I've given it to her, she can't remember it. Hell, she has my ATM card right now because she can't remember the pin number on hers:P . (OK, it's partially the bank's fault for sending her two cards and two PIN numbers around the same time, neither of which seem to work on either card)
The message in blood would be more for my friends so they can help her take care of business. No one would take advantage of a widow and her children, right?!
But in reality, all the bills are on autopay, so it would really just be a minor hassle.
If that's how you swing, you simply "like" the challenging viewpoints you stumble across. I rarely use the "Not for me" button unless I start getting too many fashion ads or Apple fanboi content.
But really, getting fed by just a single source of mainstream media is probably more dangerous. People are different, and have different interests. I'd rather live in a world with lots of variety and diversity in the way people think and live. Sure, the handful of extremists in any camp can do plenty of harm, but it isn't so bad as long as you don't get suckered into going to war over their ploys.
For some reason, no one ever seems to mention that the Prius goes roughly twice as long between fill-ups as your conventional sedan. Most people who can afford hybrids are well-off enough to not have to worry all that much about money, and if this helps them spend half as much time tooling around at gas stations, that ends up becoming a major time savings.
I don't have a hybrid myself, but I really enjoy renting them on business travel, even when The Company covers the gas bill. There's nothing more boring to me than the generic midsize V6.
Speaking of tinfoil underwear, NPR had something on special underwear you could buy that would have notes just for your TSA screener to read, like "for your eyes only" or "contents larger than they appear" or some customizable message.
OK, so it was one of the fake stories on "Wait,wait, don't tell me", but it still sounded awesome... and only a matter of time...
No, it doesn't make much sense. But there's very little of the genius cloak 'n' dagger stuff going on in the military these days compared to, say, back in WWII when we were trying to hide from the Axis that we had in fact broke their encryption.
Classified information is mostly just administrative nowadays... maybe more like a way to dish out "job security clearances" for work that only American citizens can perform so it won't be outsourced. For example, there are plenty of vehicle performance parameters listed in the Jane's guides. If that information comes from a cleared person, it's classified. But if the exact same information comes from an open access source, it's not. But even if data is out in the public, a cleared person is not able to confirm or deny that the public information matches the classified information.
So it's probably this kind of thinking that is driving the DoD to react this way. Like the BP oil spill, this set of leaks is being treated more like a PR disaster than a natural / national security disaster. So if the soldiers who were actually involved in any of the operations are not allowed to view the leaked documents, the press theoretically could not get any of those soldiers to confirm or deny their accuracy and authenticity. Probably the most boring form of administrative INFOOPS measures possible. But the military has entire divisions dedicated to winning the "war for hearts and minds" nowadays.
Yeah, really! I don't know why anyone is paranoid about Google at all when your ISP and cellphone providers have all your data activity records on hand.
I pay a bit extra for the "business" tier of service, so I can actually run my own web and email server on my home machine. I've pretty much been hosting everything on my own server since my college days. Never used / needed a USB stick for working on school projects, just pulled it in over the internet using PuTTy/PSFTP or more likely VNC+ssh. I even presented some final projects over VNC running a little opengl thing over VNC.
I don't have a "smartphone" (call me old skool), but if I did all I'd need is a good ssh client (such as midpssh) and a good VNC client, and I'm in business. Works fine on my Palm TX PDA tethered to my dumbphone.
For offsite backups, I occasionally rsync my home dir over to a friend's server, which I've donated hardware for (including hard disks, among other things). The sensitive stuff like financial records and nekkid pics of the wife are encrypted with PGP. The rest of the porn we all share.
Frankly I'm more worried about data being lost forever than data getting "out". If I get hit by a truck, my dying words scrawled in a pool of blood will be the master password for my keyring vault so my wife can pay the bills online. I'll pass away very anxious about whether she can decipher the special characters properly.
Hmm, sounds cool... They'd still need engines to deliver the airframe to the customer on time, though, and if the only engine manufacturer for that new airframe was fresh out of engines, I suppose they might be up the creek.
LOL... wikipedia should just laugh and comply. It'll only increase the popularity of what's already been released. Then they'll be free to run off and work on their next leak:P
Huh, interesting... FWIW, there are still a bunch of shopping malls in Bangkok, Thailand that have those kinds of arcades, including bumper cars and other rides... even little scooters that kids could rent to zip around the mall promenade among the shoppers.
I never knew they had anything remotely similar in the US at any time, outside one of those lame "adventure parks" that you had to pay $50 to get into for the day and were dominated by waiting in the big lines for the big rides.
Yes, it's rather sad that the young 'uns prefer to get their MBAs instead of engineering degrees in college simply because it's more lucrative and considered "easier".
I can sort of understand... an engineer could work really hard to reduce the cost of a widget by 10%. But a shrewd businessman or marketer could simply make their customers pay 100% more for the existing widget through trademarks and patent protections and other wheelings and dealings. Which option offers more benefit to society and forward progress?
It's kind of sad that Washington DC is one of the only growing job markets during this recession. Instead of trying to dig our way out of our financial difficulties by increasing production, it's like throwing money at increasing administrative overhead.
Yeah, but if your primary purpose was to make money, you'd certainly make more if the guy you loaned money to failed just enough to owe you a bunch of late penalties at higher interest rates.
Can't find a link, but one of the business tycoons from back in the day ordered a bunch of new jets from Boeing with some hefty late-delivery penalty clauses. At the time there was only one engine manufacturer for that airframe, so the shrewd tycoon bought up the stock of engines and created an artificial backlog just so Boeing couldn't deliver on time, and he ended up getting a huge discount at the manufacturer's expense.
Money's just an enabler. But there are certainly people out there for whom it's the end-all be-all, who simply live to maximize their own net worth by skimming off the top while performing no service and more than likely retarding progress.
Any trade where your purpose is to make money out of money seems pretty pointless to me. But I'm an engineer, so I certainly don't see the world the same way as a business/finance geek would. But as long as the finance geeks and politicos are jerking each other around, they're presumably not bothering anyone else (until they fuck shit up so much that it's time to tell them to go sit in the corner for a while).
Warren Buffet seems to have good investing advice I can appreciate.... invest in what you know; what you want to succeed, and do it for the long term. I can jive with that... then even if your investments lose money, it at least went to what you consider a worthy cause.
I put a portion of my savings into my company stock, because I want to show that I'm personally invested in my employer. I know it's not a good idea to put too much in there in case it tanks, in which case you'll be out of a job and a retirement. So I make sure most of the rest of my money is in a diversified index fund. Usually the index funds with low fees, because they don't perform all that worse than "managed" funds, and I don't care to reward the stock fund "managers" for being succeeding at being greedy.
I usually choose the international index funds, if only to promote peace through cross-investment. Also I think the US dollar will likely fall during my lifetime. And if it doesn't, well, then I've still got plenty of strong dollars in savings. Plus, most of the easy growth is probably in developing international markets anyway. I don't care to try to "win big" by catching the next Qualcomm or Apple, because they could probably succeed without my help, and they'd probably make most of their ill-gotten gain through means I don't approve, like patents and lawsuits and technological lockout.
Oh, and as an aside, the written Thai language doesn't use spaces between words and doesn't need periods at the end of sentences. Basically, each word consists of one or two consonant characters (~44 total, but they're phonetic) which get surrounded by some combination of vowel characters (~26 total), and then might get some intonation marks on top (1-4 in addition to the neutral).
So there's a lot going on, but at least they don't have to worry about this trivia... each sentence consists of a bunch of words run together, separated by a simple space:-P
I always used 1.5 lines between paragraphs. So I don't see why you shouldn't use 1.5 spaces after ending a sentence.
But seriously, it's pretty much exactly the same problem... a single space between paragraphs might not be distinguishable between, say, a new entry on a list, especially lists with long items that don't make use of indentation. So you need a separate paragraph marker. Similarly, we need a way to distinguish between abbreviation periods and sentence-ending periods. A period followed by a half-space sounds perfect!
And as mentioned in the wikipedia link, any whitespace beyond the first is treated as a single whitespace anyway, with HTML / XML / TeX, etc. (Oh noes, I just did an abbreviation and sentence-ending period in one!) I remember being slightly annoyed by how LyX wouldn't register more than one space anywhere in your document (unless it was a special nobreakspace character)... I would just keep hitting space and it would ignore me after the first. But I think that helps get the point across.
If you're using a Canon cam, check out the Canon Hack Development Kit http://chdk.wikia.com/
There are a couple of user scripts geared towards capturing things like meteor showers and lightning strikes, as well a lot of other useful tweaks. Opens up a lot of interesting features, like raw mode on low-end models.
Word, dude... I don't know why people focus so much on GPA when we're there for the experience. I went to an Ivy too, and I took a lot of crazy classes that I didn't really need to... majored in Engineering, which was for some reason even considered hard core by the other hard core majors there. Took the honors physics E&M class and survived. One semester I took on way too much and totally bombed... but I ended up getting one of every grade possible (there must be an achievement for that, right?) -- A, B, C, D, F, I(ncomplete), W(ithdraw), and ended up later on being the only senior re-taking a basic sophomore class. But I found out what my limit was, and have been pretty well balanced since;-D
Walked out with modest loan debt ( ~$14k), but it was all eventually automatically consolidated into a Federal Direct loan at an interest rate below inflation, which pretty much means free money. It's last on my list of loans to pay off, though I could do it tomorrow if I really wanted to wipe out my emergency savings for some silly reason.
I went to a state school for my Master's degree (employer paid, woo!), and while it was pretty highly ranked relative to the Ivy, there was simply no comparison. It's not about teachers and lecturers... it's about the entire environment... the other students around you, the TAs who actually do most of the actual useful instruction, the labs, machine shops, and libraries, the energy and expectations of the place. I took a few electives that were interesting, but other than the financial analysis class (of all things!) taught by a former Arther Anderson accounting guy, most of the program was a joke.
Yeah, I was the first year of the SAT "recentering" thing. It's probably just as well, since I think all the people who made 1600 shouldn't be splitting hairs about by how much they beat the next guy.
I've been buying a few games from Amazon, where they're often cheaper if Valve isn't having some ridiculous sale. That way I still have things to do if my son is tying up my Steam account on World of Goo or Civ.
Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my physical copy of GTA IV somewhere around the house... grrr.
Uh, you gift it to a couple you like, and make out with his chick while he's playing.
Though I think I have run into women in L4D once or twice in cooperative mode. There are also a few girls I know IRL who play, but usually only a closed LAN.
Yeah, word... Definitely don't trash it. Sell it on Craigslist to some Mac fanatic. There are so many of them, it's amazing how well they hold on to their resale value.
I recently sold a POS 600Mhz G3 ibook that I had bought for my wife (who had always been a Mac person until I bought her one of her very own). It was half the speed, RAM, even color depth than a much newer Dell laptop I had bought for my mother, and yet there was a lot more interest in the Mac. It wouldn't even run a version of Firefox newer than 2.0 because I didn't bother to pay for new versions of OSX every few years.
So I'm still stuck with the Dell laptop... whatever. it makes a great random photo frame viewer and terminal:P
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I've given it to her, she can't remember it. Hell, she has my ATM card right now because she can't remember the pin number on hers :P . (OK, it's partially the bank's fault for sending her two cards and two PIN numbers around the same time, neither of which seem to work on either card)
The message in blood would be more for my friends so they can help her take care of business. No one would take advantage of a widow and her children, right?!
But in reality, all the bills are on autopay, so it would really just be a minor hassle.
If that's how you swing, you simply "like" the challenging viewpoints you stumble across. I rarely use the "Not for me" button unless I start getting too many fashion ads or Apple fanboi content.
But really, getting fed by just a single source of mainstream media is probably more dangerous. People are different, and have different interests. I'd rather live in a world with lots of variety and diversity in the way people think and live. Sure, the handful of extremists in any camp can do plenty of harm, but it isn't so bad as long as you don't get suckered into going to war over their ploys.
The rest is all entertainment.
For some reason, no one ever seems to mention that the Prius goes roughly twice as long between fill-ups as your conventional sedan. Most people who can afford hybrids are well-off enough to not have to worry all that much about money, and if this helps them spend half as much time tooling around at gas stations, that ends up becoming a major time savings.
I don't have a hybrid myself, but I really enjoy renting them on business travel, even when The Company covers the gas bill. There's nothing more boring to me than the generic midsize V6.
If you've ever used StumbleUpon, it IS a simple fix... everyone rates every kind of article, and only gets notified of articles by like-minded people.
Speaking of tinfoil underwear, NPR had something on special underwear you could buy that would have notes just for your TSA screener to read, like "for your eyes only" or "contents larger than they appear" or some customizable message.
OK, so it was one of the fake stories on "Wait,wait, don't tell me", but it still sounded awesome... and only a matter of time...
No, it doesn't make much sense. But there's very little of the genius cloak 'n' dagger stuff going on in the military these days compared to, say, back in WWII when we were trying to hide from the Axis that we had in fact broke their encryption.
Classified information is mostly just administrative nowadays... maybe more like a way to dish out "job security clearances" for work that only American citizens can perform so it won't be outsourced. For example, there are plenty of vehicle performance parameters listed in the Jane's guides. If that information comes from a cleared person, it's classified. But if the exact same information comes from an open access source, it's not. But even if data is out in the public, a cleared person is not able to confirm or deny that the public information matches the classified information.
So it's probably this kind of thinking that is driving the DoD to react this way. Like the BP oil spill, this set of leaks is being treated more like a PR disaster than a natural / national security disaster. So if the soldiers who were actually involved in any of the operations are not allowed to view the leaked documents, the press theoretically could not get any of those soldiers to confirm or deny their accuracy and authenticity. Probably the most boring form of administrative INFOOPS measures possible. But the military has entire divisions dedicated to winning the "war for hearts and minds" nowadays.
And if someone sneaks up on you and hacks off your arms and legs, don't come running to me...
Yeah, really! I don't know why anyone is paranoid about Google at all when your ISP and cellphone providers have all your data activity records on hand.
I pay a bit extra for the "business" tier of service, so I can actually run my own web and email server on my home machine. I've pretty much been hosting everything on my own server since my college days. Never used / needed a USB stick for working on school projects, just pulled it in over the internet using PuTTy/PSFTP or more likely VNC+ssh. I even presented some final projects over VNC running a little opengl thing over VNC.
I don't have a "smartphone" (call me old skool), but if I did all I'd need is a good ssh client (such as midpssh) and a good VNC client, and I'm in business. Works fine on my Palm TX PDA tethered to my dumbphone.
For offsite backups, I occasionally rsync my home dir over to a friend's server, which I've donated hardware for (including hard disks, among other things). The sensitive stuff like financial records and nekkid pics of the wife are encrypted with PGP. The rest of the porn we all share.
Frankly I'm more worried about data being lost forever than data getting "out". If I get hit by a truck, my dying words scrawled in a pool of blood will be the master password for my keyring vault so my wife can pay the bills online. I'll pass away very anxious about whether she can decipher the special characters properly.
Hmm, sounds cool... They'd still need engines to deliver the airframe to the customer on time, though, and if the only engine manufacturer for that new airframe was fresh out of engines, I suppose they might be up the creek.
Oops, that slipped out...
LOL... wikipedia should just laugh and comply. It'll only increase the popularity of what's already been released. Then they'll be free to run off and work on their next leak :P
Huh, interesting... FWIW, there are still a bunch of shopping malls in Bangkok, Thailand that have those kinds of arcades, including bumper cars and other rides... even little scooters that kids could rent to zip around the mall promenade among the shoppers.
I never knew they had anything remotely similar in the US at any time, outside one of those lame "adventure parks" that you had to pay $50 to get into for the day and were dominated by waiting in the big lines for the big rides.
Yes, it's rather sad that the young 'uns prefer to get their MBAs instead of engineering degrees in college simply because it's more lucrative and considered "easier".
I can sort of understand... an engineer could work really hard to reduce the cost of a widget by 10%. But a shrewd businessman or marketer could simply make their customers pay 100% more for the existing widget through trademarks and patent protections and other wheelings and dealings. Which option offers more benefit to society and forward progress?
It's kind of sad that Washington DC is one of the only growing job markets during this recession. Instead of trying to dig our way out of our financial difficulties by increasing production, it's like throwing money at increasing administrative overhead.
Yeah, but if your primary purpose was to make money, you'd certainly make more if the guy you loaned money to failed just enough to owe you a bunch of late penalties at higher interest rates.
Can't find a link, but one of the business tycoons from back in the day ordered a bunch of new jets from Boeing with some hefty late-delivery penalty clauses. At the time there was only one engine manufacturer for that airframe, so the shrewd tycoon bought up the stock of engines and created an artificial backlog just so Boeing couldn't deliver on time, and he ended up getting a huge discount at the manufacturer's expense.
Money's just an enabler. But there are certainly people out there for whom it's the end-all be-all, who simply live to maximize their own net worth by skimming off the top while performing no service and more than likely retarding progress.
Word.
Any trade where your purpose is to make money out of money seems pretty pointless to me. But I'm an engineer, so I certainly don't see the world the same way as a business/finance geek would. But as long as the finance geeks and politicos are jerking each other around, they're presumably not bothering anyone else (until they fuck shit up so much that it's time to tell them to go sit in the corner for a while).
Warren Buffet seems to have good investing advice I can appreciate.... invest in what you know; what you want to succeed, and do it for the long term. I can jive with that... then even if your investments lose money, it at least went to what you consider a worthy cause.
I put a portion of my savings into my company stock, because I want to show that I'm personally invested in my employer. I know it's not a good idea to put too much in there in case it tanks, in which case you'll be out of a job and a retirement. So I make sure most of the rest of my money is in a diversified index fund. Usually the index funds with low fees, because they don't perform all that worse than "managed" funds, and I don't care to reward the stock fund "managers" for being succeeding at being greedy.
I usually choose the international index funds, if only to promote peace through cross-investment. Also I think the US dollar will likely fall during my lifetime. And if it doesn't, well, then I've still got plenty of strong dollars in savings. Plus, most of the easy growth is probably in developing international markets anyway. I don't care to try to "win big" by catching the next Qualcomm or Apple, because they could probably succeed without my help, and they'd probably make most of their ill-gotten gain through means I don't approve, like patents and lawsuits and technological lockout.
Oh, and as an aside, the written Thai language doesn't use spaces between words and doesn't need periods at the end of sentences. Basically, each word consists of one or two consonant characters (~44 total, but they're phonetic) which get surrounded by some combination of vowel characters (~26 total), and then might get some intonation marks on top (1-4 in addition to the neutral).
So there's a lot going on, but at least they don't have to worry about this trivia... each sentence consists of a bunch of words run together, separated by a simple space :-P
I always used 1.5 lines between paragraphs. So I don't see why you shouldn't use 1.5 spaces after ending a sentence.
But seriously, it's pretty much exactly the same problem... a single space between paragraphs might not be distinguishable between, say, a new entry on a list, especially lists with long items that don't make use of indentation. So you need a separate paragraph marker. Similarly, we need a way to distinguish between abbreviation periods and sentence-ending periods. A period followed by a half-space sounds perfect!
And as mentioned in the wikipedia link, any whitespace beyond the first is treated as a single whitespace anyway, with HTML / XML / TeX, etc. (Oh noes, I just did an abbreviation and sentence-ending period in one!) I remember being slightly annoyed by how LyX wouldn't register more than one space anywhere in your document (unless it was a special nobreakspace character)... I would just keep hitting space and it would ignore me after the first. But I think that helps get the point across.
I'm just going to cut this off now and jump ahead to:
"A duck!"
*crowd gasps*
If you're using a Canon cam, check out the Canon Hack Development Kit
http://chdk.wikia.com/
There are a couple of user scripts geared towards capturing things like meteor showers and lightning strikes, as well a lot of other useful tweaks. Opens up a lot of interesting features, like raw mode on low-end models.
Word, dude... I don't know why people focus so much on GPA when we're there for the experience. I went to an Ivy too, and I took a lot of crazy classes that I didn't really need to... majored in Engineering, which was for some reason even considered hard core by the other hard core majors there. Took the honors physics E&M class and survived. One semester I took on way too much and totally bombed... but I ended up getting one of every grade possible (there must be an achievement for that, right?) -- A, B, C, D, F, I(ncomplete), W(ithdraw), and ended up later on being the only senior re-taking a basic sophomore class. But I found out what my limit was, and have been pretty well balanced since ;-D
Walked out with modest loan debt ( ~$14k), but it was all eventually automatically consolidated into a Federal Direct loan at an interest rate below inflation, which pretty much means free money. It's last on my list of loans to pay off, though I could do it tomorrow if I really wanted to wipe out my emergency savings for some silly reason.
I went to a state school for my Master's degree (employer paid, woo!), and while it was pretty highly ranked relative to the Ivy, there was simply no comparison. It's not about teachers and lecturers... it's about the entire environment... the other students around you, the TAs who actually do most of the actual useful instruction, the labs, machine shops, and libraries, the energy and expectations of the place. I took a few electives that were interesting, but other than the financial analysis class (of all things!) taught by a former Arther Anderson accounting guy, most of the program was a joke.
Yeah, I was the first year of the SAT "recentering" thing. It's probably just as well, since I think all the people who made 1600 shouldn't be splitting hairs about by how much they beat the next guy.
OK, they make fun of Cornell even in TFA, but in Cornell's defense wrt xkcd:
http://www.cornell.edu/
vs.
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/ (formerly inside.cornell.edu when I was there)
You win for being the only post yet to mention UML, in a business process modeling sense, no less!
I've been buying a few games from Amazon, where they're often cheaper if Valve isn't having some ridiculous sale. That way I still have things to do if my son is tying up my Steam account on World of Goo or Civ.
Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my physical copy of GTA IV somewhere around the house... grrr.
Uh, you gift it to a couple you like, and make out with his chick while he's playing.
Though I think I have run into women in L4D once or twice in cooperative mode. There are also a few girls I know IRL who play, but usually only a closed LAN.
Yeah, word... Definitely don't trash it. Sell it on Craigslist to some Mac fanatic. There are so many of them, it's amazing how well they hold on to their resale value.
I recently sold a POS 600Mhz G3 ibook that I had bought for my wife (who had always been a Mac person until I bought her one of her very own). It was half the speed, RAM, even color depth than a much newer Dell laptop I had bought for my mother, and yet there was a lot more interest in the Mac. It wouldn't even run a version of Firefox newer than 2.0 because I didn't bother to pay for new versions of OSX every few years.
So I'm still stuck with the Dell laptop... whatever. it makes a great random photo frame viewer and terminal :P