The thing is that the these add-ons are the equivalent to buying regular gas and adding additives to it which end up costing as much as just buying premium in the first place, plus you don't end up with gas/additives on your hands/clothes.
The drop in demand for brick and morter used CD stores is also due in part to sites like half.com. I, too buy only used, but have entirely shifted to using half.com and amazon.com to get them. One of the nicest thinga about half.com is that there isn't any *1* price for used CD's. It responds more to supply and demand than many regular stores can, so you can actually see what CD's people aren't willing to part with (a good indication of quality music). Discs on half.com that are $0.50-$1 are either mega-hits or duds. If a given disc is going for $13 used and $15 new, it's either really new, really obscure or no one wants to sell their copy.
I'm not criticizing your spelling (because it's a waste of time for all involved). I'm just curious why you spelled Bayesian the way you did twice in this same discussion, marking it with an (sp) both times, while the other spelling is in the article summary?
You can also "spoof" the look in IE with the following CSS. IE supports the tooltip, just doesn't show the underline or indication that there's something there.
My sister recently had a pile of CD's stolen from her car and asked me for help replacing them. She wanted me to grab them over a P2P network (cable vs dialup). However, with used CD's frequently under $5, I just dropped the $40 and bought her some new ones. I've never really latched onto P2P as I have always just bought used instead.
You actually can have *your* Slashdot automatically mod all "Funny" moderations down as far as -6 from where they already are. Just go to your preferences and it's under "comments". You can adjust how moderation is calculated for you.
You mean the crappy Bruce Willis movie. Here I am, thinking the story is about some Nostradamus-related story about the great final battle that destroys the world somewhere in the Middle East. You know, what Armageddon has meant for hundreds of years before Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck were involved.
"Totem is the only media player I've seen that doesn't attempt to have skins or look like a reject from a 1971 Kenwood catalog."
That's the biggest appeal to the commandline players for me. I absolutely hate "skinned" apps. I don't use Windows styles or themes on my Windows machines, I don't even have wallpaper on any of my machines. So, when I see new media players that not only don't have standard interfaces, but don't even have standard *shapes*, there's no way I'm using them.
I ask mostly because my signature is pretty "loopy" and occasionally the little boxes that people want me to sign in are too small and *I* wouldn't consider the result to be a "match". None of my credit cards looked like my real signature until I started just signing them with a Sharpie and going outside the box.
This is why I don't think we'll see cars driving themselves in the U.S. any time soon. They've built the vehicles so they can handle the freeway without a driver (some documentary I saw). However, even if the rate of accidents with self-driving/parking vehicles is lower than with real drivers (and I'd tend to believe it could be) even 1 accident would launch liability lawsuits galore.
If you take all of the books in and issue credits to contributors (or just set specific limits) and let people check them out for a term and return them. The central repository grows over time to include more books and eliminates freeloaders. It also prevents the situation where an English major has books to exchange, but only needs more English textbooks and other users have Physics books.
I patch regularly, run a hardware firewall and have gotten exactly 1 virus on a computer I own (in 1996 from a floppy disc in a college lab) and even that didn't get off the floppy and I still was affected as I received 1000 infected emails per day at the end of last week as *other* people got infected and sent messages both to and from me without my involvement. Aside from guarding my email address with my life (gee, my customers would love that policy) no amout of due diligence would have prevented the problems I received.
I've gotten 320 infected messages today. I'm actually going to be looking forward to getting back to generic viagra ads in a couple of days when this dies down.
Microsoft would say it costs much more than $9 to send it. I recently had to order a replacement Office XP disc set for a client and was told the discs were "free" but the shipping and handling was something like $29. Even late night TV doesn't go that far with shipping and handling.
Step right up folks and see this marvel, this wonder, this rarest of rare exhibitions! What we have right here, right here in this tent, is the world's very last optimist!
This gets floated as a "solution" to the problem frequently. Unfortunately, the cartridges in these new printers contain less and less ink. They're almost getting to be as useless as the sample packs of paper they come with too.
The naming of Open Source projects is in a sorry state. So many projects choose names like this. I recently compiled a list of things to think about when naming a project. People are free to add their own to the list:
You retain the copyright and copyright is automatically covers it when you create it. Current law has all rights default to the creator unless someone has legal documents proving you signed away some of those rights.
So, I get to drag peripherals to meetings now? How about this: I build a big box next to my desk from desktop components, put a big 21" CRT monitor on it and attach lots of useful peripherals. We'll pack all that up and take it to meetings, to client sites , etc. I have 12 USB devices connected to my desktop PC. I bring NONE of them along when I use my laptop. I don't bring an extra mouse or keyboard, even though a real mouse is better than a touchpad. Why? The whole freaking point of a portable device is portability.
Do people like you never need to capture something that can't easily be represented by alphanumeric text? It's a whole lot easier to draw a few boxes and arrows between them to describe workflow in an application than trying to draw stupid ASCII diagrams of the same thing. At least HALF of my notes for a given day of work include sketches and diagrams. The keyboard and mouse are terrible for that type of thing and are pretty much the main reason I still take notes on paper. I'd love to be able to use a pen with my existing laptop.
Right tool for the job and all that. Just because you don't see how the tool is useful in your life doesn't mean it isn't useful to others. After all, I'm pretty sure there are some tools in Home Depot that I don't have a use for, but I'm not going to say that they're a step backward.
Why do you live even 25km from work? I live WHERE I work. Everyone could live where they work. They just need to be willing to live an entrepreneurial lifestyle. I can walk 2 blocks to get food, a haircut, rent a movie. I don't need even a bike or bus. My commute is 30 seconds.
The point is, that to use your situation as the judgement stick on everyone elses, particularly in areas like transportation (which have great variety in individual communities) just doesn't work. Just look at the fact that everytime something job related comes up on this site, the people who are having difficulty finding a job come pouring out of the woodwork. Are you saying that when it's difficult to find A job, someone should hold out for a job that's close enough to their home to meet your standards of not needing a car? Then there's the housing. Moving all of your belongings around to follow your job is not only difficult, in many cases, it's impossible.
He said highlighters and I'd bet that's what he meant. See, just because there ARE markers that have the special ink on them doesn't mean that some of the idiots in gas stations and other places aren't using highlighters instead, blissfully ignorant of WHY they are using some marker. They just swipe it with whatever marker is handy and put it in the drawer. I've seen it happen.
Umm. You are aware that the current spelling of EVERY word came about in exactly that way. Until well after Chaucer, there wasn't a "right" way to spell anything. The whole "right" spelling and "right" grammar in English movement didn't really take ofer until the 1800's. Dictionary meanings and spellings are descriptive, not prescriptive. When they write a new edition of the dictionary, they survey how words are being spelled and used in general and that becomes the new "preferred" spelling and definition over time.
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The thing is that the these add-ons are the equivalent to buying regular gas and adding additives to it which end up costing as much as just buying premium in the first place, plus you don't end up with gas/additives on your hands/clothes.
The drop in demand for brick and morter used CD stores is also due in part to sites like half.com. I, too buy only used, but have entirely shifted to using half.com and amazon.com to get them. One of the nicest thinga about half.com is that there isn't any *1* price for used CD's. It responds more to supply and demand than many regular stores can, so you can actually see what CD's people aren't willing to part with (a good indication of quality music). Discs on half.com that are $0.50-$1 are either mega-hits or duds. If a given disc is going for $13 used and $15 new, it's either really new, really obscure or no one wants to sell their copy.
I'm not criticizing your spelling (because it's a waste of time for all involved). I'm just curious why you spelled Bayesian the way you did twice in this same discussion, marking it with an (sp) both times, while the other spelling is in the article summary?
You can also "spoof" the look in IE with the following CSS. IE supports the tooltip, just doesn't show the underline or indication that there's something there.
acronym {
border-bottom: 1px dotted;
cursor: help;
}
Have you looked at the Cappuccino PC's? They don't all have "desktop" processors, but are closer to what you're looking for than most laptops.
http://www.cappuccinopc.com/espressopc.asp
My sister recently had a pile of CD's stolen from her car and asked me for help replacing them. She wanted me to grab them over a P2P network (cable vs dialup). However, with used CD's frequently under $5, I just dropped the $40 and bought her some new ones. I've never really latched onto P2P as I have always just bought used instead.
You actually can have *your* Slashdot automatically mod all "Funny" moderations down as far as -6 from where they already are. Just go to your preferences and it's under "comments". You can adjust how moderation is calculated for you.
You mean the crappy Bruce Willis movie. Here I am, thinking the story is about some Nostradamus-related story about the great final battle that destroys the world somewhere in the Middle East. You know, what Armageddon has meant for hundreds of years before Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck were involved.
"Totem is the only media player I've seen that doesn't attempt to have skins or look like a reject from a 1971 Kenwood catalog."
That's the biggest appeal to the commandline players for me. I absolutely hate "skinned" apps. I don't use Windows styles or themes on my Windows machines, I don't even have wallpaper on any of my machines. So, when I see new media players that not only don't have standard interfaces, but don't even have standard *shapes*, there's no way I'm using them.
I ask mostly because my signature is pretty "loopy" and occasionally the little boxes that people want me to sign in are too small and *I* wouldn't consider the result to be a "match". None of my credit cards looked like my real signature until I started just signing them with a Sharpie and going outside the box.
This is why I don't think we'll see cars driving themselves in the U.S. any time soon. They've built the vehicles so they can handle the freeway without a driver (some documentary I saw). However, even if the rate of accidents with self-driving/parking vehicles is lower than with real drivers (and I'd tend to believe it could be) even 1 accident would launch liability lawsuits galore.
If you take all of the books in and issue credits to contributors (or just set specific limits) and let people check them out for a term and return them. The central repository grows over time to include more books and eliminates freeloaders. It also prevents the situation where an English major has books to exchange, but only needs more English textbooks and other users have Physics books.
I patch regularly, run a hardware firewall and have gotten exactly 1 virus on a computer I own (in 1996 from a floppy disc in a college lab) and even that didn't get off the floppy and I still was affected as I received 1000 infected emails per day at the end of last week as *other* people got infected and sent messages both to and from me without my involvement. Aside from guarding my email address with my life (gee, my customers would love that policy) no amout of due diligence would have prevented the problems I received.
I've gotten 320 infected messages today. I'm actually going to be looking forward to getting back to generic viagra ads in a couple of days when this dies down.
Microsoft would say it costs much more than $9 to send it. I recently had to order a replacement Office XP disc set for a client and was told the discs were "free" but the shipping and handling was something like $29. Even late night TV doesn't go that far with shipping and handling.
Step right up folks and see this marvel, this wonder, this rarest of rare exhibitions! What we have right here, right here in this tent, is the world's very last optimist!
This gets floated as a "solution" to the problem frequently. Unfortunately, the cartridges in these new printers contain less and less ink. They're almost getting to be as useless as the sample packs of paper they come with too.
The naming of Open Source projects is in a sorry state. So many projects choose names like this. I recently compiled a list of things to think about when naming a project. People are free to add their own to the list:
HOWTO: Name Your Project
I turned this into a PHP script for those too lazy to do it "longhand"here.
You retain the copyright and copyright is automatically covers it when you create it. Current law has all rights default to the creator unless someone has legal documents proving you signed away some of those rights.
So, I get to drag peripherals to meetings now? How about this: I build a big box next to my desk from desktop components, put a big 21" CRT monitor on it and attach lots of useful peripherals. We'll pack all that up and take it to meetings, to client sites , etc. I have 12 USB devices connected to my desktop PC. I bring NONE of them along when I use my laptop. I don't bring an extra mouse or keyboard, even though a real mouse is better than a touchpad. Why? The whole freaking point of a portable device is portability.
Do people like you never need to capture something that can't easily be represented by alphanumeric text? It's a whole lot easier to draw a few boxes and arrows between them to describe workflow in an application than trying to draw stupid ASCII diagrams of the same thing. At least HALF of my notes for a given day of work include sketches and diagrams. The keyboard and mouse are terrible for that type of thing and are pretty much the main reason I still take notes on paper. I'd love to be able to use a pen with my existing laptop.
Right tool for the job and all that. Just because you don't see how the tool is useful in your life doesn't mean it isn't useful to others. After all, I'm pretty sure there are some tools in Home Depot that I don't have a use for, but I'm not going to say that they're a step backward.
Why do you live even 25km from work? I live WHERE I work. Everyone could live where they work. They just need to be willing to live an entrepreneurial lifestyle. I can walk 2 blocks to get food, a haircut, rent a movie. I don't need even a bike or bus. My commute is 30 seconds.
The point is, that to use your situation as the judgement stick on everyone elses, particularly in areas like transportation (which have great variety in individual communities) just doesn't work. Just look at the fact that everytime something job related comes up on this site, the people who are having difficulty finding a job come pouring out of the woodwork. Are you saying that when it's difficult to find A job, someone should hold out for a job that's close enough to their home to meet your standards of not needing a car? Then there's the housing. Moving all of your belongings around to follow your job is not only difficult, in many cases, it's impossible.
He said highlighters and I'd bet that's what he meant. See, just because there ARE markers that have the special ink on them doesn't mean that some of the idiots in gas stations and other places aren't using highlighters instead, blissfully ignorant of WHY they are using some marker. They just swipe it with whatever marker is handy and put it in the drawer. I've seen it happen.
Umm. You are aware that the current spelling of EVERY word came about in exactly that way. Until well after Chaucer, there wasn't a "right" way to spell anything. The whole "right" spelling and "right" grammar in English movement didn't really take ofer until the 1800's. Dictionary meanings and spellings are descriptive, not prescriptive. When they write a new edition of the dictionary, they survey how words are being spelled and used in general and that becomes the new "preferred" spelling and definition over time.