Bologna. I dunno about your part of the world, but where I live, the water comes out of the tap at a nice warm 50 degrees Fahrenheit, or some 20 degrees F. below nominal room temperature.
No. Remember: when you spray a little oil over a town, the dirt gets sticky, everything gets kinda blackened, and maybe you get a few random fires, but that's about it. When you spray radioactive material all over a town, not even that much happenes -- that you can tell right away. Then, a generation later, everybody starts looking like Thalidomide kids, and all the people who've lived there for 30 years have leukemia or tumors, and all the plants and animals start looking really twisted.
Oil gives you Los Angeles. Radiation gives you Lovecraft.
As some others have noted, the reason the borrowing happens is that the single word is shorter and therefore easier to use than the English counterpart. This is one reason why words migrate across languages.
However, why a word gets used often is another question. From time to time, one of these new concepts surfaces in the popular consciousness and people seem to go out of their way to use the word whenever possible. This is particularly noticeable in the "alternative" press and in movie reviews. Fifteen years ago, there should have been an Oscar category, "Most gratuitous use of the phrase, 'mise en scene'." Ten years ago, it was "zeitgeist". Nowadays, it seems to be "schadenfreude".
Well, America is weirdly racist in some pretty surprising ways, but as the other respondent mentioned, I guess there's a reason this product is marketed to blacks. As to how one goes about doing such a thing, it's actually pretty straightforward: one only puts pictures of black men on the box, and one puts the product on the shelves in drugstores located in neighborhoods which are principally black. I used to live, work, and go to church in a predominantly black neighborhood, and that's when I saw this stuff. Now I live in a predominantly Asian neighborhood (Chinese & Korean, mostly) and I don't see it on the shelves. But I do see lots of foodstuffs (kim chee, udon, soba, etc.) that one didn't see in Inglewood.
So long as demographics and geography map onto each other, marketing like this remains easy.
Chemical removal of facial hair -- this one's been around for a while. In the U.S. it's typically only marketed to blacks; I have no idea why -- never used it, personally, nor spoken to anyone who has. I've seen it on shelves in drugstores since sometime in the '70s, though.
Others have pointed out in the other VSS suggestion threads that VSS has integrity problems. I've worked with VSS for several years, and it still has these problems. The repository corrupts itself on a daily basis when you start storing anything big.
I would recommend you use anything except VSS. Regardless of your OS religion, userland preferences, editor choices, or revision control system, your goal is to be able to track change. The usefulness of your system is null or negative if said system cannot be relied upon when you want to revert to an older version. Relying on VSS is tantamount to "backing up" by dump(8)-ing to/dev/null.
You've gotta be kidding./me tries hard to imagine our nation's citizenry falling over dead or burning down the nation's infrastructure because people could no longer see "Mystery" and "American Playhouse".
I haven't played earth 2060, so I can't answer that part. But yeah, PA has a lot of flaws. It's really simple, and there isn't any real notion of distance. It's a game that you can play by spreadsheet. But for all that, it's still interesting. I'm really interested in the community of players. Other people have their own reasons for sinking the majority of their lives into the game.
Evidently, they haven't discovered Planetarion -- the most addictive (and free (beer)) turn based game around. More addictive than Empire or Civilization (although, oddly enough, not nearly so interesting), Planetarion will take over your life if you let it. Turn-based games are dead? No, I think it's just game magazine editors.
Regarding your situation, you can learn enough Spanish just to get around with service workers in a couple of months. Spanish is really quite easy to pick up. I suggest you look around for night schools or the like and try learning Spanish after work a couple nights a week. You'll be glad. Not only will you be able to communicate with more people in your own home town, you'll have access to Spanish-language news.
In the mid-'90s I worked at Apple and we used a program called Meeting Maker. The conference rooms (and other special resources, like overhead projectors) were "resource" users. You'd just invite them to your meeting. They would automatically accept any meeting invitation for time periods during which they weren't already allocated, and administrative users could go in and move the resource users' schedules around for the occasions when somebody with higher priority needed the room/device right away.
I got a degree in drama, with a heavy emphasis on technical theater. The obvious thing for me to have done out of college was to work as an apprentice electrician on films and at rep. theatres. I didn't. In fact, I haven't worked in a theatre since getting out of school.
Because, while a union is a necessary bludgeon for fighting back against stupid and selfish management, I'd rather work for somebody smart than for a greedy, selfish bastard who only treats me decently because he's afraid of a strike.
I have worked side by side with IATSE (the theatre technical union) electricians. The level of sloth in those guys was astonishing. Saying, "Not my job," seemed to be their job. I'd much rather be known as a person who can do things.
I've been programming professionally for over ten years. I've seen a lot of stupid management decisions. There have been times when I thought unionization was a good idea -- for instance, when the law passed in Washington, declaring that if you get paid more than $20 per hour then you're not eligible for overtime pay. But for almost any other situation I have seen or can think of, a union is not an acceptable solution.
I will work for whom I please. If I'm not happy, I'll go somewhere else.
I will pay for services I want. I'm not going to pay some freakin' union to tell me I can't work for some asshole I wouldn't work for anyway.
If my industry becomes unionized, I'm going to change industries.
Thanks. After reading the patent, I am just confused. The patent describes an application feature set. None of the things described in the patent is new in and of itself, it's just a novel combination of existing technologies. It would be as if Microsoft had gotten a patent on putting a drawing tools menu in Word back when they first let you create graphics in Word. Image programs existed, and word processors existed, but there weren't any programs that did both things simultaneously in the same document.
Similarly, all the stuff described in this patent is really straightforward. I'm sure the code is copyrightable, but can you really patent a feature set? I guess so. Okay, then I guess it's time to go review all the code I've ever written and see if I've got any patentable feature sets lying around...
I just read the press release and all I saw was marketing quotes from a developer and a manager-type. I didn't see a patent number nor any quotes directly from the patent.
A quick search over at the USPTO didn't turn up any patents with "eMedicine" in them. So, how can we know what they really patented? Maybe they came up with a nifty compression algorithm that they use in their "GPS" and that's the thing that's patented. Who knows?
I forget his first name, but I'm sure somebody else will chime in soon enough. Strictly speaking, it might more appropriately be termed "Moore's Observation" but cut us some slack, eh?
If these fuel cells are really superior, why not set them up under the normal utilites?
Well, because of transmission losses for a start. If you don't count ongoing maintenance (which, as you point out and we all know, you have to do) then it's most efficient to produce your energy right next to the things that use it. We can ship propane and the like around in tankers, stick it in storage tanks and use it later, and so on, without worrying too much about any of it getting lost. When you produce electricity far away and then send it across a wire to your house (or plant, or office, or whatever) even at high voltage alternating current will experience some transmission loss. To be sure, it's better than DC, but still.
If you produce power at your home -- even at the same efficiency as the power plant -- then the kilowatt-hours per ton of fuel number will be better for your home + generator system than for the equivalent home + remote power plant system. That's because some of the power generated at the same efficiency over at the power plant will be lost between leaving the plant and arriving at your home.
The real questions then are, How much will it cost to perform ongoing maintenance on my Very Own Fuel Cell(tm) and can I buy fuel at the same cost as the Big Power Company(r) or near enough so that I at least break even or maybe come out ahead?
Taped to a pillar near the fly rail in the main theater at UC Irvine was a list of the "Ten Rules of the Theater". One of the more memorable was this: "Never underestimate the power of the artistically pretentious." Ten points to sp0re for his story on ecompany.com and the gratuitous use of the word "schadenfreude".
Exactly. I saw the headline and thought, "Gee. What are they doing, using some kind of singularity effect with really tiny black holes to make high-bandwidth FTL links for a system-wide network so that astronauts on the Mars mission can publish their findings and the AOL users can have good latency to their server?"
I'm sure that Moon Unit Zappa would appreciate the usage -- she's been out of the public eye for over a decade. Being the "celebrity" spokesperson for a unit might be a good gig.
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This, from the only country that forces you to go through customs & Immigration even to handle a connecting flight.
No, Canada requires it as well.
Bologna. I dunno about your part of the world, but where I live, the water comes out of the tap at a nice warm 50 degrees Fahrenheit, or some 20 degrees F. below nominal room temperature.
No. Remember: when you spray a little oil over a town, the dirt gets sticky, everything gets kinda blackened, and maybe you get a few random fires, but that's about it. When you spray radioactive material all over a town, not even that much happenes -- that you can tell right away. Then, a generation later, everybody starts looking like Thalidomide kids, and all the people who've lived there for 30 years have leukemia or tumors, and all the plants and animals start looking really twisted.
Oil gives you Los Angeles. Radiation gives you Lovecraft.
As some others have noted, the reason the borrowing happens is that the single word is shorter and therefore easier to use than the English counterpart. This is one reason why words migrate across languages.
However, why a word gets used often is another question. From time to time, one of these new concepts surfaces in the popular consciousness and people seem to go out of their way to use the word whenever possible. This is particularly noticeable in the "alternative" press and in movie reviews. Fifteen years ago, there should have been an Oscar category, "Most gratuitous use of the phrase, 'mise en scene'." Ten years ago, it was "zeitgeist". Nowadays, it seems to be "schadenfreude".
with a minute off to check spelling
Yes, I think Mr. Slashdot has his spelling checker configured to replace every instance of the word "than" with "then".
Ahhh, that makes sense. Ingrown hairs. Yeah, those are a major pain in the neck. *ahem* They're one reason my father has a beard.
And of course, this is only one product. Anyone remember Nair?
Well, America is weirdly racist in some pretty surprising ways, but as the other respondent mentioned, I guess there's a reason this product is marketed to blacks. As to how one goes about doing such a thing, it's actually pretty straightforward: one only puts pictures of black men on the box, and one puts the product on the shelves in drugstores located in neighborhoods which are principally black. I used to live, work, and go to church in a predominantly black neighborhood, and that's when I saw this stuff. Now I live in a predominantly Asian neighborhood (Chinese & Korean, mostly) and I don't see it on the shelves. But I do see lots of foodstuffs (kim chee, udon, soba, etc.) that one didn't see in Inglewood.
So long as demographics and geography map onto each other, marketing like this remains easy.
Chemical removal of facial hair -- this one's been around for a while. In the U.S. it's typically only marketed to blacks; I have no idea why -- never used it, personally, nor spoken to anyone who has. I've seen it on shelves in drugstores since sometime in the '70s, though.
Others have pointed out in the other VSS suggestion threads that VSS has integrity problems. I've worked with VSS for several years, and it still has these problems. The repository corrupts itself on a daily basis when you start storing anything big.
/dev/null.
I would recommend you use anything except VSS. Regardless of your OS religion, userland preferences, editor choices, or revision control system, your goal is to be able to track change. The usefulness of your system is null or negative if said system cannot be relied upon when you want to revert to an older version. Relying on VSS is tantamount to "backing up" by dump(8)-ing to
vital to our nation's citizenry
/me tries hard to imagine our nation's citizenry falling over dead or burning down the nation's infrastructure because people could no longer see "Mystery" and "American Playhouse".
You've gotta be kidding.
I haven't played earth 2060, so I can't answer that part. But yeah, PA has a lot of flaws. It's really simple, and there isn't any real notion of distance. It's a game that you can play by spreadsheet. But for all that, it's still interesting. I'm really interested in the community of players. Other people have their own reasons for sinking the majority of their lives into the game.
Evidently, they haven't discovered Planetarion -- the most addictive (and free (beer)) turn based game around. More addictive than Empire or Civilization (although, oddly enough, not nearly so interesting), Planetarion will take over your life if you let it. Turn-based games are dead? No, I think it's just game magazine editors.
Regarding your situation, you can learn enough Spanish just to get around with service workers in a couple of months. Spanish is really quite easy to pick up. I suggest you look around for night schools or the like and try learning Spanish after work a couple nights a week. You'll be glad. Not only will you be able to communicate with more people in your own home town, you'll have access to Spanish-language news.
In the mid-'90s I worked at Apple and we used a program called Meeting Maker. The conference rooms (and other special resources, like overhead projectors) were "resource" users. You'd just invite them to your meeting. They would automatically accept any meeting invitation for time periods during which they weren't already allocated, and administrative users could go in and move the resource users' schedules around for the occasions when somebody with higher priority needed the room/device right away.
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Because, while a union is a necessary bludgeon for fighting back against stupid and selfish management, I'd rather work for somebody smart than for a greedy, selfish bastard who only treats me decently because he's afraid of a strike.
I have worked side by side with IATSE (the theatre technical union) electricians. The level of sloth in those guys was astonishing. Saying, "Not my job," seemed to be their job. I'd much rather be known as a person who can do things.
I've been programming professionally for over ten years. I've seen a lot of stupid management decisions. There have been times when I thought unionization was a good idea -- for instance, when the law passed in Washington, declaring that if you get paid more than $20 per hour then you're not eligible for overtime pay. But for almost any other situation I have seen or can think of, a union is not an acceptable solution.
Similarly, all the stuff described in this patent is really straightforward. I'm sure the code is copyrightable, but can you really patent a feature set? I guess so. Okay, then I guess it's time to go review all the code I've ever written and see if I've got any patentable feature sets lying around...
A quick search over at the USPTO didn't turn up any patents with "eMedicine" in them. So, how can we know what they really patented? Maybe they came up with a nifty compression algorithm that they use in their "GPS" and that's the thing that's patented. Who knows?
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I forget his first name, but I'm sure somebody else will chime in soon enough. Strictly speaking, it might more appropriately be termed "Moore's Observation" but cut us some slack, eh?
If these fuel cells are really superior, why not set them up under the normal utilites?
Well, because of transmission losses for a start. If you don't count ongoing maintenance (which, as you point out and we all know, you have to do) then it's most efficient to produce your energy right next to the things that use it. We can ship propane and the like around in tankers, stick it in storage tanks and use it later, and so on, without worrying too much about any of it getting lost. When you produce electricity far away and then send it across a wire to your house (or plant, or office, or whatever) even at high voltage alternating current will experience some transmission loss. To be sure, it's better than DC, but still.
If you produce power at your home -- even at the same efficiency as the power plant -- then the kilowatt-hours per ton of fuel number will be better for your home + generator system than for the equivalent home + remote power plant system. That's because some of the power generated at the same efficiency over at the power plant will be lost between leaving the plant and arriving at your home.
The real questions then are, How much will it cost to perform ongoing maintenance on my Very Own Fuel Cell(tm) and can I buy fuel at the same cost as the Big Power Company(r) or near enough so that I at least break even or maybe come out ahead?
Taped to a pillar near the fly rail in the main theater at UC Irvine was a list of the "Ten Rules of the Theater". One of the more memorable was this: "Never underestimate the power of the artistically pretentious." Ten points to sp0re for his story on ecompany.com and the gratuitous use of the word "schadenfreude".
Exactly. I saw the headline and thought, "Gee. What are they doing, using some kind of singularity effect with really tiny black holes to make high-bandwidth FTL links for a system-wide network so that astronauts on the Mars mission can publish their findings and the AOL users can have good latency to their server?"
http://www.britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm gives a 404 error, now. Bummer. Did anyone mirror it?
I'm sure that Moon Unit Zappa would appreciate the usage -- she's been out of the public eye for over a decade. Being the "celebrity" spokesperson for a unit might be a good gig.
I agree, it's a pain. Furthermore, the credit card part is also a pain. I mean, I haven't memorized my flippin' numbers. Have you memorised yours?
What if there was an X.com (PayPal) tie-in, where all you need to remember is your email address? Even better, I think.