It was down on Thursday for a little while too - if the story were about a pattern, perhaps it would be noteworthy if not newsworthy.
But, hey, I appreciate big sites being down every once in a while. When my systems have better uptime than those that Amazon runs, it's at least an understandable point of reference for PHB's.
Europe is very fortunate that most of it is a very stable environment, so they can build using unreinforced concrete and brick with abandon.
Northern Europe specifically - south of Austria the place is known to dance a bit.
We don't learn in the States either, though - living in Boston's Back Bay is trendy, but also only popular among those who never heard of the Cape Ann earthquake or what one does to fill or brick and stone buildings on fill.
Yeah, it's amazing how the evil bad guys had technology that was sixty years ahead of everybody else. Lemme guess, their cold-blooded space rulers gave them an R&D lab?
Give us 40" or more, and it might start to get interesting, but then you're constantly bending your neck to read what's on different parts of the screen.
Yeah, I actually prefer the size of my 22" display over that of my 24" display for this reason - the 22" fits perfectly into my field of view. But my 24" is 1920x1200 IPS and the 22" is an abysmal 1080 panel, so I do a bit of neck turning.
I'd love to have a 4K 22" display. The pixels would be small enough that I'd rarely notice them and everything would be smooth and beautiful. Tablets have higher resolutions already, so it's just a matter of the manufacturers wanting to do it. I'd easily pay a thousand bucks for it, assuming it was fairly great. Heck, I paid $730 for a 17" CRT in the early 90's and that's when money was worth twice as much.
Get a tutor. Odds are you had a bad math teacher in school at some point that hosed you and your class*. This happened to me - the teacher taught us Algebra wrong in 7th grade. I was sunk in high school. My parents got me a tutor who untrained me in the nonsense non-algebra and got me back on the right track. I was doing college-level math by my junior year of high school. Once you get it, it's just problem solving, which is fun if you're a geek. If you fundamentally don't get it, no wonder it seems like punishment.
You need somebody who can figure out where you're broken. Then you need to get fixed. It's, again, just problem solving, except now you're the subject of the word problem.
* I've recently tutored some of my then classmates on Facebook. It wasn't just me.
I thought about this and think it justifies citizens' right to bear arms to include nukes
Nah, they really are too dangerous. But for everybody, including Nation States. Nuclear weapons will be seen in the future as the inflection point where Nation States became too dangerous to keep around. It's hard to see it from the present, but the signs are there. In 300 years, nobody will permit other people to weaponize nuclear technology, regardless of the gang colors they fly.
This is ultimately a might-makes-right situation. The government has more and bigger guns so they basically win all violent disagreements by default. If a majority of voters get pissed about the way things are run then things may change, but as everything currently stands, you can bitch about constitutional rights all you want â" you don't have any, only what the government currently chooses to concede.
QFT. Now watch as all the people who don't want to deal with the cognitive dissonance of accepting this angrily throw everything they were told in seventh grade at you.
We've been waiting for a LONG freaking time. Like 150 years.
I have an idea - let's do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Who cares if our liberties are squashed and the wealthy and powerful just get more wealthy and powerful?
Given the choice between copying a song for free and paying 89 cents for a song legitimately, many people will choose the purchase, if it's easy enough.
Now, take a college student who can copy a textbook or purchase an eBook for $350.
That's why publishers want DRM - so they don't have to face the real value of their products.
Do US citizens get some sort of sick twisted feeling of satisfaction from this?
"Blame the victim" is SOP in DC. Most Americans would prefer sugar in their Coke and premium cigars but they're too complacent to do anything about it. Neither the gang nor its subjects care much about the people of Cuba, though there are certainly exceptions.
it still contaminates the primary containment vessel
Yes, and that's the worst of it, and it's basically copper that's going to be slightly radioactive for 60 years.
The best we can do with the existing nuclear fuel waste is 300 years, and the current nuclear waste is 300,000 years.
BTW, it's "environmentalists" who are blocking the conversion of the 300,000 year waste into 300 year waste, a process that will safely power the globe for a century. c.f. integral fast reactors
Stop trying to apply logic to perception management.
What Apple did: they discontinued their $199 unit, introduced a new unit with more features at $30 more and called it 'Basic'. This should have been your first clue.
What we'll probably see soon is sales efforts to sell a $299 version with a better feature set, and people will reason, "well, it's only $60 more than the Basic version," and that model will sell well. They might have an even better model for $329 that grabs some of those people up another notch.
And the dregs of the population who cannot afford $299 but also cannot figure out to buy an $89 Android device with similar specs, can be left buying the 'Basic'.
Look at it this way - your not-a-troll post pissed off somebody enough who doesn't like you to force him to sacrifice a mod point on it. So, you're probably right.
Also, he was probably waiting around to see your reaction post, and you just gave him the hit of dopamine he was hoping for.
Experienced folks can teach real CS in interesting ways too.
I've got a standard gig I do when asked to do "anything" which involves a fist full of pennies and notecards. In about 1:30 I teach the kids from 2nd-grade through high school how to send each other uncrackable encrypted messages (usually described in terms of teachers or CIA depending on the grade level). They get a touch of information theory, Boolean algebra and cryptography, but I don't use such lofty terms, I just encourage them to be subversive.
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There are millions of people who have spent as much time watching TV game shows. YMMV.
timelords only get 12 regens
What is the Timelords' preferred numerical base?
It was down on Thursday for a little while too - if the story were about a pattern, perhaps it would be noteworthy if not newsworthy.
But, hey, I appreciate big sites being down every once in a while. When my systems have better uptime than those that Amazon runs, it's at least an understandable point of reference for PHB's.
just like a geodesic dome, thats kind of interesting
Oh, cool, we can kill AIDS with zoning ordinances.
Europe is very fortunate that most of it is a very stable environment, so they can build using unreinforced concrete and brick with abandon.
Northern Europe specifically - south of Austria the place is known to dance a bit.
We don't learn in the States either, though - living in Boston's Back Bay is trendy, but also only popular among those who never heard of the Cape Ann earthquake or what one does to fill or brick and stone buildings on fill.
It only costs a few grand to add a basement to a new build.
Where a 'few' is about twelve (for a typical home), compared to the cost of a slab.
A good storm shelter costs more than $2K too, but less than $12K.
Yeah, it's amazing how the evil bad guys had technology that was sixty years ahead of everybody else. Lemme guess, their cold-blooded space rulers gave them an R&D lab?
you better hope that thing lasts until the 4k's are mass-market!
Give us 40" or more, and it might start to get interesting, but then you're constantly bending your neck to read what's on different parts of the screen.
Yeah, I actually prefer the size of my 22" display over that of my 24" display for this reason - the 22" fits perfectly into my field of view. But my 24" is 1920x1200 IPS and the 22" is an abysmal 1080 panel, so I do a bit of neck turning.
I'd love to have a 4K 22" display. The pixels would be small enough that I'd rarely notice them and everything would be smooth and beautiful. Tablets have higher resolutions already, so it's just a matter of the manufacturers wanting to do it. I'd easily pay a thousand bucks for it, assuming it was fairly great. Heck, I paid $730 for a 17" CRT in the early 90's and that's when money was worth twice as much.
Get a tutor. Odds are you had a bad math teacher in school at some point that hosed you and your class*. This happened to me - the teacher taught us Algebra wrong in 7th grade. I was sunk in high school. My parents got me a tutor who untrained me in the nonsense non-algebra and got me back on the right track. I was doing college-level math by my junior year of high school. Once you get it, it's just problem solving, which is fun if you're a geek. If you fundamentally don't get it, no wonder it seems like punishment.
You need somebody who can figure out where you're broken. Then you need to get fixed. It's, again, just problem solving, except now you're the subject of the word problem.
* I've recently tutored some of my then classmates on Facebook. It wasn't just me.
I thought about this and think it justifies citizens' right to bear arms to include nukes
Nah, they really are too dangerous. But for everybody, including Nation States. Nuclear weapons will be seen in the future as the inflection point where Nation States became too dangerous to keep around. It's hard to see it from the present, but the signs are there. In 300 years, nobody will permit other people to weaponize nuclear technology, regardless of the gang colors they fly.
This is ultimately a might-makes-right situation. The government has more and bigger guns so they basically win all violent disagreements by default. If a majority of voters get pissed about the way things are run then things may change, but as everything currently stands, you can bitch about constitutional rights all you want â" you don't have any, only what the government currently chooses to concede.
QFT. Now watch as all the people who don't want to deal with the cognitive dissonance of accepting this angrily throw everything they were told in seventh grade at you.
We've been waiting for a LONG freaking time. Like 150 years.
I have an idea - let's do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Who cares if our liberties are squashed and the wealthy and powerful just get more wealthy and powerful?
Given the choice between copying a song for free and paying 89 cents for a song legitimately, many people will choose the purchase, if it's easy enough.
Now, take a college student who can copy a textbook or purchase an eBook for $350.
That's why publishers want DRM - so they don't have to face the real value of their products.
British badgers don't care.
Do US citizens get some sort of sick twisted feeling of satisfaction from this?
"Blame the victim" is SOP in DC. Most Americans would prefer sugar in their Coke and premium cigars but they're too complacent to do anything about it. Neither the gang nor its subjects care much about the people of Cuba, though there are certainly exceptions.
I am trying to install your router system here in order to oppress my population ... the welcome message says "America, Fuck Yeah!"
Um, no, it's Cisco.
"We'll send you an invoice."
especially when a call to Tata can get guaranteed results
it's all a matter of what that guarantee stipulates.
it still contaminates the primary containment vessel
Yes, and that's the worst of it, and it's basically copper that's going to be slightly radioactive for 60 years.
The best we can do with the existing nuclear fuel waste is 300 years, and the current nuclear waste is 300,000 years.
BTW, it's "environmentalists" who are blocking the conversion of the 300,000 year waste into 300 year waste, a process that will safely power the globe for a century. c.f. integral fast reactors
Stop trying to apply logic to perception management.
What Apple did: they discontinued their $199 unit, introduced a new unit with more features at $30 more and called it 'Basic'. This should have been your first clue.
What we'll probably see soon is sales efforts to sell a $299 version with a better feature set, and people will reason, "well, it's only $60 more than the Basic version," and that model will sell well. They might have an even better model for $329 that grabs some of those people up another notch.
And the dregs of the population who cannot afford $299 but also cannot figure out to buy an $89 Android device with similar specs, can be left buying the 'Basic'.
How the fuck is my post a troll?
Look at it this way - your not-a-troll post pissed off somebody enough who doesn't like you to force him to sacrifice a mod point on it. So, you're probably right.
Also, he was probably waiting around to see your reaction post, and you just gave him the hit of dopamine he was hoping for.
That works on DoD grant people, but in high school the proper scope is 'free pizza'.
Experienced folks can teach real CS in interesting ways too.
I've got a standard gig I do when asked to do "anything" which involves a fist full of pennies and notecards. In about 1:30 I teach the kids from 2nd-grade through high school how to send each other uncrackable encrypted messages (usually described in terms of teachers or CIA depending on the grade level). They get a touch of information theory, Boolean algebra and cryptography, but I don't use such lofty terms, I just encourage them to be subversive.
Agreed, they should update the bug title to say 'plurality'. :)
ah, yup, misread.