Note: It is my understanding that the browser is what looks up the DTD. And there's no point to lookup the DTD. Fetching DTDs is only useful for validating an unknown document. When it comes to displaying document, you already know what you can display, so there's no discovery going on. There's no validation is meaningless, because you have to handle invalid documents anyway, and even if you do feel like validating the doc, you already know what you can handle, and so you know the DTD!
Linux is ready for desktop, hardware and software vendors are not ready for Linux.
A distinction without a difference.
More importantly, whining and passing the blame is not a "solution." It's an excuse. Users -- at any level of expertise -- don't give a damn about why it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. End of story. I have more important things to do with my life than to babysit and sysadmin my own machine for a week and half only to learn that it will never work quite right.
Screw that. If the "solution" is "well you just have to LEARN!" then you've failed. I don't know jack shit about my mac, and you know what? I don't have to. Linux on the other hand makes me hand edit configs in/etc, modify rc.local, run ndiswrapper. Screw that. I've already lost interest. I could do all that stuff, but I choose not to. I choose life.
Until Linux can give a total experience, it's not ready for the desktop. And don't tell me that will is "now" or will be Real Soon Now(tm), it isn't. It won't. That meme has been going around for at least 14 years now. It was a wishful thinking then, and it's even more absurd now.
And what part of the old "get amongst a crowd and blow myself up" ploy requires a train to be involved? Much less a high-speed train? Nothing.,
Should we stop building (or using existing) large sporting venues? Office buildings? Shopping malls? These are all places where large crowds are at least as vulnerable as passengers on a train. Absolutely not. The threat is greatly overblown when compared to the other threats we live with daily.
That's why you don't hijack them. You just blow them up.
Granted an explosive belt isn't nearly as dramatic as crashing 4 airliners, but it's a hell of a lot harder to stop, and a hell of a lot cheaper and easier too.
If it goes through they get Yahoo market share, but if they tinker with Yahoo too much most likely people will leave Yahoo since if they wanted to use Microsoft Search they would do. All the search engines pretty much give the same results. The differences are at the margins. What people consider quality results is actually personal bias.
There was a study a few years ago, sadly I can't find it right now (It's probably somewhere in portal.acm.org.), where the researchers had people rate the quality of the results for for different searches. The trick was that all the searches would go pass though some proxy so that the page displaying the search form/results wasn't actually the site that performed the searches. (e.g People think they're using Google, but were actually using Yahoo.)
The results? When people thought they were using their preferred search engine, they said the results were better than those from the unpreferred engine -- even when the underlying engine actually was their prefered engine!
Oh yeah. Most definitely. That's because "foreigner" essentially means "non-Chinese" is everyday usage. That's not what the word literally means, but that's the meaning it has taken on in colloquial use. They don't mean anything by it. It's just a word.
You really haven't spent time with Chinese international students have you?
China is still communist. No. China has a single party totalitian regime that calls themselves "communists." Communism as an economic force died when Deng Xiaopeng proclaimed, "To be rich is glorious."
Most American's are obsessed with idiotic physical competitions, are in debt up to their ass to pay for toys they don't need, and haven't ever lost sleep over the Fermi paradox. Yeah. I hear the Papua New Guineans televise math proofs on live television.
What the hell does this even mean, because as far as I can tell it's essentially content free, as you could replace "American" with "Greenlander" or "Swede" or "Mexican" or any other nationality on the planet, and the statement would still hold. (Well, maybe not the debt part.)
Well if you tried you tried. I don't know what to say. Responding in Mandarin to a direct English inquiry is pretty damn antisocial thing to do. I think at that point, you don't have to be polite and can respond with something along the lines of, "Cut the crap. We both know you passed the TOFEL." Or if that's too much. Just put up some Free Tibet or Free Faulin Gong signs, and perhaps pointed refer to the "independent country of Taiwan." That might at least get the Maoist to speak English to you.;)
Weird group of guys you've got there. Can't say I've ever encountered that. I've seen two Chinese cut out an Venezuelan out of the conversation while doing a group project, which I don't think was intentional. Just incredibly inconsiderate. (I don't even think they realized that they did it.) And I've a had a Japanese girl stare right through me while trying to start up some small talk waiting for the classroom to open up. I think my response was something along the liens of, "Wow. Wasn't even treated that shitty in high school." Her friend was friendly though.
I don't think McCarthy'ed or paranoid is really the thought. Most people just don't care to be bother with politics, but people really don't want to get some big political partisan started with on a big "Wha? How dare you!" rant. Not unlike someone saying, "Gee. Reagan? What the hell is up with that?" to some rabid Republican. It's easier just to let sleeping dogs lie.
I find it absolutely unbelievable that they "refused to speak English except to the profs." Do they speak Chinese exclusively among themselves? Absolutely. Do they speak among themselves a vast majority of the time? Absolutely. But I find it absolutely incredible that if your attempts to strike up a conversation went along the lines of: "Hello." "" ["Shut up big nose"]
That's odd. So odd, that I strongly suspect your exaggerating.
Of all the Chinese students I've met in the US, and I've been friends with several, none were part of the Cult of Mao. Their parents, on the other hand... A girl I knew one time told a story about how her and her sister found their mom and dad's Little Red Books. They were laughing at the daily affirmations their parents wrote ("Chairman Mao! You are so wise! We gladly follow you with devotion and love!" and other such nonsense indicative of indoctrination into a cult of personality). She said her mom was really mad when she found them laughing. ("They thought he was a god! Seriously. Like a god!")
Now I have heard several Chinese students say they liked Deng Xiaopeng, because he opened up China to the west. ("To be rich is glorious," as he said.) Deng Xiaopeng was a totalitarian dictator responsible for thousands (if not millions) of deaths (Tiananmen, I'm looking at you!), but he his openning up of China did revolutionize the country from a lackadaisical backwater to economic powerhouse.
Are there Mao devotees? Yeah. Most definitely. Statistically there has to be. Just like how someone in your engineering class is a born again. But there aren't that many. What you might have seen is one Mao devotee decorating the place and the other ones simply ignoring it. Just like how no one says anything about a picture of Jesus on the wall. It's just easier that way, but don't be surprised if some of the laughing you hear coming out of that office is at the expense of the Maoist.
Can I like, not open the cease-and-desist letter and tell the judge that since I didn't open the letter so that I do not violate copyright? Reason being, I too write such letters, and since I didn't opened the letter, I have the right not to "cease-and-desist"? Well then, how did you know it was a cease-and-desist letter then?
Also, no one would believe you were acting in good faith, because your actions would not be view as, nor are they, reasonable actions. Judges (and juries for that matter) get mighty pissed off when some punk starts trying to play them as fools.
There is no such thing as a citizen. You are a consumer. It is your patriotic duty to consume. From the decider 09/20/2001
Americans are asking: What is expected of us? I ask you to live your lives, and hug your children. I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat. [...] I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy. Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity. They did not touch its source. America is successful because of the hard work, and creativity, and enterprise of our people. These were the true strengths of our economy before September 11th, and they are our strengths today. 12/20/2006
The unemployment rate has remained low, at 4.5 percent. A recent report on retail sales shows a strong beginning to the holiday shopping season across the country -- and I encourage you all to go shopping more.
I bought a Zune Well there's your problem right there.
Honestly. You're ranting about how bad Microsoft is and how stupid anyone is to buy a Microsoft product, but you go on to give an entire litany of all the products you repeatedly purchase and how they repeatedly suck. Apparently, you haven't learned your lesson, and by your own standard, are a fool.
this computer completely blows it away as far as gaming, it can boot 3 different OS's, it allows me to network myself without paying a forced subscription fee, AND it doesn't get hot enough to warp its own motherboard. Beat that Microsoft. Well given that your machine boots XP, or as I strongly suspect given your apparent propensity to purchase anything Microsoft, Vista, I don't think Microsoft has to beat that. They have your money, and another customer on the upgrade treadmill.
Actually, AccuWeather doesn't want to defund the NOAA, they just want to keep NOAA from distributing their data. AccuWeather wants NOAA around, because NOAA provides a big chunk of the data AccuWeather uses! Weather data collection is expensive, and they don't want to have to collect it all themselves.
If you get a good weather station, the system comes with sunshades for thermometer, and obviously you won't put it under a tree if you want the rain gauge to work. The only real guidelines they give you about placement is where to setup your anemometer if you have one. You want to put it 7 meters above ground level, and ideally 20 meters from any obstructions. If there are obstructions (e.g. trees and houses), you want to put it at least 2 meters above them. Of course these siting preferences are some times impractical. In these cases, you can still upload your anemometer data, but it's flagged as suspect. Basically ground level wind readings are worthless, so the NWS doesn't really care.
Each station is part of a sensor network, and like many sensor nets, some nodes are more precise, more accurate, and more timely than others. By combining the data from all the nodes in the net, outliers can be found and corrected. So you see, it's okay that not every node is perfect, just as long as most of the nodes are pretty good, you can still get good data.
If you get a good weather station, the system comes with sunshades for thermometer, and obviously you won't put it under a tree if you want the rain gauge to work. The only real guidelines they give you about placement is where to setup your anemometer if you have one. You want to put it 7 meters above ground level, and ideally 20 meters from any obstructions. If there are obstructions (e.g. trees and houses), you want to put it at least 2 meters above them. Of course these siting preferences are some times impractical. In these cases, you can still upload your anemometer data, but it's flagged as suspect. Basically ground level wind readings are worthless, so the NWS doesn't really care.
Countering systematic errors actually isn't that much more difficult. You have to realize that no station is in isolation. They're part of a network. Like all sensor networks, some sensors are going to be more accurate and more precise than others. All of this data is put together and outliers can be detected and corrected.
When it comes to the government the answer is more often than not, a resounding no. With respect to the presidency and vice presidency, the relevant law is the Presidential Records Act. You must preserve all records, and can only destroy them after consultation with the Archivist of the United States.
These emails are of evidentiary value, and therefore should have been preserved. Destruction of these records is a federal crime. Not only is it obviously a violation of the PRA, but there is strong evidence that this is destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice. Furthermore, things like this don't happen by rouge low level staffers. Decisions to destroy vital records comes from the highest levels.
People go to jail for these crimes all the time. Will these people? Hell know, the dems are too spineless to actually bring indictments and begin impeachment proceedings, and so everyone will get off scott free.
As the saying goes, "In a democracy, you get the government you deserve."
It wouldn't do me any good to threaten to kill you. You're the only one that knows the key. I'll just threaten to kill other people in front of you until you do give up the key. ala Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide. (Great movie. Great performance. Great scene.)
And seeing as how Thomas Jefferson distrusted government I seriously doubt he'd agree either. The Founder Fathers' actual views rarely align with the views of those that most often and loudly invoke their memory.
But but but it's not paper! It's electronic! So if you print your email, then the hardcopy is protected, but the electronic version is fair game. Which is exactly what Thomas Jefferson intended. If the framers wanted to protect electronic versions they would have said so. And don't give that "but electronics weren't invented yet" excused. They were like gods on earth! They knew all, and were infallible. Just ask Sally Hemings.
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More importantly, whining and passing the blame is not a "solution." It's an excuse. Users -- at any level of expertise -- don't give a damn about why it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. End of story. I have more important things to do with my life than to babysit and sysadmin my own machine for a week and half only to learn that it will never work quite right.
Screw that. If the "solution" is "well you just have to LEARN!" then you've failed. I don't know jack shit about my mac, and you know what? I don't have to. Linux on the other hand makes me hand edit configs in
Until Linux can give a total experience, it's not ready for the desktop. And don't tell me that will is "now" or will be Real Soon Now(tm), it isn't. It won't. That meme has been going around for at least 14 years now. It was a wishful thinking then, and it's even more absurd now.
That's why you don't hijack them. You just blow them up.
Granted an explosive belt isn't nearly as dramatic as crashing 4 airliners, but it's a hell of a lot harder to stop, and a hell of a lot cheaper and easier too.
There was a study a few years ago, sadly I can't find it right now (It's probably somewhere in portal.acm.org
The results? When people thought they were using their preferred search engine, they said the results were better than those from the unpreferred engine -- even when the underlying engine actually was their prefered engine!
In other words: People are stupid.
Oh bullshit.
Oh yeah. Most definitely. That's because "foreigner" essentially means "non-Chinese" is everyday usage. That's not what the word literally means, but that's the meaning it has taken on in colloquial use. They don't mean anything by it. It's just a word.
What the hell does this even mean, because as far as I can tell it's essentially content free, as you could replace "American" with "Greenlander" or "Swede" or "Mexican" or any other nationality on the planet, and the statement would still hold. (Well, maybe not the debt part.)
And an apostrophe isn't used a plural you cretin!
Well if you tried you tried. I don't know what to say. Responding in Mandarin to a direct English inquiry is pretty damn antisocial thing to do. I think at that point, you don't have to be polite and can respond with something along the lines of, "Cut the crap. We both know you passed the TOFEL." Or if that's too much. Just put up some Free Tibet or Free Faulin Gong signs, and perhaps pointed refer to the "independent country of Taiwan." That might at least get the Maoist to speak English to you. ;)
Weird group of guys you've got there. Can't say I've ever encountered that. I've seen two Chinese cut out an Venezuelan out of the conversation while doing a group project, which I don't think was intentional. Just incredibly inconsiderate. (I don't even think they realized that they did it.) And I've a had a Japanese girl stare right through me while trying to start up some small talk waiting for the classroom to open up. I think my response was something along the liens of, "Wow. Wasn't even treated that shitty in high school." Her friend was friendly though.
I don't think McCarthy'ed or paranoid is really the thought. Most people just don't care to be bother with politics, but people really don't want to get some big political partisan started with on a big "Wha? How dare you!" rant. Not unlike someone saying, "Gee. Reagan? What the hell is up with that?" to some rabid Republican. It's easier just to let sleeping dogs lie.
I find it absolutely unbelievable that they "refused to speak English except to the profs." Do they speak Chinese exclusively among themselves? Absolutely. Do they speak among themselves a vast majority of the time? Absolutely. But I find it absolutely incredible that if your attempts to strike up a conversation went along the lines of: "Hello." "" ["Shut up big nose"]
That's odd. So odd, that I strongly suspect your exaggerating.
Of all the Chinese students I've met in the US, and I've been friends with several, none were part of the Cult of Mao. Their parents, on the other hand... A girl I knew one time told a story about how her and her sister found their mom and dad's Little Red Books. They were laughing at the daily affirmations their parents wrote ("Chairman Mao! You are so wise! We gladly follow you with devotion and love!" and other such nonsense indicative of indoctrination into a cult of personality). She said her mom was really mad when she found them laughing. ("They thought he was a god! Seriously. Like a god!")
Now I have heard several Chinese students say they liked Deng Xiaopeng, because he opened up China to the west. ("To be rich is glorious," as he said.) Deng Xiaopeng was a totalitarian dictator responsible for thousands (if not millions) of deaths (Tiananmen, I'm looking at you!), but he his openning up of China did revolutionize the country from a lackadaisical backwater to economic powerhouse.
Are there Mao devotees? Yeah. Most definitely. Statistically there has to be. Just like how someone in your engineering class is a born again. But there aren't that many. What you might have seen is one Mao devotee decorating the place and the other ones simply ignoring it. Just like how no one says anything about a picture of Jesus on the wall. It's just easier that way, but don't be surprised if some of the laughing you hear coming out of that office is at the expense of the Maoist.
Also, no one would believe you were acting in good faith, because your actions would not be view as, nor are they, reasonable actions. Judges (and juries for that matter) get mighty pissed off when some punk starts trying to play them as fools.
09/20/2001 Americans are asking: What is expected of us? I ask you to live your lives, and hug your children. I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat. [...] I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy. Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity. They did not touch its source. America is successful because of the hard work, and creativity, and enterprise of our people. These were the true strengths of our economy before September 11th, and they are our strengths today. 12/20/2006 The unemployment rate has remained low, at 4.5 percent. A recent report on retail sales shows a strong beginning to the holiday shopping season across the country -- and I encourage you all to go shopping more.
Honestly. You're ranting about how bad Microsoft is and how stupid anyone is to buy a Microsoft product, but you go on to give an entire litany of all the products you repeatedly purchase and how they repeatedly suck. Apparently, you haven't learned your lesson, and by your own standard, are a fool. this computer completely blows it away as far as gaming, it can boot 3 different OS's, it allows me to network myself without paying a forced subscription fee, AND it doesn't get hot enough to warp its own motherboard. Beat that Microsoft. Well given that your machine boots XP, or as I strongly suspect given your apparent propensity to purchase anything Microsoft, Vista, I don't think Microsoft has to beat that. They have your money, and another customer on the upgrade treadmill.
Actually, AccuWeather doesn't want to defund the NOAA, they just want to keep NOAA from distributing their data. AccuWeather wants NOAA around, because NOAA provides a big chunk of the data AccuWeather uses! Weather data collection is expensive, and they don't want to have to collect it all themselves.
(Should have hit preview. :( )
I set up my dad's weather station (a Davis Vantage Pro2. Highly recommend it, as does Make Magazine)) is part of cwop.
If you get a good weather station, the system comes with sunshades for thermometer, and obviously you won't put it under a tree if you want the rain gauge to work. The only real guidelines they give you about placement is where to setup your anemometer if you have one. You want to put it 7 meters above ground level, and ideally 20 meters from any obstructions. If there are obstructions (e.g. trees and houses), you want to put it at least 2 meters above them. Of course these siting preferences are some times impractical. In these cases, you can still upload your anemometer data, but it's flagged as suspect. Basically ground level wind readings are worthless, so the NWS doesn't really care.
Each station is part of a sensor network, and like many sensor nets, some nodes are more precise, more accurate, and more timely than others. By combining the data from all the nodes in the net, outliers can be found and corrected. So you see, it's okay that not every node is perfect, just as long as most of the nodes are pretty good, you can still get good data.
I set up my dad's weather station (a . Highly recommend it, as does Make Magazine)) is part of cwop.
If you get a good weather station, the system comes with sunshades for thermometer, and obviously you won't put it under a tree if you want the rain gauge to work. The only real guidelines they give you about placement is where to setup your anemometer if you have one. You want to put it 7 meters above ground level, and ideally 20 meters from any obstructions. If there are obstructions (e.g. trees and houses), you want to put it at least 2 meters above them. Of course these siting preferences are some times impractical. In these cases, you can still upload your anemometer data, but it's flagged as suspect. Basically ground level wind readings are worthless, so the NWS doesn't really care.
Countering systematic errors actually isn't that much more difficult. You have to realize that no station is in isolation. They're part of a network. Like all sensor networks, some sensors are going to be more accurate and more precise than others. All of this data is put together and outliers can be detected and corrected.
When it comes to the government the answer is more often than not, a resounding no. With respect to the presidency and vice presidency, the relevant law is the Presidential Records Act. You must preserve all records, and can only destroy them after consultation with the Archivist of the United States.
These emails are of evidentiary value, and therefore should have been preserved. Destruction of these records is a federal crime. Not only is it obviously a violation of the PRA, but there is strong evidence that this is destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice. Furthermore, things like this don't happen by rouge low level staffers. Decisions to destroy vital records comes from the highest levels.
People go to jail for these crimes all the time. Will these people? Hell know, the dems are too spineless to actually bring indictments and begin impeachment proceedings, and so everyone will get off scott free.
As the saying goes, "In a democracy, you get the government you deserve."
Fine then. I'll just waterboard you. Afterall, it's not torture. And everyone breaks, usually in well under a minute.
It wouldn't do me any good to threaten to kill you. You're the only one that knows the key. I'll just threaten to kill other people in front of you until you do give up the key. ala Gene Hackman in Crimson Tide. (Great movie. Great performance. Great scene.)
But but but it's not paper! It's electronic! So if you print your email, then the hardcopy is protected, but the electronic version is fair game. Which is exactly what Thomas Jefferson intended. If the framers wanted to protect electronic versions they would have said so. And don't give that "but electronics weren't invented yet" excused. They were like gods on earth! They knew all, and were infallible. Just ask Sally Hemings.