Toolbars filled with unidentifiable pictures seem to be the norm these days. Instead of guessing what they mean, I drag the little arrow to the words that say what I want to do. Programmers don't seem to get that nouns are rarely a good representation for verbs, and the only verbs mouse actions give you are "activate this" and "apply this to that".
...in two major ways: (1) it can play by its own rules, often avoiding restrictions imposed on ordinary businesses, and (2) its job is, in certain times and places, so critical to everything else that (1) is justified. What I am saying is that it is a bad idea to throw out the rules (e.g., that nobody can make other people work at gunpoint) without specific justification, and that "they don't want to work for us because we don't pay commensurate with risk and skill" is not sufficient justification.
...by which I mean "give" the military things it doesn't want, like extra B-2 bombers and the blood of innocents and stuff. Why? Search me. I can't even figure out who keeps getting santorum all over the floor.
How can you be so glib about the idea of forcing people into military service? This is not a trivial thing; it is the use of violence against our own people, which can only be justified by great need. As I said, I recognize that it can be justified by great need, but I want you to recognize that we're nowhere near that. The economic argument is exactly the issue here: if the military offered a fair wage for sysadmins or programmers, I might well be working for them; but they don't, so I'm not, and millions like me aren't, and so they have a "shortage". A shortage that can reasonably be answered with the free market is not the same thing as a shortage because we're at war and men are dying faster than they are volunteering.
In World War II, we may well have needed enough soldiers that the free market couldn't provide them, but I can't see a draft in modern times as anything but a dodge for the military to avoid paying market rates for skilled workers by forcing them to work under threat of prison instead. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the draft is slavery, justifiable only under very limited circumstances that we're nowhere near right now---and politicans will ultimately make this decision on expediency rather than genuine need, as they do with everything else.
Apparently Slashdot agrees, because the lameness filter insists that I write some more text like this even though it really kind of undermines the message of the comment. That's pretty lame, Rob. The lameness filter is lame. See the irony? Oh, man, that's deep.
Radioactive dust washes off roads in the rain...
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...and accumulates in the dirt near the roads, because the roads are smoother and higher than the surrounding ground.
If they want to pay for placement, that's what ads are for. If they want high rankings, they can damn well do it the same way people have always done it: get happy customers to link to them. A company that pays a googlespammer thousands of dollars in hopes of deceiving customers deserves to lose; googlespammers have made web searches utterly useless for broad ranges of topics.
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...is a really obnoxious habit. I wish slashdotniks would outgrow it. As an alternative, why not tie dental floss to flies and watch them buzz around in circles? It's much more funand educational, too.
The only bonds you're going to cut are those that have an energy less that that of the photons you're using. The intermolecular disulfide bonds that apparently hold dough together (which Google suggests have energies on the order of 10 J/mol) are much weaker than those between, say, carbon and nitrogen in amino acid molecules (on the order of 400000 J/mol).
not precise semantics. A reasonable customer would expect the 9200 brand to refer to a chip with model number 9200. It's one thing to sell both the 9000 and 9200 chips under the brand "HyperSpiffyChip" or whatever, and entirely another to sell them both under the "9200" brand, since the latter leads the customer to expect something you're not delivering.
When I use HP printers, I send them raw PostScript over the network from Unix machines and use the PostScript "driver" on Windows machines. Never had a problem. PCL caused some pain on the Lexmark C720 (note to Lexmark: black, brown, and purple are different colors), and I've never seen the need to try it on any of the HPs.
Some printers now sold under the HP brand started life as Compaq crap.
LaserJets, though? It would be easy to see them doing that with inkjets, which live in a crap-saturated market, but it would be weird for HP to squander their reputation for excellent laser printers.
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Just you wait 'til I get that Opteron so I can break the 1GB VM addressing barrier.
Toolbars filled with unidentifiable pictures seem to be the norm these days. Instead of guessing what they mean, I drag the little arrow to the words that say what I want to do. Programmers don't seem to get that nouns are rarely a good representation for verbs, and the only verbs mouse actions give you are "activate this" and "apply this to that".
...in two major ways: (1) it can play by its own rules, often avoiding restrictions imposed on ordinary businesses, and (2) its job is, in certain times and places, so critical to everything else that (1) is justified. What I am saying is that it is a bad idea to throw out the rules (e.g., that nobody can make other people work at gunpoint) without specific justification, and that "they don't want to work for us because we don't pay commensurate with risk and skill" is not sufficient justification.
...by which I mean "give" the military things it doesn't want, like extra B-2 bombers and the blood of innocents and stuff. Why? Search me. I can't even figure out who keeps getting santorum all over the floor.
How can you be so glib about the idea of forcing people into military service? This is not a trivial thing; it is the use of violence against our own people, which can only be justified by great need. As I said, I recognize that it can be justified by great need, but I want you to recognize that we're nowhere near that. The economic argument is exactly the issue here: if the military offered a fair wage for sysadmins or programmers, I might well be working for them; but they don't, so I'm not, and millions like me aren't, and so they have a "shortage". A shortage that can reasonably be answered with the free market is not the same thing as a shortage because we're at war and men are dying faster than they are volunteering.
In World War II, we may well have needed enough soldiers that the free market couldn't provide them, but I can't see a draft in modern times as anything but a dodge for the military to avoid paying market rates for skilled workers by forcing them to work under threat of prison instead. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the draft is slavery, justifiable only under very limited circumstances that we're nowhere near right now---and politicans will ultimately make this decision on expediency rather than genuine need, as they do with everything else.
SO I CAN'T BUY HIS BOOKS ANYMORE.
Apparently Slashdot agrees, because the lameness filter insists that I write some more text like this even though it really kind of undermines the message of the comment. That's pretty lame, Rob. The lameness filter is lame. See the irony? Oh, man, that's deep.
...and accumulates in the dirt near the roads, because the roads are smoother and higher than the surrounding ground.
Your wish is the LiveJournal's command.
a lobster. But they are not the same.
If they want to pay for placement, that's what ads are for. If they want high rankings, they can damn well do it the same way people have always done it: get happy customers to link to them. A company that pays a googlespammer thousands of dollars in hopes of deceiving customers deserves to lose; googlespammers have made web searches utterly useless for broad ranges of topics.
is the next best thing.
...is a really obnoxious habit. I wish slashdotniks would outgrow it. As an alternative, why not tie dental floss to flies and watch them buzz around in circles? It's much more funand educational, too.
that was 1/3 full so I got to sleep the whole flight. The terminal in MSP with the CPK. Oh, the memories.
The only bonds you're going to cut are those that have an energy less that that of the photons you're using. The intermolecular disulfide bonds that apparently hold dough together (which Google suggests have energies on the order of 10 J/mol) are much weaker than those between, say, carbon and nitrogen in amino acid molecules (on the order of 400000 J/mol).
The customer has reason to expect the chip to be model 9200, not some chip that performs similarly to the 9200. Dishonesty is still objectionable when it doesn't hurt anybody.
not precise semantics. A reasonable customer would expect the 9200 brand to refer to a chip with model number 9200. It's one thing to sell both the 9000 and 9200 chips under the brand "HyperSpiffyChip" or whatever, and entirely another to sell them both under the "9200" brand, since the latter leads the customer to expect something you're not delivering.
I prefer that my vendors not try to deceive me, even if the deception is harmless.
See, satellites are in what's known as "space", which is about 17000 miles farther away than your porn server of choice.
That's what I want to know.
Dialup is a local service, and local providers have always provided the best and cheapest connections.
Silence, fools! A is A, therefore I am right!
...proving that RHex can beat up Roomba.
...can use HD too, y'know.
When I use HP printers, I send them raw PostScript over the network from Unix machines and use the PostScript "driver" on Windows machines. Never had a problem. PCL caused some pain on the Lexmark C720 (note to Lexmark: black, brown, and purple are different colors), and I've never seen the need to try it on any of the HPs. Some printers now sold under the HP brand started life as Compaq crap. LaserJets, though? It would be easy to see them doing that with inkjets, which live in a crap-saturated market, but it would be weird for HP to squander their reputation for excellent laser printers.