One glance at the map shows dramatically how irrelevant Russia is becoming to the rest of the world. How often would such a map have bypassed Moscow entirely during the Soviet era?
Based on a former New Zealand prime minister's comments?
Doubtful; that joke has been flying around for decades in different forms. In my area, it involves cities seceding to Kentucky and thereby raising the average IQ of both states.
Clearly, the lessons of 2000 didn't sink in. What should we have learned about exit polls?
(Canada, you need a computer geek émigré?)
What's scariest about this election: probably at least 40-50% of the voters for each candidate simply cannot understand why anyone would vote for the other candidate. We're not only divided, we're unable to understand each other.
How do we fix this?
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...if once again a candidate wins the electoral college and the presidency, but loses the popular vote, it is that much more impetus to finally change that system.
Dear lord, no. If we eliminate the electoral college, a statistical tie would probably mean a national recount. You think the court wranglings over the Florida recount were painful?
Besides, a WV elector has already expressed his uneasiness about voting for Bush even if his state goes for him; that's exactly why we have the electoral college: to allow sober, thoughful citizens to provide some sanity to the election process if the popular vote goes awry.
Simple answer: yum and APT (for RPM systems) install only RPMs and manage the local RPM database properly, just like up2date or the RPM command-line utilities.
There is no special package format for yum and APT.
Mr. Winchester wrote another book, The Meaning of Everything, which covers the history of the OED in more detail. I just finished reading the book yesterday; quite a fun (for a book about a dictionary), and often touching, read.
I submitted a NASA-related story that was accepted nearly 48 hours ago, but has never appeared. Has anyone noticed whether Slashdot is running that far behind on its queue, or did my story go the way of the Beagle 2?
Wikipedia. I'm sure everybody knows about it by now, but it's a great
source of information for just about anything you can imagine.
Your sig is a prime example of the challenges involved in relying on the
Internet for information.
Whenever you find that you are on the side
of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain
I've seen both that and the following:
Whenever you find yourself on the side of
the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
The latter seems much more likely to me (and is the one on quote.wikipedia.org,
ironically enough), but both are widespread on the Internet.
I finally found a citation at twainquotes.com, but
that version of the quote waffles:
Whenever you find yourself on the side of
the majority, it is time to
reform (or pause and reflect).
Now, is the quote literal, or did Mr. Clemens write one or the other, and
the site isn't willing to assert which? I can't find any online copies of
the book to satisfy my curiosity.
Could the Encyclopedia Brittanica answer this for me? Could I have gotten this far in my research this quickly without the Internet? Probably
not. But the Internet is far from a panacea.
>...they really, truly do not care about standards compliance.
Sadly, I finally understand why this is true.
I recently moved from Linux to MacOS X for my primary desktop, and among all the other features that "just work" is iTunes. A co-worker refuses to use it, because it uses AAC instead of MP3.
I don't care. I have a few CDs ripped in OGG, but no major investment there; if I ever buy a portable music player, it'll almost certainly be an iPod.
Should I care? Perhaps, perhaps not. My point is, I finally understand why standards compliance is a tough sell to most users: it just doesn't impact their lives, and it's far less of a threat than thousands of other more pressing issues.
Yeah, I couldn't make any honest assertion about the number of birds falling off my roof, although I did see one hit my office building at full speed this summer.
Not even a window, just the building itself. Poor thing died instantly.
Found in my local permanent fleamarket: Coppertop batteries under the brand names "Dinacell" and "Duraking", both made in (surprise) China.
Duraking apparently employs someone who knows English. Dinacell isn't so lucky:
"No mercury added... Helps protect our enviroment" "Dinacell Battrbies" "Do not charge the batter that hasn't been used up or throw it into fire" "Do not use it with common (carbolic) batter." "According to the use way of equipments to install the batter."
Save yourself several hours, if it's not already too late. "Earth" is one of the worst investments of time I've ever made; it's an atrocious book, combining the subtlety of Guns 'n' Roses with the creativity of George Bush (either edition).
Slashdot Mirror
Not that anyone cares, but as someone who has been reading the site since 1996, I can't continue to support this place with my mouse clicks.
/., and thanks for a decade of keeping me up to date.
What was once a smart, savvy place to read news has become an embarrassment of dupes and untruths.
Farewell,
One glance at the map shows dramatically how irrelevant Russia is becoming to the rest of the world. How often would such a map have bypassed Moscow entirely during the Soviet era?
As opposed to mildly seamless? Mostly seamless?
Seamless is like childless or unique. Qualifiers need not apply.
No nation that could produce Dame Judi Dench can rationally be accused of lacking beautiful women.
I've noticed that while using Firefox on MacOS X that if I click on a link or image and hold the button down, I get the traditional right-click menu.
I assume that the same would hold true using a pen on a tablet, but I don't know.
Doubtful; that joke has been flying around for decades in different forms. In my area, it involves cities seceding to Kentucky and thereby raising the average IQ of both states.
Wow, finally Karaoke I can enjoy: signed! I can just sit back, close my eyes, and enjoy the silence.
Clearly, the lessons of 2000 didn't sink in. What should we have learned about exit polls?
(Canada, you need a computer geek émigré?)
What's scariest about this election: probably at least 40-50% of the voters for each candidate simply cannot understand why anyone would vote for the other candidate. We're not only divided, we're unable to understand each other.
How do we fix this?
Dear lord, no. If we eliminate the electoral college, a statistical tie would probably mean a national recount. You think the court wranglings over the Florida recount were painful?
Besides, a WV elector has already expressed his uneasiness about voting for Bush even if his state goes for him; that's exactly why we have the electoral college: to allow sober, thoughful citizens to provide some sanity to the election process if the popular vote goes awry.
How is 0.10 larger than 0.9? The last time I checked, 9 tenths is larger than 1 tenth.
Indeed, but 9 tenths is smaller than 10 tenths.
The key phrase from the web site was For those who still count in decimal; for those who could in "versional", 0.10 > 0.9.
The movie and music recording industries have committed several major sins:
Have I missed anything? I'm sure there's a few more issues that could be dredged up.
Not terribly analogous, but here's a similar story about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
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Try: <style class='howard dean'...
Well, South Africa has enshrined diversity and free expression in their constitution. How aggressively they pursue their high-minded ideals, I cannot say; certainly that country has its share of problems.
Simple answer: yum and APT (for RPM systems) install only RPMs and manage the local RPM database properly, just like up2date or the RPM command-line utilities.
There is no special package format for yum and APT.
Best part about using an HP-41 in school? No need to ever loan it to someone who forgot theirs.
"This isn't the calculator you're looking for."
Although it was a bit depressing last semester in chemistry to realize that my calculator was older than one of my fellow recitation students.
Clearly, it's never too late.
Mr. Winchester wrote another book, The Meaning of Everything, which covers the history of the OED in more detail. I just finished reading the book yesterday; quite a fun (for a book about a dictionary), and often touching, read.
I submitted a NASA-related story that was accepted nearly 48 hours ago, but has never appeared. Has anyone noticed whether Slashdot is running that far behind on its queue, or did my story go the way of the Beagle 2?
Wikipedia. I'm sure everybody knows about it by now, but it's a great source of information for just about anything you can imagine.
Your sig is a prime example of the challenges involved in relying on the Internet for information.
I've seen both that and the following:
The latter seems much more likely to me (and is the one on quote.wikipedia.org, ironically enough), but both are widespread on the Internet.
I finally found a citation at twainquotes.com, but that version of the quote waffles:
Now, is the quote literal, or did Mr. Clemens write one or the other, and the site isn't willing to assert which? I can't find any online copies of the book to satisfy my curiosity.
Could the Encyclopedia Brittanica answer this for me? Could I have gotten this far in my research this quickly without the Internet? Probably not. But the Internet is far from a panacea.
>...they really, truly do not care about standards compliance.
Sadly, I finally understand why this is true.
I recently moved from Linux to MacOS X for my primary desktop, and among all the other features that "just work" is iTunes. A co-worker refuses to use it, because it uses AAC instead of MP3.
I don't care. I have a few CDs ripped in OGG, but no major investment there; if I ever buy a portable music player, it'll almost certainly be an iPod.
Should I care? Perhaps, perhaps not. My point is, I finally understand why standards compliance is a tough sell to most users: it just doesn't impact their lives, and it's far less of a threat than thousands of other more pressing issues.
> And talk about stupid birds...
Yeah, I couldn't make any honest assertion about the number of birds falling off my roof, although I did see one hit my office building at full speed this summer.
Not even a window, just the building itself. Poor thing died instantly.
> ...but that airplanes, helicopters, birds and people falling off of your roof can and do.
Fortunately, I've never had an airplane or helicopter fall off my roof. Dodged a bullet on that one!
Found in my local permanent fleamarket: Coppertop batteries under the brand names "Dinacell" and "Duraking", both made in (surprise) China.
Duraking apparently employs someone who knows English. Dinacell isn't so lucky:
"No mercury added... Helps protect our enviroment"
"Dinacell Battrbies"
"Do not charge the batter that hasn't been used up or throw it into fire"
"Do not use it with common (carbolic) batter."
"According to the use way of equipments to install the batter."
And my favorite:
"Do not decompose the batter."
I bought a package of each for posterity.
Put the book down, now.
Save yourself several hours, if it's not already too late. "Earth" is one of the worst investments of time I've ever made; it's an atrocious book, combining the subtlety of Guns 'n' Roses with the creativity of George Bush (either edition).
-John