So you're using the example of a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the union (pretty much what you suggest), that also has one of the highest crime rates as some sort of support for your contention that gun laws should be stricter? How does that make any sense?
The fact that nobody is ever at fault for anything is part of the delay problem. Not a single person is accountable for their own mistakes. That's the beauty of teamwork. Nobody has to answer for their fuck-ups so they don't labor much to avoid making them.
And who makes the mistakes is irrelevant to me. I have had to check a bag once this year because I was flying to a cold climate for a week and warm clothes are thicker than normal. Yeah, it got lost until the next day and I was 1/1. Having it show up the next day would have been a disaster if anything related to my work were in that suitcase.
I think the desktop computer will be disappearing for the vast majority of people in the next 10 years. There's a lot lost by losing mobility while doing the things that most people do on computers. Writing, coding, and doing anything but playing a game is better done (for me, at the very least) anywhere but at a desk.
I'll give you that it's a serious thing. I'll give you that something needs to be done about it or else it won't change. I won't give you that doctors know a damn thing about helping you out of it or fixing the issues that cause it, though they're quite adept at masking the symptoms with various drugs.
I'm pretty sure that they just want us to stop helping out Israel and get our military the hell away from their countries. Our government is technically winning because they're still doing whatever the hell they want to do, and the only cost is our freedom.
The biggest losers in this war are our children. They will get to grow up in a police state because their parents didn't have the balls to stand up and say "no more."
The worst part is they kind of have a point. Every time violence in games comes up, our first counter-argument has always been that games and reality are different and the skills don't translate across. So, what do we say now? It seems like we have a choice between claiming that this guy did not learn first aid from a video game, or that people only learn good skills from games. Both of those ring pretty hollow.
I was not aware that that was the maxim that we've been trumpeting in our defense, and if it was it needs to be changed.
The idea that you should stop certain behaviors by keeping people ignorant is a short term solution. Are we supposed to ban Macgyver to stop people from knowing how to make little bombs? Ban physics to stop the same? Ban common sense to stop people from figuring out how to blow up airplanes?
Whether you like it or not, you cannot prevent knowledge from leaking out in the long term. If you are to extend the meaning of long term to mean something even longer, then preventing people from obtaining certain items or raw materials is also impossible (think about things that nuclear bombs are made of).
But see, people base their entire income streams and political platforms on exactly this. There is a huge incentive for them to go around campaigning to ban X or Y, since enough people are small minded enough to like what they hear.
I never liked the idea of banning anything, since it's just a band aid that doesn't address the real issue that someone is trying to handle. The more I've thought about it, the less I think it makes any sense at all.
What's ridiculous is that the robot made you carry it! I guess they're already smarter than us. This same reasoning can show that cats currently control the universe.
I figured he wrote some routines that somehow generated motion in the card due to the field changing relative to the magnet in the fan or something (thereby generating sound).
I don't think that I should have expected that, but I did.
And it's a lot more important than just getting to see a few bands that you just happen to really like. The select few who would end up deciding what the minutiae is will have it in their power to rewrite history, and by extension write the future.
So yeah, we need to save every single thing that we possibly can.
It seems like he's trying to help out the creationists by helping them to avoid making themselves look like retards. Quoting research from 50+ years ago that has since been shown to be in error is laughable. Let them continue.
There is no real reason to send ships across the Ocean Sea. None. You would need to send enormous amounts of gear, several hundred tons of water because we don't have desalinization technology, food enough for the journey, the time spent in India and the trip back. Exactly what would be the net gain for anyone? Bragging rights? We already have a nice path around Africa, and maybe we'll be able to get Constantinople back as well as the Red Sea.
You would need a "mother ship" and at least two 'support ships' with return capability. In addition, a habitat for the pirates. If you think you are a treehugger, imagine the colossal amounts of resources needed to get there and the environmental impact on Spain, just to start this type of endeavor.
I'm almost in your boat, but my contention is that storing the compressor along with the compressed data is useless. Humans do nothing of the sort. We can only remember things because we have a vast, vast library of information that we can map things to. We remember things like the ability to add one to a number a bunch of times. "Give me every integer between 1 and 100" is a lot smaller in terms of data than the same set of information compressed. That's because we have a great big logical store of data.
So, if a guy came out with something that was 1 GB in size, and cold compress virtually anything to 1/100th of its original size, it'd be more in line with what our minds do.
I'll let you all know when I finish -my- compressor.
1. It's 1920x1200 2. The point of high resolution displays is to fit more on the screen. Do not maximize your browser window. If the site does it for you, then it was written by a moron. 3. Are you suggesting that every single site use vector graphics to display images, when some browsers can't even support them at all, and others do it in non-standard ways?
It depends on what you call memorization. I once took a Systems Engineering test (basically applied DE's in my case) and it would have been a piece of cake had I learned (or memorized) a bunch of equations and equalities (that I did not). For me it was quite difficult, but I did fine because I was able to derive nearly all of what was needed from a basic understanding of calculus. With more time the rest would have followed.
I'm not saying that I "rock," as I could have done better through studying and learning what I was supposed to know, but it showed me that strong understandings of the fundamentals and the implications thereof are the most important part of problem solving - not memorizing tricks.
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Al Bundy wants his idea back. God's shoes indeed.
So you're using the example of a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the union (pretty much what you suggest), that also has one of the highest crime rates as some sort of support for your contention that gun laws should be stricter? How does that make any sense?
The fact that nobody is ever at fault for anything is part of the delay problem. Not a single person is accountable for their own mistakes. That's the beauty of teamwork. Nobody has to answer for their fuck-ups so they don't labor much to avoid making them.
And who makes the mistakes is irrelevant to me. I have had to check a bag once this year because I was flying to a cold climate for a week and warm clothes are thicker than normal. Yeah, it got lost until the next day and I was 1/1. Having it show up the next day would have been a disaster if anything related to my work were in that suitcase.
I think the desktop computer will be disappearing for the vast majority of people in the next 10 years. There's a lot lost by losing mobility while doing the things that most people do on computers. Writing, coding, and doing anything but playing a game is better done (for me, at the very least) anywhere but at a desk.
I'll give you that it's a serious thing. I'll give you that something needs to be done about it or else it won't change. I won't give you that doctors know a damn thing about helping you out of it or fixing the issues that cause it, though they're quite adept at masking the symptoms with various drugs.
I'm pretty sure that they just want us to stop helping out Israel and get our military the hell away from their countries. Our government is technically winning because they're still doing whatever the hell they want to do, and the only cost is our freedom.
The biggest losers in this war are our children. They will get to grow up in a police state because their parents didn't have the balls to stand up and say "no more."
You need to rent Around The World In 80 Days - not the fictional movie(s), the A&E documentary with Michael Palin.
Sure, tell me another one.
ba da bum, ba da bum, ba da bum, ba da bum, ba da bum, ba da bum, ba da dum bummmmmm, waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.
They're just pissed that they can't get the G GGG GGG GGG GGG pattern down.
The worst part is they kind of have a point. Every time violence in games comes up, our first counter-argument has always been that games and reality are different and the skills don't translate across. So, what do we say now? It seems like we have a choice between claiming that this guy did not learn first aid from a video game, or that people only learn good skills from games. Both of those ring pretty hollow.
I was not aware that that was the maxim that we've been trumpeting in our defense, and if it was it needs to be changed.
The idea that you should stop certain behaviors by keeping people ignorant is a short term solution. Are we supposed to ban Macgyver to stop people from knowing how to make little bombs? Ban physics to stop the same? Ban common sense to stop people from figuring out how to blow up airplanes?
Whether you like it or not, you cannot prevent knowledge from leaking out in the long term. If you are to extend the meaning of long term to mean something even longer, then preventing people from obtaining certain items or raw materials is also impossible (think about things that nuclear bombs are made of).
But see, people base their entire income streams and political platforms on exactly this. There is a huge incentive for them to go around campaigning to ban X or Y, since enough people are small minded enough to like what they hear.
I never liked the idea of banning anything, since it's just a band aid that doesn't address the real issue that someone is trying to handle. The more I've thought about it, the less I think it makes any sense at all.
I guess this is the new answer I'm proposing?
People have a hard time with scale. The sysadmin guy is like Hitler, and the postal worker is like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Your average individual would be more afraid of Dahmer than Bundy, and both of them far more than A-Dog.
What's ridiculous is that the robot made you carry it! I guess they're already smarter than us.
This same reasoning can show that cats currently control the universe.
well, IMHO the biggest reason sharepoint sucks the big one is that you have to pay extra.
Please give me a list of things that you need to "pay extra" for that Google Apps provides.
I figured he wrote some routines that somehow generated motion in the card due to the field changing relative to the magnet in the fan or something (thereby generating sound).
I don't think that I should have expected that, but I did.
And it's a lot more important than just getting to see a few bands that you just happen to really like. The select few who would end up deciding what the minutiae is will have it in their power to rewrite history, and by extension write the future.
So yeah, we need to save every single thing that we possibly can.
Step 1: Watch Dead Poet's Society
Step 2: Rewrite your initial paragraph
There is no step 3.
You might need some glasses to help out that myopia.
It seems like he's trying to help out the creationists by helping them to avoid making themselves look like retards. Quoting research from 50+ years ago that has since been shown to be in error is laughable. Let them continue.
There is no real reason to send ships across the Ocean Sea. None.
You would need to send enormous amounts of gear, several hundred tons of water because we don't have desalinization technology, food enough for the journey, the time spent in India and the trip back. Exactly what would be the net gain for anyone? Bragging rights? We already have a nice path around Africa, and maybe we'll be able to get Constantinople back as well as the Red Sea.
You would need a "mother ship" and at least two 'support ships' with return capability. In addition, a habitat for the pirates. If you think you are a treehugger, imagine the colossal amounts of resources needed to get there and the environmental impact on Spain, just to start this type of endeavor.
I'm almost in your boat, but my contention is that storing the compressor along with the compressed data is useless. Humans do nothing of the sort. We can only remember things because we have a vast, vast library of information that we can map things to. We remember things like the ability to add one to a number a bunch of times. "Give me every integer between 1 and 100" is a lot smaller in terms of data than the same set of information compressed. That's because we have a great big logical store of data.
So, if a guy came out with something that was 1 GB in size, and cold compress virtually anything to 1/100th of its original size, it'd be more in line with what our minds do.
I'll let you all know when I finish -my- compressor.
I'm going to guess that a very large floating platform would have the ability to move. Recall Don Karnage and the Iron Vulture.
The growing percentage of nonreligious people in the US would disagree with your "for every one" comment.
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The lameness filter didn't allow me to match the all-caps look of the original options. Thank you, lameness filter.
1. It's 1920x1200
2. The point of high resolution displays is to fit more on the screen. Do not maximize your browser window. If the site does it for you, then it was written by a moron.
3. Are you suggesting that every single site use vector graphics to display images, when some browsers can't even support them at all, and others do it in non-standard ways?
You didn't point out a single spelling mistake in the original post. You're certainly not the Definition Nazi.
It depends on what you call memorization. I once took a Systems Engineering test (basically applied DE's in my case) and it would have been a piece of cake had I learned (or memorized) a bunch of equations and equalities (that I did not). For me it was quite difficult, but I did fine because I was able to derive nearly all of what was needed from a basic understanding of calculus. With more time the rest would have followed.
I'm not saying that I "rock," as I could have done better through studying and learning what I was supposed to know, but it showed me that strong understandings of the fundamentals and the implications thereof are the most important part of problem solving - not memorizing tricks.