Cable DVRs suck. Most people would be much happier with a TiVo and would find the extra expense to be justified. I know I'm biased but I honestly believe that.
For $10 extra per month (only $5 if you consider that I was renting an HDTV cable box for $5), I get a dual tuner box from Comcast that records in HD, has firewire/DVI outputs, and stores more TV than I can watch in a week. Sure, the interface isn't Tivo, but:
I didn't pay anything up front
Tivo doesn't have a non-DirectTV HD box as far as I know
The Direct TV box is $1000 or so
When I want something different in a year or two, I'll swap what I've got
The interface is slowly improving
For some people, Tivo+Cable makes sense. For others of us, it doesn't. I wish Tivo and Comcast had come to an arrangement because I'd gladly pay a couple of bucks more per month to have something a little nicer, but I don't want to give up HD recording.
You mean we lost the data on whether ants can build tunnels in zero-G? The Columbia was doing science experiments suggested by grade schoolers, not "important experiments." The scientific output of the shuttle and ISS is about zero. With only two or three astronauts on the ISS, there is only time to keep the ISS running. Nothing else.
Just a quick Google search shows predictions by the U.N. of 9.3B in 2050 (from this year) and 9B in 2070 (from 2001). Considering that we are already at 6.3B, 7.5B is pretty optimistic. The rest of your comment is pretty accurate, although one can certainly question whether 6.3B is really sustainable.
Where is the "-1 Idiotic" mod point when you need one?
1) Yes, the earth was warmer. Why? I don't know, but I'm not a climatologist. But, such changes are thought to have taken place over thousands of years. Now we are talking about decades for changes that are similar in magnitude.
2) See, there is this crazy theory called plate techtonics (100 years ago it was thought to be crazy). Land masses rise and fall as the plates collide. So, what was at the bottom of the ocean can be raised to be the top of a mountain given enough time.
I think if you can't answer that question (you probably learned the answer in grade school) then you're not qualified to say if the poster has a good point or not.
I don't accept reboots. With a PC, maybe. My DVR needs a reboot every so often and it burns me. My DVD player locks up sometimes and it burns me. Electronics should *just work*
... coming from IBM since that's how they used to sell mainframes. They'd send you a machine with extra processors installed and would activate them when you paid more for the hardware. Cheaper for them, apparently, than coming out to take your machine down and do the real install.
If IBM is talking about the computer hardware installed, that may be accurate. Every car has voice regonition, GPS, DVD player, etc. Which features are enabled depend on what you paid. We already see this in consumer electronics. But all cars (or even all those in a model) with the same engine and transmission but different tunings? I don't see that.
from http://www.scientificlinux.org or WhiteBox. Both are RHEL repackaged and free (don't let "scientific" confuse you). Both, aside from kernel updates will keep themselves up to date and will have support for ~5 years. These are great for most "desktop" things, but you'll probably not be satisfied if you want to watch or edit video. (Then you have to add packages not in the distro.)
For me, low hassle, long term support is what I look for at work. For my home machine and laptop, auto-detecting my scanner and USB Flash drive is more important.
I'd like to be able to do something like
#define BGCOLOR red;
somewhere in a CSS and then be able to use
color: BGCOLOR;
at various places in the CSS file(s) rather than gathering everything together in one place like the parent example. Sometimes it can be a pain to find everything and if you have styles for an element other than "color:" it doesn't save space to write them all together.
which works just fine? I'm fairly new to CSS, but it seems to me it's missing CPP-like definitions to allow propagating colors and such into more complicated structures.
Why this limitation persisted into a verion of Fortran that no longer even required line numbers - no idea.
Because a lot of this code got dumped onto disks and is still used today. Actually I don't know that line numbers were ever required, just often put in so you could re-assemble your cards if you dropped them.
The limitation of 72 characters come from this too. Line numbers or sequence numbers were often put in columns 73-80. If compiliers started paying attention to what was in those columns, lots of code would break.
Considering that FORTRAN pre-dates C by almost 15 years and was the first general purpose computer language, it's kind of a stretch to say it wasn't designed to be pretty. It was a lot prettier than the assembly of the time.
I do have reservations about a company like Intel telling people what they can and can't do with their product, but if it's meet some specification to earn the right to logo the boxen, I think that's within the realm of acceptable business practice.
Right, there is nothing that stopped a vendor (from what I can tell) of taking a laptop with Pentium-M, 865 chipset, and wireless networking and selling it with Linux pre-installed. They just couldn't call it Centrino, even though it was the exact same thing.
It's a safety net that allows the citizens of the US to have a good standard of living.
I would say a minimal standard of living, but other than I think you're right on. (People who earn at the bottom of the pay scale get something like $9K/yr from SS.)
Why should "Doing it like a man" be the gold standard? There are plenty of ways for groups of people to interact other than the stereotypically male hyper-competiveness and back-stabbing. In fact, many of these ways of working as a group acheive better results than the "manly" way.
Just because our work/academic culture has developed in a mostly male-dominated fashion doesn't mean it's optimal.
One element of empathy towards other people involves picking up a lot of nuances (facial expressions, body language, tone of voice) and instinctively determining the state of the person's mind. This is a lot different than a flow-chart/decision-tree type of system that most of our artificial systems follow.
Not to mention that a university president has very little control over who gets hired. Sure, he has to sign off on departmental and college recommendations, but he'd have to have a very good reason (and would be challenged) if he decides to countermand those recommendations.
Her basic premise (backed up by various studies) is that pre-historically, the tasks of men and women drove the evolution of their brains and chemistry (hormones). For example, because men did the hunting, they had to understand spacial relationships better. Because a group of women in a tribe took care of the children together, women had to work better with others and multi-task.
I can't recall specifically, but I think she makes the point that the male mind is (on average, of course) better suited for engineering because of the spacial relationship thing. But, her basic premise is that the directions the world, and even corporate culture, are heading benefit women and we should expect them to lead much more in the future.
But who provides the content for Wikinews? I would imagine those writing on Wikinews are not the ones doing the first hand work in gathering the news. For now, maybe this is OK, as long as Wikinews is even handed and doesn't develop an agenda. But, if those who do the initial reporting fold, wikinews will have nothing.
My worry is that as people get more and more news via the Internet, they will self-limit the spectrum of the news they get. News on the Internet will come from an increasingly large number of sources with narrower and narrower viewpoints, and people will pick the viewpoint that matches their own most closely, thereby closing their minds to other viewpoints. In other words, amplify what Fox News has done many times over.
I don't claim to be immune to this, the only on-line site I where I typically read in-depth articles is Salon.
It's possible, even in humans, to have fraternal twins that don't separate and grow into one person. They can live semi-ordinary lives. Sorry I don't have a reference, I was reading this a few months ago and was really surprised.
Anyway, it may be that on a genetic level, this is actually two organisms.
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What I pay:
For some people, Tivo+Cable makes sense. For others of us, it doesn't. I wish Tivo and Comcast had come to an arrangement because I'd gladly pay a couple of bucks more per month to have something a little nicer, but I don't want to give up HD recording.
You mean we lost the data on whether ants can build tunnels in zero-G? The Columbia was doing science experiments suggested by grade schoolers, not "important experiments." The scientific output of the shuttle and ISS is about zero. With only two or three astronauts on the ISS, there is only time to keep the ISS running. Nothing else.
Just a quick Google search shows predictions by the U.N. of 9.3B in 2050 (from this year) and 9B in 2070 (from 2001). Considering that we are already at 6.3B, 7.5B is pretty optimistic. The rest of your comment is pretty accurate, although one can certainly question whether 6.3B is really sustainable.
1) Yes, the earth was warmer. Why? I don't know, but I'm not a climatologist. But, such changes are thought to have taken place over thousands of years. Now we are talking about decades for changes that are similar in magnitude.
2) See, there is this crazy theory called plate techtonics (100 years ago it was thought to be crazy). Land masses rise and fall as the plates collide. So, what was at the bottom of the ocean can be raised to be the top of a mountain given enough time.
I think if you can't answer that question (you probably learned the answer in grade school) then you're not qualified to say if the poster has a good point or not.
At work your employer "owns" your time, not just the equipment you are using.
I don't accept reboots. With a PC, maybe. My DVR needs a reboot every so often and it burns me. My DVD player locks up sometimes and it burns me. Electronics should *just work*
If IBM is talking about the computer hardware installed, that may be accurate. Every car has voice regonition, GPS, DVD player, etc. Which features are enabled depend on what you paid. We already see this in consumer electronics. But all cars (or even all those in a model) with the same engine and transmission but different tunings? I don't see that.
For me, low hassle, long term support is what I look for at work. For my home machine and laptop, auto-detecting my scanner and USB Flash drive is more important.
I'd like to be able to do something like
#define BGCOLOR red;
somewhere in a CSS and then be able to use
color: BGCOLOR;
at various places in the CSS file(s) rather than gathering everything together in one place like the parent example. Sometimes it can be a pain to find everything and if you have styles for an element other than "color:" it doesn't save space to write them all together.
a.blue, span.blue, div#back { color: blue; }
which works just fine? I'm fairly new to CSS, but it seems to me it's missing CPP-like definitions to allow propagating colors and such into more complicated structures.
The limitation of 72 characters come from this too. Line numbers or sequence numbers were often put in columns 73-80. If compiliers started paying attention to what was in those columns, lots of code would break.
Considering that FORTRAN pre-dates C by almost 15 years and was the first general purpose computer language, it's kind of a stretch to say it wasn't designed to be pretty. It was a lot prettier than the assembly of the time.
Right, there is nothing that stopped a vendor (from what I can tell) of taking a laptop with Pentium-M, 865 chipset, and wireless networking and selling it with Linux pre-installed. They just couldn't call it Centrino, even though it was the exact same thing.
In the slashdot/code case, you'd remove it for people with good karma. Spammers would quickly be denied the ability to influence rankings.
I would say a minimal standard of living, but other than I think you're right on. (People who earn at the bottom of the pay scale get something like $9K/yr from SS.)
Just because our work/academic culture has developed in a mostly male-dominated fashion doesn't mean it's optimal.
One element of empathy towards other people involves picking up a lot of nuances (facial expressions, body language, tone of voice) and instinctively determining the state of the person's mind. This is a lot different than a flow-chart/decision-tree type of system that most of our artificial systems follow.
Not to mention that a university president has very little control over who gets hired. Sure, he has to sign off on departmental and college recommendations, but he'd have to have a very good reason (and would be challenged) if he decides to countermand those recommendations.
Her basic premise (backed up by various studies) is that pre-historically, the tasks of men and women drove the evolution of their brains and chemistry (hormones). For example, because men did the hunting, they had to understand spacial relationships better. Because a group of women in a tribe took care of the children together, women had to work better with others and multi-task.
I can't recall specifically, but I think she makes the point that the male mind is (on average, of course) better suited for engineering because of the spacial relationship thing. But, her basic premise is that the directions the world, and even corporate culture, are heading benefit women and we should expect them to lead much more in the future.
But who provides the content for Wikinews? I would imagine those writing on Wikinews are not the ones doing the first hand work in gathering the news. For now, maybe this is OK, as long as Wikinews is even handed and doesn't develop an agenda. But, if those who do the initial reporting fold, wikinews will have nothing.
I don't claim to be immune to this, the only on-line site I where I typically read in-depth articles is Salon.
Yes, thank you. The New Scientist article they reference (google for it) is very interesting.
Anyway, it may be that on a genetic level, this is actually two organisms.