There have been societies where a woman's ankle was as much an object of lust, and required even more covering up, than did her breasts. So... the notion that it's dependency-against-mommy-revolt doesn't wash, especially in America where most babies since the 1940s were bottle-fed. It's only in the past couple decades that breast-feeding has come back in vogue.
"...chances are that if you're hitting retirement age and realizing that you can't afford it that it's your own damned fault for not planning ahead."
Hardly. A lot of people today have planned ahead quite well, only to discover that in just the past 2 or 3 years, those savings they planned to retire on are rather suddenly no longer adequate, and those investments that had been so stable for decades, that they planned to live on, suddenly are worthless.
You can plan for normal inflation. You can't plan for the cost of living tripling when it's never done so during your lifetime (many costs of life have risen well above the supposed level of inflation). Today's upsidedown economy has left a lot of people high and dry no matter how well they planned.
The parent was meant as a troll, but there's actually some truth to his post. The dark curly hair found in parts of southern Europe is not native to the (relatively modern) continent, but rather was the result of African slaves (and some freemen) interbreeding with Greeks and Romans.
However, I find Zeus' explanation far more amusing:)
I'm croggled that a country which is mature enough that every citizen is (or at least was) required to maintain and is trusted with live weapons, yet somehow they think these same people are not mature enough to figure out that violent games are just fantasy outlets??
Then again, this IS the country that recently passed a law requiring "respect for the dignity of plants."
Fixed size helps but better is to give it its own partition.
Myself, I just turn the damn thing off, and have done so since Win98. Only reason I've ever found to have a pagefile in a high-RAM machine is that some Photoshop plugins whine "not enough memory" if they don't find one.
Good points. One wonders when we'll all have little carbon-allotment punchcards, and what you get to eat today depends on what's allowed for your group, according to the Carbon Lords (who may or may not be using utterly bogus numbers based on wrong assumptions, such as that livestock and row crops are interchangeable).
Personally I don't think we can do much about the sun's emissions, nor about past mistakes (should they so prove -- they may not) so as you say, adaptation is the better policy to follow.
Good points (in this and other related posts)... I'd be curious to see your conclusions. IMO the current hoo-rah is an extreme case of Follow The Money, where everyone can play, provided they get on the right bandwagon!
Note to self: try to discover why running a spreadsheet to determine which type of machine is actually *overall* more 'green', constitutes trolling rather than good enviro-economics.
We discussed this on Another Forum[tm]. Turns out the average city suffers a net loss of about $8M on the Olympics, PLUS the cost of future maintenance of facilties that generally turn out to be of little use for future events. As I vaguely recall, there was only one case in history where the hosting city didn't lose its shirt.
And remember, ALL the money the city spends comes out of YOUR taxpaying pockets, one way or another.
I'm also wondering if the "green cost" to operate an electric-powered unit is actually higher than that to operate a propane-powered unit. After all, the electricity was probably generated, at least in part, by burning something (maybe even natural gas!) -- is it more "greenly efficient" to just burn the propane on the spot and cut the middleman?
Furthermore, what is the "green cost" of manufacturing an electric unit, vs. that of manufacturing a propane unit? I'd guess the total green cost is somewhat lower for the propane unit, since it probably requires fewer manufacturing steps, notably no need for large storage batteries that have their own "green costs" both in manufacturing and disposal, etc.
I like some previous post's suggestion that he try to ban or "rate" motorcycles according to how gang-like they are, and see how far that gets him, with the Hell's Angels or anyone else.
I've noticed that SMART sometimes shows ridiculous bogus values, that tend to indicate some sort of overflow condition in the software. Which still doesn't mean the physical part of the drive has failed.
Probably true:( But being sweat-soaked all day long can become a health issue (fungal infections, skin lesions, etc.), so you'd think if only to avoid insurance claims, they'd be thinking more about it.
Bah, kids these days... I still have a 20 MEG W.D. (dated 1991) that's still working, or at least was about 6-7 years ago, when I last used it to test something.
I also have a bunch of still-perfectly-good W.D. HDs in the 800mb and up range.
The five that run all the time here are all W.D. -- and they've been running 24/7 for 11 years, 10 years, two at 8 years; and the 5th has 2 years in this machine and another 3 or 4 years being used for random projects. My experience has been that their normal lifespan is about 6 years, but if they make it past that, they go indefinitely.
As hardware dude for the local PC club, I see lots of middle-aged HDs from donated and trashed equipment. The W.D.s are almost always still good. The Seagates are still good about half the time, tho they are slower for the same rating, and run MUCH hotter. The Maxtors and IBMs are usually either sick or dead.
Connor drives (all the way back) also had a peculiar bug where if the drive sat unpowered for a few months, it would lose the ability to boot. (Fixable with FDisk, "set partition active" but still annoying.) I never saw a Conner HD that was entirely free of this issue, and I saw a lot of 'em back then.
And a few of these drives would also lose ALL data, if they sat idle more than about 6 months.
After Seagate bought Conner, I saw a bunch of "Seagate" drives with the same issue, tho if you looked closely, they actually ID'd themselves as "Conner" drives, so were just rebadges.
By contrast, I have a W.D. HD that's dated 1991, and last time I played with it (about 2003ish) it was still 100% perfect. Until modern mobos and ancient IDE drives stopped speaking to one another, it was my all-purpose boot-test drive, and it had been in my everyday test rig for years before that, so it got a fair amount of both use and knocking around.
The rash of 40GB HD failures (and it wasn't just W.D.) wasn't the hardware. In most cases it was because the entire 40GB was partitioned as One Big Drive... in FAT32, which was still the dominant filesystem for Windows.
The problem is that FAT32 has a bug that can cause data-wrapping if the partition is larger than 32GB. And the bug exactly mimics a failing HD -- random data loss, corrupted files.
The explanation used to be on Microsoft's tech site, but it vanished last time they nuked a bunch of older material (which they do periodically).
At any rate, you can see why there was a rash of "HD failures" when HDs exceeded 32GB. And W.D. took the brunt of this, since at the time they were the first (and for some time, the only) manufacturer offering a consumer HD larger than 32GB. By the time everyone else caught up, most of the Windows world had moved to NTFS, which does not have the bug, and the problem went away.
BTW not long after that, Seagate did a study on RMA'd drives, and found that about 60% of the time the hardware was fine, and the "failure" was in fact caused by a filesystem or software error. This is pretty much in line with my own experience.
You can't wear thin cotton gloves under the "clean" gloves, to absorb sweat?? I'd think given all the thought that goes into making the bunny suits, they'd have some sort of sweat-wicking liners by now??
This sort of thing is exactly why the people who want to "DO something to FIX it" notably by cooling down the Earth, frighten me FAR more than any possible effect of global warming (even assuming it exists and that its worst-case scenarios are true).
Cool the earth as little as one or two degrees, and they could precipitate a new ice age -- quite possibly one that we NEVER come out of, if they manage to disrupt the long-term climate cycles badly enough.
We just don't understand the long-term effects well enough to fuck with it.
Yeah, if it happened over a matter of months. But you're talking centuries, or at the very least decades -- far longer than it took to build up most of these impact areas (assuming they'll actually BE impacted, which is still hardly proven).
Methinks success hinges on getting enough content owners to play ball that it becomes THE place to Find Stuff. Even if it's all indie bands -- that's a decent sized market, that I'm sure would love to get a zillion micropayments rather than selling a few hundred CDs.
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There have been societies where a woman's ankle was as much an object of lust, and required even more covering up, than did her breasts. So... the notion that it's dependency-against-mommy-revolt doesn't wash, especially in America where most babies since the 1940s were bottle-fed. It's only in the past couple decades that breast-feeding has come back in vogue.
"...chances are that if you're hitting retirement age and realizing that you can't afford it that it's your own damned fault for not planning ahead."
Hardly. A lot of people today have planned ahead quite well, only to discover that in just the past 2 or 3 years, those savings they planned to retire on are rather suddenly no longer adequate, and those investments that had been so stable for decades, that they planned to live on, suddenly are worthless.
You can plan for normal inflation. You can't plan for the cost of living tripling when it's never done so during your lifetime (many costs of life have risen well above the supposed level of inflation). Today's upsidedown economy has left a lot of people high and dry no matter how well they planned.
The parent was meant as a troll, but there's actually some truth to his post. The dark curly hair found in parts of southern Europe is not native to the (relatively modern) continent, but rather was the result of African slaves (and some freemen) interbreeding with Greeks and Romans.
However, I find Zeus' explanation far more amusing :)
[inspects large version of map, counts topo rings]
Minimum depth on one end of the chain (between Crete and the next land) is 500m, and on the other end is 750m. So appears it was still an island.
I'm croggled that a country which is mature enough that every citizen is (or at least was) required to maintain and is trusted with live weapons, yet somehow they think these same people are not mature enough to figure out that violent games are just fantasy outlets??
Then again, this IS the country that recently passed a law requiring "respect for the dignity of plants."
Fixed size helps but better is to give it its own partition.
Myself, I just turn the damn thing off, and have done so since Win98. Only reason I've ever found to have a pagefile in a high-RAM machine is that some Photoshop plugins whine "not enough memory" if they don't find one.
Ah. And I'd hazard that seasonal and locational variations are greater than that, especially in areas with a lot of flux in the annual vegetation.
Was that 0.117% of the 3.618%, or of the total atmosphere? Either way, barely a spit in the ocean.
I suggest a new name for AGW: Climate homeopathy.
Good points. One wonders when we'll all have little carbon-allotment punchcards, and what you get to eat today depends on what's allowed for your group, according to the Carbon Lords (who may or may not be using utterly bogus numbers based on wrong assumptions, such as that livestock and row crops are interchangeable).
Personally I don't think we can do much about the sun's emissions, nor about past mistakes (should they so prove -- they may not) so as you say, adaptation is the better policy to follow.
Good points (in this and other related posts)... I'd be curious to see your conclusions. IMO the current hoo-rah is an extreme case of Follow The Money, where everyone can play, provided they get on the right bandwagon!
Note to self: try to discover why running a spreadsheet to determine which type of machine is actually *overall* more 'green', constitutes trolling rather than good enviro-economics.
We discussed this on Another Forum[tm]. Turns out the average city suffers a net loss of about $8M on the Olympics, PLUS the cost of future maintenance of facilties that generally turn out to be of little use for future events. As I vaguely recall, there was only one case in history where the hosting city didn't lose its shirt.
And remember, ALL the money the city spends comes out of YOUR taxpaying pockets, one way or another.
I'm also wondering if the "green cost" to operate an electric-powered unit is actually higher than that to operate a propane-powered unit. After all, the electricity was probably generated, at least in part, by burning something (maybe even natural gas!) -- is it more "greenly efficient" to just burn the propane on the spot and cut the middleman?
Furthermore, what is the "green cost" of manufacturing an electric unit, vs. that of manufacturing a propane unit? I'd guess the total green cost is somewhat lower for the propane unit, since it probably requires fewer manufacturing steps, notably no need for large storage batteries that have their own "green costs" both in manufacturing and disposal, etc.
This is the same idiot?? All is explained!
I like some previous post's suggestion that he try to ban or "rate" motorcycles according to how gang-like they are, and see how far that gets him, with the Hell's Angels or anyone else.
I've noticed that SMART sometimes shows ridiculous bogus values, that tend to indicate some sort of overflow condition in the software. Which still doesn't mean the physical part of the drive has failed.
I didn't see anything about a surgical scrubdown for hands...
Probably true :( But being sweat-soaked all day long can become a health issue (fungal infections, skin lesions, etc.), so you'd think if only to avoid insurance claims, they'd be thinking more about it.
Bah, kids these days... I still have a 20 MEG W.D. (dated 1991) that's still working, or at least was about 6-7 years ago, when I last used it to test something.
I also have a bunch of still-perfectly-good W.D. HDs in the 800mb and up range.
The five that run all the time here are all W.D. -- and they've been running 24/7 for 11 years, 10 years, two at 8 years; and the 5th has 2 years in this machine and another 3 or 4 years being used for random projects. My experience has been that their normal lifespan is about 6 years, but if they make it past that, they go indefinitely.
As hardware dude for the local PC club, I see lots of middle-aged HDs from donated and trashed equipment. The W.D.s are almost always still good. The Seagates are still good about half the time, tho they are slower for the same rating, and run MUCH hotter. The Maxtors and IBMs are usually either sick or dead.
Connor drives (all the way back) also had a peculiar bug where if the drive sat unpowered for a few months, it would lose the ability to boot. (Fixable with FDisk, "set partition active" but still annoying.) I never saw a Conner HD that was entirely free of this issue, and I saw a lot of 'em back then.
And a few of these drives would also lose ALL data, if they sat idle more than about 6 months.
After Seagate bought Conner, I saw a bunch of "Seagate" drives with the same issue, tho if you looked closely, they actually ID'd themselves as "Conner" drives, so were just rebadges.
By contrast, I have a W.D. HD that's dated 1991, and last time I played with it (about 2003ish) it was still 100% perfect. Until modern mobos and ancient IDE drives stopped speaking to one another, it was my all-purpose boot-test drive, and it had been in my everyday test rig for years before that, so it got a fair amount of both use and knocking around.
The rash of 40GB HD failures (and it wasn't just W.D.) wasn't the hardware. In most cases it was because the entire 40GB was partitioned as One Big Drive... in FAT32, which was still the dominant filesystem for Windows.
The problem is that FAT32 has a bug that can cause data-wrapping if the partition is larger than 32GB. And the bug exactly mimics a failing HD -- random data loss, corrupted files.
The explanation used to be on Microsoft's tech site, but it vanished last time they nuked a bunch of older material (which they do periodically).
At any rate, you can see why there was a rash of "HD failures" when HDs exceeded 32GB. And W.D. took the brunt of this, since at the time they were the first (and for some time, the only) manufacturer offering a consumer HD larger than 32GB. By the time everyone else caught up, most of the Windows world had moved to NTFS, which does not have the bug, and the problem went away.
BTW not long after that, Seagate did a study on RMA'd drives, and found that about 60% of the time the hardware was fine, and the "failure" was in fact caused by a filesystem or software error. This is pretty much in line with my own experience.
You can't wear thin cotton gloves under the "clean" gloves, to absorb sweat?? I'd think given all the thought that goes into making the bunny suits, they'd have some sort of sweat-wicking liners by now??
So, what was wrong with the 8 years before THAT??
This sort of thing is exactly why the people who want to "DO something to FIX it" notably by cooling down the Earth, frighten me FAR more than any possible effect of global warming (even assuming it exists and that its worst-case scenarios are true).
Cool the earth as little as one or two degrees, and they could precipitate a new ice age -- quite possibly one that we NEVER come out of, if they manage to disrupt the long-term climate cycles badly enough.
We just don't understand the long-term effects well enough to fuck with it.
Yeah, if it happened over a matter of months. But you're talking centuries, or at the very least decades -- far longer than it took to build up most of these impact areas (assuming they'll actually BE impacted, which is still hardly proven).
Methinks success hinges on getting enough content owners to play ball that it becomes THE place to Find Stuff. Even if it's all indie bands -- that's a decent sized market, that I'm sure would love to get a zillion micropayments rather than selling a few hundred CDs.