Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Battlestar Galactica. Dukes of Haazard. Scooby Doo. Star Wars. Starsky & Hutch. Dr. Whom (every 2-8 years). Superman (also every X years between TV and film). The Incredible Hulk. The Mideast Peace Process. Moonlighting.
Ok, one of those isn't (intentionally) entertainment, and that last one is just wishful thinking. Oh Moonlighting!
The thing is that most people are satisfied with "good enough," especially younger generations. Given 'camera' (which they have never owned) versus 'camera phone' (which they have never owned), the latter wins out every time. Because it does 2 things. Duh.
Add to that the fact that 18-25s generally have the smallest purchasing power while simultaneously representing the largest sector of personal electronics consumers, and there you are: a phone that plays music, drops calls, takes blurry pictures of the insides of pockets, provides a poor approximation of a web browser, and soon will buy a drink for whoever was walking behind them as they passed a soda machine. Or actually not all that soon, according to the article.
Married service members also make more than single ones. Which is basically bullshit. But all of those grievances are more significant than the way you keep making inapplicable analogies between marriage and water fountains, because the ones I listed actually exist. The difference between a civil union and a marriage is in name only, and any problems that may cause down the line are speculative at best.
Why is a married person a different class of citizen in the first place? Just because 70% of them are supporting the legal industry by getting divorced? The fact that I don't foresee myself ever asking for a divorce doesn't change the probability that the marriage won't last. It's turtles all the way down.
Now all they have to do is upgrade that damn firewall protecting our air traffic, water distribution, and electrical generation control systems. It's only a matter of time before terroraxxors take over our country and crash planes into each other!
Fry's is good because they have pretty much everything, they're open late, and they don't (or didn't, when I lived in CA) charge a restocking fee. There were mom & pop computer stores everywhere, where you could get any component you wanted (before 5PM), but you had to pay at 15% restocking fee. I used to use Fry's to hold me over for video cards.. e.g., the next Radeon would be released in a month, but I needed an upgrade *now*, so I'd buy the current top of the line, then return and exchange it a couple weeks later. Golden.
Basically you have the best of both worlds for brick & mortar tech shopping in southern CA.. you've got Fry's for decent prices, the hours, and the return policy, and you've got the web-priced mom & pop stores if you're willing to gamble to save a few bucks. Oh, an Tijuana is closeby, which has nothing to do with computers, but beats surfing pr0n.
See mom? I can find something good to say about anyone, even California.
Who says it's a separate system for homosexuals? It's a separate system for everyone. Look, I'm all in favor of gay marriage, but I have to admit, it's mostly chasing windmills. If you refer to an elephant as a dog, that doesn't change the fact that it's still an elephant. If a civil union grants all the benefits of marriage, you're married, no matter what anybody else calls it. Marriage is a commitment of one person to another, THAT is the basis, and if you have that, you have a marriage. That one has all the benefits that the state sees fit to grant such unions, regardless of what the state calls them, means that they are not "separate," they ARE equal.
"Separate but equal" was a very different thing altogether. You might as well complain about the fact that married/civil unionized people get more rights than single people, like immunity against testifying against their spouses, or a discount on healthcare, or insurance or anything else. WTF is that about? Why should I be penalized just because I don't want to risk having half of my property taken away in the event that things don't work out?
Anyway, as I said, I'm in favor of gay marriage; I just think there are bigger things to worry about than what we legally call the relationship between two people.
How can matter get to a given distance faster than the light? Or did matter not start emitting light until some time after the universe started expanding? Even if that's the case, the point where it started emitting light would be a lot closer than the point it's at now. If two objects move away from each other at a constant velocity, and Object A starts emitting light when they're 5M apart, doesn't the light reaching Object B STILL appear to have originated from 5M away, even if Object B is now 6M away from the point of the light's origin?
Also, if looking farther away == looking back in time, shouldn't we be able to extrapolate the observed position of "older"/farther celestial bodies compared to "newer"/closer ones to find a starting point? I've never understood why we can't find the center of the universe.. if we were an ember on a firework, we would be able to observe the (approximate) positions and velocities of other embers to calculate the starting point. Why doesn't this work for the universe?
Granted, Slashdot probably isn't the place to find answers to these questions, but I'm a glutton for punishment I guess.
Nobody's talking about hetero-only bathrooms, or gay water fountains. Nobody's talking about gay seats on the bus, hetero-only movie theaters, or gay-free zones. Civil union is not "separate but equal," it's separation of Church and State -- something I think everyone can agree is a good thing (except perhaps the minority who believe their church should run the state).
That's the sort of crap that made me dismiss religion when I was in my teens (quite some time ago), despite being raised in a deeply Christian family. How can you pick and choose which religious guidelines are relevant? The part of the Bible that talks about the "abomination" of a man laying with another man is the same part that says not to eat pork or wear multi-fiber clothing. It's Leviticus, and no Christian that I know follows the rules laid out in Leviticus. Furthermore, that's the Old Testament, which Christians supposedly say is not the current "law". Christians don't sacrifice goats and doves. They eat pork. We pretty much all agree that there's no such thing as sorcery, and hence the rules forbidding it are rather irrelevant. They don't avoid shaving. I've never done a formal survey, but I'm pretty sure plenty of Christians bang their spouses even when they're on the rag.
Granted, there are some Christian sects which follow Leviticus to a T, but most do not. They use whatever rationalizations, wiggle room, or outright denial to justify the rules they agree with, and dismiss whichever they do not.
Beyond that, it's not the law's place to govern sin. If it did, then lying, premarital sex, coitus sans sheet, masturbation, "pulling out", envy, wrath, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, and pride should all be illegal. It should be illegal to be a religion other than Christian, which is worshiping "false gods". Those are far more pervasive problems after all. If you believe homosexuality is a sin, fine, but remember a) we're all sinners, and b) others are free to sin, and it's God's place to judge them. It's their responsibility to stop, not your responsibility to make them. Believe me, they all know you think they're sinning. You've done your job. Now let people make their own decisions, the same way we all respect your right to have faith in whatever loose translation of the work of fiction you see fit to believe.
I don't know if I'm a pacifist.. (ok, I'm not, and I'll punch you in the mouth if you say anything about it), but I'm also revolted by real world gore despite decades of "violent" games. (As if there were anything violent about collision detection). I can play the most gory of games, watch the most gory of movies (though they don't particularly appeal to me, and are often incredibly stupid), but seeing a Youtube of a real guy getting beheaded or shot just makes me queasy and wonder what the fuck is wrong with people.
Fortunately, the Canuks appear to have miscalculated.. Hockey in the US doesn't draw 100% of the population as it does in Canada, so most of us are safe.
to be able to up and take a 6 month leave of absence. Of course, his salary is only $1.00, so he's only looking at a 50 cent pay cut if he doesn't get "paid," but I'm betting his "bonuses" and stock options will all remain in full effect.
Wood is a pretty poor choice in building material, made mostly due to tradition. Cheap and abundant lumber is often cited as a reason for building with wood, but the price of lumber is an effect of the size of the industry, not the cause. Concrete prices would likely be similar per sqft of living space, if not lower, were every home built out of it, and we could still use paneling to recreate the comforting familiarity of wood. It's not like either the exteriors OR interiors of most homes are actual wood these days -- it's usually vinyl siding and gypsum plaster (AKA drywall or sheetrock) respectively.. nothing that couldn't be used over a concrete structure.
As a nice "side" effect, building homes out of concrete would lower insurance prices substantially, cellulose-eating pests would be a nonissue (for structural components), and we wouldn't be rebuilding entire counties after hurricanes, floods, and minor to moderate quakes.
You must be in a small shop where the "experts" always say "I'll do it"
Forgive my assumption that people would read the summary, but the story was about small and medium businesses. The title was about "abuse", but the content was about incompetent IT losing critical data. So yes, I stand by my jovial generalizations.
The study also found that over a third have suffered from sleepless nights or headaches as a result of IT problems at work, while 59 per cent spend between one and 10 hours a week working on IT systems outside normal hours.
A related study found that 100% of IT workers are emotional and whiny, and that 105% have a God complex because they can read everyone's e-mail.
OSS doesn't have to mean using an OSOS. One of the tenets of the GPL is that you're free to use the code for *whatever* purpose you see fit, not solely (or at all) the purpose envisaged by the author. You can't have it both ways.
(Since I have an all-electric home, why not use my PC to heat part of it in the wintertime instead of wasting that electricity heating air solely through with my all-electric HVAC unit...)
Those "savings" will be offset in the summer when you need to remove the heat, assuming you use air conditioning. Whether it's a net gain or loss depends somewhat on the variance in outdoor temperatures, but it's generally more efficient to heat air than to cool it, relative to your local atmospheric temperature. It's entirely possible, and even likely (depending on where you live) that it will be a net loss in energy-used-by-your-HVAC.
Also, you'll probably find that your HVAC is much more efficient at heating the house than the GPU, so any heating done by the GPU is costing you more. Which is slightly better than wasting the heat entirely, but still not a "feature" worth mentioning.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Battlestar Galactica. Dukes of Haazard. Scooby Doo. Star Wars. Starsky & Hutch. Dr. Whom (every 2-8 years). Superman (also every X years between TV and film). The Incredible Hulk. The Mideast Peace Process. Moonlighting.
Ok, one of those isn't (intentionally) entertainment, and that last one is just wishful thinking. Oh Moonlighting!
Anybody that can not only get people to PAY for that shite, but maintain a thriving business based on it, obviously has some skills in commerce.
The thing is that most people are satisfied with "good enough," especially younger generations. Given 'camera' (which they have never owned) versus 'camera phone' (which they have never owned), the latter wins out every time. Because it does 2 things. Duh.
Add to that the fact that 18-25s generally have the smallest purchasing power while simultaneously representing the largest sector of personal electronics consumers, and there you are: a phone that plays music, drops calls, takes blurry pictures of the insides of pockets, provides a poor approximation of a web browser, and soon will buy a drink for whoever was walking behind them as they passed a soda machine. Or actually not all that soon, according to the article.
Ask David Crosby.
That was imcredulous.
But does it have those warm colorings provided by a 100Mbit switch, or is it a harsher, more "digital" feel?
Married service members also make more than single ones. Which is basically bullshit. But all of those grievances are more significant than the way you keep making inapplicable analogies between marriage and water fountains, because the ones I listed actually exist. The difference between a civil union and a marriage is in name only, and any problems that may cause down the line are speculative at best.
Why is a married person a different class of citizen in the first place? Just because 70% of them are supporting the legal industry by getting divorced? The fact that I don't foresee myself ever asking for a divorce doesn't change the probability that the marriage won't last. It's turtles all the way down.
Now all they have to do is upgrade that damn firewall protecting our air traffic, water distribution, and electrical generation control systems. It's only a matter of time before terroraxxors take over our country and crash planes into each other!
Fry's is good because they have pretty much everything, they're open late, and they don't (or didn't, when I lived in CA) charge a restocking fee. There were mom & pop computer stores everywhere, where you could get any component you wanted (before 5PM), but you had to pay at 15% restocking fee. I used to use Fry's to hold me over for video cards.. e.g., the next Radeon would be released in a month, but I needed an upgrade *now*, so I'd buy the current top of the line, then return and exchange it a couple weeks later. Golden.
Basically you have the best of both worlds for brick & mortar tech shopping in southern CA.. you've got Fry's for decent prices, the hours, and the return policy, and you've got the web-priced mom & pop stores if you're willing to gamble to save a few bucks. Oh, an Tijuana is closeby, which has nothing to do with computers, but beats surfing pr0n.
See mom? I can find something good to say about anyone, even California.
Who says it's a separate system for homosexuals? It's a separate system for everyone. Look, I'm all in favor of gay marriage, but I have to admit, it's mostly chasing windmills. If you refer to an elephant as a dog, that doesn't change the fact that it's still an elephant. If a civil union grants all the benefits of marriage, you're married, no matter what anybody else calls it. Marriage is a commitment of one person to another, THAT is the basis, and if you have that, you have a marriage. That one has all the benefits that the state sees fit to grant such unions, regardless of what the state calls them, means that they are not "separate," they ARE equal.
"Separate but equal" was a very different thing altogether. You might as well complain about the fact that married/civil unionized people get more rights than single people, like immunity against testifying against their spouses, or a discount on healthcare, or insurance or anything else. WTF is that about? Why should I be penalized just because I don't want to risk having half of my property taken away in the event that things don't work out?
Anyway, as I said, I'm in favor of gay marriage; I just think there are bigger things to worry about than what we legally call the relationship between two people.
How can matter get to a given distance faster than the light? Or did matter not start emitting light until some time after the universe started expanding? Even if that's the case, the point where it started emitting light would be a lot closer than the point it's at now. If two objects move away from each other at a constant velocity, and Object A starts emitting light when they're 5M apart, doesn't the light reaching Object B STILL appear to have originated from 5M away, even if Object B is now 6M away from the point of the light's origin?
Also, if looking farther away == looking back in time, shouldn't we be able to extrapolate the observed position of "older"/farther celestial bodies compared to "newer"/closer ones to find a starting point? I've never understood why we can't find the center of the universe.. if we were an ember on a firework, we would be able to observe the (approximate) positions and velocities of other embers to calculate the starting point. Why doesn't this work for the universe?
Granted, Slashdot probably isn't the place to find answers to these questions, but I'm a glutton for punishment I guess.
Nobody's talking about hetero-only bathrooms, or gay water fountains. Nobody's talking about gay seats on the bus, hetero-only movie theaters, or gay-free zones. Civil union is not "separate but equal," it's separation of Church and State -- something I think everyone can agree is a good thing (except perhaps the minority who believe their church should run the state).
That's the sort of crap that made me dismiss religion when I was in my teens (quite some time ago), despite being raised in a deeply Christian family. How can you pick and choose which religious guidelines are relevant? The part of the Bible that talks about the "abomination" of a man laying with another man is the same part that says not to eat pork or wear multi-fiber clothing. It's Leviticus, and no Christian that I know follows the rules laid out in Leviticus. Furthermore, that's the Old Testament, which Christians supposedly say is not the current "law". Christians don't sacrifice goats and doves. They eat pork. We pretty much all agree that there's no such thing as sorcery, and hence the rules forbidding it are rather irrelevant. They don't avoid shaving. I've never done a formal survey, but I'm pretty sure plenty of Christians bang their spouses even when they're on the rag.
Granted, there are some Christian sects which follow Leviticus to a T, but most do not. They use whatever rationalizations, wiggle room, or outright denial to justify the rules they agree with, and dismiss whichever they do not.
Beyond that, it's not the law's place to govern sin. If it did, then lying, premarital sex, coitus sans sheet, masturbation, "pulling out", envy, wrath, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, and pride should all be illegal. It should be illegal to be a religion other than Christian, which is worshiping "false gods". Those are far more pervasive problems after all. If you believe homosexuality is a sin, fine, but remember a) we're all sinners, and b) others are free to sin, and it's God's place to judge them. It's their responsibility to stop, not your responsibility to make them. Believe me, they all know you think they're sinning. You've done your job. Now let people make their own decisions, the same way we all respect your right to have faith in whatever loose translation of the work of fiction you see fit to believe.
I don't know if I'm a pacifist.. (ok, I'm not, and I'll punch you in the mouth if you say anything about it), but I'm also revolted by real world gore despite decades of "violent" games. (As if there were anything violent about collision detection). I can play the most gory of games, watch the most gory of movies (though they don't particularly appeal to me, and are often incredibly stupid), but seeing a Youtube of a real guy getting beheaded or shot just makes me queasy and wonder what the fuck is wrong with people.
And are using it to stage an invasion of the US, apparently.
Fortunately, the Canuks appear to have miscalculated.. Hockey in the US doesn't draw 100% of the population as it does in Canada, so most of us are safe.
to be able to up and take a 6 month leave of absence. Of course, his salary is only $1.00, so he's only looking at a 50 cent pay cut if he doesn't get "paid," but I'm betting his "bonuses" and stock options will all remain in full effect.
"... two-thirds of non-musicians exposed to music games plan to start playing a real instrument in the next couple of years."
Yeah and 100% of me and my friends who watched Space Camp planned to become astronauts.
"Don't use them" sounds like a pretty clear boundary to me.
Make it so that anytime there is an air leak it sucks some foam into the hole and seals it.
Somehow, that just sounds dirty.
Wood is a pretty poor choice in building material, made mostly due to tradition. Cheap and abundant lumber is often cited as a reason for building with wood, but the price of lumber is an effect of the size of the industry, not the cause. Concrete prices would likely be similar per sqft of living space, if not lower, were every home built out of it, and we could still use paneling to recreate the comforting familiarity of wood. It's not like either the exteriors OR interiors of most homes are actual wood these days -- it's usually vinyl siding and gypsum plaster (AKA drywall or sheetrock) respectively.. nothing that couldn't be used over a concrete structure.
As a nice "side" effect, building homes out of concrete would lower insurance prices substantially, cellulose-eating pests would be a nonissue (for structural components), and we wouldn't be rebuilding entire counties after hurricanes, floods, and minor to moderate quakes.
You must be in a small shop where the "experts" always say "I'll do it"
Forgive my assumption that people would read the summary, but the story was about small and medium businesses. The title was about "abuse", but the content was about incompetent IT losing critical data. So yes, I stand by my jovial generalizations.
The study also found that over a third have suffered from sleepless nights or headaches as a result of IT problems at work, while 59 per cent spend between one and 10 hours a week working on IT systems outside normal hours.
A related study found that 100% of IT workers are emotional and whiny, and that 105% have a God complex because they can read everyone's e-mail.
Boo hoo..
OSS doesn't have to mean using an OSOS. One of the tenets of the GPL is that you're free to use the code for *whatever* purpose you see fit, not solely (or at all) the purpose envisaged by the author. You can't have it both ways.
I agree with most of your post, but..
(Since I have an all-electric home, why not use my PC to heat part of it in the wintertime instead of wasting that electricity heating air solely through with my all-electric HVAC unit...)
Those "savings" will be offset in the summer when you need to remove the heat, assuming you use air conditioning. Whether it's a net gain or loss depends somewhat on the variance in outdoor temperatures, but it's generally more efficient to heat air than to cool it, relative to your local atmospheric temperature. It's entirely possible, and even likely (depending on where you live) that it will be a net loss in energy-used-by-your-HVAC.
Also, you'll probably find that your HVAC is much more efficient at heating the house than the GPU, so any heating done by the GPU is costing you more. Which is slightly better than wasting the heat entirely, but still not a "feature" worth mentioning.
od me troll if you like, but on second thought, I'll post AC just in case.