Cool, all of the youtube videos have been replaced with
"Connection Interrupted The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading. The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."
1. Never regulate the means, only the end result. 2. All legislation must specify a metric by which an implementation may be measured to be compatible with desired result.
Thats is it. Follow those rules and a huge amount of f#$%^ red tape will be avoided.
As to the intent of th GP I can not speak, and unless you are the original AC, neither can you. However, the GP clearly states "...recharge that fast or hold that much energy and what you have is a BOMB", which I infer to be about the inability of all battery technology to function in that capacity. To make a carte blanch claim of that magnitude implies an intimate knowledge of the field, which the GP then precludes by their failure to correctly apply the units of energy.
The respondent then replies (admittedly in a somewhat snarky fashion) that the GP was technically meaningless. The AC (probably the same person based on the apparent vitriol of the remark) responds with one fact and one falsehood. Another technical failure.
Great claims require great support. The AC provided no foundation for their claim and was deservedly, IMHO, shot down for their lack of technical correctness.
As to my Mona Lisa simile, I was not attempting to equate bovination with Davinci, that would be absurd. What I was attempting to disseminate is that the standards of rigorous communication in the advanced fields of study require years of training, and to belittle those years is disrespectful.
No mod points, so I befriend you instead and post this:
This is a "News for Nerds" Forum, being technically correct is something that the majority of this community favors, nay, requires in their daily lives. If more people would take the time to learn about the details, they might understand that spouting nonsense is as disrespectful to the efforts of the educated as having some tagger spray paint over the Mona Lisa.
This is really good nerd news. Does anyone know of a more detailed account of the event?
I used to follow their weekly news updates on all their internal progress and that was really enjoyable. However, it seems that lately they quit posting almost entirely, the last update was for May (http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home). I really wish there other technologically oriented blogs that detail development and results the way they do (did?).
OGG is faster when it runs a floating point decode, but it has an integer decode engine (tremor http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/) that will run on anything fast enough to keep with the bitrate you are using.
(me clicks 'see all specifications') and poof...
Right at the end of data network I see
'WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g'
OK, I am exhausted, will quit posting now.
No. The body of law was constructed under the knowledge that it is not possible to verify your actions to 100% certainty. Think punitive deterrents etc. When the laws were written there was an implicit expectation of leeway guaranteed by the uncertainty of events. Not to mention that people are entirely capable of creating delusional fantasies that have replaced reality to the point that even if they thought they were lying( or telling the truth) that is still insufficient to prove that events occurred as reported.
If we are going to laud anecdotal evidence as sufficient for refutation then I will refute your refutation with an anecdote of my own.
I worked in a summer science camp during my undergrad studies that handed out embossed awards and ribbons to every single participant. Clearly the fact that this was done and has been done with almost every youth group leader I have spoken with is indicative that the "everybody wins" culture existed. Further, since my claim was only to its existence and not omnipresence - I would say that my original contention still stands, whereas you claim that...the ultra-PC "everybody wins" culture never really existed... is easily shot down in a proof by counterexample.
Sure this only another case of "ribbons and whatnot", but the basic concept here has been around under other guises such as "social promotion" and the knee-jerk "no exceptions" rule enforcement. Any tactic that side steps a critical assessment of understanding suffers from the same pathology, a systemic failure to help the student achieve their full potential.
The latest effort of no child left behind-standardized testing, is just the next incarnation of the fundamental misunderstanding that the way to promote the advanced growth of understanding in students (children et. al.) to for there to be feedback based on generic assessment. I contend that every generic system will provide insufficient rewards to encourage every student to want to aspire to better achievements. As an aside, for the record, I don't think money is the best reward, but it is a tangible and individualized reward for the student that can be grasped and is a better representation of the way in which current society operates. A better reward, IMHO, would be the individualized attention and active participation of the parents/peers.
The idea that offering real rewards for achievement would make a difference is something that should have been obvious to anyone. This environment of PC-Everybody-Gets-A-Trophy has really screwed people up quite badly. I will be very glad when the whole PC mentality gets scrapped.
While I believe that high speed rail could work, especially if it can compete with the airlines in terms of time and convenience.
I think that there is a better as yet unconsidered alternative. In discussions with my friends, I have coined them 'Land Ferries'. the idea being that you want to go on a longer trip but you want your car there with you at the end, so you give your car to the parking valet, they park it in an auto transport rail car, you go hang in the seating/restaurant/sleeper cars and relax for the duration of the trip. Because of the efficiencies of rail you won't need to pay very much, in fact the numbers work out cheaper than paying for your own fuel at a very superficial level. Anyway thisis the best of both worlds, you get to have your car and drive it too (to bastardize a phrase).
MS motive: Make money by throwing large amounts of MS branded crap (with some useful stuff) at you and hope your willing to pay to have it cleaned up so you can keep the bits you like.
Google motive: Make money by throwing large amounts of information at you with some of revenue targeted information you may be interested in.
Until MS turns it model around and starts giving people what they want first and then cashing in on that association, they won't beat the trend that Google has going, unless Google turns around and start sending you crap first.
Giving Kudo's to the institution that stands behind the open method of its publications is not in anyway offtopic. Granted it is a gratuitous FP, however it is still relevant and meaningful.
How about if we made the default for mv to delete blocks as they were copied and not wait to delete to original until a full copy was made. This would be 'good' (more efficient) most of the time and break in strange corner cases, losing the users data (not a good thing^TM).
The default behavior should *NOT lose data*. To do so is bad UI design.
Yes, I do use screen (probably the single greatest development since the invention of the command line) and it helps but when you are running it on a remote machine that is rebooted you still have the same problems. Now if someone would just fix bash history and fix screen so that it knows how to redirect GUI items based on where the CLI was acted on I would be a very happy person indeed.
Re:looks like it still loses history
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BASH doesn't like it when you anthropomorphize it.;-)
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That is what I am currently using, along with some stuff in PROMPT_COMMAND.
This is an unfriendly hack to fix the default behavior and that is what I am not happy with.
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This almost works. I have tried using an approach like this by building bash scripts and modifying history variables.
One issue is that sessions that don't terminate cleanly (ssh loss, system reboot, etc.) leave a bunch of dirty history files that would need to reaped at the next start up of a bash.
looks like it still loses history
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BASH 4.0 Released
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Don't get me wrong, I really like bash, but the treatment of history is abysmal. The default behavior is to lose history due to a race condition when multiple bash sessions that are concurrently open are closed in arbitrary order.
IMNSHO, the default of any process should be to never lose data.
I can recall using CDE on an AIX box just over ten years ago. It was a well established part of the interface at that time. Anyone actually know the inception date of CDE's dock?
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and yet, somehow darkly disturbing.
Cool, all of the youtube videos have been replaced with
"Connection Interrupted
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."
What an improvement in load time too!
1. Never regulate the means, only the end result.
2. All legislation must specify a metric by which an implementation may be measured to be compatible with desired result.
Thats is it. Follow those rules and a huge amount of f#$%^ red tape will be avoided.
Personally I favor technical correctness.
As to the intent of th GP I can not speak, and unless you are the original AC, neither can you. However, the GP clearly states "...recharge that fast or hold that much energy and what you have is a BOMB", which I infer to be about the inability of all battery technology to function in that capacity. To make a carte blanch claim of that magnitude implies an intimate knowledge of the field, which the GP then precludes by their failure to correctly apply the units of energy.
The respondent then replies (admittedly in a somewhat snarky fashion) that the GP was technically meaningless. The AC (probably the same person based on the apparent vitriol of the remark) responds with one fact and one falsehood. Another technical failure.
Great claims require great support. The AC provided no foundation for their claim and was deservedly, IMHO, shot down for their lack of technical correctness.
As to my Mona Lisa simile, I was not attempting to equate bovination with Davinci, that would be absurd. What I was attempting to disseminate is that the standards of rigorous communication in the advanced fields of study require years of training, and to belittle those years is disrespectful.
HTH
No mod points, so I befriend you instead and post this:
This is a "News for Nerds" Forum, being technically correct is something that the majority of this community favors, nay, requires in their daily lives. If more people would take the time to learn about the details, they might understand that spouting nonsense is as disrespectful to the efforts of the educated as having some tagger spray paint over the Mona Lisa.
This is really good nerd news. Does anyone know of a more detailed account of the event? I used to follow their weekly news updates on all their internal progress and that was really enjoyable. However, it seems that lately they quit posting almost entirely, the last update was for May (http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home). I really wish there other technologically oriented blogs that detail development and results the way they do (did?).
OGG is faster when it runs a floating point decode, but it has an integer decode engine (tremor http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/) that will run on anything fast enough to keep with the bitrate you are using.
(me clicks 'see all specifications') and poof... Right at the end of data network I see 'WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g' OK, I am exhausted, will quit posting now.
A keyboard that can actually detect when someone presses on a key! Will wonders never cease.
That is, unless they have fixed their battery tech.
No. The body of law was constructed under the knowledge that it is not possible to verify your actions to 100% certainty. Think punitive deterrents etc. When the laws were written there was an implicit expectation of leeway guaranteed by the uncertainty of events. Not to mention that people are entirely capable of creating delusional fantasies that have replaced reality to the point that even if they thought they were lying( or telling the truth) that is still insufficient to prove that events occurred as reported.
I like the cut of you jib. Newsletter subscription please ;-)
If we are going to laud anecdotal evidence as sufficient for refutation then I will refute your refutation with an anecdote of my own.
I worked in a summer science camp during my undergrad studies that handed out embossed awards and ribbons to every single participant. Clearly the fact that this was done and has been done with almost every youth group leader I have spoken with is indicative that the "everybody wins" culture existed. Further, since my claim was only to its existence and not omnipresence - I would say that my original contention still stands, whereas you claim that ...the ultra-PC "everybody wins" culture never really existed... is easily shot down in a proof by counterexample.
Sure this only another case of "ribbons and whatnot", but the basic concept here has been around under other guises such as "social promotion" and the knee-jerk "no exceptions" rule enforcement. Any tactic that side steps a critical assessment of understanding suffers from the same pathology, a systemic failure to help the student achieve their full potential.
The latest effort of no child left behind-standardized testing, is just the next incarnation of the fundamental misunderstanding that the way to promote the advanced growth of understanding in students (children et. al.) to for there to be feedback based on generic assessment. I contend that every generic system will provide insufficient rewards to encourage every student to want to aspire to better achievements. As an aside, for the record, I don't think money is the best reward, but it is a tangible and individualized reward for the student that can be grasped and is a better representation of the way in which current society operates. A better reward, IMHO, would be the individualized attention and active participation of the parents/peers.
The idea that offering real rewards for achievement would make a difference is something that should have been obvious to anyone. This environment of PC-Everybody-Gets-A-Trophy has really screwed people up quite badly. I will be very glad when the whole PC mentality gets scrapped.
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While I believe that high speed rail could work, especially if it can compete with the airlines in terms of time and convenience.
I think that there is a better as yet unconsidered alternative. In discussions with my friends, I have coined them 'Land Ferries'. the idea being that you want to go on a longer trip but you want your car there with you at the end, so you give your car to the parking valet, they park it in an auto transport rail car, you go hang in the seating/restaurant/sleeper cars and relax for the duration of the trip. Because of the efficiencies of rail you won't need to pay very much, in fact the numbers work out cheaper than paying for your own fuel at a very superficial level. Anyway thisis the best of both worlds, you get to have your car and drive it too (to bastardize a phrase).
MS motive: Make money by throwing large amounts of MS branded crap (with some useful stuff) at you and hope your willing to pay to have it cleaned up so you can keep the bits you like.
Google motive: Make money by throwing large amounts of information at you with some of revenue targeted information you may be interested in.
Until MS turns it model around and starts giving people what they want first and then cashing in on that association, they won't beat the trend that Google has going, unless Google turns around and start sending you crap first.
Mod: Offtopic
WTF?
Giving Kudo's to the institution that stands behind the open method of its publications is not in anyway offtopic. Granted it is a gratuitous FP, however it is still relevant and meaningful.
Yes, I am complaining about the default behavior.
How about if we made the default for mv to delete blocks as they were copied and not wait to delete to original until a full copy was made. This would be 'good' (more efficient) most of the time and break in strange corner cases, losing the users data (not a good thing^TM).
The default behavior should *NOT lose data*. To do so is bad UI design.
Yes, I do use screen (probably the single greatest development since the invention of the command line) and it helps but when you are running it on a remote machine that is rebooted you still have the same problems. Now if someone would just fix bash history and fix screen so that it knows how to redirect GUI items based on where the CLI was acted on I would be a very happy person indeed.
BASH doesn't like it when you anthropomorphize it. ;-)
That is what I am currently using, along with some stuff in PROMPT_COMMAND.
This is an unfriendly hack to fix the default behavior and that is what I am not happy with.
This almost works. I have tried using an approach like this by building bash scripts and modifying history variables.
One issue is that sessions that don't terminate cleanly (ssh loss, system reboot, etc.) leave a bunch of dirty history files that would need to reaped at the next start up of a bash.
Don't get me wrong, I really like bash, but the treatment of history is abysmal. The default behavior is to lose history due to a race condition when multiple bash sessions that are concurrently open are closed in arbitrary order.
IMNSHO, the default of any process should be to never lose data.
I can recall using CDE on an AIX box just over ten years ago. It was a well established part of the interface at that time. Anyone actually know the inception date of CDE's dock?