am going to be practical here: It has always amazed me that people say "I am going to wait to buy XXXX until they come out with the new one". Buy what you need for the job you need it for and realize that whenever you buy something computer related, it is likely already obsolete and will be replaced with the next shiny thing in a couple of months.
I take a slightly different approach based on that same idea of inevitable obsolescence. Know that some day, the computer you buy will be unable to run the then current version of Software X. With that in mind, set your budget first, then buy the best computer you can given your budget in order to stretch its lifetime out as long as possible.
When I used Kazaa, I browsed other's shared files, and often went and bought a few albums afterwards.
This is the best feature of P2P services. If I like band A, and I find that those users who share Band A's songs also tend to have Band B, chances are I will like Band B too.
This is what Amazon and other try to do with their feedback based recommendation system. It works to some extent, but not as well as P2P in my experience.
Um... No. Ultra-Orthodox people get an extension of release from Draft, much as some students in universitites do.
Good point. There is a distinction between orthodox and ultra-orthodox I missed.
The fact that it is indefinite, is a different issue.
If an extension is indefinate, that person is not subject to the draft. Same idea with women, if you can choose not to enter the military, you are not subject to a draft. Let's not quibble with indefinate extensions.
was gonna add: if the Israeli army doesn't want weirdos who have a skewed sense of reality in their ranks, then they probably shouldn't accept fundamentalist religious types who believe the earth is 6000 years old or that god will send you to hell for all eternity for eating a goat, what with cloven hooves being unclean and all.
Funny you should mention that. Orthodox are not subject to the draft.
A modern CEO of a computer company does not need to know how to operate a computer, they need to know how to operate a business. It doesn't matter if you are selling computer chips or potato chips, all businesses are run *about* the same way.
John? Mr Scully? It's over. You have to let it go.
(B) There is not and never has been a "trust fund"; instead, the money was promptly borrowed and spent in lieu of additional general revenue.
Sort of. The SSA is required to put excess revenue into US Treasury Bonds. So looking at the SSA as a seperate entity, there is a trust fund in the form of many many bonds.
Now taking the US government as a whole, the money doesn't exist because we've been running deficits practically consistently since Vietnam.
Here's the thing though. The bonds held by the SSA are the same as any others. They are binding and if the government were to default on even the internally held bonds, the whole house of cards comes crashing down.
It's a matter of scale. If Uncle Joe's liquor store decides not to stock Vogue because of the naughty sex talk, that's one thing.
It's another thing altogether when Walmart does the same thing. Because of its scope both in purchasing and in availability, that is, for some large segment of the US population, the nearest outlet for goods is a Walmart and only a Walmart, then it is a whole different animal.
In monopolistic situations, such that the corporation is a government license to operate as such, censorship by the corporation becomes censorship by the government via proxy.
The major theme in the first part of the Bush presidency was the wholesale overturning of everything Clinton. Entire bodies of work were tossed aside because the Republicans saw them a priori to be incorrect. While it might be good to clean house, nothing was done in the counter-terrorism arena to set a better, or even new policy. How much effort was expended in the counter-terrorism effort between the inauguration and 9/11 even in the face of memos like the PDB. Not enough apparently.
As far as records go, some are more secretive than others. Bush pegs the meter. Everything is considered national security or otherwise privileged. Even more suspicious is the extending of secrecy in the Presidential Records Act of 2001 just as the juicy bits of the Reagan Administration would have come to light. At the same time, some of the more questionable members of the Reagan Administration were getting new jobs in the Bush Administration. Poindexter comes to mind immediately, but is not the only one.
I've never understood this complaint. Ejecting discs in Macintosh is the classic example of there being more than one way to do things. If your sensical person wouldn't think to drag an icon to the trash, they certainly would think to look at the 'Special' menu and see eject sitting right there for them to select. Likewise, the keyboard shortcut is listed right there for them to remember next time. The trash is just that other third way that doesn't necessarily need to be there, but is thrown in as an additional feature without having to clutter the desktop with yet another icon. Why is this the canonical example of bad UI?
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I am sure there would be the opposites of this kid, who will always be bitter irrespective of how much they get.
His name is Ellison.
am going to be practical here: It has always amazed me that people say "I am going to wait to buy XXXX until they come out with the new one". Buy what you need for the job you need it for and realize that whenever you buy something computer related, it is likely already obsolete and will be replaced with the next shiny thing in a couple of months.
I take a slightly different approach based on that same idea of inevitable obsolescence. Know that some day, the computer you buy will be unable to run the then current version of Software X. With that in mind, set your budget first, then buy the best computer you can given your budget in order to stretch its lifetime out as long as possible.
Budget first, then features.
When I used Kazaa, I browsed other's shared files, and often went and bought a few albums afterwards.
This is the best feature of P2P services. If I like band A, and I find that those users who share Band A's songs also tend to have Band B, chances are I will like Band B too.
This is what Amazon and other try to do with their feedback based recommendation system. It works to some extent, but not as well as P2P in my experience.
concluded stars cannot get any larger than about 150 times the mass of our sun.
Else they have to pay for two seats.
Um... No. Ultra-Orthodox people get an extension of release from Draft, much as some students in universitites do.
Good point. There is a distinction between orthodox and ultra-orthodox I missed.
The fact that it is indefinite, is a different issue.
If an extension is indefinate, that person is not subject to the draft. Same idea with women, if you can choose not to enter the military, you are not subject to a draft. Let's not quibble with indefinate extensions.
was gonna add: if the Israeli army doesn't want weirdos who have a skewed sense of reality in their ranks, then they probably shouldn't accept fundamentalist religious types who believe the earth is 6000 years old or that god will send you to hell for all eternity for eating a goat, what with cloven hooves being unclean and all.
Funny you should mention that. Orthodox are not subject to the draft.
If you're uncomfortable with this, you'll love that BAE Systems just bought United Defense Industries, the maker of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Since when does Austria have a coast?
Since when does the navy have battleships?
(not since 1992 if youre curious)
a datacenter in an undisclosed location
Is Dick Cheney in the IT business now?
A modern CEO of a computer company does not need to know how to operate a computer, they need to know how to operate a business. It doesn't matter if you are selling computer chips or potato chips, all businesses are run *about* the same way.
John? Mr Scully? It's over. You have to let it go.
(B) There is not and never has been a "trust fund"; instead, the money was promptly borrowed and spent in lieu of additional general revenue.
Sort of. The SSA is required to put excess revenue into US Treasury Bonds. So looking at the SSA as a seperate entity, there is a trust fund in the form of many many bonds.
Now taking the US government as a whole, the money doesn't exist because we've been running deficits practically consistently since Vietnam.
Here's the thing though. The bonds held by the SSA are the same as any others. They are binding and if the government were to default on even the internally held bonds, the whole house of cards comes crashing down.
The cows fart and burp a lot - creating greenhouse gasses. Then we get global warming.
Well I fart and burp alot too. Certainly they can't be thinking about getting rid of..skjd+++NO CARRIER
Shit, that code practically debugs itself, doesn't it?
Would the author let her walk SF's Tenderloin after dark in a halter, leather mini & fishnets?
Where do you think he found her in the first place?
But mauve has the most RAM!
It's a matter of scale. If Uncle Joe's liquor store decides not to stock Vogue because of the naughty sex talk, that's one thing.
It's another thing altogether when Walmart does the same thing. Because of its scope both in purchasing and in availability, that is, for some large segment of the US population, the nearest outlet for goods is a Walmart and only a Walmart, then it is a whole different animal.
In monopolistic situations, such that the corporation is a government license to operate as such, censorship by the corporation becomes censorship by the government via proxy.
The major theme in the first part of the Bush presidency was the wholesale overturning of everything Clinton. Entire bodies of work were tossed aside because the Republicans saw them a priori to be incorrect. While it might be good to clean house, nothing was done in the counter-terrorism arena to set a better, or even new policy. How much effort was expended in the counter-terrorism effort between the inauguration and 9/11 even in the face of memos like the PDB. Not enough apparently.
As far as records go, some are more secretive than others. Bush pegs the meter. Everything is considered national security or otherwise privileged. Even more suspicious is the extending of secrecy in the Presidential Records Act of 2001 just as the juicy bits of the Reagan Administration would have come to light. At the same time, some of the more questionable members of the Reagan Administration were getting new jobs in the Bush Administration. Poindexter comes to mind immediately, but is not the only one.
You can actually do this in the Sims 2. The console or the computer, you can go out and purchase other titles, including the Sims and Sim City.
FBI has been involved in foreign attacks on US installations since the mid 90s.
So involved are they that they considered opening an office in Yemen.
This is only kharma for the returned products Fry's stocks on their shelves.
Feynman is quoted as saying, "Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation"
so it wasn't necessarily that your math professors had gotten laid per se...
1 is for 1
but what is the first result for "1"?
http://www.mozilla.org/
Is there a way to gauge the date you got that handle from the #? I've been reading /. since Aug 98, but I didn't sign up til the 6 digits or so..?
I've never understood this complaint. Ejecting discs in Macintosh is the classic example of there being more than one way to do things. If your sensical person wouldn't think to drag an icon to the trash, they certainly would think to look at the 'Special' menu and see eject sitting right there for them to select. Likewise, the keyboard shortcut is listed right there for them to remember next time. The trash is just that other third way that doesn't necessarily need to be there, but is thrown in as an additional feature without having to clutter the desktop with yet another icon. Why is this the canonical example of bad UI?
How about temporary tattoos via a UV laser attached to a tattoo gun?