If there's an ad on the page that advertises that the local nursery is having a Mother's day sale on petunias or the bar on Main St. is having a St. Patrick's day event. I don't think that bothers anyone. What bothers people is when the ad is not germaine to the reading public, or is too intrusive, for instance with animations or sounds or excessively large text or obnoxious pictures.
While we're on Slashdot, let's talk Slashdot. It's ad-supported after all. If you're reading an article about some cool thing somebody did with Arduino, an ad for where you can buy your own Arduino or similar device or get toolkits for development wouldn't be the least bit out of place. Readers might actually appreciate it. An Flash-enabled video ad for penis pills is probably going to draw ire.
In the USA, most government information IS open. But don't try to find out what chemicals frackers might be pumping down oil wells and into your groundwater. THEY are very much protected from public scrutiny.
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... wait a minute! Doesn't that account for everybody???
Non causal explanations are unsatisfying. This has been shown in numerous studies...
How is silk protein non in the form of long chains useful? By the way, shouldn't that be what's in here?
Scratch a libertard, find a good old-fashioned oligarch underneath.
roman mir isn't a libertarian, he's an anti-government anarchist. He's also a damned fool unless he's filthy rich.
If you're anti-government but pro-capitalism, you're a libertarian, not an anarchist.
Same thing.
You live in Southern California.
So it was correct on all counts! (Many IQ tests really do rate people in non-native English-speaking countries lower, which proves either that speaking English from birth makes you smarter, that English evolved to express the complex thoughts of smart people or that what IQ tests really measure is how Anglo you are rather than how smart.)
Anglo Quotient?
Two of the smartest people I know like Harley Davidson. Hmm... What does that say about me? No, seriously. They're both very smart. IQs over 130. The just like Harleys. But I haven't seen them liking "I Love Being a Mom" or Tyler Perry. Now what would be funny would be an app that tells you what inferences Facebook draws about you because of your likes. But somehow I doubt anybody's going to make an app that tells people it thinks they're stupid.
Aren't driver error, speeding and drinking overlapping categories. And if you are drunk but make no driver error, isn't it nlikely that you will be in an accident?
No, that means it is poorly enforced.
The exotic situation is ice or snow on the street.
Can you make string cheese from the goat milk?
Special interests are inevitable in a system that allows politicians to set the rules for businesses and individuals in the first place. The politicians are the ones that hacked the Constitution, they hacked the Law. They figured out how to remove the chains that were placed upon the government to bind it, to provide it with only limited powers (article 1, section 8). Once the politicians found the way (it was easy once the Republic became wealthy enough due to all the business that thrived under the mostly free market system in the first 124 years of the Republic), just promise the people something for nothing and they will vote for you and will let you do whatever you want to the Law. .
Business really didn't thrive. It was boom and bust all the way. There were multiple deep and sometimes long recessions and depressions. There was also very much not a free market in critical industries. Federal land grants built the railroads and the West -- on land forcibly "liberated" from its previous occupants and owners.
You and your everyone-uploading glasses would not be missed.
With any luck, Google Glass will use a set of identifiable ports that can be blocked on everybody's router.
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Can't wait until I pull onto a freeway with one of these, driven by an idiot, suddenly is spotted in my rear view mirror fish-tailing and spinning towards me as the driver attempts to slow down and miss me. It'll be the experience of a lifetime. Of course I may not see this for the rest of my life.
If you do see it, it's likely to be for the rest of your life.
You know what's even more annoying than that? People who complain about what other people want to discuss. If you don't want to discuss it, then shut the fuck up and let those who care about it discuss it to their heart's content.
We weren't even discussing DST. Just time formats and timekeeping. Is that not nerd-fodder?
But the problem is easy enough to fix by adding another 32-bit epoch with the default being zero corresponding to our current epoch. And add a 64-bit precision timing field when you need precision much better than a second.
It was absolutely awful trying to convert between the game-time and real-time. I took the easy route and still based everything on seconds, and built it up from there.
The main reason for doing it was because the game was based on real time, so even being away caused events to pass. And given a typical person, they'd play games more or less at the same time every day for a certain period of time. This is why I settled on what would effectively be 7 hour days. Out of sync with a normal day so a typical person would almost certainly come across every time period at some point. And 7 is short enough to experience in a day, but still long enough to feel "right". I can't remember how I done minutes or hours again, it was way back in 2005.
That project never got completed due to health reasons. I might come back to it one day, but it isn't a priority.
At least I never decided to make a language for it as well.
We're sorry about what this did to your sanity. Glad to see you've recovered.
Not in Phoenix.
There are quite a number. There are a number of completely different CATEGORIES of time formats.
For time presentation, there are analog and digital formats. Analog presentation format we are familiar with on watches and clocks is one of them. There is also an analog time presentation format where the hour hand turns once a day instead of once per 12 hours, and seemingly endless variations on these. There are time strip recording charts, timeline graphs, etc. Digital time presentation formats include your familiar hours-minutes-seconds digital clock. On scientific timekeeping equipment, we often also display numeric day of year (1 through 366). Other clocks display calendar month and date. Computer systems display it many different ways and it's often configurable.
For transmission of time codes, there are several varieties of IRIG in AM and DCLS. There is NTP and PTP (both of which comprise a transmission standard and method of synchronization), and Windows Time, which is like NTP only not as precise. There's the coding used on GPS. I don't know if GLONASS uses the same as GPS or not, but I expect they did it differently just to be different. There's the method used on LORAN... You get the picture: lots of ways of transmitting the same information -- or almost the same information. There is a variety of more precise systems used for recording and playback of signals.
And then we get to time scales. There's not just one unique answer to what time it is. The US government supports two time scales: NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and USNO (United States Naval Observatory). USNO is the basis of GPS time. There are national time scales in a number of countries, notably France and each is a little different, but the national timescales talk to each other. Some timekeeping systems have leap seconds and some don't.
At a more gross level, there is the Gregorian calendar, which we use for everyday time keeping and Modified Julian Day, which is different and doesn't have any discontinuities across our current epoch. Then there are a host of ethnic and national calendars, liturgical calendars and no-longer-used calendars like the Julian calendar.
In short, too many to count.
That's a step in the right direction but it will not totally replace fuel. At night, you burn fuel.
I'm not that impressed with Facebook's targeting. I see tons of garbage sponsored links and "recommendations" that I seriously doubt my specific friends would recommend.
That's pretty awful, isn't it? You whore yourself to advertisers, who may or may not exploit vulnerabilities in a person's system, but always make using your site more unpleasant. That doesn't work, so you set up a pay wall. And, nobody pays to see what you've got behind the paywall.
I guess that spells bankruptcy for you, huh?
Well, tough shit. You should have thought things over long ago. Offer a product that people really want, and offer it for a reasonable price. You failed to offer a reasonably priced product that people want? Well - screw you - go hungry. No one gives a small damn about you. You tried to milk the cash cow, but you never even warmed your hands up before grabbing hold of the cow's teats. When she kicks you in the head, don't expect any sympathy from anyone at all.
Bankruptcy, dude. Now, kindly fuck off and die.
Ads targeted to your public don't always make your site more unpleasant. Suppose you're a local newspaper's online site. People read it to know what's going on in their town. If there's an ad on the page that advertises that the local nursery is having a Mother's day sale on petunias or the bar on Main St. is having a St. Patrick's day event. I don't think that bothers anyone. What bothers people is when the ad is not germaine to the reading public, or is too intrusive, for instance with animations or sounds or excessively large text or obnoxious pictures.
While we're on Slashdot, let's talk Slashdot. It's ad-supported after all. If you're reading an article about some cool thing somebody did with Arduino, an ad for where you can buy your own Arduino or similar device or get toolkits for development wouldn't be the least bit out of place. Readers might actually appreciate it. An Flash-enabled video ad for penis pills is probably going to draw ire.
It's a simple calculation, really.
In the USA, most government information IS open. But don't try to find out what chemicals frackers might be pumping down oil wells and into your groundwater. THEY are very much protected from public scrutiny.