Grammar matters. For spelling, you only need to know about things the spell checker won't catch.
One should go beyond "basic math". One should know enough geometry to to be able to calculate the volume or a pool or the area of a wall. One should know a bit about probability and statistics, to avoid being ripped off (gambling), terrified, or otherwise misled. One should understand compound interest.
Geography isn't critical.
Legal stuff is important. One should be able to understand all common consumer contracts: employment, car lease, home lease, home owner's association or condo association agreement, credit card agreement, rental car agreement, internet service contract, insurance policy, evil hospital admission waivers and shit, etc.
You'd think we'd have learned from the disaster of trigraphs, but no!
Can anybody point to a real project (not an obfuscated C++ contest or C++ compiler test) that uses digraphs?
This truly is a dumb-ass make-work "feature" for everyone. Don't we all just love how we sometimes need to add a random ugly little space to our source code to keep the compiler from fucking up?
Got a pet feature you like? Fine, it gets added to the language. Never mind if it is redundant. Never mind if it causes the standard to be ambiguous or self-contradictory. Never mind if it is impossible to implement. Never mind if it will cause error messages to be misleading.
There exist C programmers. C++ programmers do not exist, because nobody knows the whole language. Lots of people can handle a subset of C++. (which they THINK is big, but is not) Put two of these C++ subset programmers on the same project and you have a problem. At least one of them, often both, is writing code that the other doesn't really fully understand.
Consider if China was supplying the tech to the USA.
That applies in many ways. Who wants to be watched? Assuming the supplier's government has a backdoor, do you want one government or two governments watching you?
You might cost more because of all the injuries you get. Somebody with lots of muscle is probably into extreme sports. I bet you climb up skyscrapers with your bare hands, wrestle alligators, and commute to work by running in fastest lane on the interstate.
Everyone starts life as a kid. As a kid, you benefit. We all do.
Some single/childless people wish to eliminate the benefits toward kids. They say this as adults, knowing that society can't retroactively take back the benefits which were given to them in years past. Well that just isn't fair. Other people helped you; as an adult it is your turn to help others.
The higher the pressure, the more you need to donate.
If you can't donate, consider getting a pressure relief valve installed. When the pressure gets too high, the blood spurts out. You could hide the valve by getting it installed in some oriface like your nose or butt. People would think you're just having a nosebleed or whatever, but really you're letting off the excess pressure. Installing the valve in your mouth might be even better, as it would allow easy servicing and let you recover the iron. If your problem is severe though, you'll just have to install the valve in your juglar artery and try not to squirt people. An overflow tank, like the ones cars use for radiator fluid, might solve the squirting problem.
As long as it isn't one-way, emotional attachment is a sign of maturity.
Without that, you get divorces. You might even bang random teens... oh.
Maybe you need some more emotional attachment.
My then-girlfriend and I were once described as co-dependant. She was 19, and I was 22. It's been a decade since then. We're married, and life is very good. We each have someone to love, someone to count on, someone to come home to, someone to care for us, someone to need us, someone to fuck, someone to watch the kids, and so on.
The aging hasn't been good for either of us.
My grandparents, on both sides, have had emotional attachment for half a century.
The method has been called phase-tree. The reiser4 stuff is similar.
Write new data to free blocks. Write out everything that can't be shared with the existing filesystem: data blocks, the d irectory blocks, FAT-related stuff, root directory blocks, and so on. Now, with one single-sector (atomic) write, switch over to using your new root directory and FAT.
Linux can implement this right now, 100% compatible. (the on-disk features have been used for online defragmentation) There is no need to wait for Microsoft.
Lots of the guys in long-term military careers have actually seen these conflicts. Military careers also run in families, so maybe his dad was there.
You weren't there. How do you know the massacre wasn't being blown way out of proportion by war protesters and enemy propaganda? Diminishing something can be a factual correction.
I'm not into the KDE thing, sorry. People send me non-text data, and I've just gotten used to the whole GUI thing lately. That leaves me with what?
I see several GNOME-friendly alternatives. All of them are horribly buggy. Evolution has had a whopper (your inbox corrupted) for over 5 years last I checked. All of them are half-done, except maybe Evolution which is just shockingly buggy and slow. (Evolution was written by retarded monkeys who smoke crack -- but at least it reports the weather! Wait, REPORTS THE WEATHER???)
Add to that the standard problems that hit Thunderbird and gmail as well: unable to fully interact with the Debian bug reporting system because custom headers are not allowed, and unable to post an unmangled patch to the linux-kernel mailing list.
Imagine this. You go to the supermarket. Right there, next to the pork chops and sirloin steaks, is a cancer. A real human cancer. No creature was ever killed for it, so it's even vegan and PETA would love it.
You take it home, grill it up, and... well how does it taste? Do different types of cancer have different flavors? Which ones are good?
The stuff is damn easy, too easy even, to grow. We might as well make use of it.
Looking around on www.silentpcreview.com, I see some people arguing for temperatures even up to about 65C.
This is drive temperature, not ambient temperature. The case is cooler. 48C or 49C is probably the norm.
I should clarify "fail". I replace drives when they start to whine or clunk. The most recent loss, a Samsung, made loud clunking noises. This was accompanied by long pauses while trying to read data. Prior to that it would whine depending on computer angle; the mounting screws weren't at all tight.
On the inside I get SATA and IDE. On the outside I get FireWire 400, fast USB, and regular SATA. (not an e-SATA connector) There is a switch on the outside to choose between SATA and the other stuff. So far I have only used the IDE and FireWire. I think that everything works with everything, but I don't promise that the SATA stuff isn't just a pass-through.
I got it as I nervously prepare for the painful transition from FireWire and IDE over to USB and SATA. This is not going to be fun or cheap at all.
The converter seems to need an inch of room. While I do have IDE and power cables, they don't move much more than a circuit board would. They are in-the-middle connectors on tighly fitted cables that go from motherboard to DVD player.
I was really hoping for 128 GB solid state to come out with IDE connectors. That would allow one final replacement, good until the computer is truly an antique.
An add-on air tunnel is NOT happening. This is a Mac G4 Cube. See wikipedia if you don't remember.
I buy drives according to the electrical power they consume, plus wanting 7200RPM and the biggest size that doesn't exceed the system's limit of about 134 GB. Right now I have an ST3120814A. Electrical power means heat or noise, assuming these things don't emit stuff like light and X-rays.
Apple provided a nice central chimney with a heat sink for the drive. It looks good. Of course I'm running 24x7 in a room that is often just above 80F (27C).
The drive is at 48C right now, with worst ever being 55C. (according to the SMART data, if I read it right)
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Grammar matters. For spelling, you only need to know about things the spell checker won't catch.
One should go beyond "basic math". One should know enough geometry to to be able to calculate the volume or a pool or the area of a wall. One should know a bit about probability and statistics, to avoid being ripped off (gambling), terrified, or otherwise misled. One should understand compound interest.
Geography isn't critical.
Legal stuff is important. One should be able to understand all common consumer contracts: employment, car lease, home lease, home owner's association or condo association agreement, credit card agreement, rental car agreement, internet service contract, insurance policy, evil hospital admission waivers and shit, etc.
1. sports management -- oh please, spare us!
2. fine and performing arts -- because every kid can be a pop star
3. health sciences -- OK, caring for old people will be a decent career
4. international studies and global commerce -- WTF?
5. communications and new media and liberal arts -- WTF?
That's 5, not 7, so one or two of those need to be split. In any case...
No math? No science? No engineering? No computer programming? Not even accounting?
There is no way to make decent money unless that pop star thing works out.
Typically:
High school is 4 years.
One enters high school at age 13 to 15, and leaves high school at age 16 to 18.
One is required to attend school until age 16. That means 1 to 3 years of high school are required.
At about age 21, one is forced to leave high school. It is very rare for this to happen.
You'd think we'd have learned from the disaster of trigraphs, but no!
Can anybody point to a real project (not an obfuscated C++ contest or C++ compiler test) that uses digraphs?
This truly is a dumb-ass make-work "feature" for everyone. Don't we all just love how we sometimes need to add a random ugly little space to our source code to keep the compiler from fucking up?
Got a pet feature you like? Fine, it gets added to the language. Never mind if it is redundant. Never mind if it causes the standard to be ambiguous or self-contradictory. Never mind if it is impossible to implement. Never mind if it will cause error messages to be misleading.
There exist C programmers. C++ programmers do not exist, because nobody knows the whole language. Lots of people can handle a subset of C++. (which they THINK is big, but is not) Put two of these C++ subset programmers on the same project and you have a problem. At least one of them, often both, is writing code that the other doesn't really fully understand.
Consider if China was supplying the tech to the USA.
That applies in many ways. Who wants to be watched? Assuming the supplier's government has a backdoor, do you want one government or two governments watching you?
Probably a good portion of the astronauts read slashdot, especially the ones who are more scientist than test pilot.
You might cost more because of all the injuries you get. Somebody with lots of muscle is probably into extreme sports. I bet you climb up skyscrapers with your bare hands, wrestle alligators, and commute to work by running in fastest lane on the interstate.
Everyone starts life as a kid. As a kid, you benefit. We all do.
Some single/childless people wish to eliminate the benefits toward kids. They say this as adults, knowing that society can't retroactively take back the benefits which were given to them in years past. Well that just isn't fair. Other people helped you; as an adult it is your turn to help others.
The higher the pressure, the more you need to donate.
If you can't donate, consider getting a pressure relief valve installed. When the pressure gets too high, the blood spurts out. You could hide the valve by getting it installed in some oriface like your nose or butt. People would think you're just having a nosebleed or whatever, but really you're letting off the excess pressure. Installing the valve in your mouth might be even better, as it would allow easy servicing and let you recover the iron. If your problem is severe though, you'll just have to install the valve in your juglar artery and try not to squirt people. An overflow tank, like the ones cars use for radiator fluid, might solve the squirting problem.
As long as it isn't one-way, emotional attachment is a sign of maturity.
Without that, you get divorces. You might even bang random teens... oh.
Maybe you need some more emotional attachment.
My then-girlfriend and I were once described as co-dependant. She was 19, and I was 22. It's been a decade since then. We're married, and life is very good. We each have someone to love, someone to count on, someone to come home to, someone to care for us, someone to need us, someone to fuck, someone to watch the kids, and so on.
The aging hasn't been good for either of us.
My grandparents, on both sides, have had emotional attachment for half a century.
I'm fairly sure she was smarter than me, and I'm something between 145 and 180 for IQ. Damn I wanted to make kids with her!
I had to settle for a 130 IQ, which is 1 or 2 standard deviations lower than me.
Note that the dumb kids also get less sex.
Bad looks and bad brains are both caused by bad health.
Nobody wants the person with the lopsided head.
A decent modern shoe is spring-like. It stores energy as you compress it, then gives back energy as you take off the weight.
I don't want some greedy floor stealing my energy.
Microsoft supports this, especially with Vista. MacOS supports it. Linux supports it, though some work is surely needed.
It allows for huge filesystems. It handles awkward media, including write-once and raw flash.
This is where we're going, like it or not. The management in Redmond has decided.
The method has been called phase-tree. The reiser4 stuff is similar.
Write new data to free blocks. Write out everything that can't be shared with the existing filesystem: data blocks, the d irectory blocks, FAT-related stuff, root directory blocks, and so on. Now, with one single-sector (atomic) write, switch over to using your new root directory and FAT.
Linux can implement this right now, 100% compatible. (the on-disk features have been used for online defragmentation) There is no need to wait for Microsoft.
Lots of the guys in long-term military careers have actually seen these conflicts. Military careers also run in families, so maybe his dad was there.
You weren't there. How do you know the massacre wasn't being blown way out of proportion by war protesters and enemy propaganda? Diminishing something can be a factual correction.
I'm not into the KDE thing, sorry. People send me non-text data, and I've just gotten used to the whole GUI thing lately. That leaves me with what?
I see several GNOME-friendly alternatives. All of them are horribly buggy. Evolution has had a whopper (your inbox corrupted) for over 5 years last I checked. All of them are half-done, except maybe Evolution which is just shockingly buggy and slow. (Evolution was written by retarded monkeys who smoke crack -- but at least it reports the weather! Wait, REPORTS THE WEATHER???)
Add to that the standard problems that hit Thunderbird and gmail as well: unable to fully interact with the Debian bug reporting system because custom headers are not allowed, and unable to post an unmangled patch to the linux-kernel mailing list.
Imagine this. You go to the supermarket. Right there, next to the pork chops and sirloin steaks, is a cancer. A real human cancer. No creature was ever killed for it, so it's even vegan and PETA would love it.
You take it home, grill it up, and... well how does it taste? Do different types of cancer have different flavors? Which ones are good?
The stuff is damn easy, too easy even, to grow. We might as well make use of it.
Looking around on www.silentpcreview.com, I see some people arguing for temperatures even up to about 65C.
This is drive temperature, not ambient temperature. The case is cooler. 48C or 49C is probably the norm.
I should clarify "fail". I replace drives when they start to whine or clunk. The most recent loss, a Samsung, made loud clunking noises. This was accompanied by long pauses while trying to read data. Prior to that it would whine depending on computer angle; the mounting screws weren't at all tight.
It's black. It says "COOLMAX" on top.
On the inside I get SATA and IDE. On the outside I get FireWire 400, fast USB, and regular SATA. (not an e-SATA connector) There is a switch on the outside to choose between SATA and the other stuff. So far I have only used the IDE and FireWire. I think that everything works with everything, but I don't promise that the SATA stuff isn't just a pass-through.
I got it as I nervously prepare for the painful transition from FireWire and IDE over to USB and SATA. This is not going to be fun or cheap at all.
The converter seems to need an inch of room. While I do have IDE and power cables, they don't move much more than a circuit board would. They are in-the-middle connectors on tighly fitted cables that go from motherboard to DVD player.
I was really hoping for 128 GB solid state to come out with IDE connectors. That would allow one final replacement, good until the computer is truly an antique.
An add-on air tunnel is NOT happening. This is a Mac G4 Cube. See wikipedia if you don't remember.
I buy drives according to the electrical power they consume, plus wanting 7200RPM and the biggest size that doesn't exceed the system's limit of about 134 GB. Right now I have an ST3120814A. Electrical power means heat or noise, assuming these things don't emit stuff like light and X-rays.
Apple provided a nice central chimney with a heat sink for the drive. It looks good. Of course I'm running 24x7 in a room that is often just above 80F (27C).
The drive is at 48C right now, with worst ever being 55C. (according to the SMART data, if I read it right)
I'll buy a fucking $20 SATA card and... sit it right next to my Mac G4 Cube?
There is no room for a fucking $20 SATA card, unless... hmmm... Will it blend?
My 450 MHz CPU is overkill for slashdot.
I don't even have a moving part for the power switch. I own a piece of history: the Mac G4 Cube.