We better present it in a 'balanced' fashion by I don't know pretending that the right isn't for military expansion.
"The right" has little in common with the current administration. I'm not sure why you're conflating the two groups, other than you commonly hear them lumped together in campus speech.
See, here's the thing: I'm an intelligent adult, and I like talking about issues with people I disagree with. I don't mind being told that I'm wrong as long as I also hear why I'm wrong. Who knows - I might even change my mind. It wouldn't be the first time.
However, I have little patience for people who just scream that I'm an idiot and that everyone I even halfway agree with is a mindless killer. As much as I can't stand Bush (because as I said earlier, I'm a conservative - I'm not sure what he is), I'm not that interested in reading about how he's stepping up for his role as the Antichrist.
Let's try that again: are there any respectable news sources that aren't blatantly anti-conservative? I just looked at the web page for that show, and every story was about which Democrat will be nominated, and how Bush is trying to kill or take over the world. Literally. For example, here are the Monday headlines:
In Tight Democratic Race, Could Campaign Donations and Personal Views Influence Potentially Decisive Superdelegate Vote?
Analyst: On Africa Visit, Bush Pushes Agenda of Continent-Wide U.S. Military Expansion
In Africa, Bush Touts Record AIDS Relief under his Administration, but Funding Restrictions Tell a Different Story on the Ground
Seton Hall Law Students Discover U.S. Military Routinely Videotaping Gitmo Interrogations
I think I'll stick with The Daily Show, and maybe try BBC World News America. Those can't be any worse than the CNN or Fox jackasses.
"Our sources, given under this article, claims that the Milky-Way is so-and-so big" One could write it like that, but it'd become tiresome real quick.
Conveniently enough, there's an exact shorthand for that:
"The Milky-Way is so-and-so-big.[1]"
I don't really get people who are literate enough to read an encyclopedia, but have no idea what those little footnote numbers really mean. This isn't directed at you, BTW.
I don't think there are any countries on Earth that are so perfect that they are above criticism. Is that what you're trying to say?
How did you get that from what I wrote? What I said was that in western societies - all western societies that I am aware of - people have the right to criticize and protest their governments. I always find it ironic when people complain that their country won't let them complain.
As for the mods who modded me 'troll' - that's about as close to censorship as we get in the West.
Yes, and it's wonderful! The worst consequence of your words is that some random visitor on a web forum disagrees with you. You won't be dragged out of your house and arrested in the middle of the night or have to watch your families get beaten. Ironically (there it is again!), your words are literally true when spoken un-ironically. Cool, huh?
I thought I should inform some of you that, while it is of some historical importance, this news changes very little politically.
The biggest question seems to be whether someone who is not Castro can lead as strongly as Castro. If Cuba is a much of a cult of personality as a lot of observers believe, that might not be the case.
Making up a new meaning for an acronym doesn't change its original meaning.
It also doesn't make the original meaning "more correct", except for people who want to sound smart at parties.
Hence the term used by the OP "backronym"
That's not really appropriate here. Since VHS was never known as anything other than Video Home System to the world at large, you can't really claim that it's wrong. At the very least, you could say that both are correct.
So because someone tried a distro in Fall 2007 that wasn't the "right" distro and gave up, that's the end-user's fault, and not the distro's / linux community at large's fault?
Yes. If I complained that a copy of Vista Home wouldn't let me connect to a domain, everyone would laugh and point out that I had picked the wrong Windows distro.
And, um, I'm an academic and a researcher. Not in engineering or hard science, mind you, so that might be the difference.
That just might explain it. In compsci and math, that's pretty much the default format for publication, at least anywhere I've looked. For example, SIGACT News is basically a printout of a TeX document, standard fonts and all. The downloadable online version is the PostScript file used to make the printed version.
My cousin-in-law is going for her PhD in aerospace engineering, and she told me that she used it to write her master's thesis.
And I'm still not sure how it's any different from using styles in Word.
The biggest difference is that does all the work behind the scenes. LyX makes a token nod to WYSIWYG, but in general you describe the document and then TeX renders it afterward. This includes such things as positioning your graphs and images, generating your bibliography, and making your references (so that if you're referring to something on page 33, and a layout change moves it to page 34, your reference gets updated automatically).
Non-obvious advantages are that you can use the editor of your choice. Emacs has an extremely good TeX editing environment. Other people prefer LyX. Some like Vim. You could use Notepad if you really wanted to. Parts could be machine-generated. Since the output is completely decoupled from the input, none of that is an issue.
BTW, by TeX, I usually mean LaTeX, which is kind of a wrapper that most people tend to gravitate to. They're functionality identical, though (as LaTeX is implemented in TeX) so the same benefits apply to each.
...Until they have to write their master's thesis with tons of tables, a dynamic table of contents, and more formatting sections than you can shake 116 pages of stick at...
People actually write a thesis that long with all those features in anything but TeX (or LyX if they want a nice GUI)? Odd. That's a development I hadn't heard of yet.
You expect to be able to simulate roughly 1.4 x 10^26 atoms in 20 years?
The thinking is that you'd simulate it's structures, not each individual atom. For example, you can model the behavior of a transistor without simulating all the atoms inside it. In this hypothesis, the real question is what level of detail is required to make it work. Kurzweil et al believe that in 20 years, we'll have the computing power and that knowledge and will be able to put them together.
I bought "The Singularity Is Near" on a lark and admit that it sounded preposterous at first. However, there are about 200 pages of footnotes and references backing up every single claim he makes. After a couple of chapters, my opinion shifted from "ridiculous" to "inevitable".
How long is it until they start throttling encrypted traffic too?
What does encrypted data look like? Could it ever look like a web client sending Cookie headers, and a webserver replying with Set-Cookie values and some text? Wouldn't that be fun to try to block?
He died alone, in some unknown place. That's supposed to be "better"?
My dad died alone in his front yard of a sudden, massive heart attack. We didn't get to gather around him, tell stories, and say goodbye as he faded. One day I got a call from my screaming mom, and that was it - he was dead.
Know what? That was better. We were together while he was still alive and healthy, and his family's last memories of him are as we always knew him: strong and happy and himself. I wouldn't change that for the world, and I know inside that he wouldn't either.
Now, what makes more sense? Adding a few hundred more Sandvine devices, or doing 3000 node splits?
The node splits. Even if Comcast doesn't want to, their competitors are. Obligatory car analogy: Ford would probably prefer to sell you a Model T at today's average new car cost. After all, they wouldn't have had to upgrade their factories or invest in R&D. Unfortunately for them, other car companies moved on, requiring Ford to either improve or close up shop. Well, that's pretty much what Comcast is deciding.
Also, consider that the onus will be on the produces of the p2p blocking devices to come up with solutions to the new bittorrent system, not the ISPs themselves.
And this will be a free upgrade for the ISPs? Of course not.
people say "he died doing what he loved". No pilot loves crashing a plane.
You're being overly literal. That's a generally accepted shorthand for "at least he was engaged in an activity he enjoyed, not rotting away in an Alzheimers ward or in the agonizing throes of cancer". Steve was definitely doing something he loved, save but for the last few minutes.
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"The right" has little in common with the current administration. I'm not sure why you're conflating the two groups, other than you commonly hear them lumped together in campus speech.
See, here's the thing: I'm an intelligent adult, and I like talking about issues with people I disagree with. I don't mind being told that I'm wrong as long as I also hear why I'm wrong. Who knows - I might even change my mind. It wouldn't be the first time.
However, I have little patience for people who just scream that I'm an idiot and that everyone I even halfway agree with is a mindless killer. As much as I can't stand Bush (because as I said earlier, I'm a conservative - I'm not sure what he is), I'm not that interested in reading about how he's stepping up for his role as the Antichrist.
Let's try that again: are there any respectable news sources that aren't blatantly anti-conservative? I just looked at the web page for that show, and every story was about which Democrat will be nominated, and how Bush is trying to kill or take over the world. Literally. For example, here are the Monday headlines:
I think I'll stick with The Daily Show, and maybe try BBC World News America. Those can't be any worse than the CNN or Fox jackasses.
For real? My sarcasm meter is out of whack today so I can't tell.
Now I can finally switch some customers from FTP to SFTP. Thanks for making this hugely useful change!
Anyone know if SFTP logging will be added any time soon? That's the last missing feature i always have to manually patch in.
Conveniently enough, there's an exact shorthand for that:
"The Milky-Way is so-and-so-big.[1]"
I don't really get people who are literate enough to read an encyclopedia, but have no idea what those little footnote numbers really mean. This isn't directed at you, BTW.
It won't crack Vorbis? Lame.
How did you get that from what I wrote? What I said was that in western societies - all western societies that I am aware of - people have the right to criticize and protest their governments. I always find it ironic when people complain that their country won't let them complain.
As for the mods who modded me 'troll' - that's about as close to censorship as we get in the West.Yes, and it's wonderful! The worst consequence of your words is that some random visitor on a web forum disagrees with you. You won't be dragged out of your house and arrested in the middle of the night or have to watch your families get beaten. Ironically (there it is again!), your words are literally true when spoken un-ironically. Cool, huh?
The biggest question seems to be whether someone who is not Castro can lead as strongly as Castro. If Cuba is a much of a cult of personality as a lot of observers believe, that might not be the case.
Presuming you're referring to America:
The term you're looking for is "irony", as in when you freely criticize the country that you claim does not allow free criticism.
Nothing. And since JVC sold and marketed their devices as "Video Home Systems", people who call it that are getting it right.
FMDFirst Marblehead CP?
It also doesn't make the original meaning "more correct", except for people who want to sound smart at parties.
Hence the term used by the OP "backronym"That's not really appropriate here. Since VHS was never known as anything other than Video Home System to the world at large, you can't really claim that it's wrong. At the very least, you could say that both are correct.
I'm looking at the YAML 1.1 specs and don't see anything about schemas or data validation. Am I overlooking something?
because you don't have to instantiate the multi-megabyte structured data entire file just to grep out one record.You don't have to do that with XML, either. You can, but you don't have to.
But really folks, do yourself and the rest of us a favor and read up on JSON and YAML.(Un)?fortunately, "the rest of us" seems to make up about 5% of the programming population. The rest of the rest of us are using XML.
Co-developed.
3.5" FloppyDead.
BetacamDead outside a very niche market.
And Mini-disc is very popular in Asia.Just because it's popular in your small part of the world doesn't mean it wasn't a market failure.
That's because they're right. VHS has been Video Home System for decades, probably since its consumer launch (and certainly at least soon afterward).
The engineers might have called it "vertical helical scan", but it wasn't ever widely marketed that way.
Yes. If I complained that a copy of Vista Home wouldn't let me connect to a domain, everyone would laugh and point out that I had picked the wrong Windows distro.
That just might explain it. In compsci and math, that's pretty much the default format for publication, at least anywhere I've looked. For example, SIGACT News is basically a printout of a TeX document, standard fonts and all. The downloadable online version is the PostScript file used to make the printed version.
My cousin-in-law is going for her PhD in aerospace engineering, and she told me that she used it to write her master's thesis.
And I'm still not sure how it's any different from using styles in Word.The biggest difference is that does all the work behind the scenes. LyX makes a token nod to WYSIWYG, but in general you describe the document and then TeX renders it afterward. This includes such things as positioning your graphs and images, generating your bibliography, and making your references (so that if you're referring to something on page 33, and a layout change moves it to page 34, your reference gets updated automatically).
Non-obvious advantages are that you can use the editor of your choice. Emacs has an extremely good TeX editing environment. Other people prefer LyX. Some like Vim. You could use Notepad if you really wanted to. Parts could be machine-generated. Since the output is completely decoupled from the input, none of that is an issue.
BTW, by TeX, I usually mean LaTeX, which is kind of a wrapper that most people tend to gravitate to. They're functionality identical, though (as LaTeX is implemented in TeX) so the same benefits apply to each.
...Until they have to write their master's thesis with tons of tables, a dynamic table of contents, and more formatting sections than you can shake 116 pages of stick at...People actually write a thesis that long with all those features in anything but TeX (or LyX if they want a nice GUI)? Odd. That's a development I hadn't heard of yet.
"The Linux version is called 'Amarok', and no one who's tried it has ever switched back."
The thinking is that you'd simulate it's structures, not each individual atom. For example, you can model the behavior of a transistor without simulating all the atoms inside it. In this hypothesis, the real question is what level of detail is required to make it work. Kurzweil et al believe that in 20 years, we'll have the computing power and that knowledge and will be able to put them together.
I bought "The Singularity Is Near" on a lark and admit that it sounded preposterous at first. However, there are about 200 pages of footnotes and references backing up every single claim he makes. After a couple of chapters, my opinion shifted from "ridiculous" to "inevitable".
What does encrypted data look like? Could it ever look like a web client sending Cookie headers, and a webserver replying with Set-Cookie values and some text? Wouldn't that be fun to try to block?
I know that I, for one, get all of my technical knowledge from Slashdot. If it isn't here, it doesn't exist. Yep. Really.
My dad died alone in his front yard of a sudden, massive heart attack. We didn't get to gather around him, tell stories, and say goodbye as he faded. One day I got a call from my screaming mom, and that was it - he was dead.
Know what? That was better. We were together while he was still alive and healthy, and his family's last memories of him are as we always knew him: strong and happy and himself. I wouldn't change that for the world, and I know inside that he wouldn't either.
So, yeah. Steve Fossett died well.
The node splits. Even if Comcast doesn't want to, their competitors are. Obligatory car analogy: Ford would probably prefer to sell you a Model T at today's average new car cost. After all, they wouldn't have had to upgrade their factories or invest in R&D. Unfortunately for them, other car companies moved on, requiring Ford to either improve or close up shop. Well, that's pretty much what Comcast is deciding.
Also, consider that the onus will be on the produces of the p2p blocking devices to come up with solutions to the new bittorrent system, not the ISPs themselves.And this will be a free upgrade for the ISPs? Of course not.
You're being overly literal. That's a generally accepted shorthand for "at least he was engaged in an activity he enjoyed, not rotting away in an Alzheimers ward or in the agonizing throes of cancer". Steve was definitely doing something he loved, save but for the last few minutes.