Why is a category 1 hurricane being called a superstorm? I live in Florida and we get these frequently. They aren't a big deal if you're properly prepared for them. Hell, we got the same winds level of winds from Sandy that NY/NJ got when it was a much stronger C2 (nearly a 3), though the C2 part was off shore. Perhaps a better name for this is a super failure to be properly prepared?
By losing the attitude, I've come to find that the core source of it was a few things:
* Not realizing that what's in my mind isn't necessarily in somebody else's mind * Not realizing that just because somebody else doesn't know something, doesn't mean they're stupid. * Being patient and respectful with somebody who is ignorant on a topic and taking the time to clearly communicate the concept to somebody does wonders. They grow and learn from you and you obtain their respect. * Realizing that there are perspectives other than mine; losing the "I know better than you" attitude.
I think this needs some work. Claiming Facebook doesn't collect information not necessary for the transaction? Isn't this the same company that is well known for raiding peoples contact lists and location data on smart phones? Meanwhile craigslist collects too much information? They only ask for your email address these days!
A nice piece of information for people in Florida: by law right turn violations are unenforceable by red light cameras. If you get a ticket for doing such, fight it. It won't stand up. Also, call your state legislator and senator. They're taking up repealing red light cameras after an enormous amount of backlash by the people.
Verio offers unlimited bandwidth on their VPS servers. For the disk space you need today, it's $82/m. For 65GB of disk space it's $140/m. Either of those options beat what you're spending now, and you can set up a shared file system to group together the VPS servers to form a larger disk. You can get to them by
going to www.verio.net.
Since early on but not since the 3.x days. I found it funny to watch Steve talk about how unstable flash was and how it caused most of Safari's crashes. I never had issues with flash once I dumped Safari. Oddly, I don't have issues with flash on Chrome -- and it's the same rendering engine!
The problem is simple: when I buy a used book, I don't expect pages 25-83 to be torn out and then to be held hostage by the original publisher to pay money to get those missing pages.
The average John Q Public doesn't have the IQ to do intellectual work.You can have all of the software jobs in the world wrapped up in the United States and you will still have high unemployment. The layperson needs a job, and frankly working at the mall doesn't pay the bills the way a manufacturing job does.
And the prize will be a shit job with poor benefits. Look around at what Walmart does for people and you'll realize the only way to win this contest is not to enter in the first place.
> Ethanol is a net loss of energy. It takes more energy to produce a gallon than you get by burning it. Combine that with the fact that we could cover the entire country in corn and still not be independent of fossil fuels - it's a complete boondoggle.
Not really true. First, the CBO report above overlooks an important aspect of Ethanol: the carbon emissions from production can be reduced by switching the farm and transportation machinery to biodiesel and moving the H2 production for use in the fertilizer to production methods not involving natural gas. Second, corn-based ethanol has a very inefficient production conversion rate (~ 1%). Other plants, such as switchgrass have a much higher conversion rate (switchgrass is around 50%) solving the land area issue and making availability cheap enough that the price drops to well below that of gasoline. Third, the mileage output for Ethanol is absolutely less, however it has the added benefit of increased horsepower. I personally use E85 almost exclusively and I have for years. In the rare instances when I still use gasoline, I notice it -- a lot. The pickup of my car is far worse, and if you are a 'driver' as I am, E85 really enhances the fun of driving. Finally, I mentioned the conversion rate above. At least at this point, having a 100% conversion rate isn't desirable. Why? Simple: biofuels can do something that no other form of alternative energy can do: reverse global warming. It's the only fuel that we have today that has the potential of taking more carbon out of the atmosphere than it produces.
Exactly. I have a smart phone. Guess what? It's not hooked up to corporate email. Why? Because I don't want to deal with corporate email outside of the office. I leave the office for a reason. I don't have it for a time saver. Instead, I have it for a lot of other benefits I get: * wifi tethering * streaming music/pandora/etc. * browsing the web (very handy when I want to look something up) * GPS navigation * Music identification (Shazam) * Netflix when I'm waiting for my car to be serviced or some other similar situation * Books for a similar situation
Then add on the fact that both the transportation processes and the farm equipment can all run on biodiesel. I love how people try to distract us from the benefits of biofuels by pointing out dirty processes that are easily changed into clean ones.
They may have broken the record for biodiesel, but they are a far cry from the record for biofuels in general. One example is the Bentley Continental, which is a production car and has a top speed of 198MPH. It's a flex fuel vehicle.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I tried to play a relatively simple HTML5 game on my Android phone and I found it completely unusable (hyperfantasy.com so you know I'm not BS'ing). Flash on my Droid is a bit slow to load, but once it loads it's responsive. Add on that Flash and Flex provide the only real write once run anywhere experience and that HTML5 can't support persistent connections (sockets) and you will find me firmly in the Flash camp for the time being. When every browser vendor decides to read the HTML5 and EMCAScript specs the same way and when persistent connections are supported in Javascript, I'll take another look the technology.
As somebody who used to work in the email industry, I can assure you that rejecting based on the presence of RDNS is useless against entities that run their own infrastructure. Everybody working legitimately ('opt-in', though I refer to it as 'suckered in' because the person didn't read the privacy policy that said people who filled out the form were going to get emailed and their info sold/traded) in the email industry creates RDNS as a part of their SOP. When I worked in it, we never sent out email without first verifying that reverse DNS was set up and set up properly. Granted, you'll still likely catch spam from botnets.
> I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments. I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out I switched because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments.
This is the kind of thing that makes linux a poor choice on the desktop. While the fix is correct from a technical perspective, it fails the "Grandma Test". If you're incredibly technical, no problem. Grandma, however, isn't going to know and understand how to enable ASPM via grub.conf. Her response is probably going to be, "Why are there worms in my computer?" A better route would be to develop a test to detect the error condition on the install of the OS, then save the configuration accordingly.
Grandma is also not going to be knowledge about the other ins and outs of kernel tuning her system that are discussed in the linked to article. A mechanism needs to be in place to adjust these settings when the user changes what power source their computer is using. This is a standard feature on both Mac and Windows. As most linux development is primarily focused on servers, fixing this type of thing unfortunately isn't likely to happen. I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments. When I started my current job, I tried out Ubuntu because it was supposed to have resolved this kind of thing. Better (until Unity, WTF were they thinking?), but "it just works" remains illusive. I've now left linux on the desktop twice, and I'm technically proficient. Why do you think Grandma wants to use Windows?
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Why is a category 1 hurricane being called a superstorm? I live in Florida and we get these frequently. They aren't a big deal if you're properly prepared for them. Hell, we got the same winds level of winds from Sandy that NY/NJ got when it was a much stronger C2 (nearly a 3), though the C2 part was off shore. Perhaps a better name for this is a super failure to be properly prepared?
By losing the attitude, I've come to find that the core source of it was a few things:
* Not realizing that what's in my mind isn't necessarily in somebody else's mind
* Not realizing that just because somebody else doesn't know something, doesn't mean they're stupid.
* Being patient and respectful with somebody who is ignorant on a topic and taking the time to clearly communicate the concept to somebody does wonders. They grow and learn from you and you obtain their respect.
* Realizing that there are perspectives other than mine; losing the "I know better than you" attitude.
I've moved on to Waze. The directions sometimes make no sense, but knowing that there's a speed trap up ahead is just too invaluable.
> Define "Facebook transaction"
Posting status updates to my friends. Posting messages to my friends. Finding my friends via information that I choose to divulge.
I think this needs some work. Claiming Facebook doesn't collect information not necessary for the transaction? Isn't this the same company that is well known for raiding peoples contact lists and location data on smart phones? Meanwhile craigslist collects too much information? They only ask for your email address these days!
Not streak to iPad. Stream. Streaking to iPad would require cleaning supplies at the point of impact.
Or full-frontal nudity.
I'm tired of seeing everyone's wages go down because of it and places like it.
A nice piece of information for people in Florida: by law right turn violations are unenforceable by red light cameras. If you get a ticket for doing such, fight it. It won't stand up. Also, call your state legislator and senator. They're taking up repealing red light cameras after an enormous amount of backlash by the people.
I used to work there. There is no cutoff.
Verio offers unlimited bandwidth on their VPS servers. For the disk space you need today, it's $82/m. For 65GB of disk space it's $140/m. Either of those options beat what you're spending now, and you can set up a shared file system to group together the VPS servers to form a larger disk. You can get to them by
going to www.verio.net.
Since early on but not since the 3.x days. I found it funny to watch Steve talk about how unstable flash was and how it caused most of Safari's crashes. I never had issues with flash once I dumped Safari. Oddly, I don't have issues with flash on Chrome -- and it's the same rendering engine!
Moreover, your passport explicitly states in plain writing that the chip doesn't have to be functioning for it to be a valid document.
The problem is simple: when I buy a used book, I don't expect pages 25-83 to be torn out and then to be held hostage by the original publisher to pay money to get those missing pages.
The average John Q Public doesn't have the IQ to do intellectual work.You can have all of the software jobs in the world wrapped up in the United States and you will still have high unemployment. The layperson needs a job, and frankly working at the mall doesn't pay the bills the way a manufacturing job does.
And the prize will be a shit job with poor benefits. Look around at what Walmart does for people and you'll realize the only way to win this contest is not to enter in the first place.
> Ethanol is a net loss of energy. It takes more energy to produce a gallon than you get by burning it. Combine that with the fact that we could cover the entire country in corn and still not be independent of fossil fuels - it's a complete boondoggle.
Not really true. First, the CBO report above overlooks an important aspect of Ethanol: the carbon emissions from production can be reduced by switching the farm and transportation machinery to biodiesel and moving the H2 production for use in the fertilizer to production methods not involving natural gas. Second, corn-based ethanol has a very inefficient production conversion rate (~ 1%). Other plants, such as switchgrass have a much higher conversion rate (switchgrass is around 50%) solving the land area issue and making availability cheap enough that the price drops to well below that of gasoline. Third, the mileage output for Ethanol is absolutely less, however it has the added benefit of increased horsepower. I personally use E85 almost exclusively and I have for years. In the rare instances when I still use gasoline, I notice it -- a lot. The pickup of my car is far worse, and if you are a 'driver' as I am, E85 really enhances the fun of driving. Finally, I mentioned the conversion rate above. At least at this point, having a 100% conversion rate isn't desirable. Why? Simple: biofuels can do something that no other form of alternative energy can do: reverse global warming. It's the only fuel that we have today that has the potential of taking more carbon out of the atmosphere than it produces.
Exactly. I have a smart phone. Guess what? It's not hooked up to corporate email. Why? Because I don't want to deal with corporate email outside of the office. I leave the office for a reason. I don't have it for a time saver. Instead, I have it for a lot of other benefits I get:
* wifi tethering
* streaming music/pandora/etc.
* browsing the web (very handy when I want to look something up)
* GPS navigation
* Music identification (Shazam)
* Netflix when I'm waiting for my car to be serviced or some other similar situation
* Books for a similar situation
Then add on the fact that both the transportation processes and the farm equipment can all run on biodiesel. I love how people try to distract us from the benefits of biofuels by pointing out dirty processes that are easily changed into clean ones.
They may have broken the record for biodiesel, but they are a far cry from the record for biofuels in general. One example is the Bentley Continental, which is a production car and has a top speed of 198MPH. It's a flex fuel vehicle.
I couldn't agree with you more. I tried to play a relatively simple HTML5 game on my Android phone and I found it completely unusable (hyperfantasy.com so you know I'm not BS'ing). Flash on my Droid is a bit slow to load, but once it loads it's responsive. Add on that Flash and Flex provide the only real write once run anywhere experience and that HTML5 can't support persistent connections (sockets) and you will find me firmly in the Flash camp for the time being. When every browser vendor decides to read the HTML5 and EMCAScript specs the same way and when persistent connections are supported in Javascript, I'll take another look the technology.
As somebody who used to work in the email industry, I can assure you that rejecting based on the presence of RDNS is useless against entities that run their own infrastructure. Everybody working legitimately ('opt-in', though I refer to it as 'suckered in' because the person didn't read the privacy policy that said people who filled out the form were going to get emailed and their info sold/traded) in the email industry creates RDNS as a part of their SOP. When I worked in it, we never sent out email without first verifying that reverse DNS was set up and set up properly. Granted, you'll still likely catch spam from botnets.
> No, it's the sort of thing that makes changing out the stock OS a poor choice on the desktop.
I can easily install Windows XP/Vista/7 on my mac, and it isn't the stock OS.
> I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments.
I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out I switched because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments.
This is the kind of thing that makes linux a poor choice on the desktop. While the fix is correct from a technical perspective, it fails the "Grandma Test". If you're incredibly technical, no problem. Grandma, however, isn't going to know and understand how to enable ASPM via grub.conf. Her response is probably going to be, "Why are there worms in my computer?" A better route would be to develop a test to detect the error condition on the install of the OS, then save the configuration accordingly.
Grandma is also not going to be knowledge about the other ins and outs of kernel tuning her system that are discussed in the linked to article. A mechanism needs to be in place to adjust these settings when the user changes what power source their computer is using. This is a standard feature on both Mac and Windows. As most linux development is primarily focused on servers, fixing this type of thing unfortunately isn't likely to happen. I used to use linux on the desktop, then when OSX came out because I didn't have to do these kinds of adjustments. When I started my current job, I tried out Ubuntu because it was supposed to have resolved this kind of thing. Better (until Unity, WTF were they thinking?), but "it just works" remains illusive. I've now left linux on the desktop twice, and I'm technically proficient. Why do you think Grandma wants to use Windows?
Oh no!