Expensive ice wines are expensive because they've left the grapes on the vine, picking them late at night when the temperature is exactly right (something like 14 or 19 F in NY. Otherwise, wineries are not allowed to label them as "ice wine"). They get one drop of juice out of each frozen grape.
Cheaper "ice wines" are made more by freezing the grapes after they've been picked off the vine.
I'm not saying the cheaper ones aren't good - probably just as good as those made by the expensive method - just offering up an explanation.
"3. Turns out there was nothing to learn from installing Gentoo from stage 1. I already knew what goes into a system at the most basic level, but I got this from 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, before I ever saw Gentoo."
Don't be an ass. I could explain why your statement makes you an ass, but I think it'd fall on deaf ears.
I think you need to check out the recent story on human hibernation and come back in a few centuries.
Technologically we/could/ build a permanent colony somewhere off Earth, but come on now - where the hell are you planning on getting the money to do it? The public acceptance of the inevitable failures? We can't build anything now without spending more money than god (read: Any major road project, military project, etc etc).
Sounds like you're wishing you were born in the 24th and a half century to me...
Really, the only issue I have with it is that MS has decided that no, they dont' want to support old VB apps any longer (not really anyway, "XP Compatibility" crap besides the point), and yet they make it impossible for other people to do it for them.
Let me give you an example of why it's a big deal. I'm going to be abstruse so try and keep up.
Company A, pretty big company, has a simple document management system written in VB 4. VB 4! you exclaim. Yes, VB 4. But it worked well enough. It worked fine, same executable for nearly 7 years.
Now, unfortunately, IT being what it is, new machines are needed every few years - it's impossible to find replacement parts for Pentium 2 machines these days, and that doesn't work well for tax purposes, etc.
Uh oh! New machines come with Windows XP - can't get approval to get Win2k any more. And guess what: The good old VB 4 app won't run under XP.
Company A then gets to decide how to spend a wad of cash rebuilding their little document management app from scratch.
Thanks, Microsoft!
(And yes, this is a real example I've just finished a contract with. Whether or not you think it was foolish of Company A to keep that same app for 7 years - as I did - it was and remains a usable app, if not for forced incompatibilities by your favorite fucking company.)
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Great response, thanks. I was going to mod you up, but I decided I'd rather have the link back to this when I get a chance to set up my video camera...
What I want to know is, how do you guys get anything done when you have to read every paragraph two or three times before you understand it?
It would seem to take forever to get through a full article!
(Um, yeah, I'm an educated layman, but I had to reread your second paragraph a few times to get it...)
So "quick" question: Why/how is a "gauge group" for a 1-dimensional line physically meaningful?
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Go back and reread this thread from the beginning. It's obvious there are circumstances when both methods make sense. I'm happy you're familiar with DOM, but come on, if you can't see that manipulating a DOm is better for you in the long run, then have a gay-all time playing with string concatenation.
I'm certainly not about to convince you otherwise.
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Just thought I'd point out that I've read the whole thread; I agree with you completely. The AC doesn't seem to realize that with DOM you don't have to worry about echo()ing exactly the right stuff at the right time.
For almost anything non-trivial I'd use DOM over echo. The only reason not to is laziness or 1337ness.
"BZZZZZTTTTT! Thanks for playing, would you like to try again?"
Is there any reason you have to act like a complete and utter asshole to someone else? Besides, wasn't that moronic "bzzt" bullshit the "in" thing about 10 years ago? Grow up.
Not so. Many proposed systems force those in municipalities unwilling to join in a "community effort" to pay for it anyway.
My belief is that those who don't want in, shouldn't be forced to do so. Here's an example of what I mean: My parents live outside a small village. The county is planning to expand a sewer district to include all the houses in their area. Those who want to join up will pay X amount over a few years while the thing is built. Those who do not want in, don't have to pay, but if they do join in eventually, they'll have to pay more.
This has nothing to do with libertarianism, you wingnut. Where in libertarian manifestos do you see anything about giving power to corporations?
"hidden and structural subsidies" are regulation. Regulation hurts competition and helps those who pay to get it enacted.
Your nonsequitur about "only the strong survive" doesn't even apply to the libertarian ideal - read a history of mid-second-millenia Iceland for more.
Rail against the power of the corporation, but DON'T make the mistake of blaming it on libertarian ideals. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a group of people in a community getting together and putting up a network.
The problem would be if a sizable minority didn't want to participate but were forced to through confiscatory taxes.
Just in response to your "why would it be easier 10 years from now" question... because technology will make it easier.
10 years ago it was not easy to cut emissions in my car to near zero. Now it is - I bought a Prius early last year, and have been cruising the 395 HOV since.
In another 10 years, who knows what I might be driving, but it likely won't be a pure IC engine getting 20 MPG...
Of course, I've found that most of the time, those who are most likely to dance around in the buff at midnight are, in fact, those you LEAST want to SEE dancing around in the buff at any time.
I visited Avebury last July, went to have dinner at the Red Lion (IIRC), but their dishwasher was broken, so they had no plates and no dinner...
It was quite spooky (and the "town" is absolutely tiny) but I was curious why it appeared to me that the "dry moat" surrounding the place was backward - big hill on the outside, ditch on the inside.
That, and the loooong stretch of standing stones that head out - I think East - off towards Marlborough. Had a good dinner at the Oddfellows Arms in Manton, though. Bah, not like anyone cares.:)
Maybe they'd lock it down in the future, but for now, you can make human-readable WMS requests to Terraserver and get shitty black and white satellite images back.
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Not all government agencies have the same procurement policies, numb nuts.
Expensive ice wines are expensive because they've left the grapes on the vine, picking them late at night when the temperature is exactly right (something like 14 or 19 F in NY. Otherwise, wineries are not allowed to label them as "ice wine"). They get one drop of juice out of each frozen grape.
Cheaper "ice wines" are made more by freezing the grapes after they've been picked off the vine.
I'm not saying the cheaper ones aren't good - probably just as good as those made by the expensive method - just offering up an explanation.
Always? So what, like when you're in line at McD's you can whip it out and pick up chicks?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Greene's book thorougly. But now that I've read it it's safely on a bookshelf......
I got one for you: links instead of lynx. links is cool. :)
"3. Turns out there was nothing to learn from installing Gentoo from stage 1. I already knew what goes into a system at the most basic level, but I got this from 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, before I ever saw Gentoo."
Don't be an ass. I could explain why your statement makes you an ass, but I think it'd fall on deaf ears.
I think you need to check out the recent story on human hibernation and come back in a few centuries.
/could/ build a permanent colony somewhere off Earth, but come on now - where the hell are you planning on getting the money to do it? The public acceptance of the inevitable failures? We can't build anything now without spending more money than god (read: Any major road project, military project, etc etc).
Technologically we
Sounds like you're wishing you were born in the 24th and a half century to me...
Oh for fuck's sake. "If you're against the leaders, your a subversive terrorist."
Engage in any pathetic hyperbole lately?
Shit like that is why people in the middle of the country think the libs are bunch of fucking jackasses.
You can be against Bush policy without coming off sounding like like a screaming baby. That's something the libs better learn.
Really, the only issue I have with it is that MS has decided that no, they dont' want to support old VB apps any longer (not really anyway, "XP Compatibility" crap besides the point), and yet they make it impossible for other people to do it for them.
That's where I believe FOSS works.
LOL!!
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Thanks man, that was the best response of all those I got on this one.
As an alternative to your "free-for-all" expectation, I give you Iceland in the early middle ages:
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http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/
Anarchy can work. It has worked.
Let me give you an example of why it's a big deal. I'm going to be abstruse so try and keep up.
Company A, pretty big company, has a simple document management system written in VB 4. VB 4! you exclaim. Yes, VB 4. But it worked well enough. It worked fine, same executable for nearly 7 years.
Now, unfortunately, IT being what it is, new machines are needed every few years - it's impossible to find replacement parts for Pentium 2 machines these days, and that doesn't work well for tax purposes, etc.
Uh oh! New machines come with Windows XP - can't get approval to get Win2k any more. And guess what: The good old VB 4 app won't run under XP.
Company A then gets to decide how to spend a wad of cash rebuilding their little document management app from scratch.
Thanks, Microsoft!
(And yes, this is a real example I've just finished a contract with. Whether or not you think it was foolish of Company A to keep that same app for 7 years - as I did - it was and remains a usable app, if not for forced incompatibilities by your favorite fucking company.)
Great response, thanks. I was going to mod you up, but I decided I'd rather have the link back to this when I get a chance to set up my video camera...
What I want to know is, how do you guys get anything done when you have to read every paragraph two or three times before you understand it?
It would seem to take forever to get through a full article!
(Um, yeah, I'm an educated layman, but I had to reread your second paragraph a few times to get it...)
So "quick" question: Why/how is a "gauge group" for a 1-dimensional line physically meaningful?
Go back and reread this thread from the beginning. It's obvious there are circumstances when both methods make sense. I'm happy you're familiar with DOM, but come on, if you can't see that manipulating a DOm is better for you in the long run, then have a gay-all time playing with string concatenation.
I'm certainly not about to convince you otherwise.
Just thought I'd point out that I've read the whole thread; I agree with you completely. The AC doesn't seem to realize that with DOM you don't have to worry about echo()ing exactly the right stuff at the right time.
For almost anything non-trivial I'd use DOM over echo. The only reason not to is laziness or 1337ness.
"BZZZZZTTTTT! Thanks for playing, would you like to try again?"
Is there any reason you have to act like a complete and utter asshole to someone else? Besides, wasn't that moronic "bzzt" bullshit the "in" thing about 10 years ago? Grow up.
Not so. Many proposed systems force those in municipalities unwilling to join in a "community effort" to pay for it anyway.
My belief is that those who don't want in, shouldn't be forced to do so. Here's an example of what I mean: My parents live outside a small village. The county is planning to expand a sewer district to include all the houses in their area. Those who want to join up will pay X amount over a few years while the thing is built. Those who do not want in, don't have to pay, but if they do join in eventually, they'll have to pay more.
Thank you, AC in Paris, I rally to the cause with you!
Too bad they modded you Funny, I thought it was rather insightful.
This has nothing to do with libertarianism, you wingnut. Where in libertarian manifestos do you see anything about giving power to corporations?
"hidden and structural subsidies" are regulation. Regulation hurts competition and helps those who pay to get it enacted.
Your nonsequitur about "only the strong survive" doesn't even apply to the libertarian ideal - read a history of mid-second-millenia Iceland for more.
Rail against the power of the corporation, but DON'T make the mistake of blaming it on libertarian ideals. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a group of people in a community getting together and putting up a network.
The problem would be if a sizable minority didn't want to participate but were forced to through confiscatory taxes.
Just in response to your "why would it be easier 10 years from now" question... because technology will make it easier.
10 years ago it was not easy to cut emissions in my car to near zero. Now it is - I bought a Prius early last year, and have been cruising the 395 HOV since.
In another 10 years, who knows what I might be driving, but it likely won't be a pure IC engine getting 20 MPG...
(going totally off topic here, oh well)
Of course, I've found that most of the time, those who are most likely to dance around in the buff at midnight are, in fact, those you LEAST want to SEE dancing around in the buff at any time.
Did you grow up there?
:)
I visited Avebury last July, went to have dinner at the Red Lion (IIRC), but their dishwasher was broken, so they had no plates and no dinner...
It was quite spooky (and the "town" is absolutely tiny) but I was curious why it appeared to me that the "dry moat" surrounding the place was backward - big hill on the outside, ditch on the inside.
That, and the loooong stretch of standing stones that head out - I think East - off towards Marlborough. Had a good dinner at the Oddfellows Arms in Manton, though. Bah, not like anyone cares.
Maybe they'd lock it down in the future, but for now, you can make human-readable WMS requests to Terraserver and get shitty black and white satellite images back.
No need for gov't other than the tax-deductable part, of course. :)
I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly, however.
The far more important question is: What in the Constitution provides for this kind of stupidity?
I suppose they'll stretch the shit out of the Commerce Clause yet again.