the NYC one was by a bunch of idiots called Critical Mass who think it's OK to disrupt traffic. they deserve to get beat down for what they do.
The US justice system disagrees with you, and even if corporal punishment was appropriate, it is not the job of the police to apply it, especially without due process.
99% of the people on bikes are always breaking traffic laws running red lights or going the wrong way.
[citation needed]
i'm almost 40, i've only had a few traffic tickets and that's the extent of my contact with police officers. and i'm free to do whatever i want
But you believe that others are *not* free to do whatever they want.
His point was that Australians can't sell apps on the marketplace yet, which he clarified in his comments.
And so obviously, he should never, ever develop anything for Android - not even a "demo" version of his app for people to upgrade once Australians can sell apps.
Shows that you do not understand the meaning of the word "theory". Because if you did, you wouldn't implicitly wonder why evolution is called a theory.
Do yourself (and everyone else here) a favour and read that - once you understand it, you'll be able to understand why evolution is "still" referred to as a theory.
You add an accessory Bluetooth keyboard and it turns into a PC replacement that easily replaces XP for most users.
Uhh.. Considering the very first thing you must do with an ipad before you can do *anything* with it is PLUG IT INTO A REAL COMPUTER, your entire premise is full of fail.
It can't be a "PC replacement" if you need to plug it into a PC in order to use it.
That's the problem with the Darwin Awards. If you have already reproduced, you should be ineligible. The FAQ talks about "learning to play with explosives" but that's just crap - what about people who have fully-grown offspring? They've already taught their children their bad habits. So where do you draw the line? At conception.
So.. you're saying it's OK for an organized religion to illegally harrass, threaten, and murder people.. as long as the person they're targeting has committed a "sin" that's not recoginzed as such by the law of their country.
Just because they believe it's murder doesn't make it so. I don't give a fucking rat's ass what their rationalization is - it's still wrong.
Your entire argument is "well, it's not the same because it's different", when it's obviously not different.
One way they save fuel: flying slower than current aircraft.
No. While they do fly slightly (10%) slower than existing aircraft, they do that to mitigate engine stress.
will customers accept that?
Well, they seem to "accept" waiting 2-3 hours in security lines, so I'm guesing yes.
why not just fly current 737s a bit slower right now, to save on fuel?
You honestly believe that flying a 737 10% slower will reduce fuel consumption by 50%? I can tell you that if an airline reduce their costs anywhere close to that much, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
When a drive fails, SW RAID doesn't allow one to boot the system unless one has (1) Used RAID-1
True enough, but (honestly) how hard is it to use RAID-1 with hot spare(s) for your boot partition, and RAID5/6 for everything else? (answer: not very, I'm doing this at home.)
Setup the BIOS to use the two mirrored disks successively while booting.
Most modern motherboards already do this. Contraiwise, even if you have to go out of your way, it's *still* much easier than screwing around with driver disks for HW cards when installing.
SW RAID often exhibits very poor performance when a drive fails as the underlying drivers want to try to make the operations against the disks work and will often expend a fair amount of effort to retry operations and wait for extended periods of time to force the disk operation to work.
Never seen this happen. "bad" drives on SW RAID mark out just as quickly as those on cheap HW controllers.
Standard disk controllers do not support hot swap. So when a drive fails, replacing the drive involves shutting down the server, swapping the drives, and then bringing it back up.
Bull-fucking-shit.
I regularly attach and detach drives while my home server is running (I back up to external HDs, connected to the internal disk controller with an e-SATA cable.) Motherboard is an ASUS P5EVM-DO with a "standard disk controller".
Wow, those 'features' all sound very useless. What use does it have to check all those stuff when you're not in your car?
Exactly - when I'm scheduling maintenance for my car, I have to be sitting inside it! I don't do it from my office, where I can see my own calendar to know when I have time to take it in or anything.
People don't find xkcd funny because the comics themselves are funny. People find it funny because it makes a direct reference to something that somebody else has made funny in some way. xkcd is nothing more than a pointer to funny material.
Please cite specifically the "funny" sources that these comics reference:
Slackware had the uncertainty of Patrick's situation, the perception that the base was allowed to become stale
And those mean that it's no longer being supported?
Sorry, it really is still going strong.
the removal of gnome from the officially supported base
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I mean, c'mon.. if you're gonna bash Slackware, at least come up with something that's true (like that it's text-based install is intimidating to new users, or that it's all too willing to let you shoot yourself in the foot.)
My theory is that 2012 is when all the Mayan computers will crash.
You just know that ~5000 years ago, some Mayan committee somewhere was designing this, and someone said "hey, what happens after year 5335?" and the answer was "who cares? by the time that rolls around, we'll be using something completely different."
It's just like Y2K, except there is nobody around now to fix their code.
you'd already know that the CO2 levels are rising (measurable, and an indisputable empirical fact), that CO2 absorbs more energy from infrared light than most other atmospheric gasses (also a verified fact) and that the CO2 almost certainly comes from the burning of fossil fuels (the C12 ratio is higher, due to fossil carbon lacking C14)
The question, however, is what can be attributed as the source, what is the cause
So, did you just not understand the post you were replying to, or are you deliberately ignoring it in the hopes that nobody will notice?
I've had some climatologists at a loss
Just like you have MrHanky at a loss because he can't explain the source of Co2, right?
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the NYC one was by a bunch of idiots called Critical Mass who think it's OK to disrupt traffic. they deserve to get beat down for what they do.
The US justice system disagrees with you, and even if corporal punishment was appropriate, it is not the job of the police to apply it, especially without due process.
99% of the people on bikes are always breaking traffic laws running red lights or going the wrong way.
[citation needed]
i'm almost 40, i've only had a few traffic tickets and that's the extent of my contact with police officers. and i'm free to do whatever i want
But you believe that others are *not* free to do whatever they want.
We call people like you "hypocrites"
There is if you are a civil libertarian.
No - we're talking about rational people here.
His point was that Australians can't sell apps on the marketplace yet, which he clarified in his comments.
And so obviously, he should never, ever develop anything for Android - not even a "demo" version of his app for people to upgrade once Australians can sell apps.
The shortsightedness of some people amazes me.
Yet, we still call it a "Theory" for some reason.
Followed by
I understand scientific theory
Shows that you do not understand the meaning of the word "theory". Because if you did, you wouldn't implicitly wonder why evolution is called a theory.
http://wilstar.com/theories.htm
Do yourself (and everyone else here) a favour and read that - once you understand it, you'll be able to understand why evolution is "still" referred to as a theory.
You add an accessory Bluetooth keyboard and it turns into a PC replacement that easily replaces XP for most users.
Uhh.. Considering the very first thing you must do with an ipad before you can do *anything* with it is PLUG IT INTO A REAL COMPUTER, your entire premise is full of fail.
It can't be a "PC replacement" if you need to plug it into a PC in order to use it.
Inability to further reproduce is sufficiant
That's the problem with the Darwin Awards. If you have already reproduced, you should be ineligible. The FAQ talks about "learning to play with explosives" but that's just crap - what about people who have fully-grown offspring? They've already taught their children their bad habits. So where do you draw the line? At conception.
I know - sell the DX with a stack of post-its! The students can write on the post-its, and stick them over the passages they want to highlight!
Dammit - now I'm sure Amazon will patent this, and nobody else will be able to use it!
So.. you're saying it's OK for an organized religion to illegally harrass, threaten, and murder people.. as long as the person they're targeting has committed a "sin" that's not recoginzed as such by the law of their country.
Just because they believe it's murder doesn't make it so. I don't give a fucking rat's ass what their rationalization is - it's still wrong.
Your entire argument is "well, it's not the same because it's different", when it's obviously not different.
Fuck you and your apoligism.
Nobody even fucking said that being ugly caused you to commit more crimes.
Wrong. Hatta did (well, he implied it by asking a leading question.)
if i see another +5 insightful "correlation != causation" my brain is going to fucking explode.
Methinks you need a software upgrade. Maybe this might help you. :)
One way they save fuel: flying slower than current aircraft.
No. While they do fly slightly (10%) slower than existing aircraft, they do that to mitigate engine stress.
will customers accept that?
Well, they seem to "accept" waiting 2-3 hours in security lines, so I'm guesing yes.
why not just fly current 737s a bit slower right now, to save on fuel?
You honestly believe that flying a 737 10% slower will reduce fuel consumption by 50%? I can tell you that if an airline reduce their costs anywhere close to that much, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
When a drive fails, SW RAID doesn't allow one to boot the system unless one has (1) Used RAID-1
True enough, but (honestly) how hard is it to use RAID-1 with hot spare(s) for your boot partition, and RAID5/6 for everything else? (answer: not very, I'm doing this at home.)
Setup the BIOS to use the two mirrored disks successively while booting.
Most modern motherboards already do this. Contraiwise, even if you have to go out of your way, it's *still* much easier than screwing around with driver disks for HW cards when installing.
SW RAID often exhibits very poor performance when a drive fails as the underlying drivers want to try to make the operations against the disks work and will often expend a fair amount of effort to retry operations and wait for extended periods of time to force the disk operation to work.
Never seen this happen. "bad" drives on SW RAID mark out just as quickly as those on cheap HW controllers.
Standard disk controllers do not support hot swap. So when a drive fails, replacing the drive involves shutting down the server, swapping the drives, and then bringing it back up.
Bull-fucking-shit.
I regularly attach and detach drives while my home server is running (I back up to external HDs, connected to the internal disk controller with an e-SATA cable.) Motherboard is an ASUS P5EVM-DO with a "standard disk controller".
Oh, that's really useful!
Wow, those 'features' all sound very useless. What use does it have to check all those stuff when you're not in your car?
Exactly - when I'm scheduling maintenance for my car, I have to be sitting inside it! I don't do it from my office, where I can see my own calendar to know when I have time to take it in or anything.
I get the same in Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta.
I *know* Google Chrome supports HTML5 and <canvas>, so I'd say his page is broken.
People don't find xkcd funny because the comics themselves are funny. People find it funny because it makes a direct reference to something that somebody else has made funny in some way. xkcd is nothing more than a pointer to funny material.
Please cite specifically the "funny" sources that these comics reference:
http://xkcd.com/727/
http://xkcd.com/724/
http://xkcd.com/719/
http://xkcd.com/37/
http://xkcd.com/562/
http://xkcd.com/239/
http://xkcd.com/225/
(And yes, these are funny, not only to me, but to other people I show them to.)
All your arguments can easily be applied to xkcd community as well.
[citations needed]
Yay, higher prices for software.
Because software vendors don't know how to calculate demand-curve pricing right now, and this will give them incentive to learn?
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that software companies aren't already pricing their software at the maximal rate of return.
you have convince everyone to forget about Facebook and move to this platform.
Why is that, exactly?
What specifically is it about this project (or Facebook) that prohibits people from having accounts on both services at the same time?
Yup. Wickard v. Filburn would agree with you.
Slackware had the uncertainty of Patrick's situation, the perception that the base was allowed to become stale
And those mean that it's no longer being supported?
Sorry, it really is still going strong.
the removal of gnome from the officially supported base
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I mean, c'mon.. if you're gonna bash Slackware, at least come up with something that's true (like that it's text-based install is intimidating to new users, or that it's all too willing to let you shoot yourself in the foot.)
My theory is that 2012 is when all the Mayan computers will crash.
You just know that ~5000 years ago, some Mayan committee somewhere was designing this, and someone said "hey, what happens after year 5335?" and the answer was "who cares? by the time that rolls around, we'll be using something completely different."
It's just like Y2K, except there is nobody around now to fix their code.
It was most definitely not meant to apply to this.
Viacom paid for the law so that they could be shielded when their users do something wrong, not for when someone else's users do something wrong.
Sheesh! Why on earth would they buy a law that would apply to them?!?!
just pointing out that whether or not scraping was a good idea, their justification for not scraping (any longer) is perfectly reasonable.
The decision to not scrape is reasonable. What is not reasonable is the outrage and blame placed on Google.
they found an interface to scrape from that they thought would never change
So in other words, they're stupid.
Apple could not care less about market share, as long as their total sales and revenue keeps growing at the insane rate they have been.
Wow. Just WOW .
Let's see that one more time, with appropriate emphasis.
Apple could not care less about market share, as long as their total sales and revenue keeps growing at the insane rate they have been.
So.. Apple doesn't care about the single biggest indicator of sales and revenue, because their sales and revenue are currently growing?
I sincerely doubt that Apple is as stupid as you seem to think they are.
you'd already know that the CO2 levels are rising (measurable, and an indisputable empirical fact), that CO2 absorbs more energy from infrared light than most other atmospheric gasses (also a verified fact) and that the CO2 almost certainly comes from the burning of fossil fuels (the C12 ratio is higher, due to fossil carbon lacking C14)
The question, however, is what can be attributed as the source, what is the cause
So, did you just not understand the post you were replying to, or are you deliberately ignoring it in the hopes that nobody will notice?
I've had some climatologists at a loss
Just like you have MrHanky at a loss because he can't explain the source of Co2, right?