Likewise, saying "If Pratchett were a Texan", you signal that you know he was not. "If Pratchett was a Texan "implies that you don't know whether this is the case.
Sorry, I should have said "... whether this be the case.
No, it's a subjunctive, meaning it's speculative or hypothetical, not factual. You would say "If I were you", implying "but I'm not" by using "were" instead of "was". Likewise, saying "If Pratchett were a Texan", you signal that you know he was not. "If Pratchett was a Texan" implies that you don't know whether this is the case.
Harlan Ellison still used a manual typewriter just a few years ago, and if memory serves me right, he has lamented the difficulties in obtaining ribbons. Which could be why Dangerous Visions 3 is somewhat delayed...
His final works were a bit dire as was. I think he was trying to give his characters a canonical happy ending, which I can understand, but they definitely weren't his best work by far.
I'm not too sure how much of the later books were actually his. IMO, the decline started when the type of humour changed, back around the turn of the century. Gone were the groaners, trivia (and more obscure) references and shaggy dog stories, and Vimes became a Marty Stu. But plenty of people loved his later books too - who am I to judge?
Yes, it's an old HD, and I am fairly certain that pterry said he had gotten a new computer back in 2007 or so, at which point SATA had taken over. So I am not totally convinced that this was "the" HD, even though I have no doubts that it came from one of his computers.
It's legal to take a photo of anything you like in the UK, as long as you're stood on publicly accessible property when you take it.
And don't intrude on anyone's reasonable expectation of privacy. I.e. if someone slips behind a tree to take a leak, you cannot take a picture of their privates with the justification that you were standing on publicly accessible property.
... or cause danger, or intrude on privacy. I.e. you won't have access to someone's back yard where they might reasonably expect privacy, or to a pasture with dangerous animals, but a field is fair game. If planted, footpaths must be provided to cross or skirt them, so you don't impede on the public right of way.
It's also a crime to prevent people from access without a good reason (and ownership is explicitly not a good reason). I.e. the policeman here is the one who should be prosecuted.
The police don't care that someone is standing in a field. Was he doing something that was illegal? Was he trespassing on private property and the owners didn't want him there, perhaps?
Read the article, which explains what occurred. The cliff notes is that the plod didn't want him to photograph an accident scene, even from afar.
And stop being such an American - in much of the world, including Scotland, the public has a right of way and right to roam and cannot be kept out of private property for a good reason (and ownership is not a good reason). Walking across a field, or stopping, as long as you don't cause damage is a right.
Indeed. A code monkey knows what things work. A developer knows how things work. A programmer knows why things work.
Without a drive to find out how and why, you'll never be more than someone who assembles a puzzle. You will be stuck when a piece is missing, not realising that you can create your own piece, or create a better puzzle.
Coffee has to be heated. Keurig has a market because it adds convenience compared to other filter makers. Juice, on the other hand, can be kept chilled in the fridge. There's no extra convenience over just pouring yourself a glass, and actually a heck of a lot more inconvenience.
Still, you can hire someone who you judge to be capable of doing the work and have them work with a person who is doing it until they 'get it'.
Whether they are able to grab the bull by the horn or not, is something job interviews can help determine, at least to some extent. People who are qualified on paper still get turned away, because they may lack that drive to be pioneers.
I'd like to hire people who don't drink. And fire the ones that do.
I don't care one bit whether people drink, do drugs, massage llamas, pray to invisible bearded men, or anything else as long as they do the work as good as or better than their peers.
There is on the job training funds (and training funds in general) available through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. You can access them by visiting your local Career One Stop or Workforce center.
I can't speak for every job, but what I see around me are open jobs for positions where you cannot train people, because it's not repetitive work. The repetitive work is already done by robots and computers, so what's needed are people who can figure out things when met with new challenges that there isn't a training manual for.
Yeah, I wonder whether the Windows 10 installations with Ubuntu count as Linux here, which gives it a boost. It shouldn't, any more than a Linux host with WINE should count towards Windows installations.
Pay attention, this is about a password leak from Instagram and have nothing to do with nudes.
Probably the main reason to gain access to Instagram accounts is to expose nude pictures, sharing them with the world instead of just specific people (or nobody). Don't underestimate how many who hope for a Fappening 4.0
No doubt the Newton was more capable. Except for capabilities like "keep in shirt pocket", "look up a phone number in a second" or "take notes while not looking at the screen". The Palm was in many ways intentionally made simpler, out of the philosophy of giving the users what they need, and not what they want.
However, the battery life was a huge selling point for me (it's still one of the top three things I look for in portable devices). That, and size and weight -- the other PDAs available at the time weren't even in the same ballpark.
Yes, I remember a colleague who excitedly (and two-handedly) pulled out his Apple Newton. And I pulled out my Palm.
PalmOS, and later WebOS, is what made Palm devices unique.
No, Graffiti was what made Palm devices. It was so intuitive that with very little training, you could take written notes in the dark or under a table without looking. Secondary, calendar functions coupled to Graffiti. Appointments with notes on the go didn't exist back then, and with iOS/Android, it's much more work. On the Palm, you hit one designated button, and it woke up and immediately displayed what you needed.
Also, exceptional battery life. As in going a week or two without charging with daily use. Try that with your smartphone.
I also miss LCD screens that worked in direct sunlight. I take that over colour any day.
Let's put this in perspective. ALL already had treatments that put 98% of affected children into remission within a couple of months, with 8% of those eventually relapsing. So 90% are completely cured with existing therapies. There are other cancers where the numbers are an order of magnitude worse. I'm puzzled why the focus seems to be on diseases that medical science has already very nearly cured, rather than the ones that kill most of the people who get them.
Money. This is a $400,000+ treatment. People are willing to bankrupt themselves for their kids, even if they aren't for themselves.
Finding one example of P = NP proves the classes are equal, because NP-complete problems can all be transformed to other NP problems in polynomial time.
The way I understand it, NP problems can all be transformed to other NP problems in polynomial time, but cannot be transformed to all other NP problems in polynomial time. So you would at most move a class of problems from NP to P.
Hell, you could build a portable microwave pacemaker fryer if you want. And given the trend of things these days, someone will do it for shits & giggles.
I doubt you would be able to elicit giggles with such a device. The other one, probably. Hacking hearing aids for the lulz is also coming, I'm sure. And electric wheelchairs.
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Likewise, saying "If Pratchett were a Texan", you signal that you know he was not. "If Pratchett was a Texan "implies that you don't know whether this is the case.
Sorry, I should have said "... whether this be the case.
Isn't "if he was a Texan" is the correct form?
No, it's a subjunctive, meaning it's speculative or hypothetical, not factual.
You would say "If I were you", implying "but I'm not" by using "were" instead of "was". Likewise, saying "If Pratchett were a Texan", you signal that you know he was not. "If Pratchett was a Texan" implies that you don't know whether this is the case.
Harlan Ellison still used a manual typewriter just a few years ago, and if memory serves me right, he has lamented the difficulties in obtaining ribbons. Which could be why Dangerous Visions 3 is somewhat delayed...
Let me correct that for you: "If he was a Texan ...."
Let me correct that for you: "If he were a Texan..."
He had the hat, if not the belt buckle.
His creations, and his ending of the same on his terms. Good for him.
He wouldn't know. On account of being, well, dead.
His final works were a bit dire as was. I think he was trying to give his characters a canonical happy ending, which I can understand, but they definitely weren't his best work by far.
I'm not too sure how much of the later books were actually his.
IMO, the decline started when the type of humour changed, back around the turn of the century. Gone were the groaners, trivia (and more obscure) references and shaggy dog stories, and Vimes became a Marty Stu. But plenty of people loved his later books too - who am I to judge?
Yes, it's an old HD, and I am fairly certain that pterry said he had gotten a new computer back in 2007 or so, at which point SATA had taken over. So I am not totally convinced that this was "the" HD, even though I have no doubts that it came from one of his computers.
Why is the term "allegedly" used in the title? Either he was arrested or he was not.
It can be hard to ascertain in countries where arrest records are not public until or unless someone is formally charged.
It's legal to take a photo of anything you like in the UK, as long as you're stood on publicly accessible property when you take it.
And don't intrude on anyone's reasonable expectation of privacy.
I.e. if someone slips behind a tree to take a leak, you cannot take a picture of their privates with the justification that you were standing on publicly accessible property.
... or cause danger, or intrude on privacy. I.e. you won't have access to someone's back yard where they might reasonably expect privacy, or to a pasture with dangerous animals, but a field is fair game. If planted, footpaths must be provided to cross or skirt them, so you don't impede on the public right of way.
It's also a crime to prevent people from access without a good reason (and ownership is explicitly not a good reason). I.e. the policeman here is the one who should be prosecuted.
The police don't care that someone is standing in a field. Was he doing something that was illegal? Was he trespassing on private property and the owners didn't want him there, perhaps?
Read the article, which explains what occurred. The cliff notes is that the plod didn't want him to photograph an accident scene, even from afar.
And stop being such an American - in much of the world, including Scotland, the public has a right of way and right to roam and cannot be kept out of private property for a good reason (and ownership is not a good reason). Walking across a field, or stopping, as long as you don't cause damage is a right.
Indeed.
A code monkey knows what things work.
A developer knows how things work.
A programmer knows why things work.
Without a drive to find out how and why, you'll never be more than someone who assembles a puzzle. You will be stuck when a piece is missing, not realising that you can create your own piece, or create a better puzzle.
Coffee has to be heated. Keurig has a market because it adds convenience compared to other filter makers.
Juice, on the other hand, can be kept chilled in the fridge. There's no extra convenience over just pouring yourself a glass, and actually a heck of a lot more inconvenience.
Still, you can hire someone who you judge to be capable of doing the work and have them work with a person who is doing it until they 'get it'.
Whether they are able to grab the bull by the horn or not, is something job interviews can help determine, at least to some extent. People who are qualified on paper still get turned away, because they may lack that drive to be pioneers.
I'd like to hire people who don't drink. And fire the ones that do.
I don't care one bit whether people drink, do drugs, massage llamas, pray to invisible bearded men, or anything else as long as they do the work as good as or better than their peers.
There is on the job training funds (and training funds in general) available through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. You can access them by visiting your local Career One Stop or Workforce center.
I can't speak for every job, but what I see around me are open jobs for positions where you cannot train people, because it's not repetitive work. The repetitive work is already done by robots and computers, so what's needed are people who can figure out things when met with new challenges that there isn't a training manual for.
Yeah, I wonder whether the Windows 10 installations with Ubuntu count as Linux here, which gives it a boost.
It shouldn't, any more than a Linux host with WINE should count towards Windows installations.
Pay attention, this is about a password leak from Instagram and have nothing to do with nudes.
Probably the main reason to gain access to Instagram accounts is to expose nude pictures, sharing them with the world instead of just specific people (or nobody). Don't underestimate how many who hope for a Fappening 4.0
No doubt the Newton was more capable. Except for capabilities like "keep in shirt pocket", "look up a phone number in a second" or "take notes while not looking at the screen".
The Palm was in many ways intentionally made simpler, out of the philosophy of giving the users what they need, and not what they want.
However, the battery life was a huge selling point for me (it's still one of the top three things I look for in portable devices). That, and size and weight -- the other PDAs available at the time weren't even in the same ballpark.
Yes, I remember a colleague who excitedly (and two-handedly) pulled out his Apple Newton. And I pulled out my Palm.
PalmOS, and later WebOS, is what made Palm devices unique.
No, Graffiti was what made Palm devices. It was so intuitive that with very little training, you could take written notes in the dark or under a table without looking.
Secondary, calendar functions coupled to Graffiti. Appointments with notes on the go didn't exist back then, and with iOS/Android, it's much more work. On the Palm, you hit one designated button, and it woke up and immediately displayed what you needed.
Also, exceptional battery life. As in going a week or two without charging with daily use. Try that with your smartphone.
I also miss LCD screens that worked in direct sunlight. I take that over colour any day.
Let's put this in perspective. ALL already had treatments that put 98% of affected children into remission within a couple of months, with 8% of those eventually relapsing. So 90% are completely cured with existing therapies. There are other cancers where the numbers are an order of magnitude worse. I'm puzzled why the focus seems to be on diseases that medical science has already very nearly cured, rather than the ones that kill most of the people who get them.
Money. This is a $400,000+ treatment. People are willing to bankrupt themselves for their kids, even if they aren't for themselves.
That's BS. If you don't want a pacemaker then it is your decision not to get one.
Exactly as I said, it's a Hobson's choice.
Finding one example of P = NP proves the classes are equal, because NP-complete problems can all be transformed to other NP problems in polynomial time.
The way I understand it, NP problems can all be transformed to other NP problems in polynomial time, but cannot be transformed to all other NP problems in polynomial time. So you would at most move a class of problems from NP to P.
Hell, you could build a portable microwave pacemaker fryer if you want. And given the trend of things these days, someone will do it for shits & giggles.
I doubt you would be able to elicit giggles with such a device. The other one, probably.
Hacking hearing aids for the lulz is also coming, I'm sure. And electric wheelchairs.