In sociological terms, a subculture is just a subset of a larger culture with its own tailored set of values. For instance, geeks have own our subculture. We're part of where we live, but have our own values and way of speaking and criteria for membership. Certain occupations, such as police, have a subculture. You can also fairly say that a religious group has their own without having to qualify it with irony quotes.
I love Sony! They make the best video games and have for generations! Blu-Ray is clearly superior to HD-DVD in every way. I hated rumble anyway. HDCP is the way of the future. $599 is perfectly reasonable for what all you get.
(If it's all the same, can I have the cash instead? I'd like to buy a Wii if I can find one.)
He fails to understand that the chances of one of the next 10 people leaving the store is a thief is about 100%.
Oh, well as long as it's for the children^Wshopkeepers, then that's OK.
Really, that's between the store and that person. If I'm not shoplifting, I don't feel particularly compelled to allow myself to be treated as though I were. Losing too much money? Raise your prices. Just don't treat me like a criminal and then expect my sympathies.
The same goes for just about every church, it's just that the rest of them take your money to actually do society some good once in a while and make sure the cats at the top are fat and happy. They also give you a set of morals and ethics in return for your investment
That may be true for some specific churches, but is absolutely false for just about every church.
In America, the largest Protestant group is the Southern Baptist Convention, and it's the one I happen to be most familiar with. Southern Baptists churches are autonomous units. There is no fat cat at the top - a church's "CEO" is basically the guy standing in front of the congregation each Sunday. The SBC is more or less a coalition of churches that agree with a specific set of core beliefs and which may diverge wildly after that. Those churches contribute some money, typically from specially earmarked donations, to a central pool used to fund missionary trips.
There is no pope or his equivalent. If the president of the SBC walked into a random church and said something that its membership felt was unbiblical or which conflicted with the SBC's statement of beliefs, then the congregation would likely eject him and rally other churches to elect a new president. The same is true of their own pastor. If he screws up, the board of deacons is likely to fire him. If the deacons screw up, the congregation may remove them and appoint new ones. In extreme cases, a congregation could vote to disband or split, fire the pastor and deacons, sell the building, and move on.
Finally, there is no requirement to donate money. There's a duty to, in much the same sense that the article summary mentioned, in that if no one donated then the lights would get shut off and the building would rot. Don't feel moved to chip in? Don't. Can't afford to chip in? Don't. Want to know what it's all about without "investing in morality"? Visit as many times as you like, maybe even ask if someone will give you a Bible. If you disagree, stop going; the most that will happen is that if you gave them your phone number, someone might call you to ask if you'd reconsider.
I don't know how well your statements apply to other denominations or groups, but avow that the Southern Baptists, at least, bear no resemblance to your description. As they are the largest group of Protestants in America, I'd have to say that "just about every church" (in America at least) is nothing at all like you say.
Avoid having too much swap space. It's awfully slow, if you're using it too much all you'll manage is to run more things slower.
FreeBSD likes lots of extra swap space. An idle system will notice that some process hasn't run in a month and will push it to swap, proactively freeing RAM for something else that might want it. Note that it will only page out a process's data segment; it's code segment uses the filesystem itself for paging (why copy "firefox" into swap when there's already a perfectly readable copy on the filesystem?).
Unless, of course, you unlink its executable file, in which case it allocates swap to hold the file first. Which also illustrates that while unnecessary computational complexity is bad, willingness to do complex things when the situation demands can lead to some pretty cool stuff.
Several things can't be notarized. First is a photograph. Second is a program.
Why is that, exactly? I'm pretty ignorant of what all notaries do, but it seems that notaries offer a timestamping service of sorts (the Authentication and Accounting parts of AAA). You're not verifying that I own the copyright of what's printed on this paper, but would be vouching that as of the date and time on it, I did in fact possess that paper. Wouldn't proving that you had a printed copy of any written information at a certain point be a positive defense against any accusation that someone else wrote it first, assuming they couldn't produce equal proof?
If you don't have a personal lawyer and don't want to mess with the copyright office, you may also have a notary public sign and date a printout of the document. Be sure that the law in your state allows notaries to act in that capacity; I don't think they can i New York, for example.
Advantages: cost and convenience - you might very well know one or have one on staff at your office.
They are in an awkward position because they are not lawyers and cannot give specific legal advice, but they do point the buyers and sellers to places that specify the relevant federal and state laws.
Saying "can't be don't legally" and "can't be done at all" are too entirely different things. The statement that 'NOBODY can "buy a firearm on-line"' is demonstrably false.
I like guns. I own guns. I'm not remotely anti-gun. It's just that this is like arguing that you can't gamble or buy drugs or pirate music online. Maybe the law says you shouldn't, but that's doesn't mean that you can't.
So once again, you're left wondering WTF is JT talking about?
Speak for yourself. I wonder what he's talking about in the same way that I wonder why that guy asking me for a dollar is preaching about the saddle he found in a payphone and how toxins got in the space shuttle.
Not sure about the other two, but NOBODY can "buy a firearm on-line".
My local newspaper regularly lists guns in the classified ads. I'm pretty certain that the buyers and sellers don't go through all those hoops, and I'm equally certain that I could mail one of those sellers a check and get a package from UPS a few days later without ever having met them.
Maybe you can't legally buy a new gun online. Maybe you can't even legally buy a used gun without all the forms you mentioned. But you can darn sure buy a firearm through the classified ads in my paper, and that's just about the same thing.
Since Vista was pre-installed, everything works, of course.
I'm not really sure how you got from the first clause to the second. Vista now works on machines it's pre-installed on? That's great news for gamers and HD-video enthusiasts who've been lamenting the broken or DRM-crippled drivers on their high end systems.
but since it's included in the $500 laptop price, and it would cost me $160 to get an XP OEM plus my time
Or, get one with XP OEM pre-installed (so that everything works, of course) for a marginal cost of... nothing. Which is exactly what I'm in the process of doing right now, since I'm buying a laptop to run exactly one specific program and I don't want Vista's DRM-infected systems taking away resources that I want to allocate to that application.
The company only has to make it available upon request.
Important addition: "...to anyone who receives the derivative program." If you have not received a copy of the program as distributed by them, then they aren't obligated to provide you with a copy of the source.
See how that worked? I linked to something I object to, in the context of me objecting to it. You have to be allowed to say the name of things you don't like or else you can't tell other people why you don't like them.
It's a Kenmore. Actually, we've had it for 6 years and it's been trouble-free, except that the original bearings were noisy and they replaced them with a new design when we complained about it.
If you can't get excited about buying a matching washer/dryer
My wife dragged me to Sears to pick a washer and dryer.
We came home with a Death Star-charcoal front loader on platforms that make it almost as tall as she is, and it's computerized with about 1,000 sensors. The edge of the washer's drum reaches 170MPH during the spin cycle, shaking the floor and scaring the cat.
This is what happens when you ask a geek to design a washer.
This is also why my wife doesn't drag me to Sears to pick appliances anymore.
The only time this would be an issue is for heavy network usage, which would normally only occur on work-related machines because let's face it, aside from geeks and techies, not many people have systems set up that max out their network bandwidth, so, if they were work-related machines, well, they probably wouldn't be playing that much music to begin with.
My first thought: breaking ME2's networking for the geeks and techies who are mostly likely to compulsively upgrade probably to it is probably a bad idea.
My second thought: now that I think of it, none of the geeks and techies I know are upgrading to ME2. They're sticking with XP for now. Maybe optimizing for the benefit of Joe Sixpack who gets it with his new Acer wasn't so unreasonable after all.
If you voted for the republicans in any of the last 3 elections, you've got to accept responsibility for your choice.
Not really. I acknowledge that I voted for him, but it was truly a "least bad" proposition. I didn't like him, but I disliked him less than Kerry/Edwards - and I still think I made the less incorrect choice.
Given the blinding speed with which modern CPUs execute the ISRs there is *plenty* of time to keep a Gig-E network link saturated (or nearly so) while keeping the sound card fed.
Exactly. And since we know by example that the hardware is physically capable of doing so on pretty much every machine built in the last decade, this indicates that the network stack and audio system are somehow inexplicably linked in ME2. There's just no sensible explanation for that (and any answer involving DRM is inherently nonsensible).
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In sociological terms, a subculture is just a subset of a larger culture with its own tailored set of values. For instance, geeks have own our subculture. We're part of where we live, but have our own values and way of speaking and criteria for membership. Certain occupations, such as police, have a subculture. You can also fairly say that a religious group has their own without having to qualify it with irony quotes.
Did you get a free PS3 for that? Let me try!
I love Sony! They make the best video games and have for generations! Blu-Ray is clearly superior to HD-DVD in every way. I hated rumble anyway. HDCP is the way of the future. $599 is perfectly reasonable for what all you get.
(If it's all the same, can I have the cash instead? I'd like to buy a Wii if I can find one.)
Oh, well as long as it's for the children^Wshopkeepers, then that's OK.
Really, that's between the store and that person. If I'm not shoplifting, I don't feel particularly compelled to allow myself to be treated as though I were. Losing too much money? Raise your prices. Just don't treat me like a criminal and then expect my sympathies.
That may be true for some specific churches, but is absolutely false for just about every church.
In America, the largest Protestant group is the Southern Baptist Convention, and it's the one I happen to be most familiar with. Southern Baptists churches are autonomous units. There is no fat cat at the top - a church's "CEO" is basically the guy standing in front of the congregation each Sunday. The SBC is more or less a coalition of churches that agree with a specific set of core beliefs and which may diverge wildly after that. Those churches contribute some money, typically from specially earmarked donations, to a central pool used to fund missionary trips.
There is no pope or his equivalent. If the president of the SBC walked into a random church and said something that its membership felt was unbiblical or which conflicted with the SBC's statement of beliefs, then the congregation would likely eject him and rally other churches to elect a new president. The same is true of their own pastor. If he screws up, the board of deacons is likely to fire him. If the deacons screw up, the congregation may remove them and appoint new ones. In extreme cases, a congregation could vote to disband or split, fire the pastor and deacons, sell the building, and move on.
Finally, there is no requirement to donate money. There's a duty to, in much the same sense that the article summary mentioned, in that if no one donated then the lights would get shut off and the building would rot. Don't feel moved to chip in? Don't. Can't afford to chip in? Don't. Want to know what it's all about without "investing in morality"? Visit as many times as you like, maybe even ask if someone will give you a Bible. If you disagree, stop going; the most that will happen is that if you gave them your phone number, someone might call you to ask if you'd reconsider.
I don't know how well your statements apply to other denominations or groups, but avow that the Southern Baptists, at least, bear no resemblance to your description. As they are the largest group of Protestants in America, I'd have to say that "just about every church" (in America at least) is nothing at all like you say.
Why does your boss hate you?
FreeBSD likes lots of extra swap space. An idle system will notice that some process hasn't run in a month and will push it to swap, proactively freeing RAM for something else that might want it. Note that it will only page out a process's data segment; it's code segment uses the filesystem itself for paging (why copy "firefox" into swap when there's already a perfectly readable copy on the filesystem?).
Unless, of course, you unlink its executable file, in which case it allocates swap to hold the file first. Which also illustrates that while unnecessary computational complexity is bad, willingness to do complex things when the situation demands can lead to some pretty cool stuff.
Why is that, exactly? I'm pretty ignorant of what all notaries do, but it seems that notaries offer a timestamping service of sorts (the Authentication and Accounting parts of AAA). You're not verifying that I own the copyright of what's printed on this paper, but would be vouching that as of the date and time on it, I did in fact possess that paper. Wouldn't proving that you had a printed copy of any written information at a certain point be a positive defense against any accusation that someone else wrote it first, assuming they couldn't produce equal proof?
If you don't have a personal lawyer and don't want to mess with the copyright office, you may also have a notary public sign and date a printout of the document. Be sure that the law in your state allows notaries to act in that capacity; I don't think they can i New York, for example.
Advantages: cost and convenience - you might very well know one or have one on staff at your office.
Saying "can't be don't legally" and "can't be done at all" are too entirely different things. The statement that 'NOBODY can "buy a firearm on-line"' is demonstrably false.
I like guns. I own guns. I'm not remotely anti-gun. It's just that this is like arguing that you can't gamble or buy drugs or pirate music online. Maybe the law says you shouldn't, but that's doesn't mean that you can't.
Speak for yourself. I wonder what he's talking about in the same way that I wonder why that guy asking me for a dollar is preaching about the saddle he found in a payphone and how toxins got in the space shuttle.
My local newspaper regularly lists guns in the classified ads. I'm pretty certain that the buyers and sellers don't go through all those hoops, and I'm equally certain that I could mail one of those sellers a check and get a package from UPS a few days later without ever having met them.
Maybe you can't legally buy a new gun online. Maybe you can't even legally buy a used gun without all the forms you mentioned. But you can darn sure buy a firearm through the classified ads in my paper, and that's just about the same thing.
I bought every season available of Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, and My Name is Earl on iTunes.
Well I for one am not a slave to my television.
Ummm....
Your network must be too fast.
I'm not really sure how you got from the first clause to the second. Vista now works on machines it's pre-installed on? That's great news for gamers and HD-video enthusiasts who've been lamenting the broken or DRM-crippled drivers on their high end systems.
but since it's included in the $500 laptop price, and it would cost me $160 to get an XP OEM plus my timeOr, get one with XP OEM pre-installed (so that everything works, of course) for a marginal cost of... nothing. Which is exactly what I'm in the process of doing right now, since I'm buying a laptop to run exactly one specific program and I don't want Vista's DRM-infected systems taking away resources that I want to allocate to that application.
I think that was implicit in the term "homework". :-)
Besides, I didn't say what millennium this happened it.
Important addition: "...to anyone who receives the derivative program." If you have not received a copy of the program as distributed by them, then they aren't obligated to provide you with a copy of the source.
I think these guys are a bunch of assholes.
See how that worked? I linked to something I object to, in the context of me objecting to it. You have to be allowed to say the name of things you don't like or else you can't tell other people why you don't like them.
...says the guy linking to Slashdot in his user profile.
It's a Kenmore. Actually, we've had it for 6 years and it's been trouble-free, except that the original bearings were noisy and they replaced them with a new design when we complained about it.
My wife dragged me to Sears to pick a washer and dryer.
We came home with a Death Star-charcoal front loader on platforms that make it almost as tall as she is, and it's computerized with about 1,000 sensors. The edge of the washer's drum reaches 170MPH during the spin cycle, shaking the floor and scaring the cat.
This is what happens when you ask a geek to design a washer.
This is also why my wife doesn't drag me to Sears to pick appliances anymore.
1% to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the land of buffers, where the packets lie.
My first thought: breaking ME2's networking for the geeks and techies who are mostly likely to compulsively upgrade probably to it is probably a bad idea.
My second thought: now that I think of it, none of the geeks and techies I know are upgrading to ME2. They're sticking with XP for now. Maybe optimizing for the benefit of Joe Sixpack who gets it with his new Acer wasn't so unreasonable after all.
Not really. I acknowledge that I voted for him, but it was truly a "least bad" proposition. I didn't like him, but I disliked him less than Kerry/Edwards - and I still think I made the less incorrect choice.
If they are that congruent, then I wish they'd have just used the ISO standard format rather than an alternate, less compatible form.
Exactly. And since we know by example that the hardware is physically capable of doing so on pretty much every machine built in the last decade, this indicates that the network stack and audio system are somehow inexplicably linked in ME2. There's just no sensible explanation for that (and any answer involving DRM is inherently nonsensible).