Why is this distinction important? Well, what about gun rights? the SCOTUS has not yet decided if gun rights can be restricted at the state level. It's not so clear that all the rights enumerated in the bill of rights cannot be restricted by the states.
It's great that you understand that the 1st spells out Congress. But the 2nd doesn't - we can't attribute this to minor oversight.
Then there's also State interference with the General Government's power to call forth the militia.
I'm confused by your "correction." He said $130, you say they go from $145-$300... sounds definitely close to the correct value to me. Then you propose he meant a value 10 times less? Huh?
I think he's saying permit fees are approximately equal to building costs in his jurisdiction.
All this means is that someone in the command structure will be ordered to fall on the sword.
Is that all it means? For me, it means all the stories from the military about what happened in a given battle are suspect. I know they lie and cover up now. The only question is if it's done systematically.
Since there was no correction to date from the military, 'systematic' is the most likely answer.
IIRC, there are still something like six particles, which the math says MUST exist, but have never been observed.
If our Universe is 'real'. There's some evidence from gravity wave detection that our Universe is one that cheats at sufficiently fine resolution. Most simulations make these approximations.
Could you explain these in a way that somebody used to RPM could understand?
* Debian distros degrade much more gracefully over time/use.
What does this mean? That you can leap several major versions without dependency resolution problems? The feature of debian's system that I miss in a Fedora system is multiple concurrent versions of the same package, so maybe that's what you're getting at?
* Upgrades and non-standard (IE 3rd party repository) packages tend to not break things as severely.
I use several 3rd-party repos with Fedora and haven't seen any breakage, much less severe. There was a time when poor repo maintainers would do things like publish their own kernels randomly with higher version numbers, but that evolved repo prioritization.
How does debian improve this?
* The package system is somewhat more atomic, allowing for function even with broken packages.
Do you mean the packages tend to be bundled more loosely (one library per package, etc.)? That seems like a human decision. How does an RPM-based system fail to function if there's a broken package? Usually, broken packages refuse to install.
* You are able to (statefully) recover from source-based installs as well as non-packaged binary installs.
How does debian improve on the rpm-based method of re-installing (optionally rebuilding) the affected package?
-- Home theater gear from Best Buy is low grade dog food.
You forgot 'premium-priced'. I fell over when I recently saw their price on a run-of-the-mill cable. I went home and ordered it online without the 600% mark-up.
Until they hit the $30 mark (or less), it won't matter to these people.
You're working in a broken system. Somebody needs to take away their purchasing authority because they fail at basic economics.
Like I said -- they only see the up-front cost. Trying to make them see that such a printer will cost them *far* more in the long run is like trying to convince Glenn Beck that he's wrong -- about *anything*.
Wrong forum for sophomoric political humor. He spends probably an hour a week on the air talking about how wrong he was for years in many regards.
I wound up at the same place, but only after an intense high school math curriculum and remedial tutoring to fix the "wrong algebra" I was taught in grammar school (Catholic).
But US schools are required to teach to national standards tests which are designed to keep the population under-educated and easy to control. The humans aren't inherently dumber than in Ireland, though the system apparently is.
Arithmetic by hand is tedium for anyone who does it. There's nothing really to understand, just mindless symbol manipulation.
That's what I thought until I watched some of those "learn how to manipulate huge arithmetic calculations in your head" videos. The use numeric positioning 'tricks' which are a better understanding of the number system and arithmetic. None of which is taught in school.
This article actually made me wonder, for the first time... if the problem with Netflix on Linux is DRM, could they ship us a disc that would allow us to use Netflix streaming on Linux, just like they're doing for PS3 and Wii?
Dear Roku,
I will buy the above CD for however much money you make on one of your hardware devices.
The most important thing is getting teachers who can get kids interested in what they're teaching. Nothing is a better motivator than curiosity.
Application goes hand-in-hand with curiosity. My daughter (1st grade) is getting pretty good at fractions, but we do it almost all with cooking. I had to sit in a 5th-grade classroom and be told that this was important. She needs to get me the right number of scoops of flour.
She also gets the basics of algebra, though she lacks the arithmetic skill to manipulate more than simple coefficients. I don't ever say, though "now, we shall learn algebra" after years of saying, "when you're older you're going to learn the mysteries of algebra," I just ask, "if x is a number and x plus two equals six, what is x?" and then it's easy. I don't think I've even told her it's algebra, we just play games when she and I are going somewhere in the car.
The artificial stratification of mathematical techniques into age categories is such a bad idea. That, and she's smarter than me.
We get it... Netflix streams movies over the Internet to an assortment of devices.
This is the Wii, not a Windows CE wristwatch - people actually own these in large quantities. Plus, it completes the Playstation/XBox/Wii trifecta.
Add in Mac & PC and Roku, and pretty much everybody who has high-speed Internet in the US can be a Netflix streaming customer.
Their job is essentially done. It's the studios' turn to step up and start licensing content. The customers are waiting (and/or torrenting). The ball's entirely in their court - they can chose to monetize the demand or not.
The US has the second highest corporate tax rates in the world. Some States taxes push their jurisdiction to #1 in the world for highest corporate tax places. The US regulatory regime is among the most onerous for corporations and the one on its citizens keeps wages artificially high (60-70% of wages are passed through in taxation).
We don't need China. It's just nice to have cheap stuff, and they make stuff cheap.
The US Government needs China. US wage problems, taxation, and inflation would be much more apparent without their artificial (from a 'human rights' perspective) -ly low prices.
Yes I know it's done by no talent kids or minimum wage people, but the average consumer does not know that. They still think that it's all in the cost of the equipment and has nothing to do with skill and experience.
It's lighting mostly, and some of the kids do have talent. I don't think anybody working at Target knows how to setup lighting, but a specialist did the setups computer sets the lights (quickly). So, that's really just automation. The job of the attendant is to get the kids to smile at the squeaky too and press the exposure button. The second part can be automated with additional processing power. The first part, might eventually be automated with a TV or a robot. Send the kid in to the booth in nice clothes, and show him Three Stooges while he stands in front of a greenscreen...
I think it's more about market segmentation, though. You're likely to get a run-of-the-mill backdrop and portrait at a place like Target. Nothing artful about. But it's well-lit, and for sending wallets to the extended Christmas card list, it's quite satisfactory.
That's not to say that a good family portrait by an experienced photographer does not have value. But the low end always eats the high end and the high end (around here anyway) has a 10x multiplier. People used to get service they didn't actually want, so that's not value.
On the other hand, the photographer who's doing the portraits at my daughter's school is exceedingly poor. He's standing kids up in front of a bulletin board and using a poor lens and body-mounted flash, taking mug-shots, and then expecting anybody would want to buy a package of that shot. The lighting and output are abysmal and the results are quite inferior to Target's $10 offering. So, there's a consistency risk while the big-box experience is likely to be uniform if average.
Steve doesn't compete. He tells you what you can have, and you either accept it or you don't. If you don't like it, go buy a Droid.
The trick is you don't have all of the information up front. They sometimes decide down the road that they don't like an app, or they chose to enter a new app space and kick out the old player. After they have your money.
Granted, by now all the geeks know this. Most of their customers don't, though.
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Why is this distinction important? Well, what about gun rights? the SCOTUS has not yet decided if gun rights can be restricted at the state level. It's not so clear that all the rights enumerated in the bill of rights cannot be restricted by the states.
It's great that you understand that the 1st spells out Congress. But the 2nd doesn't - we can't attribute this to minor oversight.
Then there's also State interference with the General Government's power to call forth the militia.
I'm confused by your "correction." He said $130, you say they go from $145-$300... sounds definitely close to the correct value to me. Then you propose he meant a value 10 times less? Huh?
I think he's saying permit fees are approximately equal to building costs in his jurisdiction.
All this means is that someone in the command structure will be ordered to fall on the sword.
Is that all it means? For me, it means all the stories from the military about what happened in a given battle are suspect. I know they lie and cover up now. The only question is if it's done systematically.
Since there was no correction to date from the military, 'systematic' is the most likely answer.
All trust is gone.
IIRC, there are still something like six particles, which the math says MUST exist, but have never been observed.
If our Universe is 'real'. There's some evidence from gravity wave detection that our Universe is one that cheats at sufficiently fine resolution. Most simulations make these approximations.
Maybe we should do away with the IQ caps for police?
Could you explain these in a way that somebody used to RPM could understand?
* Debian distros degrade much more gracefully over time/use.
What does this mean? That you can leap several major versions without dependency resolution problems? The feature of debian's system that I miss in a Fedora system is multiple concurrent versions of the same package, so maybe that's what you're getting at?
* Upgrades and non-standard (IE 3rd party repository) packages tend to not break things as severely.
I use several 3rd-party repos with Fedora and haven't seen any breakage, much less severe. There was a time when poor repo maintainers would do things like publish their own kernels randomly with higher version numbers, but that evolved repo prioritization.
How does debian improve this?
* The package system is somewhat more atomic, allowing for function even with broken packages.
Do you mean the packages tend to be bundled more loosely (one library per package, etc.)? That seems like a human decision. How does an RPM-based system fail to function if there's a broken package? Usually, broken packages refuse to install.
* You are able to (statefully) recover from source-based installs as well as non-packaged binary installs.
How does debian improve on the rpm-based method of re-installing (optionally rebuilding) the affected package?
TIA.
-- Home theater gear from Best Buy is low grade dog food.
You forgot 'premium-priced'. I fell over when I recently saw their price on a run-of-the-mill cable. I went home and ordered it online without the 600% mark-up.
Until they hit the $30 mark (or less), it won't matter to these people.
You're working in a broken system. Somebody needs to take away their purchasing authority because they fail at basic economics.
Like I said -- they only see the up-front cost. Trying to make them see that such a printer will cost them *far* more in the long run is like trying to convince Glenn Beck that he's wrong -- about *anything*.
Wrong forum for sophomoric political humor. He spends probably an hour a week on the air talking about how wrong he was for years in many regards.
and I trust he was the 'previous DA' because his officemates sent him up the river for corruption and abuse of the legal system?
Aren't these all the people who are supposed to be standing up for rights, minorities, and the little guy? this is deplorable!
Right hemisphere, wrong quadrant. These are largely in the "you should give all your money to the State _and_ be free to have sex with a tree" camp.
Unfortunately, the RDF was generated by the old one.
It's all about the expectations you set.
Or to put it another way, it's all about the results you want. Look what Russia got from a citizenry that understood math.
I wound up at the same place, but only after an intense high school math curriculum and remedial tutoring to fix the "wrong algebra" I was taught in grammar school (Catholic).
But US schools are required to teach to national standards tests which are designed to keep the population under-educated and easy to control. The humans aren't inherently dumber than in Ireland, though the system apparently is.
Arithmetic by hand is tedium for anyone who does it. There's nothing really to understand, just mindless symbol manipulation.
That's what I thought until I watched some of those "learn how to manipulate huge arithmetic calculations in your head" videos. The use numeric positioning 'tricks' which are a better understanding of the number system and arithmetic. None of which is taught in school.
This article actually made me wonder, for the first time... if the problem with Netflix on Linux is DRM, could they ship us a disc that would allow us to use Netflix streaming on Linux, just like they're doing for PS3 and Wii?
Dear Roku,
I will buy the above CD for however much money you make on one of your hardware devices.
Sincerely,
Quite a few of us
The most important thing is getting teachers who can get kids interested in what they're teaching. Nothing is a better motivator than curiosity.
Application goes hand-in-hand with curiosity. My daughter (1st grade) is getting pretty good at fractions, but we do it almost all with cooking. I had to sit in a 5th-grade classroom and be told that this was important. She needs to get me the right number of scoops of flour.
She also gets the basics of algebra, though she lacks the arithmetic skill to manipulate more than simple coefficients. I don't ever say, though "now, we shall learn algebra" after years of saying, "when you're older you're going to learn the mysteries of algebra," I just ask, "if x is a number and x plus two equals six, what is x?" and then it's easy. I don't think I've even told her it's algebra, we just play games when she and I are going somewhere in the car.
The artificial stratification of mathematical techniques into age categories is such a bad idea. That, and she's smarter than me.
We get it... Netflix streams movies over the Internet to an assortment of devices.
This is the Wii, not a Windows CE wristwatch - people actually own these in large quantities. Plus, it completes the Playstation/XBox/Wii trifecta.
Add in Mac & PC and Roku, and pretty much everybody who has high-speed Internet in the US can be a Netflix streaming customer.
Their job is essentially done. It's the studios' turn to step up and start licensing content. The customers are waiting (and/or torrenting). The ball's entirely in their court - they can chose to monetize the demand or not.
The USA, it's safer and conducive to enterprise,
The US has the second highest corporate tax rates in the world. Some States taxes push their jurisdiction to #1 in the world for highest corporate tax places. The US regulatory regime is among the most onerous for corporations and the one on its citizens keeps wages artificially high (60-70% of wages are passed through in taxation).
We don't need China. It's just nice to have cheap stuff, and they make stuff cheap.
The US Government needs China. US wage problems, taxation, and inflation would be much more apparent without their artificial (from a 'human rights' perspective) -ly low prices.
Vehicle armor especially.
Can we start with fenders?
So is he allowed to be surprised or angry now?
After he apologizes.
Yes I know it's done by no talent kids or minimum wage people, but the average consumer does not know that. They still think that it's all in the cost of the equipment and has nothing to do with skill and experience.
It's lighting mostly, and some of the kids do have talent. I don't think anybody working at Target knows how to setup lighting, but a specialist did the setups computer sets the lights (quickly). So, that's really just automation. The job of the attendant is to get the kids to smile at the squeaky too and press the exposure button. The second part can be automated with additional processing power. The first part, might eventually be automated with a TV or a robot. Send the kid in to the booth in nice clothes, and show him Three Stooges while he stands in front of a greenscreen...
I think it's more about market segmentation, though. You're likely to get a run-of-the-mill backdrop and portrait at a place like Target. Nothing artful about. But it's well-lit, and for sending wallets to the extended Christmas card list, it's quite satisfactory.
That's not to say that a good family portrait by an experienced photographer does not have value. But the low end always eats the high end and the high end (around here anyway) has a 10x multiplier. People used to get service they didn't actually want, so that's not value.
On the other hand, the photographer who's doing the portraits at my daughter's school is exceedingly poor. He's standing kids up in front of a bulletin board and using a poor lens and body-mounted flash, taking mug-shots, and then expecting anybody would want to buy a package of that shot. The lighting and output are abysmal and the results are quite inferior to Target's $10 offering. So, there's a consistency risk while the big-box experience is likely to be uniform if average.
I click Google Earth...it is neat how it zooms down to where I'm at from outer space..but after that...what?
The measurement tools are useful. Good for eyeballing LoS between radios too (though not with real terrain).
You're aware you'll be wearing a flight suit and be inhaling your own farts too right?
Are you equating smelling a fart with being covered in other people's spew?
Steve doesn't compete. He tells you what you can have, and you either accept it or you don't. If you don't like it, go buy a Droid.
The trick is you don't have all of the information up front. They sometimes decide down the road that they don't like an app, or they chose to enter a new app space and kick out the old player. After they have your money.
Granted, by now all the geeks know this. Most of their customers don't, though.