Try this simple trick before your next flight: take a shit BEFORE boarding the plane! Amazing, I know.
Said the guy who has never spent 24 hours getting from origin to destination.
When my body says "it's that time" nine hours in on a ten hour flight flight, I'm not going to see if I can tough it out through landing, taxiing, the passport line, waiting for my luggage, and a 60 minute drive to my hotel.
I'm just not.[1]
[1] because not every airport has toilets between the arrival gate and luggage.
Building a Hackintosh? Why? Every time I price out a Dell, Lenovo, or HP laptop with equivalent features to my Macbook Pro it comes out the same or higher than the Mac.
No, don't tell me about some $400 POS loss leader that you think is somehow equivalent to any Mac in terms of build quality.
Argue with that if you want, that's been my experience.
Don't know if you've ever flown an equivalent distance but five hours is a mere hop by comparison, old boy. I imagine plenty of current first-class passengers, who arrive at exactly the same time feeling almost as lousy as cattle class, would be very interested in such a short flight. Let's face it, aviation has actually stagnated to a remarkable degree for the last fifty years.
And why should you know? Yes, I have in fact flown NY to Tokyo on two separate occasions. And NY to India several times. And NY to Jo'berg. Also coast-to-coast on a regular basis, which is six hours all by itself on a non-stop flight.
Mach three was hypothetical. The Concorde only flew at Mach two. So NY to Tokyo is really more like a ten hour flight. I'm even one of the fortunate ones who can sleep through a lot of the flight, but there's only so much one can sleep; at some point drugs – the ones I'm willing to take anyway – don't help. Five hours might seem like a mere hop to you, but it still sucks IMO.
To get to India from the east coast pretty much consumes the better part of two days. Coming home consumes one. Depending on which way you go, Japan is either two and one, or one and two. Coming home from India is one long day of flying. It's so long I've actually stopped doing it in one shot; I break it up with a layover and spend a day or two in Paris or Frankfurt. Thus my return flights end up taking three days. No, a one hour suborbital is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in.
Oh yeah, and carbon footprint. I'd be willing willing to wager anything will use more than 2x the fuel – by any measure, e.g. per passenger mile (or kilometer) – to fly at at mach two. I hope for $20M NASA gets something green.
the cost of manufacturing an SSD is about 25% that of manufacturing a platter HDD
Really? I think if that were anywhere near true it would be reflected in the cost of SSDs. Do tell, where can I buy a 4TB SSD for $30!
The disk drive market is pretty competitive. I tend to think if SSDs cost 25% of an HDD to make, they'd be selling for a lot less than they are. And with Google's buying power probably even less for them.
It's obviously too late now, but I'd have sent the fixes upstream when I first wrote them – before the product was cancelled. If everyone believed the product was going to go, they couldn't really have argued against doing that. After all, why sit on fixes? Bits on a hard drive don't get better with age. Send them upstream as soon as you've written them. So what if they're not beautiful. The worst thing that might have happened is you'd have gotten feedback with suggestions for making them even better.
Other than that, if you're not willing to ask for permission now, or they say no, then I think now you have to do what others have suggested, i.e. black box it. Get a friend, tell him or her what needs fixed, have them submit their fix. Once their patches are submitted upstream I would think it'd even be okay to comment on their fix.
My point is that people like you are ready to jump down just about anyone's throat for just about any reason.
Take a chill pill. It was a joke. One you didn't get.
Did she not do the math? Gross income, less federal and state income tax, social security, medicare, and benefits = net pay.
If her net pay doesn't cover rent, food, utilities, and discretionary spending then this obviously isn't the right job for her.
We can probably safely presume that since she got her degree in English Lit that math is probably not her strong suit.
...memory has been seen as a tape recorder that faithfully registers information and replays it intact,...
My own experience would suggest otherwise.
And there's plenty of evidence that most people – e.g., crime scene witnesses – do not remember things faithfully.
Never the less, there are a few things I'd like to forget.
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They almost had me.
Try this simple trick before your next flight: take a shit BEFORE boarding the plane! Amazing, I know.
Said the guy who has never spent 24 hours getting from origin to destination.
When my body says "it's that time" nine hours in on a ten hour flight flight, I'm not going to see if I can tough it out through landing, taxiing, the passport line, waiting for my luggage, and a 60 minute drive to my hotel.
I'm just not.[1]
[1] because not every airport has toilets between the arrival gate and luggage.
I can see Boing (a US company) ...
I'm not sure what country Boing is in. Bo_e_ing however is.
With barely enough space to um, sit, ....
I see someone hasn't flown on a 787 or an A380 yet.
The idea of _all_ the Raspberry Pi models is to be cheap enough for kids to buy one with their pocket money.
Not to be the backbone of someone's BitCoin mining rig.
Software instability? On some dodgy hackintosh? Srsly? I dunno, OS X is pretty damn solid for me – on my Macs anyway.
A $499 Mac Mini is not what I'd call "high end."
I couldn't have said it any better.
Building a Hackintosh? Why? Every time I price out a Dell, Lenovo, or HP laptop with equivalent features to my Macbook Pro it comes out the same or higher than the Mac.
No, don't tell me about some $400 POS loss leader that you think is somehow equivalent to any Mac in terms of build quality.
Argue with that if you want, that's been my experience.
Don't know if you've ever flown an equivalent distance but five hours is a mere hop by comparison, old boy. I imagine plenty of current first-class passengers, who arrive at exactly the same time feeling almost as lousy as cattle class, would be very interested in such a short flight. Let's face it, aviation has actually stagnated to a remarkable degree for the last fifty years.
And why should you know? Yes, I have in fact flown NY to Tokyo on two separate occasions. And NY to India several times. And NY to Jo'berg. Also coast-to-coast on a regular basis, which is six hours all by itself on a non-stop flight.
Mach three was hypothetical. The Concorde only flew at Mach two. So NY to Tokyo is really more like a ten hour flight. I'm even one of the fortunate ones who can sleep through a lot of the flight, but there's only so much one can sleep; at some point drugs – the ones I'm willing to take anyway – don't help. Five hours might seem like a mere hop to you, but it still sucks IMO.
To get to India from the east coast pretty much consumes the better part of two days. Coming home consumes one. Depending on which way you go, Japan is either two and one, or one and two. Coming home from India is one long day of flying. It's so long I've actually stopped doing it in one shot; I break it up with a layover and spend a day or two in Paris or Frankfurt. Thus my return flights end up taking three days. No, a one hour suborbital is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in.
Oh yeah, and carbon footprint. I'd be willing willing to wager anything will use more than 2x the fuel – by any measure, e.g. per passenger mile (or kilometer) – to fly at at mach two. I hope for $20M NASA gets something green.
Forget supersonic. New York to Tokyo at mach three is still a five hour flight. Suborbital is what I want.
Looks more like Gandalf (without the beard and pointy hat) and Frodo.
Never mind cold fusion, we've been 20 years from hot fusion for the last 50 years.
the cost of manufacturing an SSD is about 25% that of manufacturing a platter HDD
Really? I think if that were anywhere near true it would be reflected in the cost of SSDs. Do tell, where can I buy a 4TB SSD for $30!
The disk drive market is pretty competitive. I tend to think if SSDs cost 25% of an HDD to make, they'd be selling for a lot less than they are. And with Google's buying power probably even less for them.
Sometimes the truth hurts! And get a sense of humor. Ever hear of "black humor." Yeah, it's a thing. Look it up. Also sarcasm.
Are they required to only access FB and FB approved partner web sites?
It's obviously too late now, but I'd have sent the fixes upstream when I first wrote them – before the product was cancelled. If everyone believed the product was going to go, they couldn't really have argued against doing that. After all, why sit on fixes? Bits on a hard drive don't get better with age. Send them upstream as soon as you've written them. So what if they're not beautiful. The worst thing that might have happened is you'd have gotten feedback with suggestions for making them even better.
Other than that, if you're not willing to ask for permission now, or they say no, then I think now you have to do what others have suggested, i.e. black box it. Get a friend, tell him or her what needs fixed, have them submit their fix. Once their patches are submitted upstream I would think it'd even be okay to comment on their fix.
If my wife had to pay the mortgage – on her income alone––
Yeah, I feel pretty secure.
Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University in Sweden has run a computer simulation of the universe, [proving] ...Earth itself should not exist.
At which point Erik went poof, and ceased to exist.
My point is that people like you are ready to jump down just about anyone's throat for just about any reason.
Take a chill pill. It was a joke. One you didn't get.
Did she not do the math? Gross income, less federal and state income tax, social security, medicare, and benefits = net pay.
If her net pay doesn't cover rent, food, utilities, and discretionary spending then this obviously isn't the right job for her.
We can probably safely presume that since she got her degree in English Lit that math is probably not her strong suit.
Your information is a bit out of date. California State Police were disbanded in 1995. That's presuming you can trust the Wikipedia article.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Were Neanderthals human? Does the fact that they could interbreed with Home Sapiens make them human?
What exactly is the definition of human? The dictionary just says human = people.
So, were the hobbits people? If so, then they were humans, just like us, even if they weren't Homo Sapiens.
If cattail pollen performed better, why isn't cattail pollen the answer?
...memory has been seen as a tape recorder that faithfully registers information and replays it intact,...
My own experience would suggest otherwise.
And there's plenty of evidence that most people – e.g., crime scene witnesses – do not remember things faithfully.
Never the less, there are a few things I'd like to forget.
bah.
...don't let a women elect...