I heartily concur on Inmates. My office has microwaves from GE that are Microwave Oven + computer = computer. Spacemaker Sensor II or something.
If you take your food out (i.e. open the door), then close the door, but still have some seconds left on the timer, it'll continue to beep every 30s indefinitely. Irritating.
If you open the door (thus pausing the timer), then close it with time still left, then press the +30s button, instead of adding 30s to the remaining time and starting again, it beeps and tells you error. You must press clear and re-enter the time (typically pressing +30s several times.)
My home microwave, by a different company, has none of these issues, and behaves intuitively.
1. Sufficient quality at a reduced price is not "crappy products".
2. I may be flamed, but geeze, please post links to studies showing these are "crappy quality" compared to Sears, or K-mart, for that matter. It's almost 100% the same stuff.
3. Wal-Mart saves Americans in excess of $200 billion a year. Significant cost savings count quite a lot in economic analysis.
> To lose weight, resolve to split an entree with your dining partner when dining out.
Some dieticians suggest this is exactly the wrong thing to do. Unless you're wealthy, or a single engineer, you don't eat out that much, i.e. not more than once a week or so. And cutting back on this quality food lowers your quality of life.
Better to stop guzzling half a family bag of Doritos 30 seconds before you go to bed. (Indeed, skip the big dinner and eat a normal breakfast, lunch, but small dinner. Or just don't eat anything after 7, like gramma tells her fat granddaughter.)
You use fat free salad dressing, which is gross, you'll be more likely to go off your diet, than just light (or regular dressing) and fewer Doritos.
> The UK's Fastest Supercomputer > > HECToR, The largest supercomputer in the UK...It measures up well internationally, > sitting at 17 in the top500.org list of the most powerful computers in the world.
Stewie: So, how's tha novel you've been working on? Coming along fine? Getting those chapters down on paper? Got a progagonist who overcomes long odds, maybe learns something by the end?
> "'I don't know of an intelligence-gathering operation in the world that, when given > a new toy, doesn't use it,' said Steve Vickers, a former head of criminal intelligence > for the Hong Kong police who now leads a consulting firm. Indeed, the autumn issue of > the magazine of China's public security ministry prominently listed places of religious > worship and Internet cafes as locations to install new cameras."
With all due respect, we will earn lots of money, and we won't have to look at those oppressed people thanks to the curvature of the earth, except safely on CNN. And we won't have to deal with a runaway China for several decades, minimum.
> As it actually stands the defendant isn't being sued over CD ripping, but for placing > files in a shared directory. Engadget notes that the difference here is that the RIAA > is deliberately describing ripped MP3 backups as 'unauthorized copies'
Apparently Engadget is confused as to what a "backup" is for and what a "shared directory" is for.
May I quote from a Speedy Gonzolez cartoon, where the fat oaf cat is looking for something to put out his friend, on fire. He grabs a bucket:
"P - E - T - R - O - L. Huh. That's a funny way to spell 'water'."
"S - H - A - R - E - D. Huh. That's a funny way to spell 'backup'."
I now humbly await my downmod. Please read my.sig before you do. (someone puts a blindfold on me) "Freedom and logic" (bang!)
> we now have a much better picture of the large-scale structure of the universe and we know that > galaxies are not uniformly distributed. 'Rather, they are in clusters sprinkled thinly in > filaments and "bubble walls" surrounding huge voids hundreds of millions of light-years across,'
> Mr. Moustakis of NJ bought a poker visor he thought was worn by Data in Next Generation at a > Christie's auction for some $6,000. When he brought it to a convention to have it signed, > actor Brent Spiner explained that he'd already sold the well-known visor in a personal sale > > "...The lawsuit, filed in state court in Manhattan, demands millions of dollars in punitive > damages and a refund for the visor and two other items Moustakis bought at the 2006 auction."
Continues Mr. Moustakis, "And furthermore, Geordi's visor didn't even work!"
Witness the downside to evolution. First radiation and the occasional error scoured the dynamic "gradient descent space" of the environment. Then sexual reproduction found out it could scour it much faster. Magnitudes faster, as features were slightly rescrambled with each child of each generation.
But this means trying new possibilities, and guess what? Many are slightly harmful, which is to say, not useful in this environment.
Fortunately, the human mind will learn to repair the harm of these variations, or even the genetics themselves, long before the "average" gene collapses into a blob living on a table, cared for by a few lucky individuals and their robots.
Some alive reading this may live long enough to see children born with "Einstein's" brain genetics, or even Newton's, given his body is still entombed in Westminster Abbey.
> an asteroid may hit Mars on January 30th. The asteroid is roughly 160 feet across
Just before it hits, we should broadcast messages to Mars saying, "And if you're even thinking about invading Earth, we got a whole lot more o' this waiting!"
> $250,000 and 20 years. Definitely an issue cruel and unusual punishment if they got that, imho
Guess what, it was almost attempted murder, or at least negligent homicide (or whatever lawyers like to call being deliberately very reckless in risking someone else's life, unasked.)
Severe recklessness and/or attempted murder do carry high possible penalties, and rightly so. They could, and should, get a reduced sentence since "all's well that ends well" for a prank, but the option should still be there.
It wasn't too long ago that kids who stole a stop sign were up on murder charges because two cars biffed at the intersection it was missing from, leading to 4 deaths.
So, combining two colossal wastes of time, music burnouthood and video games, into one and labeling those who do it as "heroes" isn't enough? Now you're intertwining yet another reason to sit around doing nothing?
> And when the fastest Vista notebook...is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's > something deeply wrong with the universe.
And when the greatest morality by a supernatural being was the Devil opening humanity's eyes to good and evil, there's something deeply wrong with the universe. What's your point?
> That could stifle competition, they say, and place enormous power in a few people's hands.
You'll pardon me if I don't get excited about the alternative: placing enormous power in the hands of a few people whose primary skill is in generating fear in the masses.
"Johnson, we'd like to thank you for all your work at startrek.com these past several years. Unfortunately, as you suspect, we're going to have to give you this..."
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I heartily concur on Inmates. My office has microwaves from GE that are Microwave Oven + computer = computer. Spacemaker Sensor II or something.
If you take your food out (i.e. open the door), then close the door, but still have some seconds left on the timer, it'll continue to beep every 30s indefinitely. Irritating.
If you open the door (thus pausing the timer), then close it with time still left, then press the +30s button, instead of adding 30s to the remaining time and starting again, it beeps and tells you error. You must press clear and re-enter the time (typically pressing +30s several times.)
My home microwave, by a different company, has none of these issues, and behaves intuitively.
1. Sufficient quality at a reduced price is not "crappy products".
2. I may be flamed, but geeze, please post links to studies showing these are "crappy quality" compared to Sears, or K-mart, for that matter. It's almost 100% the same stuff.
3. Wal-Mart saves Americans in excess of $200 billion a year. Significant cost savings count quite a lot in economic analysis.
> To lose weight, resolve to split an entree with your dining partner when dining out.
Some dieticians suggest this is exactly the wrong thing to do. Unless you're wealthy, or a single engineer, you don't eat out that much, i.e. not more than once a week or so. And cutting back on this quality food lowers your quality of life.
Better to stop guzzling half a family bag of Doritos 30 seconds before you go to bed. (Indeed, skip the big dinner and eat a normal breakfast, lunch, but small dinner. Or just don't eat anything after 7, like gramma tells her fat granddaughter.)
You use fat free salad dressing, which is gross, you'll be more likely to go off your diet, than just light (or regular dressing) and fewer Doritos.
> The UK's Fastest Supercomputer
>
> HECToR, The largest supercomputer in the UK...It measures up well internationally,
> sitting at 17 in the top500.org list of the most powerful computers in the world.
Stewie: So, how's tha novel you've been working on? Coming along fine? Getting those chapters down on paper? Got a progagonist who overcomes long odds, maybe learns something by the end?
> "'I don't know of an intelligence-gathering operation in the world that, when given
> a new toy, doesn't use it,' said Steve Vickers, a former head of criminal intelligence
> for the Hong Kong police who now leads a consulting firm. Indeed, the autumn issue of
> the magazine of China's public security ministry prominently listed places of religious
> worship and Internet cafes as locations to install new cameras."
With all due respect, we will earn lots of money, and we won't have to look at those oppressed people thanks to the curvature of the earth, except safely on CNN. And we won't have to deal with a runaway China for several decades, minimum.
> As it actually stands the defendant isn't being sued over CD ripping, but for placing
.sig before you do. (someone puts a blindfold on me) "Freedom and logic" (bang!)
> files in a shared directory. Engadget notes that the difference here is that the RIAA
> is deliberately describing ripped MP3 backups as 'unauthorized copies'
Apparently Engadget is confused as to what a "backup" is for and what a "shared directory" is for.
May I quote from a Speedy Gonzolez cartoon, where the fat oaf cat is looking for something to put out his friend, on fire. He grabs a bucket:
"P - E - T - R - O - L. Huh. That's a funny way to spell 'water'."
"S - H - A - R - E - D. Huh. That's a funny way to spell 'backup'."
I now humbly await my downmod. Please read my
> How do you tell which ballots are fake
Worse, what percent of old people won't even realize their ballot doesn't have the presidential choice printed, and are too timid to bring it up?
> "The heavy-stock paper ballots themselves represent a major cost addition"
Yes, because nobody's invented $99 printers that have a flap that opens in the back to run stiff paper through.
This tree is neat and cool and all, but would you mind not putting it right outside my apartment window!!?!?!?
>:(
Well, they could have at least revealed that the cloaking device he bought didn't work before he went in the girls' locker room.
> we now have a much better picture of the large-scale structure of the universe and we know that
> galaxies are not uniformly distributed. 'Rather, they are in clusters sprinkled thinly in
> filaments and "bubble walls" surrounding huge voids hundreds of millions of light-years across,'
I suppose the fat black woman on The View doesn't know this, too.
> Mr. Moustakis of NJ bought a poker visor he thought was worn by Data in Next Generation at a
> Christie's auction for some $6,000. When he brought it to a convention to have it signed,
> actor Brent Spiner explained that he'd already sold the well-known visor in a personal sale
>
> "...The lawsuit, filed in state court in Manhattan, demands millions of dollars in punitive
> damages and a refund for the visor and two other items Moustakis bought at the 2006 auction."
Continues Mr. Moustakis, "And furthermore, Geordi's visor didn't even work!"
Witness the downside to evolution. First radiation and the occasional error scoured the dynamic "gradient descent space" of the environment. Then sexual reproduction found out it could scour it much faster. Magnitudes faster, as features were slightly rescrambled with each child of each generation.
But this means trying new possibilities, and guess what? Many are slightly harmful, which is to say, not useful in this environment.
Fortunately, the human mind will learn to repair the harm of these variations, or even the genetics themselves, long before the "average" gene collapses into a blob living on a table, cared for by a few lucky individuals and their robots.
Some alive reading this may live long enough to see children born with "Einstein's" brain genetics, or even Newton's, given his body is still entombed in Westminster Abbey.
> an asteroid may hit Mars on January 30th. The asteroid is roughly 160 feet across
Just before it hits, we should broadcast messages to Mars saying, "And if you're even thinking about invading Earth, we got a whole lot more o' this waiting!"
"We want you to pay a lot more to play our artists' songs on your station."
"No. There's the door. And now, here's a little ditty by new artist so-and-so..."
"Uhhh, let's not get hasty now."
Yes, but I doubt "Hide the Salami" will make it into the Top 10, stastically, around here.
> $250,000 and 20 years. Definitely an issue cruel and unusual punishment if they got that, imho
Guess what, it was almost attempted murder, or at least negligent homicide (or whatever lawyers like to call being deliberately very reckless in risking someone else's life, unasked.)
Severe recklessness and/or attempted murder do carry high possible penalties, and rightly so. They could, and should, get a reduced sentence since "all's well that ends well" for a prank, but the option should still be there.
It wasn't too long ago that kids who stole a stop sign were up on murder charges because two cars biffed at the intersection it was missing from, leading to 4 deaths.
> Zen and the Art of Guitar Hero
So, combining two colossal wastes of time, music burnouthood and video games, into one and labeling those who do it as "heroes" isn't enough? Now you're intertwining yet another reason to sit around doing nothing?
> The second prototype has many improvements: a fingered hand with 12 motors
Giggity!
Note that civilizations there might be scared, thinking they were being exterminated by an angry god.
They'd be wrong of course.
Though if they were right, woe be to us all. Fall on your knees and worship Him!
> And when the fastest Vista notebook...is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's
> something deeply wrong with the universe.
And when the greatest morality by a supernatural being was the Devil opening humanity's eyes to good and evil, there's something deeply wrong with the universe. What's your point?
> That could stifle competition, they say, and place enormous power in a few people's hands.
You'll pardon me if I don't get excited about the alternative: placing enormous power in the hands of a few people whose primary skill is in generating fear in the masses.
"Johnson, we'd like to thank you for all your work at startrek.com these past several years. Unfortunately, as you suspect, we're going to have to give you this..."
"Pink slip?"
"Red shirt."
Keep bangin' those shields and spears together, if it suits your ego.
Might I suggest the fine novel, "War of the Worlds". The ending is a bit deus-ex-machina; don't hold out for something like that in reality.